Overpaid Union Thug
Well-Known Member
Well, stopping at the gas station every day to pump up my leaky front tire is 25 cents. Getting the tire fixed is about $15. By your "business sense" it's better just to keep pumping it up than to fix it. Of course after I've put 60 quarters in the air pump at the station I've spent $15 anyway and I've still got the same problem.
The reason UPS developed Integrad is that 30% of new drivers were failing. That number for Integrad trainees is 10%. The money they spend on an Integrad student is cheap compared to the cost of constantly hiring new drivers to replace the ones that can't hack it.
UPS tracks Integrad trainees for a year after they finish. Like everything else, they measure it in terms of how much it costs. Not only how much it costs up front, but how much it costs in terms of what the company gets back. So far, Integrad must be worth the money. Just continuously pumping new hires into a system where a third of them are going to fail is not good business sense.
Most of them are failing because they forgot a comma or other punctuation on the 5 seeing habits or because they haven't had enough experience with driving a stick. So, the 30% down to 10% metric (and that's all it is) is a result of spending the better part of a week beating the 5 seeing habits into their brains. So, OF COURSE that percentage will drop! But that doesn't mean they are any more prepared to actually go out on a route had they not attended the course and were "trained" the old school way. They are spending thousands to reduce a metric by 20% but with no real practical result. Thats typical UPS logic. Or lack there of. That type of cookie cutter community college of business way of running a business is also one of the many reasons why FedEx Ground, although an inferior service, is gaining fast. They should let experienced drivers or ex drivers (and I don't mean 30 day wonders) train drivers locally. At the very least on the district level but by center would be more practical. None of our Integrad graduates have shown even the slightest hint of preparedness over trainees that were trained by on an on car sup for a few days.