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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 1175526" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>No, your manager cannot 'force' you to take a break if you are not in a situation where you can leave your vehicle unattended and attend to 'personal needs'. This includes having someplace to go to be able to eat a meal, attend to calls of nature, be in a place that has some protection from the elements (sitting in your truck DOESN'T count) and not be in immediate contact with your dispatcher. This is why your powerpad 'blanks out' when you enter a break.</p><p></p><p>Here yet again is where it is necessary for wage employees to keep a journal and make copies of relevant company documents to protect themselves. In this case, you need to make a copy of your end of day printed out time card - wait for it to print, then take it to a building copier and make yourself a copy. If there isn't a copier available, take a high resolution digital photo of the time card that generates RIGHT AFTER you download your p-pad. You can also do a print out of your time codes (using your printer) and then KEEP THOSE and include that with your 'journal'. Once you hit 'print timecard', go to the print option in your p-pad and print out your time codes. KEEP THIS TO YOURSELF. It will serve as back up when your creative manager starts manipulating your time codes - you will have means to demonstrate to HR that your manager engaged in falsification and then the fun will really begin for your manager. </p><p></p><p>It is also why employees need to know how to properly enter their time codes without errors occurring. Most don't seem to care about entering time codes, they leave it to their manager or gatekeeper to clean up the mess on their computer generated time card - BIG MISTAKE. You need to 'take control' of your time codes, so that you cannot be screwed out of working time, or even 6th day OT (as I have illustrated occurred in one location). </p><p></p><p>You need to learn what time codes to enter, how to enter them and do so correctly and without error. This isn't for Express' benefit, it is to protect YOU against a manager manipulating your time codes to either cheat you out of pay - or to enable a doctored up report to be run. You need to LEARN this aspect of your job like it it the MOST IMPORTANT part of your job - which IT IS. </p><p></p><p>You cannot prevent your manager, a CSA or a gatekeeper from getting into FAMIS to change your time codes. What you can do is to have a record of what you entered, then if any alteration is made which cheats you out of pay (usually a manager entering a break you never took), you have the documentation to back you up. Express is VERY sensitive to time card adjustments made by management which can get them into hot water, so they will take action against the manager in question if they start entering breaks which were never actually taken.</p><p></p><p>Again, you need to be proactive to what a manager can do to cheat you - and take that option away from them. One thing you need to watch out for is having a signifiant period of time without any scans. If you are on a on-road time code and have a period of 30 minutes or more without any scans, you are ripe for having a break entered that you never took. Try to make sure you play the Express game well - make sure you have a scan at least every 15 minutes if not every 10 minutes (make that gap report work for you too...). Some managers will look at your scan times, see a block of time where there aren't any scans and enter a break in that time period. You may be 'shuttling' between areas, or just don't have anything to do while waiting for ready times - DON'T place yourself into this situation. If you know you are going to have some down time - space out your pickups so that you have no more than 15 minutes between scans, and preferably no more than 10 minutes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 1175526, member: 22880"] No, your manager cannot 'force' you to take a break if you are not in a situation where you can leave your vehicle unattended and attend to 'personal needs'. This includes having someplace to go to be able to eat a meal, attend to calls of nature, be in a place that has some protection from the elements (sitting in your truck DOESN'T count) and not be in immediate contact with your dispatcher. This is why your powerpad 'blanks out' when you enter a break. Here yet again is where it is necessary for wage employees to keep a journal and make copies of relevant company documents to protect themselves. In this case, you need to make a copy of your end of day printed out time card - wait for it to print, then take it to a building copier and make yourself a copy. If there isn't a copier available, take a high resolution digital photo of the time card that generates RIGHT AFTER you download your p-pad. You can also do a print out of your time codes (using your printer) and then KEEP THOSE and include that with your 'journal'. Once you hit 'print timecard', go to the print option in your p-pad and print out your time codes. KEEP THIS TO YOURSELF. It will serve as back up when your creative manager starts manipulating your time codes - you will have means to demonstrate to HR that your manager engaged in falsification and then the fun will really begin for your manager. It is also why employees need to know how to properly enter their time codes without errors occurring. Most don't seem to care about entering time codes, they leave it to their manager or gatekeeper to clean up the mess on their computer generated time card - BIG MISTAKE. You need to 'take control' of your time codes, so that you cannot be screwed out of working time, or even 6th day OT (as I have illustrated occurred in one location). You need to learn what time codes to enter, how to enter them and do so correctly and without error. This isn't for Express' benefit, it is to protect YOU against a manager manipulating your time codes to either cheat you out of pay - or to enable a doctored up report to be run. You need to LEARN this aspect of your job like it it the MOST IMPORTANT part of your job - which IT IS. You cannot prevent your manager, a CSA or a gatekeeper from getting into FAMIS to change your time codes. What you can do is to have a record of what you entered, then if any alteration is made which cheats you out of pay (usually a manager entering a break you never took), you have the documentation to back you up. Express is VERY sensitive to time card adjustments made by management which can get them into hot water, so they will take action against the manager in question if they start entering breaks which were never actually taken. Again, you need to be proactive to what a manager can do to cheat you - and take that option away from them. One thing you need to watch out for is having a signifiant period of time without any scans. If you are on a on-road time code and have a period of 30 minutes or more without any scans, you are ripe for having a break entered that you never took. Try to make sure you play the Express game well - make sure you have a scan at least every 15 minutes if not every 10 minutes (make that gap report work for you too...). Some managers will look at your scan times, see a block of time where there aren't any scans and enter a break in that time period. You may be 'shuttling' between areas, or just don't have anything to do while waiting for ready times - DON'T place yourself into this situation. If you know you are going to have some down time - space out your pickups so that you have no more than 15 minutes between scans, and preferably no more than 10 minutes. [/QUOTE]
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