ORION has not made the job of delivery driving "easier to do for someone with no experience". If anything, it's had the exact opposite effect. For it to work, experienced drivers wouldn't be repeatedly asked several times a week every week to go and take deliveries off the new hires who don't have the years of are knowledge to contend with ORION's flawed and scrambled trace.Everything the company implements is to make the job easier to do for someone with no experience or less bodies. Automation got rid of sort aisles and from what i heard places have already started the trailers that unload them selves just leaving bodies to load trucks.
Depends on the route
Preload is not staffed because of the pay and the expectations set by management and the working conditions. I dont think i said anything about orion. However, if someone who never delivered jumped into the pc lets say under a strike, they would be told follow these stops use your gps to find them. That is easier then 10 years ago someone who has never delivered jumping in and deliveringORION has not made the job of delivery driving "easier to do for someone with no experience". If anything, it's had the exact opposite effect. For it to work, experienced drivers wouldn't be repeatedly asked several times a week every week to go and take deliveries off the new hires who don't have the years of are knowledge to contend with ORION's flawed and scrambled trace.
"Just leaving bodies to load trucks"? And yet the preload is still chronically understaffed despite all these talked about "advancements" in technology. Nobody outside the realm of operations ever seems to want to acknowledge that reality either.
Also to clarify, im aware that rdo is faster and makes more sense. I fully believe orion was created so they could say it saves fuel and in hopes that they could license it.ORION has not made the job of delivery driving "easier to do for someone with no experience". If anything, it's had the exact opposite effect. For it to work, experienced drivers wouldn't be repeatedly asked several times a week every week to go and take deliveries off the new hires who don't have the years of are knowledge to contend with ORION's flawed and scrambled trace.
"Just leaving bodies to load trucks"? And yet the preload is still chronically understaffed despite all these talked about "advancements" in technology. Nobody outside the realm of operations ever seems to want to acknowledge that reality either.
Perhaps true in the event of a strike where volume is a tiny fraction of the norm and there's barely enough volume to make the shelves look somewhat full. Less than 100 stops with ability to print maps might be doable for someone without much experience for a very short time.Preload is not staffed because of the pay and the expectations set by management and the working conditions. I dont think i said anything about orion. However, if someone who never delivered jumped into the pc lets say under a strike, they would be told follow these stops use your gps to find them. That is easier then 10 years ago someone who has never delivered jumping in and delivering
It might depend on just how the GPS algorithm is programmed. On a map, it can save miles in resi subdivisions if the business come off first. It's when the variables within the map come into play where it becomes far more complicated. If say a route is situated far off from the facility, the program might direct a driver to take side streets to the area because in actual distance traveled, the trip might be a mile less than taking the freeway 15 miles, but doing that often takes far more time and can even burn more fuel with all the stoplights.A
Also to clarify, im aware that rdo is faster and makes more sense. I fully believe orion was created so they could say it saves fuel and in hopes that they could license it.
93 wasn't exactly a wildcat. UPS dies what it always does best...find a loophole. They waited until the contract passed , then dropped the overweights in our face.
They just need to bargain in good faith. Bit that's not how they rollYou may be right - I was too new in the company at that point to understand it - all I knew was what people in mgmt called it (right or wrong) and what the issue was. I didn't know there were prior negotiations that promised something different.
93 wasn't exactly a wildcat. UPS dies what it always does best...find a loophole. They waited until the contract passed , then dropped the overweights in our face.
They refused to order me new uniforms because I told them I needed them for my retirement bond fireWonder if anyone has noticed when ordering uniforms they are only allowing 2 shirts and want old ones back.Also have a retired management person on my route and he told me he got an email asking for all old uniforms be returned.I think they may be trying to keep inventory in case we walk.Just a thought.
What are you "bonding" over? Since they won't let you burn new uniforms, you should ask them for your employee file to burn.They refused to order me new uniforms because I told them I needed them for my retirement bond fire
You would never believe how big that file is. It came in on a dolly about 4 foot high stack.every single paper was in there I mean everything 8 hour requests everything. I only seen this once as a BA. I think there is a small one at the center but a big one somewhere else. I was shockedWhat are you "bonding" over? Since they won't let you burn new uniforms, you should ask them for your employee file to burn.
I think a lot of it is the yearly safety ride they do. They have a massive packet for every year which is a waste of paper. They could cut one less stop per car if they didn't waste so much paperYou would never believe how big that file is. It came in on a dolly about 4 foot high stack.every single paper was in there I mean everything 8 hour requests everything. I only seen this once as a BA. I think there is a small one at the center but a big one somewhere else. I was shocked
I got plenty of union letters,grievances,Osha and Eeoc charges and depositions. Safe driving cardboard boxes and a lifelike dummy of a supervisorWhat are you "bonding" over? Since they won't let you burn new uniforms, you should ask them for your employee file to burn.
Does the dummy have....holes?I got plenty of union letters,grievances,Osha and Eeoc charges and depositions. Safe driving cardboard boxes and a lifelike dummy of a supervisor
Yes anatomically correct.Stupid with a big mouth and little balls and penisDoes the dummy have....holes?
Possibility of an agreement to continue working under the old contract?
No doubt. No strike will be called. Eventually just enough members will grow tired of it and vote yes for the “Big “ retro check..Possibility of an agreement to continue working under the old contract?