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Is there really a possibility of a strike?
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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 3531452" data-attributes="member: 4550"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>But a strike is a scenario that only appears as a possibility every 5-6 years and actually takes place at a rate far less than even that which leaves a lot of time in between for the overwhelmingly more likely situation of drivers contending with a dispatch program that seems to think a driver can safely and easily squeeze and navigate through floor to ceiling boxes to dig out a letter off the 7200 shelf section for no other reason than that stop happens to be across the street from the first air stop of the day. Never mind that there's a pickup 7 hours later at the address next door or that the truck will be passing that stop to do resis later in the afternoon. </p><p></p><p>It's not strictly that the program is flawed. It's that it's been flawed since being implemented and that was well over 5 years ago and getting worse instead of better. If it's inadequacy is resulting in the most valuable talent among delivery drivers either retiring early or running to feeders, then there's not much evidence to suggest new hires making say half of full scale pay are going to fill the void created by that abrupt loss of talent before the next peak season if they mange to even last that long. And the company can't afford to mismanage itself into another peak season as awful as the last one was. Management can talk about automation. AI, drones, and self driving trucks all they want for the future but that won't change the fact that they are failing with regard to the now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 3531452, member: 4550"] 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. But a strike is a scenario that only appears as a possibility every 5-6 years and actually takes place at a rate far less than even that which leaves a lot of time in between for the overwhelmingly more likely situation of drivers contending with a dispatch program that seems to think a driver can safely and easily squeeze and navigate through floor to ceiling boxes to dig out a letter off the 7200 shelf section for no other reason than that stop happens to be across the street from the first air stop of the day. Never mind that there's a pickup 7 hours later at the address next door or that the truck will be passing that stop to do resis later in the afternoon. It's not strictly that the program is flawed. It's that it's been flawed since being implemented and that was well over 5 years ago and getting worse instead of better. If it's inadequacy is resulting in the most valuable talent among delivery drivers either retiring early or running to feeders, then there's not much evidence to suggest new hires making say half of full scale pay are going to fill the void created by that abrupt loss of talent before the next peak season if they mange to even last that long. And the company can't afford to mismanage itself into another peak season as awful as the last one was. Management can talk about automation. AI, drones, and self driving trucks all they want for the future but that won't change the fact that they are failing with regard to the now. [/QUOTE]
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