Full-Time Bid List in Oct, Not qualified.

[IrrelevantUPSer]

A close friend of mine won a full time package driving bid list, completed integrad, and started working on October 26th. He hustled through peak and has been driving most days since. The issue is that they have put him on 11 different routes(6 this year). Some days they send him home and say that they do not have a route, in January he didn't work for almost 3 weeks. What are his options?

 

[Turdferguson]

A close friend of mine won a full time package driving bid list, completed integrad, and started working on October 26th. He hustled through peak and has been driving most days since. The issue is that they have put him on 11 different routes(6 this year). Some days they send him home and say that they do not have a route, in January he didn't work for almost 3 weeks. What are his options?

He can bump back in and work in the building to get his 8 hours

 

[IrrelevantUPSer]

He doesn't want to bump a part timer or file aggreviance he just wants to qualify and stop getting played with.

 

[Turdferguson]

He doesn't want to bump a part timer or file aggreviance he just wants to qualify and stop getting played with.

Work is based on volume and seniority. Nothing they can do. Everyone went through it when they first started

 

[IrrelevantUPSer]

I just can't see how it's been 5 months and it seems as though there's nothing he can do.

 

[CHALLY9TX]

Did he get put on a training route?

 

[IrrelevantUPSer]

He's been on 11 routes, only one of them being training, he's worked it a few times.

 

[Mugarolla]

I just can't see how it's been 5 months and it seems as though there's nothing he can do.

We have 10 year drivers laid off this time of year. I do not feel sorry for a 5 month driver, especially one that sounded like he came from the inside and should know how it works.

 

[BrownTexas]

We have 10 year drivers laid off this time of year. I do not feel sorry for a 5 month driver, especially one that sounded like he came from the inside and should know how it works.

That's blows. We have 10 year drivers taking a day unpaid because they have that option. But getting laid off. Ta hell with that. Lol.

 

[Mugarolla]

That's blows. We have 10 year drivers taking a day unpaid because they have that option. But getting laid off. Ta hell with that. Lol.

Volume down this time of year and no drivers on vacation. We have around 10 drivers laid off varying in seniority from 6 months to 10 years.

Some have bumped PTers on the sort to maintain their insurance and make more than unemployment, but yes, it does suck to have 10 year drivers laid off for 2 months.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Between the drivers who are hurt and those who have been terminated our staffing is really tight.

 

[upschuck]

He is not qualified? I got q'ed the first day I worked after peak.

 

[IrrelevantUPSer]

Were from small gateway and we bid on positions over at a much larger hub, so he didn't want to just bump people off at a new place.

 

[MC4YOU2]

If he is an unassigned or cover driver, he will have to run whatever route they assign to him until he gains enough seniority to either A) bid a route or B) to choose one for that particular day, if he has seniority above another driver who is qualified to run a different available route. When you say he's trying to qualify, are you meaning to say qualify for a permanent bid? If so, that is also dependent on his position on the seniority list, which sounds like he is at the bottom. He'll have to ride it out for now.

 

[542thruNthru]

He doesn't want to bump a part timer or file aggreviance he just wants to qualify and stop getting played with.

If people below him are working he/she needs to file.

If he/she wants their hours he/she needs to bump.

If he/she doesn't want to do either one that's fine. Thats up to him/her but don't complain when you don't work.

Other than that he/she is SOL.