Back to cutting routes on Mondays

[Jackburton]

Great time of the year to make $$$$. It's only Tuesday and I'll have 24.5 hours under my belt going into Wendsday.

 

[bumped]

I have no problem with dead days as long as they have used up all of their paid days first.

Invariably one of these guys will use dead days all year long, put in for a paid day off in October and will get the day over someone who never takes dead days and still has days on the books. How is this fair?

If you have days they should be used first.

When management calls me to ask if I want the day off I am not taking it as a personal day. That would be a dead day for me. I'll save my 2 personal days for when I want to use them.

 

[bumped]

Great time of the year to make $$$$. It's only Tuesday and I'll have 24.5 hours under my belt going into Wendsday.

Its too cold out. I want to be off when by the time of sunset.

 

[Jackburton]

Its too cold out. I want to be off when by the time of sunset.

I'll take winter in Georgia over summer any day of the week. You can always put more clothes on, can't take more off when it's 98 degrees and 90% humidity.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

When management calls me to ask if I want the day off I am not taking it as a personal day. That would be a dead day for me. I'll save my 2 personal days for when I want to use them.

...and I would have an issue with that....

 

[brownmonster]

I started the cant beat em, join em thing. Everyone else is always taking dead days and saving personals. I might as well too.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I started the cant beat em, join em thing. Everyone else is always taking dead days and saving personals. I might as well too.

...so if everyone else jumped off the bridge...........

 

[brownmonster]

...so if everyone else jumped off the bridge...........

If its gets me a few more days off, maybe.

 

[1989]

If its gets me a few more days off, maybe.

You know, you don't have to work

 

[TooTechie]

This is one policy that our new center manager has put in place that I totally agree with-----we must use any days that we have on the books before being approved for a dead day.

If they call you and offer you the day they can't force you to use a specific type of day off/paid/unpaid.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

If they call you and offer you the day they can't force you to use a specific type of day off/paid/unpaid.

Actually they can.

 

[TooTechie]

Actually they can.

Not here...per my BA

 

[1989]

If I have one day seniority and have an optional. I should be able to bump a 30 year employee with no optional days. I earned that day off they didn't. They used all their earned days off.

 

[Jackburton]

If I have one day seniority and have an optional. I should be able to bump a 30 year employee with no optional days. I earned that day off they didn't. They used all their earned days off.

I don't look at the seniority list when I call in letting them know I won't be at work.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I don't look at the seniority list when I call in letting them know I won't be at work.

Do they let you use "dead days" when you call in?

 

[Jackburton]

Do they let you use "dead days" when you call in?

I haven't had a no pay in the last five years.

 

[1989]

I don't look at the seniority list when I call in letting them know I won't be at work.

I thought the discussion was about having a driver volunteer to go home not about calling in sick.

 

[Jackburton]

I thought the discussion was about having a driver volunteer to go home not about calling in sick.

I come to work to work so I don't get involved in "volunteering" to go home. I let management hang that carrot in the faces of those who care, that's not me.

 

[Jackburton]

I absolutely agree with Upstates CMs policy if he actually enforces it, but as others have said, it's a mutual "rub my back, I'll rub yours" in most centers where deal making runs rampant. It's the same argument about routes being cut, if everyone demanded to work, it wouldn't happen as much.

 

[Cementups]

...so if everyone else jumped off the bridge...........

Actually I've done this before. Except I jumped first. My brother dared me I wouldn't do it. Jumped off a railroad bridge into the Delaware River.