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<blockquote data-quote="westsideworma" data-source="post: 366367"><p>Sending out approx 30k to 2 boxlines that are already precharged in just over two hours is ludicrous. I agree that IE isnt competely at fault, though their overall performance expectations plan is somewhat the cause. if you bury the slides and then move extra people to the slides to recover, you then bury the outbounds and have a mess. Thats why it takes time to clean up. Our manager comes in and says our unload has been down for an hour at 8:01 (445 start time and a 10 min break in there too) you guys should be wrapped by now. However he must have missed the fact that the slide was beyond screwed for most of that because we couldn't find enough people to staff it (and yes this was communicated). It took at least a half hour to get it under control and then of course since we added extra help to the slides (some of which came from the loaders below), the outbound lines the slide feeds (boxline) were buried. However that help previously alotted to the slides was cut out (aside from the loaders who were up there helping) and we're left to fend for ourselves. Doing 900-1100+ piece pulls in under 3 hrs? are the people in charge (above the shift manager level) seriously that dense?</p><p></p><p>When I first was hired as a loader 175pph was decent for a preloader. Now its 225...excuse me? Did this job radically change in 3 years? (answer: NO) PAS did not change the job, it just made it easier to learn. It definitely doesn't make you load an extra 50 packages an hour. You can't just pull a number out of your head and say we need this number to meet the goal so now thats the standard and then complain about it not working. Not to mention most union people at our building know there is no loading standard in the contract and will tell us so.</p><p></p><p>The IE guy in our building has admitted many things that impact our day are not factored into time allowances for the preload. Also that some of the plans/policies in place are counterproductive in our building, however that doesn't mean we stop enforcing them. My FT supe has gone to bat for us and is seemingly butting heads with our manager daily now over the way the operation is being run. It just seems like mass chaos now. We've got supes quitting because they've had enough and hourlies as well (though the latter is nothing new). Luckily my loaders are seemingly thick skinned and are pushing through the tough times currently but I just wonder "how long?" sometimes.</p><p></p><p>Our staffing is in the hamper, our people that do show up are beaten up and tired for compensating (supes and hourly). There is no wiggle room in the plan anymore. It only works if everyone loads at that PPH at all times. No slowing down. These are human beings working here, not machines. That also means not everyone has the same ability. Some people maybe can load at 250 easily, others struggle to make 200pph. You can't just tell the guy that is doing the best he can but struggling to make 200 he HAS to load at 225 if he/she can't physically do it. I believe (recalling my time as a loader) there is an article in the contract that protects workers from that very thing. I dunno, I know times are tough, know its cutback time at UPS, but pissing off your entire workforce (management and hourly alike) is not going to get you the results you're looking for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westsideworma, post: 366367"] Sending out approx 30k to 2 boxlines that are already precharged in just over two hours is ludicrous. I agree that IE isnt competely at fault, though their overall performance expectations plan is somewhat the cause. if you bury the slides and then move extra people to the slides to recover, you then bury the outbounds and have a mess. Thats why it takes time to clean up. Our manager comes in and says our unload has been down for an hour at 8:01 (445 start time and a 10 min break in there too) you guys should be wrapped by now. However he must have missed the fact that the slide was beyond screwed for most of that because we couldn't find enough people to staff it (and yes this was communicated). It took at least a half hour to get it under control and then of course since we added extra help to the slides (some of which came from the loaders below), the outbound lines the slide feeds (boxline) were buried. However that help previously alotted to the slides was cut out (aside from the loaders who were up there helping) and we're left to fend for ourselves. Doing 900-1100+ piece pulls in under 3 hrs? are the people in charge (above the shift manager level) seriously that dense? When I first was hired as a loader 175pph was decent for a preloader. Now its 225...excuse me? Did this job radically change in 3 years? (answer: NO) PAS did not change the job, it just made it easier to learn. It definitely doesn't make you load an extra 50 packages an hour. You can't just pull a number out of your head and say we need this number to meet the goal so now thats the standard and then complain about it not working. Not to mention most union people at our building know there is no loading standard in the contract and will tell us so. The IE guy in our building has admitted many things that impact our day are not factored into time allowances for the preload. Also that some of the plans/policies in place are counterproductive in our building, however that doesn't mean we stop enforcing them. My FT supe has gone to bat for us and is seemingly butting heads with our manager daily now over the way the operation is being run. It just seems like mass chaos now. We've got supes quitting because they've had enough and hourlies as well (though the latter is nothing new). Luckily my loaders are seemingly thick skinned and are pushing through the tough times currently but I just wonder "how long?" sometimes. Our staffing is in the hamper, our people that do show up are beaten up and tired for compensating (supes and hourly). There is no wiggle room in the plan anymore. It only works if everyone loads at that PPH at all times. No slowing down. These are human beings working here, not machines. That also means not everyone has the same ability. Some people maybe can load at 250 easily, others struggle to make 200pph. You can't just tell the guy that is doing the best he can but struggling to make 200 he HAS to load at 225 if he/she can't physically do it. I believe (recalling my time as a loader) there is an article in the contract that protects workers from that very thing. I dunno, I know times are tough, know its cutback time at UPS, but pissing off your entire workforce (management and hourly alike) is not going to get you the results you're looking for. [/QUOTE]
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