Management Using Their Kids As Driver Helpers

[rhico]

I signed up to be a driver helper awhile back. Management is using their kids to be driver helpers. I have asked If I could be a driver helper and management says I'm not needed.

Thoughts?

 

[Dracula]

I signed up to be a driver helper awhile back. Management is using their kids to be driver helpers. I have asked If I could be a driver helper and management says I'm not needed.

Thoughts?

Relax...those kids will never be the same again. Most likely, they will swear off any sort of physical labor, and get MBA's and work on Wall Street, bankrupting companies like Hostess. All vampire capitalists started off with tough, honest work. Then, they saw they errors of their ways and became empty, human flush funds.

 

[Justaname]

Did you apply for seasonal or are you a pt hourly? If your teamster then you should get first dibs on teamster work. If your just a seasonal then you're sol

 

[rod]

try again next year----I guarantee those kids won't be back again.

 

[BSWALKS]

I don't think my managers are old enough to have kids

 

[Catatonic]

I signed up to be a driver helper awhile back. Management is using their kids to be driver helpers. I have asked If I could be a driver helper and management says I'm not needed.

Thoughts?

Go look for a job elsewhere.

 

[soberups]

Actually, hiring the children of management as helpers seems like a good idea to me. They will have a better idea of what the job entails than an off-the-street hire, and probably more accountability than someone who is just in it for a quick $8.50 an hour. I know of 2 helpers in my area over the years who were the children of management and they worked out well. In both cases their parent spoke with the driver beforehand and made it clear that their kids were not to receive any special treatment or favoritism, and in both cases none was given and the kids spent a whole peak season busting their asses on a brown truck. I am sure it was a character building experience.

 

[UPSGUY72]

Did you apply for seasonal or are you a pt hourly? If your teamster then you should get first dibs on teamster work. If your just a seasonal then you're sol

Wrong Ptimers have not contractual right to seasonal helper work.

 

[AZBrown]

Wrong Ptimers have not contractual right to seasonal helper work.

That must be a supplemental rule then, because we (preload) specifically get the first crack at helper slots.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

I've seen a lot of sups in street clothes working, also "new hires" who are probably working under the table. Would mgmt pay their kids to come in and make numbers off the books? LOL

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Wrong Ptimers have not contractual right to seasonal helper work.

That must be a supplemental rule then, because we (preload) specifically get the first crack at helper slots.

There is nothing in the NMA that addresses this but most centers give insiders preference when filling helper slots.

 

[Bagels]

There is nothing in the NMA that addresses this but most centers give insiders preference when filling helper slots.

It's addressed in some regional/local contracts.

 

[Anonymous 10]

I signed up to be a driver helper awhile back. Management is using their kids to be driver helpers. I have asked If I could be a driver helper and management says I'm not needed.

Thoughts?

Did you file a grievance??

 

[UPSGUY72]

Did you file a grievance??

Unless his rider / supplement address PTimer have first dibs at driver helper positions he is SOL..

 

[rhico]

Im a pt hourly on preload. They just started using helpers this week. I signed up to be a helper a few months ago.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Im a pt hourly on preload. They just started using helpers this week. I signed up to be a helper a few months ago.

In hindsight you should have checked with the helper coordinator before Peak started to make sure that you were on the list. Mgt should not be using their own kids over inside employees but I don't know if this is something that you can grieve or simply chalk up as a lesson learned for next year. With only 16 working days left it may be too late to do anything about it.

 

[bogeyball]

I signed up to be a driver helper awhile back. Management is using their kids to be driver helpers. I have asked If I could be a driver helper and management says I'm not needed.

Thoughts?

Relax...those kids will never be the same again. Most likely, they will swear off any sort of physical labor, and get MBA's and work on Wall Street, bankrupting companies like Hostess. All vampire capitalists started off with tough, honest work. Then, they saw they errors of their ways and became empty, human flush funds.

You sound envious....

 

[grgrcr88]

In the central all inside employees have first rights to helper jobs. If your in the central region file a grievance for the time worked by outside hires. Do it quickly, you only have 5 days.

 

[Bagels]

In the central all inside employees have first rights to helper jobs. If your in the central region file a grievance for the time worked by outside hires. Do it quickly, you only have 5 days.

...but not to exceed eight hours between their inside shift + jumping. If an employee works six hours inside, the Company can easily decline them the right to jump - unless there were jobs with less than 2 hours available.

 

[menotyou]

Here, they have to use inside before outside. That is the rule in Upstate's territory, as well.