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A supervisor stands up to the IE manager...and pays the price
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 607178" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>All too frequently...the measurement <em>is </em>the underlying problem.</p><p> </p><p>Since company policy is that flawed measurements are chiseled in stone and will <em>never </em>be corrected...the only "solution" that management has to solve the problem that IE has created is to harass the drivers into working off of the clock in order to make up the time.</p><p> </p><p>Its sort of like the issues Wal-Mart has had with employees filing lawsuits over being forced to work off of the clock. Of course, on paper at least, Wal-Marts "official" policy is that such behavior is prohibited. There is probably even a memo on the employee bulletin board to that effect. </p><p> </p><p>That memo isnt worth the paper its written on. The <em>reality</em>...is that the stores are understaffed to the point where there is no hope of getting all the work done in the allotted time, so empoyees are more or less forced to work off of the clock.</p><p> </p><p>Like Wal-Mart, the UPS I.E managers who are responsible for determining the manpower budget and time allowances are <em>well aware</em> of this fact...but it isnt their problem. They create impossible expectations, and the employees and operations-level management have no choice but to live up to them. And if some some low level sup gets caught fudging his numbers or making his people work off of the clock? They will simply throw him under the bus and replace him with someone else... <em>who will have those same impossible expectations placed upon him. </em>And the cycle perpetuates, with those at the top (IE) the sole beneficiaries of the scam that they have created.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 607178, member: 14668"] All too frequently...the measurement [I]is [/I]the underlying problem. Since company policy is that flawed measurements are chiseled in stone and will [I]never [/I]be corrected...the only "solution" that management has to solve the problem that IE has created is to harass the drivers into working off of the clock in order to make up the time. Its sort of like the issues Wal-Mart has had with employees filing lawsuits over being forced to work off of the clock. Of course, on paper at least, Wal-Marts "official" policy is that such behavior is prohibited. There is probably even a memo on the employee bulletin board to that effect. That memo isnt worth the paper its written on. The [I]reality[/I]...is that the stores are understaffed to the point where there is no hope of getting all the work done in the allotted time, so empoyees are more or less forced to work off of the clock. Like Wal-Mart, the UPS I.E managers who are responsible for determining the manpower budget and time allowances are [I]well aware[/I] of this fact...but it isnt their problem. They create impossible expectations, and the employees and operations-level management have no choice but to live up to them. And if some some low level sup gets caught fudging his numbers or making his people work off of the clock? They will simply throw him under the bus and replace him with someone else... [I]who will have those same impossible expectations placed upon him. [/I]And the cycle perpetuates, with those at the top (IE) the sole beneficiaries of the scam that they have created. [/QUOTE]
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