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<blockquote data-quote="cachsux" data-source="post: 923921" data-attributes="member: 5529"><p>The "hates drivers" remark was a joke at More's and UpS' bickering.</p><p></p><p>I went back and read your original post and let me ask this. If they're letting senior guys take days off shouldn't you have a full weeks work? Five senior guys taking 1 day each is 5 for you, right? Or are you saying that of all the cover drivers you have the least seniority and there are no days of coverage left when it gets down to you?</p><p></p><p>I'm not making light of your position. And yea I do know what it's like. I was a swing driver (cover driver now) for all but 1 1/2 of my 6 1/2 years in package. It was never a matter of working. It was a matter of never getting a day off. Of getting every crap route that some senior driver came in and looked at how friend-ed it was and took the day off and and I had to bat clean up. Having 5 different crap routes in 5 different days. Getting loaned out to other centers to run their crap routes. Of having to continue to be a swing driver covering 1/2 a center because I was good at it while new drivers who sucked at the job had routes assigned to them.</p><p></p><p>Long story short is the vast majority of us have been in the same place you are more or less. But we did what we had to do, put the time in, and worked our way up the ladder. If you feel strongly about your situation then you need to organize and change it in your area. Beyond that I don't know what to tell you. If you were here you could have one of my days every week and there's plenty others that would take a day so you could have a full week. But seniority is what it is. Guys who have earned the perks will take them. you will be there some day and you will do the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cachsux, post: 923921, member: 5529"] The "hates drivers" remark was a joke at More's and UpS' bickering. I went back and read your original post and let me ask this. If they're letting senior guys take days off shouldn't you have a full weeks work? Five senior guys taking 1 day each is 5 for you, right? Or are you saying that of all the cover drivers you have the least seniority and there are no days of coverage left when it gets down to you? I'm not making light of your position. And yea I do know what it's like. I was a swing driver (cover driver now) for all but 1 1/2 of my 6 1/2 years in package. It was never a matter of working. It was a matter of never getting a day off. Of getting every crap route that some senior driver came in and looked at how friend-ed it was and took the day off and and I had to bat clean up. Having 5 different crap routes in 5 different days. Getting loaned out to other centers to run their crap routes. Of having to continue to be a swing driver covering 1/2 a center because I was good at it while new drivers who sucked at the job had routes assigned to them. Long story short is the vast majority of us have been in the same place you are more or less. But we did what we had to do, put the time in, and worked our way up the ladder. If you feel strongly about your situation then you need to organize and change it in your area. Beyond that I don't know what to tell you. If you were here you could have one of my days every week and there's plenty others that would take a day so you could have a full week. But seniority is what it is. Guys who have earned the perks will take them. you will be there some day and you will do the same. [/QUOTE]
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