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<blockquote data-quote="konsole" data-source="post: 641616" data-attributes="member: 23965"><p>ok after preloading for 8 years let me lend a few bits of info here...</p><p></p><p>- too many packages for the preloaders to handle is rarely ever an issue. It is almost always too little time to handle those packages. 1k packages to load each mornng is doable but not in a 3.5 - 4 hour shift.</p><p></p><p>- yes there are many preloaders that are an issue and should not have been hired in the first place, and should be fired immediately. A majority of management either tries to kick start these employees or leaves them alone because the employees will turn to the union and then the management can't do anything. I have seen supervisors bring the actions of employees to the attention of management over and over again just to have the management brush it off. Once in a while something gets done but then a week or two later and the employee is back to their usual self and the cycle starts over.</p><p></p><p>- there is ABSOLUTELY nothing you can do to eliminate missloads. As long as humans are relied upon to do the job there will always be a certain margin of error which we must live with. A specific pattern in the missloads or a rather excessive amount for a moderately worked or less employee can be looked at, but for employees with heavy work loads and or a missload here or there with no pattern to them then nothing can and should be done in terms of punishment or changing methods.</p><p></p><p>- one of the most overlooked problems I see day to day is that good employees do not receive any kind of meaningful appreciation and the bad employees do not receive any kind of meaningful punishment. Saying good job day after day when the day before ended up well is great and all but after a little while it gets a bit old and stops being effective. A little prize here and there maybe? Perhaps a small raise on the current paycheck? Then on the other side the lazy/unmotivated/uncaring employees never receive any punishment that makes them think twice before they continue with their bad habits. For them its all just "well management most likely wont do anything to me and if they do then everything will be back to normal shortly after and I can then continue doing what I did before." Like I said I have seen supervisors get very frustrated with how their concerns about employees never get proper attention.</p><p></p><p>- for a preloader to go for an extended period of time without any missloads either means that the preloader has an easy job or the driver does not notice the missload or doesnt want to get the preloader, that they like, in trouble. I'm sure I missload some packages on a couple of my trucks that dont get reported and its probably because my drivers like me and don't want to lose me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="konsole, post: 641616, member: 23965"] ok after preloading for 8 years let me lend a few bits of info here... - too many packages for the preloaders to handle is rarely ever an issue. It is almost always too little time to handle those packages. 1k packages to load each mornng is doable but not in a 3.5 - 4 hour shift. - yes there are many preloaders that are an issue and should not have been hired in the first place, and should be fired immediately. A majority of management either tries to kick start these employees or leaves them alone because the employees will turn to the union and then the management can't do anything. I have seen supervisors bring the actions of employees to the attention of management over and over again just to have the management brush it off. Once in a while something gets done but then a week or two later and the employee is back to their usual self and the cycle starts over. - there is ABSOLUTELY nothing you can do to eliminate missloads. As long as humans are relied upon to do the job there will always be a certain margin of error which we must live with. A specific pattern in the missloads or a rather excessive amount for a moderately worked or less employee can be looked at, but for employees with heavy work loads and or a missload here or there with no pattern to them then nothing can and should be done in terms of punishment or changing methods. - one of the most overlooked problems I see day to day is that good employees do not receive any kind of meaningful appreciation and the bad employees do not receive any kind of meaningful punishment. Saying good job day after day when the day before ended up well is great and all but after a little while it gets a bit old and stops being effective. A little prize here and there maybe? Perhaps a small raise on the current paycheck? Then on the other side the lazy/unmotivated/uncaring employees never receive any punishment that makes them think twice before they continue with their bad habits. For them its all just "well management most likely wont do anything to me and if they do then everything will be back to normal shortly after and I can then continue doing what I did before." Like I said I have seen supervisors get very frustrated with how their concerns about employees never get proper attention. - for a preloader to go for an extended period of time without any missloads either means that the preloader has an easy job or the driver does not notice the missload or doesnt want to get the preloader, that they like, in trouble. I'm sure I missload some packages on a couple of my trucks that dont get reported and its probably because my drivers like me and don't want to lose me. [/QUOTE]
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