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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 864199" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>"Stress leave" is the only protection that operations management has left. Its against the law to fire someone who is out on any sort of medical leave.</p><p></p><p>The "new" management model...in which the Center Manager has no control over dispatch, area trace or number of routes on the street...has pretty much put these people into hopeless, no-win situations. Under this new model, the Preload Dispatch Supervisor shoves a failed dispatch out the door in order to cut out enough routes to look good on a report, and then goes home by 11:00 AM or noon and is in bed or on the couch when the wheels fall off and the sparks start flying. The Center Manager and his subordinates are left behind to clean up the mess and take all of the blame. They have no authority or resources to actually solve any of the underlying issues, they are now little more than glorified clerks who read the PCM's and rubber-stamp the warning letters. They have been set up to fail.</p><p></p><p>My theory on the huge spike in "stress leave" is that it is simply a survival technique for the guys who are trying to hang on for another year or two until they are eligible for retirement. If they can get a doctor to sign off on it, then when the company whacks them for failing to meet its impossible expectations they might be able to retaliate with a discrimination lawsuit. Its pretty much the only card they have left to play.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 864199, member: 14668"] "Stress leave" is the only protection that operations management has left. Its against the law to fire someone who is out on any sort of medical leave. The "new" management model...in which the Center Manager has no control over dispatch, area trace or number of routes on the street...has pretty much put these people into hopeless, no-win situations. Under this new model, the Preload Dispatch Supervisor shoves a failed dispatch out the door in order to cut out enough routes to look good on a report, and then goes home by 11:00 AM or noon and is in bed or on the couch when the wheels fall off and the sparks start flying. The Center Manager and his subordinates are left behind to clean up the mess and take all of the blame. They have no authority or resources to actually solve any of the underlying issues, they are now little more than glorified clerks who read the PCM's and rubber-stamp the warning letters. They have been set up to fail. My theory on the huge spike in "stress leave" is that it is simply a survival technique for the guys who are trying to hang on for another year or two until they are eligible for retirement. If they can get a doctor to sign off on it, then when the company whacks them for failing to meet its impossible expectations they might be able to retaliate with a discrimination lawsuit. Its pretty much the only card they have left to play. [/QUOTE]
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