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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 5521197" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>I have heard of this happening, and it was always an opportunity to use an RTD for courier work when a station is short-handed. I actually did FO once as a favor to a manager I genuinely respected because he was in a bind and I didn't have anything left to do but take MT cans back to the ramp. I got the OK from my manager and charged my time to the destination station.</p><p>Operationally, it would make sense to "use" an RTD as a courier in some instances, but, to your point, that isn't the offer letter you signed, is it? It isn't your problem the station is understaffed, and most RTDs have zero interest in doing courier work again,</p><p></p><p>Because you don't have a labor contract, your offer letter means nothing and the "Operational Necessity" verbiage trumps anything else when your employer decides to use the clause. Before the 14 hr rule was rigidly enforced I had an extreme example of this happen to me. I had done my overnight doubles run to our sister city 160 miles away, after having done a PM station run, and had just arrived back at my home ramp sitting at 12 hours. One of our gung-ho managers needed to cover an AM CTV run to a station 30 miles out and I was forced to do it because they had nobody else to do it. I refused, and was told I would be disciplined for refusing to work and not adhering to the Operational Necessity "emergency", so I did the run. After hitting traffic on the way back I was at 16 hours when I clocked out and I had to be back to work in 6 hours.</p><p></p><p>I filed a GFT, and it, of course, went nowhere because they backed the manager. Today, it wouldn't happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 5521197, member: 12508"] I have heard of this happening, and it was always an opportunity to use an RTD for courier work when a station is short-handed. I actually did FO once as a favor to a manager I genuinely respected because he was in a bind and I didn't have anything left to do but take MT cans back to the ramp. I got the OK from my manager and charged my time to the destination station. Operationally, it would make sense to "use" an RTD as a courier in some instances, but, to your point, that isn't the offer letter you signed, is it? It isn't your problem the station is understaffed, and most RTDs have zero interest in doing courier work again, Because you don't have a labor contract, your offer letter means nothing and the "Operational Necessity" verbiage trumps anything else when your employer decides to use the clause. Before the 14 hr rule was rigidly enforced I had an extreme example of this happen to me. I had done my overnight doubles run to our sister city 160 miles away, after having done a PM station run, and had just arrived back at my home ramp sitting at 12 hours. One of our gung-ho managers needed to cover an AM CTV run to a station 30 miles out and I was forced to do it because they had nobody else to do it. I refused, and was told I would be disciplined for refusing to work and not adhering to the Operational Necessity "emergency", so I did the run. After hitting traffic on the way back I was at 16 hours when I clocked out and I had to be back to work in 6 hours. I filed a GFT, and it, of course, went nowhere because they backed the manager. Today, it wouldn't happen. [/QUOTE]
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