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FT sup retaliates against gf of person who wrote grievance.
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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 769834" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">You are making a couple of false assumptions. I am not talking about meeting any sort of quota. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I am talking about a pre-loader hiding in the back of his package car texting his girl friend when there is plenty of work on his or his neighbor's slide. A sorter who walks right past a fellow sorter who is backed up by a strong team to run outside for a smoke or to the bathroom EVERY time there is a shift on his door. I am talking about an unloader sent to the preload who ambles at a pace my grandmother would not consider brisk even though she has been dead for 10 years. But boy, look at the pace he uses on the way out on a Friday, and you would think it was a different person entirely. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Should have no problem getting rid of them you say? Of course it is a problem getting rid of them. First off, that is NEVER my first choice. I take no sense of accomplishment in firing anyone, even a slug. I would rather change the behavior. And that is a challenge, and often takes a long time, and is often hampered by the very discipline process that is supposed to facilitate it due to the effect on attitude and moral that process can have. Secondly, the process is quite complex and labor intensive, and even in the most obvious cases adds hours of work onto my day, for several days. It is supposed to be difficult to fire someone. If as you say, you think it is "no problem" to get rid of hourly employees, I would ask why the heck are you paying union dues? If I was a union employee and I thought it was easy to get rid of a union employee, even a guilty one, I would ask for all of my dues back. The system makes it difficult to get rid of the hourlies who should be gotten rid of so that it is nearly impossible to get rid of the employees who should NOT be gotten rid of. That is the whole point.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 769834, member: 14596"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]You are making a couple of false assumptions. I am not talking about meeting any sort of quota. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]I am talking about a pre-loader hiding in the back of his package car texting his girl friend when there is plenty of work on his or his neighbor's slide. A sorter who walks right past a fellow sorter who is backed up by a strong team to run outside for a smoke or to the bathroom EVERY time there is a shift on his door. I am talking about an unloader sent to the preload who ambles at a pace my grandmother would not consider brisk even though she has been dead for 10 years. But boy, look at the pace he uses on the way out on a Friday, and you would think it was a different person entirely. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Should have no problem getting rid of them you say? Of course it is a problem getting rid of them. First off, that is NEVER my first choice. I take no sense of accomplishment in firing anyone, even a slug. I would rather change the behavior. And that is a challenge, and often takes a long time, and is often hampered by the very discipline process that is supposed to facilitate it due to the effect on attitude and moral that process can have. Secondly, the process is quite complex and labor intensive, and even in the most obvious cases adds hours of work onto my day, for several days. It is supposed to be difficult to fire someone. If as you say, you think it is "no problem" to get rid of hourly employees, I would ask why the heck are you paying union dues? If I was a union employee and I thought it was easy to get rid of a union employee, even a guilty one, I would ask for all of my dues back. The system makes it difficult to get rid of the hourlies who should be gotten rid of so that it is nearly impossible to get rid of the employees who should NOT be gotten rid of. That is the whole point.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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