rocket man
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Istart 910 most start 9 i have not been to a pcm in months i like it
Istart 910 most start 9 i have not been to a pcm in months i like it
But if the preload isn't finishing their job and I am loading, I prefer to put it in my board that way so MY AM time doesn't become a topic of discussion down the road. I guess I am just a stickler for not falsifying my "time card". If your manager is telling you to put a certain "left bldg" time in your board whether you have left or not, that is falsifying your records. With all the time stamps we now have on deliveries, UPS knows how long it takes to get to your first stop every day. Putting in the REAL time you leave the bldg. covers you in case down the road someone wants to know why it took so long to get to your first stop. Honesty is the best protection, or is that supposed to be policy?
Istart 910 most start 9 i have not been to a pcm in months i like it
So your supes actually care about how well your loaders do? Odd...Our loaders only get written up for 5 or more misloads a day, 20 a week, horrible stop order, and needing drivers to wrap is fine with our supes. I guess you have it good.There is one problem I have with your solution house. You choose to sugarcoat your am time and I will not. When the building manager looks at his report the next day and notices that you have 10 minutes am time and I have 30 but we use the same loader we have a problem. I am doing my job correctly, you are not, and I look like the bad guy. Thats where the eyes shift to me, I get followed to see if I am using proper methods, grabbing the hand rails, putting dates on pickup logs ect ect.If you do your job correct like myself and the other driver in the loop, they see the problem as a preload issue and will follow methods like what pretzelman said. They will audit the loader, maybe move a bulk stop to a van to give the loader more time to work ect ect.
Do the job correct and dont sugar coat anything. Your name wont be a topic of discussion for doing the job right but it will be when they notice how many times you use your other key.
There is one problem I have with your solution house. You choose to sugarcoat your am time and I will not. When the building manager looks at his report the next day and notices that you have 10 minutes am time and I have 30 but we use the same loader we have a problem. I am doing my job correctly, you are not, and I look like the bad guy. Thats where the eyes shift to me, I get followed to see if I am using proper methods, grabbing the hand rails, putting dates on pickup logs ect ect.If you do your job correct like myself and the other driver in the loop, they see the problem as a preload issue and will follow methods like what pretzelman said. They will audit the loader, maybe move a bulk stop to a van to give the loader more time to work ect ect.
Do the job correct and dont sugar coat anything. Your name wont be a topic of discussion for doing the job right but it will be when they notice how many times you use your other key.
Trpl, how do you keep track of your pd breaks? We put our pd breaks in 'other work'.We(in my center) have been instructed many times to not put anything under "other work" without prior approval, PERIOD.
Trpl, how do you keep track of your pd breaks? We put our pd breaks in 'other work'.
Our preload was having a really hard time making its numbers so our center manager instructed us that our leave bldg time was to be the same as our start time. This lasted for about a week due to the resistance with which this new directive was met by the drivers, especially when we would spend 10-15 min wrapping up our pkg cars and were still told to put 8:50 as our left bldg time and to make up this lost time on the road.
I never could understand why managers would sacrifice driver numbers for preload numbers. Our preload costs roughly 200 an hour in employee pay, the drivers get paid about 1300 an hour on OT, which they will all be on at the end of the day, so any extra time is on OT. HMM, pay 200/hour for preloaders to wrap or 1300 for drivers, such a hard business decision. If I ran the show and wanted to save money I would have cheap preloaders doing everything possible to reduce expensive driver OT.Our preload was having a really hard time making its numbers so our center manager instructed us that our leave bldg time was to be the same as our start time. This lasted for about a week due to the resistance with which this new directive was met by the drivers, especially when we would spend 10-15 min wrapping up our pkg cars and were still told to put 8:50 as our left bldg time and to make up this lost time on the road.
Exactly, if you record exactly what you are doing with your time, it gets charged to the correct group, in this case the preload. If you absorb the time into your own AM time as you were being told to do, the preload doesn't have to worry about being wrapped up, but you can bet you will have to worry about being over allowed. Just common sense stuff.