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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 750824" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>1. You are not contractually entitled to bonus. You are only entitled to be paid the appropriate wage for all hours worked.</p><p> </p><p>2. There is no way to fix a flawed timestudy. It is chiseled in stone and the company will not correct it <em>unless</em> the error favors the driver.</p><p> </p><p>3. The study was never intended to be fair or realistic in the first place. It was intended to create a "standard" that, in most cases, can only be met by working off of the clock. UPS's entire business model for many decades has been designed around coercing, harassing, and intimidating as many drivers as possible into skipping their lunches and breaks in order to meet an impossible standard.</p><p> </p><p>4. The "new program" they showed you is little more than an excercise in wishful thinking on the part of your management team. The computer is nothing more than a box full of wires and microcircuits that sits in an air-conditioned room someplace and spits out numbers according to whatever flawed formulas it is programmed to use. As you have discovered, the statistics it generates quite often have absolutely no basis in reality. You work in the <em>real</em> world. The computer doesnt.</p><p> </p><p>Want some advice? Do not allow<em> their</em> computer to be the judge of <em>your</em> performance. Dont look at their daily reports, dont buy into the "allowances" they try to hold you to, and dont get caught up in trying to play their number games. The game is rigged and its designed to screw you over. You owe the company a fair days work for a fair days pay, you owe the customers the service they are paying for, and you owe it to yourself to do the job in a <em>safe</em> and <em>correct</em> manner. If you can look at yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and know that you gave 100%...then whatever their computer says is a bunch of bullsh&t. Whether or not your management team is happy with the numbers their machine spews out is simply not your problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 750824, member: 14668"] 1. You are not contractually entitled to bonus. You are only entitled to be paid the appropriate wage for all hours worked. 2. There is no way to fix a flawed timestudy. It is chiseled in stone and the company will not correct it [I]unless[/I] the error favors the driver. 3. The study was never intended to be fair or realistic in the first place. It was intended to create a "standard" that, in most cases, can only be met by working off of the clock. UPS's entire business model for many decades has been designed around coercing, harassing, and intimidating as many drivers as possible into skipping their lunches and breaks in order to meet an impossible standard. 4. The "new program" they showed you is little more than an excercise in wishful thinking on the part of your management team. The computer is nothing more than a box full of wires and microcircuits that sits in an air-conditioned room someplace and spits out numbers according to whatever flawed formulas it is programmed to use. As you have discovered, the statistics it generates quite often have absolutely no basis in reality. You work in the [I]real[/I] world. The computer doesnt. Want some advice? Do not allow[I] their[/I] computer to be the judge of [I]your[/I] performance. Dont look at their daily reports, dont buy into the "allowances" they try to hold you to, and dont get caught up in trying to play their number games. The game is rigged and its designed to screw you over. You owe the company a fair days work for a fair days pay, you owe the customers the service they are paying for, and you owe it to yourself to do the job in a [I]safe[/I] and [I]correct[/I] manner. If you can look at yourself in the mirror at the end of the day and know that you gave 100%...then whatever their computer says is a bunch of bullsh&t. Whether or not your management team is happy with the numbers their machine spews out is simply not your problem. [/QUOTE]
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