SPC is a figmented correlation of work by the company. Not all stops are created equal. The one factor that UPS intentionally leaves out is weight. 10 boxes weighing 1 lb each and 10 boxes weighing 69 lb each is considered the same. UPS uses weight or dimensional weight by distance to calculate price, yet they refuse to use this system for drivers. It would be too fair. The ONLY calculation for work is W=JxD.How has "stops per car" affected your day to day delivering? Has your dispatch increased/decreased? Are your add/cut amounts up?
The other drawback to SPC is its toxic effect on management-employee relations.
Its pretty tough to have any respect for a Center Manager who has been reduced by Corporate to being little more than a puppet who generates a metric. Why even bother to call them a "manager" if they arent allowed to make a basic operational decision?
10 pickups
How has "stops per car" affected your day to day delivering? Has your dispatch increased/decreased? Are your add/cut amounts up?
Here we go.
No rural route. Mostly business and apartments The apartments are 3 stories. Those are not fun When i goton the route two years ago 135----150 was min max Now it's 155---17010 pickups
Must be a rural route.
How has "stops per car" affected your day to day delivering? Has your dispatch increased/decreased? Are your add/cut amounts up?
My route went from 145 stops to 162
How many pickups?
10 pickups
.....But I will admit that they have tighten it up. Some days it falls off the truck.
Agreed. Managers have had the ability to manage taken from them over the last several years. Everything is mandated. This is why I got out of management 10 years ago and refuse to go back whenever I am pressured to put my letter in.
There are periods when there is a big push for "range of dispatch" meaning keeping as many drivers as possible between 8-9.5 hours. Then the Div. Mgr. will call down arbitrarily one day and insist on cutting routes and ROD goes right out the window.
SPC is a figmented correlation of work by the company. Not all stops are created equal. The one factor that UPS intentionally leaves out is weight. 10 boxes weighing 1 lb each and 10 boxes weighing 69 lb each is considered the same. UPS uses weight or dimensional weight by distance to calculate price, yet they refuse to use this system for drivers. It would be too fair. The ONLY calculation for work is W=JxD.How has "stops per car" affected your day to day delivering? Has your dispatch increased/decreased? Are your add/cut amounts up?
W is work.
J is joules or newtons, force of gravity (weight).
D is distance.
friend' SPC, Spor or over allowed.
Unless they can tell me my true work, I don't care.
What happen if a center manager did not go by the SPC metric, but his plan didn't blow up in his face?
What happen if a center manager did not go by the SPC metric, but his plan didn't blow up in his face?
He would probably get fired.
It doesnt matter if the plan succeeds or fails. The only thing that matters at UPS is blind obedience and generating the metric.[/QUOTE
Nope not that either.
This is a very good point and myself have been asking the same question, if we can apply DWS labels why is this size information not implemented into the PAS/EDD system. I have yet to receive an answer that even comes close to solving this dilemma.
Nothing, the center manager did his job.
He would probably get fired.
It doesnt matter if the plan succeeds or fails. The only thing that matters at UPS is blind obedience and generating the metric.[/QUOTE
Nope not that either.
Maybe some people work in a friendlier environment than others. I know managers (many of my good friends went the management route while I decided to drive) in my area that have tried to debate the merits of cutting a route(s) and were told by district staff that they are to hit SPC or report to the district office at 7am the following day to justify why they should still have a job.
Why would a DM make this "arbitrary" call one day? I've heard the theory that all big corporate CEOs are psycho/sociopaths....does this affect DMs, too?