soberups
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9:00 PM is my cut off time as well for deliveries that I deem unsafe. I have been told to use the emergency conditions selection in the DIAD. Which I have used numerous times this week. I no longer put myself in harms way just to deliver a package. I have had one to many guns pulled on me. And if they don't like that then they are more than welcome to come get it and deliver it to the trailer sitting a half mile off the road down a rutted out muddy driveway.
The reason you have been told to do this is so that your management team doesnt have to show "missed" packages on the report.
The problem with this is that it is dishonest. By instructing you to sheet the packages as "emergency conditions", your management team is defrauding your customers out of the refund that they would be otherwise entitled to. Failure on the part of your management team to make rational dispatch decisions is not an emergency condition. By sheeting the packages as "missed"(which is what they are) you take away the ability of your management team to hide the service failures that are being caused by their incompetence and you force them to be accountable for those packages, which will in turn force them to make rational dispatch decisions in the future. I have played this game before and won every time; when instructed to scan them as "emergency conditions" I refuse to do so and scan them as "missed" instead. When confronted about it and threatened with discipline, I respond by threatening to file an Art 37 grievance for coercion and oversupervision ( being instucted by management to falsify delivery records is coercion) and they shut the hell up real quick. The only time I ever sheet packages at"emergency conditions" is if there is so much snow on the driveway that I cannot possibly make it up to the house, or if storms have cause trees to fall and block the road. Any use of EC other than for bona fide emergencies is dishonest, and if you want your management team to quit keeping you out until 9:00 then shoving a few missed stops up their ass is the best way to change their behavior and motivate them into making better choices in the future.