only production measure is a fair days work and best of ability, etc.
....change to best demonstrated...kind of hard to argue after 1,2 or 3 days on the car and the driver is doing better then before the ride.
Same hereIf the AM time is 10 minutes or less I will not make an issue of it and will not record it as sort/load--if it exceeds 10 minutes I do.
tell him to clean out the fecal matter from his ears
only production measure is a fair days work and best of ability, etc.
....change to best demonstrated...kind of hard to argue after 1,2 or 3 days on the car and the driver is doing better then before the ride.
Thank you for yet another well-thought out, insightful post. You have certainly added a lot to the discussion and I know I am a better person for having read this. I look forward to reading your next post.
Very easy to argue. massaging loads, removing splits, on-car delivering/demoing, etc. Infact just a month ago I saw an on-car massaging a load for which he was doing a 3-day ride. Man, that thing was stop-for-stop perfect including lipload and practically NOTHING on the floors.
Yes, obviously there are times when a driver needs to get his/her ass in gear and do the job no matter who is riding along or watching. Then there are other times the work is clearly setup for UPS to make someone a scapegoat and look bad, or to get (harrass) more production out of someone.
If the job, the available work, standards from one employee to another, traffic patterns, delivery points had any consistency from person to person, route to route, stop for stop, yes a 3 day ride could be very convincing evidence. That is, "generally", not reality.
Such behavior would be a very clear-cut Art. 37 grievance for over-supervision and harrassment. And it demonstrates the importance of keeping a daily journal if you are being pressured over production.
Very easy to argue. massaging loads, removing splits, on-car delivering/demoing, etc. Infact just a month ago I saw an on-car massaging a load for which he was doing a 3-day ride. Man, that thing was stop-for-stop perfect including lipload and practically NOTHING on the floors.
Yes, obviously there are times when a driver needs to get his/her ass in gear and do the job no matter who is riding along or watching. Then there are other times the work is clearly setup for UPS to make someone a scapegoat and look bad, or to get (harrass) more production out of someone.
If the job, the available work, standards from one employee to another, traffic patterns, delivery points had any consistency from person to person, route to route, stop for stop, yes a 3 day ride could be very convincing evidence. That is, "generally", not reality.
There is a difference between cant and what you posted. You can use it. Make them change it. That way, they are the ones that are being dishonest, not you. Also, if they harass you on production, but yet they have changed your time card on a daily basis, you think they will ever win if they push it?We can not use sort and load. If we do, the boss removes it.
Honestly, you have to have done both jobs to say that. Take this for what it's worth, when you pull a route and then look at the route on paper you would SWEAR the numbers aren't whats there, because they FEEL different. That doesn't make the FEELING correct in most cases, the reports don't lie and what's there is what's there.
The thing is, barring the relatively rare instances of outright cheating, routes ARE very consistent. There are numerous stories of customers setting their watch by the arrival of the UPS guy, and the same guy who tells you the route is never the same can always tell you (if he or she is honest) whether they're running "behind" or "ahead" on any given day.
The route is actually very consistent if it's a base route (the county split route where the PDS puts everything that doesn't fit notwithstanding).
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You ever had a day that the packages seemed like they just fell off the truck. Never touched your two wheeler? Where by lunch, you were so far ahead, you were 20-30 stops ahead of normal? And hardly broke a sweat?
Compare that to days where you are 30 stops behind normal by lunch, struggled with every delivery, had to use the two wheeler to pull deliveries up stairs, and the list goes on and on?
Those days are common. But usually, the routes are pretty consistent day after day. And its that consistency that UPS is looking for. If you consistently have bad days, they want to know why. Someone that is consistently a half hour over might have problems with methods, or the study might have been off. But someone that is over 2-3 hours each day, there are more serious problems.
But the addition of AM time to the problem is never ever a good thing for a driver that already has problems not being over allowed.
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In this day of computer followup, you want to explain to an LP guy why you punched left building at 9, and you did not get to your first delivery stop until 10. Now, its only a half hour drive to your first stop. What did you do for that extra half hour on road? After all, you and every other lemming punched out at 9, but did not leave until 9:30. But since it is four weeks from now, are you really gonna remember? And if you do remember, how can you prove it when your time card says something else?
Oh, whats that? You falsified your time left building? Really???? You want to tell an LP guy that you falsified your time card?
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