Spartan 363
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I just finished a bit ago, I'm here sitting at a McDonalds near my center for lunch. I only had a modest 140 stops today and the usual pick ups.
I have the 26th, 27th, and 30th off. Had 3 optionals left and used them.
I noticed you seem to be in a good mood.I worked hard at drinking beer today.
I noticed you seem to be in a good mood.
Send some beer to Doug!
I got paid my unused option 3 day check, 3 weeks ago.... how did you save them thru December???
what was effed up was that I got a warning letter for attendance 2 weeks prior to the option day payoff...
If you haves days left, you can still use them. You were just paid early.
I smell grievances.Our center manager wouldn't let us do that in our center, he even threw out seniority to boot. Called in a driver with 26 years to work but let casuals go home and 2 "safety" committee members do "safety" work instead of actual work.
Yeah that's not going to happen because the steward who we were talking with about it said there's nothing he could do because it's still December.I smell grievances.
Wow wish I could say the same. We cut 1/3 of our routes and for the most part everyone was still light. Not me though. Worked almost 12 and ran almost 300 miles. That was after I gave away 2-3 hours of work. The "plan" had me going out with about 100 stops would of been 325-350 miles on a bunch of ice covered gravel roads. Yeah that makes sense.It was an easy day, I had 60 stops and I clocked out at 2PM. Everybody I delivered to was very nice, not a single mad person. All our routes were in, including the extra peak routes. They could have easily busted those out and sent some people home. About fifty of the packages were from Louisville, only a couple of them were ground. My Preloader still managed to missort two stops into another car. Friday's forecast is the same as Christmas Eve's, we will have our Helpers back on the car.
At UPS there is no excuse related to weather...that is the first time I have ever heard this excuse from corporate. We have weather problems somewhere in the US every peak!!! You can only try to use that excuse when you plan to fail by failing to plan!Most problems UPS had this peak were weather related.
Companies that stay in business do not overbuild capacity for 4 -5 days excess need per year.
I have heard that UPS is not building extra buildings because they expect ground volume to shrink.
Once that trend of ground volume shrinking settles in, UPS may selectively add some buildings which equals driver positions. It is very expensive to add driver positions as this causes extra buildings with extra feeder runs and eventually extra hubs.
At UPS there is no excuse related to weather...that is the first time I have ever heard this excuse from corporate. We have weather problems somewhere in the US every peak!!! You can only try to use that excuse when you plan to fail by failing to plan!
I got paid my unused option 3 day check, 3 weeks ago.... how did you save them thru December???
what was effed up was that I got a warning letter for attendance 2 weeks prior to the option day payoff...