Lunch as a dispatch tool

[DriveInDriveOut]

What company in America has a paid lunch.... Ups needs to not give you so much work ... It's not like hey aren't known for treating us like pack mules... Right???

My point is if I had less work I still wouldn't want to sit for an hour doing nothing not getting paid. I'd rather have an extra hour of work and at least make some money with that time.

I'm sure that feeling will change with age, but right now sitting for an hour doing nothing drives me nuts.

 

[Coldworld]

My point is if I had less work I still wouldn't want to sit for an hour doing nothing not getting paid. I'd rather have an extra hour of work and at least make some money with that time.

I'm sure that feeling will change with age, but right now sitting for an hour doing nothing drives me nuts.

I hear ya....

 

[FrigidFTSup]

What the union should do is get everyone paid lunches. Sure I'd take a full lunch everyday, if they paid me for that time away from my family.

Pipe dream at best.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

I'm curious, in areas outside of California does the DIAD lock you out from working when you punch out for lunch? Here in NorCal it locks you out for 30 minutes with the message 'No work is to be completed at this time. Local laws require you to take meal'. There's a way around that message though, but only to look at stops remaining. You can input the time you took lunch AFTER you complete lunch (no stops or pickups completed in the past 30 minutes). If you try to imput lunch and you've completed stops it will say 'meal must be started after last stop completed'. Is it like that everywhere else?

None of that here. When you start your lunch you put in the time. When you finish you put the end time.

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

Pipe dream at best.

Hope is a waking dream captain buzzkill.

 

[DOK]

How are they getting away with that now? Our diad promps for meal time. Take meal time other than between 12 and 3, and you get on a report.

That didn't make its way to these parts as of yet.

 

[3 done 3 to go]

So you can turn it off??

Must be another delusional mets fan.

 

[Scottyhawk]

Here you could work through lunch when you put it in the board but will be on a report and probably have a warning letter issued
Again my issue is not taking the lunch, it is the strict parameters that our lunch is in. 20 min break within the first hour only and must be completed between 12-3. Any deviation and a warning letter is issued

 

[brownmonster]

Here you could work through lunch when you put it in the board but will be on a report and probably have a warning letter issued
Again my issue is not taking the lunch, it is the strict parameters that our lunch is in. 20 min break within the first hour only and must be completed between 12-3. Any deviation and a warning letter is issued

20 minute break within the first hour? It takes me 35 minutes to get to my area.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

20 minute break within the first hour? It takes me 35 minutes to get to my area.

Our supplement requires a 10 minute paid break between the 1st and 3rd hours and a 45 minute unpaid meal break between the 3rd and 5th hours.

 

[Star B]

What company in America has a paid lunch....

Footlocker used to give you half hour paid lunch... or hour unpaid... your choice.

 

[Coldworld]

Our supplement requires a 10 minute paid break between the 1st and 3rd hours and a 45 minute unpaid meal break between the 3rd and 5th hours.

You don't get an additional 15 break???

 

[Savvy412]

I take a half. I dont know why you guys are so obsessed with getting home at 9 at night.


I do about 210..take a 30 min..get home by 7-730..and im cool...

What imma do? just sit there fora hour while its getting dark? .. I actually want to see my wife and kid

 

[Luke Thighrocker]

Our supplement requires a 10 minute paid break between the 1st and 3rd hours and a 45 minute unpaid meal break between the 3rd and 5th hours.

Is it enforced?

 

[wayfair]

I take a half. I dont know why you guys are so obsessed with getting home at 9 at night.


I do about 210..take a 30 min..get home by 7-730..and im cool...

What imma do? just sit there fora hour while its getting dark? .. I actually want to see my wife and kid

9.5 puts me in at 715 pm..

Didn't you know that you had to take an hour for lunch before you took the job?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Is it enforced?

All they care is that we actually take them.

 

[Luke Thighrocker]

All they care is that we actually take them.

Does that mean, "breaks are enforced"?

If so, who does the enforcement? The Company? The Union?

 

[wayfair]

Does that mean, "breaks are enforced"?

If so, who does the enforcement? The Company? The Union?

who doesn't like breaks?

smoker's love 'em

 

[Cementups]

Must be another delusional mets fan.

 

[ManInBrown]

The only time you're leaving thousands on the table is when you work through lunch. That's it.

Incorrect. Walking across lawns instead of using walkpaths could cost a driver at least 10K a year.