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<blockquote data-quote="browniehound" data-source="post: 1335800" data-attributes="member: 4653"><p>I say run your lunch until you make book. Do what you have to do to make book. After that, no excuses, you have to take a lunch and stop giving the company money and working for free. Once you make book you can take your lunch and there is nothing they can do about it.</p><p> </p><p>Also, you justify not taking your lunch by saying that you lose time by driving by stops and being unorganized. </p><p> </p><p>So what? Its what drivers do in the beginning. There is no time clock that says your route must be done in X amount of time even if your supervisor tells you that everyday. Those numbers are theirs, not yours. You get paid by the hour and when you are driving by stops you are still working. Don't for 1 second believe you should doc yourself time for that. You are working and the law since the mid 1860's says you must be paid for every second that you work for someone. This is regardless of what UPS thinks or wants.</p><p> </p><p>UPS wants the days of slavery back. They do every thing they can to get a driver work for nothing and they actually know, expect, and count on a certain % to work for free. Why else would they make such a big deal out of something so trivial as a lunch break? Because they KNOW some drivers will "punch out" for lunch but continue to work and UPS just loves this free labor.</p><p> </p><p>At any other company in this universe its no big for an employee to say to his boss "hey boss, me and the family are going away for the weekend and have a 5 hour drive ahead of us, is it ok if I work my lunch break so I can get an hour head start?" and the boss saying "yeah, that's fine, what do I care?"</p><p> </p><p>No, not at UPS. You need to take the hour, no exceptions. They do this because they know you are going to put the hour in the board and work lunch so you can go away early and UPS gets an hour of free labor.</p><p> </p><p>This makes me sick that they do this. This is the lowest of low, scum of the earth type of crap. I don't know how my center manager sleeps at night KNOWING he is robbing all of his rookie drivers of an hour's pay EVERYDAY.</p><p> </p><p>This is a thief in my book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="browniehound, post: 1335800, member: 4653"] I say run your lunch until you make book. Do what you have to do to make book. After that, no excuses, you have to take a lunch and stop giving the company money and working for free. Once you make book you can take your lunch and there is nothing they can do about it. Also, you justify not taking your lunch by saying that you lose time by driving by stops and being unorganized. So what? Its what drivers do in the beginning. There is no time clock that says your route must be done in X amount of time even if your supervisor tells you that everyday. Those numbers are theirs, not yours. You get paid by the hour and when you are driving by stops you are still working. Don't for 1 second believe you should doc yourself time for that. You are working and the law since the mid 1860's says you must be paid for every second that you work for someone. This is regardless of what UPS thinks or wants. UPS wants the days of slavery back. They do every thing they can to get a driver work for nothing and they actually know, expect, and count on a certain % to work for free. Why else would they make such a big deal out of something so trivial as a lunch break? Because they KNOW some drivers will "punch out" for lunch but continue to work and UPS just loves this free labor. At any other company in this universe its no big for an employee to say to his boss "hey boss, me and the family are going away for the weekend and have a 5 hour drive ahead of us, is it ok if I work my lunch break so I can get an hour head start?" and the boss saying "yeah, that's fine, what do I care?" No, not at UPS. You need to take the hour, no exceptions. They do this because they know you are going to put the hour in the board and work lunch so you can go away early and UPS gets an hour of free labor. This makes me sick that they do this. This is the lowest of low, scum of the earth type of crap. I don't know how my center manager sleeps at night KNOWING he is robbing all of his rookie drivers of an hour's pay EVERYDAY. This is a thief in my book. [/QUOTE]
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