I'm going to let you in on a little secret - DON'T TELL ANYBODY!!! Supervisors supervise. Supervisors are permitted to work for training, to demonstrate safety or in case of an emergency. I'm going to tell you another secret - just between you and me, OK? Christmas comes on December 25th. It's been on December 25th for the last couple of years or so. Peak season doesn't fit the definition of an emergency. The package volume always seems to increase around this time - I don't know why, is it just coincidence? Hire the people and the preload will wrap on time. Simple isn't it? Christmas always seems to sneak up on management.
Well said. They act like its a big suprise it has been December 25th for a little more than a few yrs has it not?
I understand your need to succeed but people way over your head AGREED, to a contract, that said you keep your mitts off pkgs, and now you have to hold them to it.
Your heart is in the right place, but when your arse is in a hearing, you will be all alone. Read the many threads on here about pt sups. You are in a lose lose situation. Dont worry about us, we will never get home on time. We never have and never will. You helping doesnt help us and it hurts your crew. They will tell you its coz we are lazy, but the really dark secret is, we are overwhelmed, like you, and have no secret helper in the back, which is what you helping does.
Do you not look at the numbers? Those numbers might look fine because you used your help to get it done based on volume, which isnt counted into the time, so its not a true record of what you do. If you help 10 guys for 10 minutes, that is almost another pt that you hurt by putting in your time for free. They may have got an extra 10 minutes pay, you are taking it away. Then if there are 5 pt supes that do the same thing, there are 2 or three jobs.
They agreed to the rules, none of us had much to say. Most of us say heck yea help out at peak, not in November. There are ways to get it done, except in extreme situations. One of them is being forced to do what they said they would do, hire people when necessary.
And as Upstate said, we are not allowed to start before start time, unless someone tells us to and we get paid, and neither are YOU. If we did that same thing,. stealing work from the ptimers, and most of us dont do that, we would be working for free just like you are.