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<blockquote data-quote="Imchar1" data-source="post: 1475073" data-attributes="member: 47533"><p>Exactly why pay salespeople to ramp up volume only to give it away. Why hire Christmas noobs that out of 20 only 2 or 3 are worth a crap. I walked into the office on friday. A supervisor hangs up the phone and says to another supervisor "This guy has been here for 2 months and is still picking up and dropping off and not hitting stop complete." Ok thats an extreme case. One of the few times I got extra work was 4 days in a row I pulled air off the same route because the Christmas noob was 20-60 min late unplanned. Are you kidding me?? A temp employee should have 0 call ins and maybe a few minutes late once or twice otherwise your useless. The most aggravating of all, a regular driver asks me if I am taking over the route next to him. He says he had to take business off the Christmas driver because he had only completed 10 stops by 12:00. I have run this route before. Its about 50 business stops done by 2:00 and off to help another driver with residential. There is no way that guy is more cost effective than someone like me even on top rate ground overtime. In pure numbers I would have to be as productive as 2.5 of these knuckleheads. The math doesn't add up or maybe it common core math I don't know. You add that to all the business and work given away via surepost. I really just don't understand it. On one hand it makes no business sense and on the other hand it doesn't make union sense. </p><p></p><p>If supply of legit labor is scarce and demand is high then you raise prices. This takes the pressure off your labor supply while still keeping your margins. If outsourcing is necessary you consolidate your resources and outsource your outlyers. Let the USPS deliver spread out rural stuff don't give them metro work. </p><p></p><p>Teamster members would be screwed if they could outsource our jobs to China. I bet there would be a lot more outrage then. I got news for you USPS=China. They just wear a different flag on their sleeve.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Imchar1, post: 1475073, member: 47533"] Exactly why pay salespeople to ramp up volume only to give it away. Why hire Christmas noobs that out of 20 only 2 or 3 are worth a crap. I walked into the office on friday. A supervisor hangs up the phone and says to another supervisor "This guy has been here for 2 months and is still picking up and dropping off and not hitting stop complete." Ok thats an extreme case. One of the few times I got extra work was 4 days in a row I pulled air off the same route because the Christmas noob was 20-60 min late unplanned. Are you kidding me?? A temp employee should have 0 call ins and maybe a few minutes late once or twice otherwise your useless. The most aggravating of all, a regular driver asks me if I am taking over the route next to him. He says he had to take business off the Christmas driver because he had only completed 10 stops by 12:00. I have run this route before. Its about 50 business stops done by 2:00 and off to help another driver with residential. There is no way that guy is more cost effective than someone like me even on top rate ground overtime. In pure numbers I would have to be as productive as 2.5 of these knuckleheads. The math doesn't add up or maybe it common core math I don't know. You add that to all the business and work given away via surepost. I really just don't understand it. On one hand it makes no business sense and on the other hand it doesn't make union sense. If supply of legit labor is scarce and demand is high then you raise prices. This takes the pressure off your labor supply while still keeping your margins. If outsourcing is necessary you consolidate your resources and outsource your outlyers. Let the USPS deliver spread out rural stuff don't give them metro work. Teamster members would be screwed if they could outsource our jobs to China. I bet there would be a lot more outrage then. I got news for you USPS=China. They just wear a different flag on their sleeve. [/QUOTE]
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