evilleace
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I know all that jazz. Theres days when I can hustle all 4 hours and get nowhere when it comes to finishing. Plus staying over 9am is nice too, minutes are mintues logged ( hopefully ).
What is said during PCm as of late is they want all preloaders to be at 250 an hour for the first hour. Yet when you start talking about large amounts a person can get here, you start to see that one might have to keep that pace up for the entire night. Keep that pace for more then 3 and a half hours is quite hard.
They did do a time study on me, found out I was going at 274 an hour. After the soup was done he tried to get me to sign the sheet, I declined too. This is after they thought I was slacking off, nope.. I anit. Plus signing that sheet and they would expect that from me every single night. Ive also decided that I wont sign missload sheets as well, even though I havnt had one in over three months. Performance isnt an issue here, because they would keep expecting more and more. I thought it was going to get easier with senority, not harder.
In my building the harder you work the more you get dumped on. The ones who are lazy or act like they don't know what they are doing get easier days. But it is what it is. What they don't take into account with those piece per hour numbers is that they are averages the first hour you might only get 100 pieces but the last hour you get 350 pieces and are stacked out then they want to talk pieces per hour I don't think so. Ask for help stack out if you have to. Just keep your head up it will get better.
Thanks guys for the awesome tips and I'll be sure to use them tomorrow! Today I had to carry out 3 UPS trucks all by myself and I couldn't do it. I tried so hard to keep up the work, but fell back for some reason and started stacking the boxes. At first I thought I was doing well, grabbed a few boxes and sorted them in their proper section and then I got hit with massive amounts of boxes all at once which just made me go into a downhill FAIL. Kept stacking and stacking boxes until my supervisor began to help me out. Thanks for the awesome tips, keep them coming!
And to the most of the questions, I work on a conveyor belt. So if I miss them, it looks bad!
You will get better there is a learning curve with this job almost everyone gets behind at first, but one day you will come in and it will seem like things have clicked. You will have neater loads packages will fit better, and you will have a minimal stack at the end of the day. At least hopefully in my building recently it has been so bad everyone has been stacked out no matter how much they bust their butt.
Conveyor belts are tough just try to maximize your carries and stay at he front of your area as much as possible. If you get to the end of your area and have to push packages back up, push them all up including the ones for your last to cars if you pass them on the way up then then start loading at the beginning instead of pushing to the front and then running back to the end. Good Luck.
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