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<blockquote data-quote="laffter" data-source="post: 1060054" data-attributes="member: 43119"><p>A lot of our drivers showed up around 8 today, I think. They, along with the preloaders, were helping clean up the belt. My drivers helped a lot. I am at the very end of the belt, so I have to spend a lot of time attending to other issues, such as missed irregs, and trying to make sure that missorts get where they are supposed to go, before those drivers leave.</p><p></p><p>Hm, I'm going to try to explain something else that was going on today. I'm not sure how well I can explain it because I'm not entirely sure why they decided this was a good idea.</p><p></p><p>I'll start off by quickly describing how our belts are setup. Each belt has an upper and lower belt. Our upper belt does not move during preload (only twilight). We have big slides behind the upper belt where packages for our respective areas collect into. The bottom belt is turned on and is used for irregs. Each belt has a pickoff. The pickoff is fed by a really wide belt, and has to divert each package into our respective areas... where they collect up on the side for us to sort through and load.</p><p></p><p>So, today, I come to my area, and I'm seeing packages on my slide for routes that belong to other belts, but they are all PAL'd to our belt, and specifically my area. So this is what was happening... our belt sup was up by the wide belt that feeds the pickoff (yes, he was working, the entire shift). He is supposed to pull all of these weird packages off and put them on some other belt that feeds some trailers that supposedly were docked back there. Now, the belt moves too quickly for him to do this. Many, many of these packages are missed. And who gets them in the end? I do, mostly, as they are PAL'd to my area. I'm supposed to toss them onto the bottom belt where they can be recirculated back into the system, and the sup can have another shot at pulling them off. Very efficient, yes. I had to handle the same Weber grill (slightly under 70lb) approximately three times, because he couldn't pull it off in time, or it was too large, heavy, and awkward to move from his position.</p><p></p><p>I probably spent 50% of my time today, not actually loading my cars, but sorting through the mess on my slide, and tossing these packages on the bottom belt. Along with dealing with other peoples' irregs, and irregs that are PAL'd to my area but don't belong to me because they are part of these weird packages (I don't know what else to call them). Keeping in mind that it was already a heavy day. Two of my cars were "blown out", the third was light, because he's getting a second truckload of crap later on in the day. Oh, I also had to toss crap tons of missorts on the bottom belt as well. Probably because the area they belong to was getting jammed up and backing up to the pickoff, and the pickoff needs somewhere to send to them. I also spent a little bit of time in another area, pushing packages aside, piling them up, whatever I could do to prevent the flow from backing up to the pickoff. Typically, this is something our sup would do, but he couldn't leave his post, or all hell (a worse hell than we were already in) would break loose. In some cases I just had to start throwing packages on the ground. There was nowhere to put them. Absolutely, nowhere. And this wasn't even <em>my </em>area.</p><p></p><p>I honestly do not know how the other belts in the building were doing today. I'm not sure they were as heavy as we were. But my belt cannot handle the volume it saw today. The events that transpired are not what I would consider "handling". It's more like... "dealing with".</p><p></p><p>Hopefully some of this made sense. I'm not the best are describing things that I don't know all of the terminology for.</p><p></p><p>I didn't leave today until 9:32. I fear for the rest of the season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="laffter, post: 1060054, member: 43119"] A lot of our drivers showed up around 8 today, I think. They, along with the preloaders, were helping clean up the belt. My drivers helped a lot. I am at the very end of the belt, so I have to spend a lot of time attending to other issues, such as missed irregs, and trying to make sure that missorts get where they are supposed to go, before those drivers leave. Hm, I'm going to try to explain something else that was going on today. I'm not sure how well I can explain it because I'm not entirely sure why they decided this was a good idea. I'll start off by quickly describing how our belts are setup. Each belt has an upper and lower belt. Our upper belt does not move during preload (only twilight). We have big slides behind the upper belt where packages for our respective areas collect into. The bottom belt is turned on and is used for irregs. Each belt has a pickoff. The pickoff is fed by a really wide belt, and has to divert each package into our respective areas... where they collect up on the side for us to sort through and load. So, today, I come to my area, and I'm seeing packages on my slide for routes that belong to other belts, but they are all PAL'd to our belt, and specifically my area. So this is what was happening... our belt sup was up by the wide belt that feeds the pickoff (yes, he was working, the entire shift). He is supposed to pull all of these weird packages off and put them on some other belt that feeds some trailers that supposedly were docked back there. Now, the belt moves too quickly for him to do this. Many, many of these packages are missed. And who gets them in the end? I do, mostly, as they are PAL'd to my area. I'm supposed to toss them onto the bottom belt where they can be recirculated back into the system, and the sup can have another shot at pulling them off. Very efficient, yes. I had to handle the same Weber grill (slightly under 70lb) approximately three times, because he couldn't pull it off in time, or it was too large, heavy, and awkward to move from his position. I probably spent 50% of my time today, not actually loading my cars, but sorting through the mess on my slide, and tossing these packages on the bottom belt. Along with dealing with other peoples' irregs, and irregs that are PAL'd to my area but don't belong to me because they are part of these weird packages (I don't know what else to call them). Keeping in mind that it was already a heavy day. Two of my cars were "blown out", the third was light, because he's getting a second truckload of crap later on in the day. Oh, I also had to toss crap tons of missorts on the bottom belt as well. Probably because the area they belong to was getting jammed up and backing up to the pickoff, and the pickoff needs somewhere to send to them. I also spent a little bit of time in another area, pushing packages aside, piling them up, whatever I could do to prevent the flow from backing up to the pickoff. Typically, this is something our sup would do, but he couldn't leave his post, or all hell (a worse hell than we were already in) would break loose. In some cases I just had to start throwing packages on the ground. There was nowhere to put them. Absolutely, nowhere. And this wasn't even [I]my [/I]area. I honestly do not know how the other belts in the building were doing today. I'm not sure they were as heavy as we were. But my belt cannot handle the volume it saw today. The events that transpired are not what I would consider "handling". It's more like... "dealing with". Hopefully some of this made sense. I'm not the best are describing things that I don't know all of the terminology for. I didn't leave today until 9:32. I fear for the rest of the season. [/QUOTE]
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