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Older driver fired for "not using 3 points of contact", but really for performance.
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<blockquote data-quote="20_years_in" data-source="post: 867028" data-attributes="member: 36081"><p><strong>Re: Older driver fired for "not using 3 points of contact", but really for performanc</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If we want to change the order of how we deliver stops, we have to go in with a supe and change the EDD. The supes are pretty busy and I get in late, so this takes weeks or months to accomplish.</p><p> I regularly have customers come to me later in the day and tell me that the COD check is now ready and they want their stuff. I tell them that I will get fired if I make 2 attempts in a day, and that I am only allowed to work 12 hours and that I will be lucky if I can finish what I have in 12 hours. I tell them that they will get it tomorrow. They don't like it, but they have to respect the fact that I am not going to risk <strong><em>my</em></strong> job because<em><strong> they </strong></em>weren't ready when I made the COD attempt. </p><p>What you do with your notepads giving your customers the COD amounts sounds efficient and reasonable to me, but we are not allowed to go two times (once to drop off the COD data on the notepads and once more to bring the packages in exchange for the checks that are ready) has clearly been defined as <strong>theft of time </strong>by our center manager. I have personally been in the center manager's office with my on car, my steward and my center manager with the threat of discharge for doing <strong>exactly</strong> this strategy: one visit per day means one visit per day. So now I stand by the consignee while he writes the checks: if they are following me, they would walk in and see me standing by a customer writing checks, or maybe they would see me leaving the address holding the checks: <strong>that is the best for my job security</strong>.</p><p>When I finally made the decision to do every little thing the correct way (I still hustle), it added about .60 hours to my day. I now run overallowed by about 1.10 hours every day. My paychecks are friggin' huge and my wife is happy: <strong>win/win/win</strong>!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="20_years_in, post: 867028, member: 36081"] [b]Re: Older driver fired for "not using 3 points of contact", but really for performanc[/b] If we want to change the order of how we deliver stops, we have to go in with a supe and change the EDD. The supes are pretty busy and I get in late, so this takes weeks or months to accomplish. I regularly have customers come to me later in the day and tell me that the COD check is now ready and they want their stuff. I tell them that I will get fired if I make 2 attempts in a day, and that I am only allowed to work 12 hours and that I will be lucky if I can finish what I have in 12 hours. I tell them that they will get it tomorrow. They don't like it, but they have to respect the fact that I am not going to risk [B][I]my[/I][/B] job because[I][B] they [/B][/I]weren't ready when I made the COD attempt. What you do with your notepads giving your customers the COD amounts sounds efficient and reasonable to me, but we are not allowed to go two times (once to drop off the COD data on the notepads and once more to bring the packages in exchange for the checks that are ready) has clearly been defined as [B]theft of time [/B]by our center manager. I have personally been in the center manager's office with my on car, my steward and my center manager with the threat of discharge for doing [B]exactly[/B] this strategy: one visit per day means one visit per day. So now I stand by the consignee while he writes the checks: if they are following me, they would walk in and see me standing by a customer writing checks, or maybe they would see me leaving the address holding the checks: [B]that is the best for my job security[/B]. When I finally made the decision to do every little thing the correct way (I still hustle), it added about .60 hours to my day. I now run overallowed by about 1.10 hours every day. My paychecks are friggin' huge and my wife is happy: [B]win/win/win[/B]! [/QUOTE]
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