well, the title says it all
I try to mark my packages as much as possible but when the flow on the belt gets ridiculous, I lose track of them =/
Since I now have a target on my back, I know that I have to follow the methods and get no misloads. This is hard for me to do since in the past I never followed the methods and still never got misloads. When management started to make a push for following the methods, I found that I would circle the route IDs without actually paying attention to what car I was in or if I had the right packages in the right car (whereas before I would actually look at the route ID and verify it in my mind, without a crayon). Now, I actually take the time to verify every single package against the placard in the truck. I have not been getting misloads (while following the method, surprisingly enough) for a while now.
Management does not seem to understand that they cannot have it both ways. Recently, the service for the two centers (which have the same PCM) in the building I work in has been terrible. Start times have been getting later rather than earlier as peak is approaching. The push for both production and service is not working. Sure, the loaders are wrapping up on time with later and later start times, but service has been suffering greatly. This is obviously because of the same reason I got misloads in the past while "following the methods": I was never actually following the methods. That is what most people do. The most important part is to actually verify the route ID, rather than pretend to verify it by circling the route ID automatically for no reason.
The funny thing is that now I am taking heat for not wrapping up as fast as the other loaders. Actually verifying route IDs, loading stop-for-stop, etc. takes time, and management does not understand that. Management actually spouts nonsense to me about having to load 240 packages per hour and getting no misloads. I tell them that they cannot have it both ways. If they keep acting like children and want everything, they will end up with nothing.
The moral of the story is to actually verify every single package against the placard in the truck. Now, you may be thinking that this is redundant, because once you are in the right truck, you will not magically teleport out of it into another one, but verifying every single package against the placard forces you to pay attention. If you simply do this, you will have no misloads. Management likes to chalk up misloads to "human error" when there a couple of them, but the simple fact is that it is not "human error", it is being rushed to meet production and the resultant failure to verify packages correctly that causes misloads.
Management will no doubt give you trouble for not wrapping up on time, but as long as you have no misloads you can show them your rationale for not wrapping up on time, namely that you are following the methods the way you are supposed to.