there was a divison manager who is now retired who was looking for a 360 outbound load rate. The part time sups all thought it was impossible to achieve. So he went into a trailer and had one them time him while others watched. 360 equals 6 packages a minute. So he checked, scanned and loaded six packages in the first twenty seconds. he then laid down on the floor and did a snowman for the next 40 seconds at which point he got back up and loaded six more packages and then repeated his snowman. The sups quickly got the message.
your point is nothing new. employers will always demand improvement and employee's will always say it cant be done.
Did Snow Angel get splinters?
Was your grandstanding DM one of the originators of the Voodoo Time Studies that purport to measure work units but focuses only on the easily measureable stuff and ignores all the rest?
Trailer loaders don't just scan and load packages. They "loose" lots of time doing all the other "incidentals" like: attending a PCM, setting up the conveyor or rollers, sweeping the trailer, waiting for the packages to arrive at the start of the shift, breaking conveyor jams, picking packages up off the floor that fell and putting them back on the rollers, repeatedly waiting for the belts to restart, taking a 10 minute break, taking a seperate bathroom break, getting drinks of water to stay hydrated, being told to float into another trailer to help out someone else while their trailer is left to deteriate, waiting for the flow to start after a break, waiting for the first loaded trailer to be pulled off door and an empty replacement put on, loading bulk, experiencing the flow slow to a trickle at the end of the shift, wrapping up the area and sealing the trailer, walking to the time clock, being talked to by a supervisor about missorts or safety or methods or even about the new hire babe that has a body on her that would make a bishop kick out a stained glass window.