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<blockquote data-quote="browniehound" data-source="post: 702847" data-attributes="member: 4653"><p>I have a new twist on this subject. We are required to take an hour lunch and 2 -10 minute paid breaks. I've been on record saying this is too much personal time to be forced to take. It becomes FAR too much time when you work in the northeast, in winter and have telematics.</p><p> </p><p>One function of telematics is to measure idle time (the time the vehicle is running without moving, and yes its at the top of the list of things they look at). Its so important because reducing idling time will save UPS money right away. I have no problem with that.</p><p> </p><p>I work in a reasonable sized town with many industrial buildings. However, the entire route is lacking retail stores, restuarants or coffee shops. Once I'm out of the industrial park, I'm basically delivering in the woods. I have no warm place to take my lunch and breaks.</p><p> </p><p>The temperatures can get as low as -25 degrees friend here with the wind chill. I am not permitted to idle the truck during lunch or breaks. How can they treat an employee like this? And for the many drivers that have resturants and coffee shops, how can the company expect us to be vagrants at these places everyday. I can't afford to eat out everyday and shouldn't be expected to spend $3 a day on coffee just so I can sit in their shop to stay warm and meet the hour lunch requirement. Its just not fair.</p><p> </p><p>How about this for a fair solution? I won't idle if I don't have to take the full hour? I will sit there in the cold just long enough to eat and recharge myself. Makes sense and its fair, isn't it? Why won't this be allowed?</p><p> </p><p>I'll go out on a limb and take a wild guess. The driver is freezing his butt off. He has to take an hour lunch to be fairly compensated. He can't idle the truck to keep warm, so most likely he's going to give up that hour to the company just for the simple fact that -25 degrees friend is very, very uncomfortable<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/sick.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sick:" title="Sick :sick:" data-shortname=":sick:" />. UPS emerges from this situation with an hour of free labor. </p><p> </p><p>Its the only company I know that practices and gets away with this. The company cries that it has to pay a union wage yet gets away with thousands of hours of free union labor everyday!</p><p> </p><p>I've requested to work through the lunch hour and get paid in these extreme weather situation (cold, wind, blizzards<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/knockedout.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":knockedout:" title="Knockedout :knockedout:" data-shortname=":knockedout:" />) only to be denied. How can these desicion makers live with themselves? How can this be justified? </p><p> </p><p>Can someone from management please post a rebuttal to my opinion??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="browniehound, post: 702847, member: 4653"] I have a new twist on this subject. We are required to take an hour lunch and 2 -10 minute paid breaks. I've been on record saying this is too much personal time to be forced to take. It becomes FAR too much time when you work in the northeast, in winter and have telematics. One function of telematics is to measure idle time (the time the vehicle is running without moving, and yes its at the top of the list of things they look at). Its so important because reducing idling time will save UPS money right away. I have no problem with that. I work in a reasonable sized town with many industrial buildings. However, the entire route is lacking retail stores, restuarants or coffee shops. Once I'm out of the industrial park, I'm basically delivering in the woods. I have no warm place to take my lunch and breaks. The temperatures can get as low as -25 degrees friend here with the wind chill. I am not permitted to idle the truck during lunch or breaks. How can they treat an employee like this? And for the many drivers that have resturants and coffee shops, how can the company expect us to be vagrants at these places everyday. I can't afford to eat out everyday and shouldn't be expected to spend $3 a day on coffee just so I can sit in their shop to stay warm and meet the hour lunch requirement. Its just not fair. How about this for a fair solution? I won't idle if I don't have to take the full hour? I will sit there in the cold just long enough to eat and recharge myself. Makes sense and its fair, isn't it? Why won't this be allowed? I'll go out on a limb and take a wild guess. The driver is freezing his butt off. He has to take an hour lunch to be fairly compensated. He can't idle the truck to keep warm, so most likely he's going to give up that hour to the company just for the simple fact that -25 degrees friend is very, very uncomfortable:sick:. UPS emerges from this situation with an hour of free labor. Its the only company I know that practices and gets away with this. The company cries that it has to pay a union wage yet gets away with thousands of hours of free union labor everyday! I've requested to work through the lunch hour and get paid in these extreme weather situation (cold, wind, blizzards:knockedout:) only to be denied. How can these desicion makers live with themselves? How can this be justified? Can someone from management please post a rebuttal to my opinion?? [/QUOTE]
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