Calling BS on 180 rentals. Doubt if we have that many in the whole state. Heard the same thing about running a second preload. Have no idea where UPS will find the people. We can't even staff the regular sorts and preload. New hires are overwhelmed now and sups do most of the work.
We're processing 80k a day now on preload, projection for peak day is 200k+, so 180 rentals might be about right.
You work in a much larger Center then I can imagine. My apologies for doubting you.
That's a lie, why do they print such untruthful crap. I guess upstairs has all the answers even though they have literally screwed up all the routes all the street orders and all the customers relationships.
In my building all the bathrooms are upstairs.... That explains where all the answers come from.
Exactly, poop is brown and flows from the top. All we can do is flush everyday and wait for some more.
To be honest we're a little skeptical about it too because no one knows where all these rentals are going to be parked.
When I worked inside average volume was 80k and during peak it hit 120k.
Was that just preload? Last year our peak day was over over 160k, so 200 would be a big bump but they're usually pretty good with their volume projections around here.
Nah that was the night sort and was a couple years ago so not sure what it's been like last couple peaks.
I know that skeptical feeling, its daily and year round. They have given us an aerial map showing our drive patterns on the yard to avoid the cluster friend they had last year. Isn't it amazing after all these successful and profitable peak seasons we have had, all of a sudden the last 3 have been consecutively worse as far as winging it on a friend shoestring with relying on the senior drivers once again.
Yeah we're not a hub (yet), so all we run is preload and local sort. We build about 20 loads on the local sort but the preload is a monster.
YUP, Bingo. I remember when peak was kinda fun.
Not so much for an inside hire, but I cannot fathom coming from the outside. #1 problem is just the driving part. Think about it, not rocket science, but pretty formidable the first time you are driving the truck. The the safety part, remembering all the DOK that is required, some of us have been trying to memorize it verbatim for years, and still cant. The there is actually the delivering part, the levels of service, the safety part of that, the kids out there delivering at 8 pm in the dark...To me thrown to the wolves I think. I expect a big increase in accidents, and injuries, especially dog bites. Hoping nothing fatal.
WEll that wiuld be optimum, but rarely do we get the same helper. Especially some of us who rarely get helpers, so we are at the mercy of a helper who has never had on the job training. And there is like 5 days left, ususally a helper who has not worked much and disgruntled about that, or one who drove 30 miles to work 2.99 hours, all things that could be fixed, but wont.
