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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1115189" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>Awhile back when our center was having an impossible Stops Per Car metric jammed down its throat by corporate, I would occasionally get a hopeless dispatch crammed into my car. </p><p></p><p>Instead of getting frustrated, I would simply recognize the situation for what it was. They had to get the packages out of the building; they had to get the preloader off of the clock; they had to eliminate enough routes to look good on the report and placate some idiot manager in a cubicle 500 miles away; and since my car had room in it, I was simply a "septic tank" for those packages to be deposited into. Typical UPS, no big deal.</p><p></p><p>So...I would accomodate them. I would get those packages out of the building for them, and then take them out on route to a pup trailer that another driver had dropped for use as an air shuttle. I would unload the ones I couldnt make service on into the trailer, scan them as "missed", and put them into pre-record. I would then notify management that I had dropped them, and that they were free to dispatch another driver to get them if making service on them was a priority. Otherwise, they would come back to the building in the trailer that night and I could just stop complete them as missed and we could try again for tomorrow. </p><p></p><p>After the second or third time I did this, they quit using my car as a holding tank for dead stops and found someone else to deal with them. Its a lot easier to deal with the BS when you realize that you are just the messenger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1115189, member: 14668"] Awhile back when our center was having an impossible Stops Per Car metric jammed down its throat by corporate, I would occasionally get a hopeless dispatch crammed into my car. Instead of getting frustrated, I would simply recognize the situation for what it was. They had to get the packages out of the building; they had to get the preloader off of the clock; they had to eliminate enough routes to look good on the report and placate some idiot manager in a cubicle 500 miles away; and since my car had room in it, I was simply a "septic tank" for those packages to be deposited into. Typical UPS, no big deal. So...I would accomodate them. I would get those packages out of the building for them, and then take them out on route to a pup trailer that another driver had dropped for use as an air shuttle. I would unload the ones I couldnt make service on into the trailer, scan them as "missed", and put them into pre-record. I would then notify management that I had dropped them, and that they were free to dispatch another driver to get them if making service on them was a priority. Otherwise, they would come back to the building in the trailer that night and I could just stop complete them as missed and we could try again for tomorrow. After the second or third time I did this, they quit using my car as a holding tank for dead stops and found someone else to deal with them. Its a lot easier to deal with the BS when you realize that you are just the messenger. [/QUOTE]
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