'Safety Folders' or 'Safety Books'! A blatant waste of time and resources with no apparent affect on the bottom line.
Safety books? For the love of God!
The point of them is to get the UPS worker to think about safety before he starts his shift. However, it never works that way and days go by without the book being filled. Next, we get a message to update our safety books. Again, the time and resources spent on these stupid safety books.
If you want another .25 SPORH out of me after my ride, I cool with that. I'm not cool with that when you pay someone to correct saftey books like a school teacher and then send a message to each driver who hasn't asnwered "The Daily Question"
I'm serious here. As UPS drivers we are the most efficient drivers or workers in the entire world. Even the worst of us are more efficent than the best Fed-Ex drivers or any other workers.
So you come out and 'crack the whip' on us for 3 days, while at the same time you are paying someone to correct 65 safety books everyday that nobody cares about. Then, he is paid to send 30 messages to the drivers that have not updated their books. What is the cost for this? It must take at least an hour to correct each book every day. What a waste of time! No?
Sometimes I wonder how we make money and WE do make money in spite of ourselves. The 3-day OJS ride is just one example of money down the drain. Its just for the simple fact that I have NEVER witnessed a driver fired for performance. So the Sup. goes out there for 3 days at the cost of about $1000 and locks the driver into a number.
The Sup. is up his but all 3 days and no talking with the customers are allowed. Also, no cell phone calls are allowed. Problem is, this is not reality. We HAVE to talk to our customers (saled leads? yeah, not if you're OJSing me you hypocrite) and we have to answer our cell phones because its YOU that call me 3 times/day. All this waste to prove a number you can't enforce.
Once you jump off car the driver is going to work at ease again and go back to his old routine. UPS can't even fire the worst of the worst so why do they waste their time and resources? I don't get it. If UPS can spend money to have another person on the truck 3 days/week then they can surely lighten my stop count. Why not?