Spent 30 of my 32 yrs in feeders. Nuthin they did got to me. Why? Cuz most everything came and went, including their faces.
If they wanted me to go faster, for example: pre/post-tripping, I said, "Show me". Invariably, they would refuse or fail. If they DID try to show me, "How come you're dropping the dolly here?". "It's faster". "Yeah, but the dolly pile is on the other side of the building." "Not today, it ain't." "Can I drop it here everyday, then?" "No, you hafta drop it in the dolly pile."
You see where that went?
A friend of mine in another district was held by the sort. He did everything right, he was just late because of the sort. At the outbound phone, the supe asked him, "How much time can you make up?" Driver: "Let's see...driving the speed limit, equipment checks, making all the stops you threw on me because of missed packages, pee stops...Uh...NONE!!!" They were furious but what could they do?
In my later yrs with the company, I maybe had kinda an advantage. One cervical neck fushion, two knee arthos, two hip replacements, PLUS, at the end, 32 yrs safe (perfect company record) driving.
I would tell them during annual (what a waste of time) ride, "Don't even talk to me or distract me during pre/post-trip. I have a routine and I don't want you screwing with me during that".
When they tried to coerce me into doing things faster, I would point out that I'm here, ain't I. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't a slug. I moved along but do you want me to screw up another knee by climbing up the back-end of that trailer with a broken door strap out in staging that shoulda be closed in the load door? Who's gonna drive this thing today if I'm laying on the ground after that?
I had so many of em try their hot-dog maneuvers when showing me how to drive that I just flat refused to let some of em drive anymore and reported them for that.
I've stated this example before: One of the last rides. On backing under trailer, supe said and was gonna ding me for it (which didn't bother me a bit cuz I knew I was retiring), "You don't look around thru back window when hooking up". I said, "Well, for one thing, with this neck thing, I don't have the mobility I once had. For another thing, I drove trucks with no back window before UPS, ran sleepers for UPS for 5 yrs with no back window and can do the job just fine with no back window." Nothing more said.
Another time, after getting stopped a couple times at the scale for overweight, I told home base ONCE, "Don't load the trailers like this, I'm gonna get overweight every time." Well, you know where that went. Supe was gonna show me. Rode with me...DING! Overweight, GROSSLY! Was at scale for almost 3 hrs waiting for lighter set to come along so we could break apart and reset. Furious, again! Too bad. Not my fault, right?
I guess all I'm saying is this: Just "kill em with correctness". Do your job better than they can and they won't have anything to LEGALLY ding you on.
It worked for me.