I knew it.... thanks for letting the cat outta the bagYour right, you have figured it out.
We only look busy until 10am.
From 10am - 2pm we go do "observations"
Tee off time is 2:15pm not much time left over for some silly little warning letters. We got bigger things to worry about, like who is buying the first round!
Once again.... Not all drivers are as good as you all...
When I first heard about Telematics, I thought it may be a good tool for automotive, but not for operations. I figured drivers already didn't back. Already wore their seat belt. Already stayed on area.
Telematics sites have seen great improvements in all areas. The amount of discipline has been very small. As Brownie said, its generally just a conversation.
Yes, it can seem like nagging. In the hands of a poor management, it can be an annoying pain in the rear. I understand that, but that it generally not the case.
Ask your supervisor to show you the Telematics system and how a virtual OJS works. I'll bet you will be impressed. This is a world class system and a great tool.
P-Man
To qoute you directly " yawn"Treehugger, I also have time for my full lunch and breaks every day. What I don't have time for is waiting for another driver to break off from his area or for my mgt team to send help when help is available at the stop, whether it be delivery or pickup. However, help is not always available so another method is to use existing tools or equipment to assist in the lift/lower. I had a 145 lb treadmill that I had to move from the PC to the consignee's front door, a distance of less than 25'. I positioned the handcart on the rear bumper, maneuvered and then lowered the treadmill on to the handcart, wheeled the cart to the door, and then reversed the process. I offered to bring it inside for her, which she wanted, so I walked it in to the house, set it on the floor and then left. Less than 5 minutes from the time I pulled up to the time I left. Had I sat there and waited for help it could have easily been 30-45 minutes. 30-45 minutes and I can finish a section of resi's. I know, you are going to say that is easy OT, but there is more to life than money. Work smarter, not harder.
Trust me UpState, blowing out a disc is nothing to yawn at, specially if it happens to you. It only takes on little mistake to hurt yourself. The way things are going these days, one sure can not count on the company to do the right thing by an injured employee.Yawn.
C'mon Trplnkl, you know UpState is Superman. Unless the package contains kryptonite, he's got no worries.Trust me UpState, blowing out a disc is nothing to yawn at, specially if it happens to you. It only takes on little mistake to hurt yourself. The way things are going these days, one sure can not count on the company to do the right thing by an injured employee.
C'mon Trplnkl, you know UpState is Superman. Unless the package contains kryptonite, he's got no worries.
Not sure what you mean, but my take is this. Both of you are ego-maniacal ******* that argue yourselves into a corner till you're all alone with your ill conceived notions. At this point Tie rolls out a grade school arguement equivalent to "I know you are but what am I". You on the other hand resort to an equally juvenile "whatever" or "yawn" when you're bested. You have both ordained yourselves as martyrs for the unpopular hard line and in the process type cast yourselves as goof balls. Somehow in the midst of this psychosis, you both seem to think you won something. Congrats, it certainly isn't the adulation of an adoring fan base of any size or signicance.What's the matter, Bubbles? Couldn't hang with Tie?
The tool is only as good as the person who wields it.
My frustration is not with the tool, but the manner in which it is being used.
It is frustrating and demoralizing to be placed in a position of constant, daily conflict with one's supervisor over what amounts to irrelevant data.
We are wasting huge amounts of time, effort, energy and paper to debate trivia.
The company is choosing to pole-vault over mouse turds. I would prefer to just step over them instead.
[how did your boss react to the answer you provided. Was there this constant conflict you refer to or did he accept your answer and move on?Did you ever have the sit down with your boss to get your questions answered?[/COLOR]
Trust me UpState, blowing out a disc is nothing to yawn at, specially if it happens to you. It only takes on little mistake to hurt yourself. The way things are going these days, one sure can not count on the company to do the right thing by an injured employee.
I don't dispute what you have said, but it doesn't change the fact that when handling a heavy package, it doesn't take much of a mistake to make a huge difference in your life.I would bet the record shows that the amount of people injured while delivering Over 70's is minimal compared to all injuries. You tend to prepare yourself a little more for the heavy ones.
You are probably right Monster, but you have to know that a back injury can be a career ender. As in Trp's case.I would bet the record shows that the amount of people injured while delivering Over 70's is minimal compared to all injuries. You tend to prepare yourself a little more for the heavy ones.
I do. I have the time. Just like I have time for my full lunch and breaks everyday.
Thats just wonderful for you Treegrower, because I don't have time in my life for my full hour lunch and two ten minute breaks. Yes, I have to take them or lose out on about $65/day, but I certainly DON'T "have time for them". Do you?
Our lives are consumed enough by the work we do at UPS. I can't understand the mentality that you are happier than a pig in ssss to sit for almost 1.5 hours doing absolutely nothing. Why do you let the company or the teamsters pull the whool over your eyes? Its 7 hours a week of your life times 52 weeks that UPS takes from you every year. I hope you are very proud that you take this time doing nothing except sticking your finger at UPS, because while you are doing this they have their own finger exactly where you don't like it.
Go ahead and tell yourself you are "doing the right thing" by taking your hour and twenty, because thats exactly what UPS wants.
An hour and twenty just so the company doesn't have to pay OT for the last hour of your pick-ups? An hour and twenty so the company can gain that much in free labor from the lunch-runners.
Maybe the lunch-runners have something here. 7 hours a week is a ton of time to spend away from your toddler. Its precious time that can never be regained. Yet you and UPS will make you sit in an empty parking lot for an hour at the end of the night doing absolutely nothing just to get what is justly coming to you. This happens while Jr. is tucked into bed by a lonely wife.
Just gives us a 30 minute lunch and leave it at that like the rest of the blue-collar world. Why insist on the 1.33 hours of break? The company has telematics to prove where we are at every minute. Why not let us take the breaks we want to and dock us for it?
I'm sorry 7 hours/week multiplied by 52 is too many hours to be away from my family unnecessarily. I just want to get home to them and may believe that $45/hour is worth giving up to see them?
UPS is betting on this fact also, and it makes me sick!
You do realize that lunc hours are not only a UPS thing?
Of course I realize this but here is the MAJOR difference. Most blue-collar workers start at 7 and punch out at 3:30. Eight hours plus 1/2 hour lunch. The rest of the world may have a lunch hour, but I will bet you any amount of money that if they can't fit it into their work schedule (e.g. finishing business deliveries before pick-ups) the company doesn't make them sit idle at the end of the night.
Can you picture this in the "real" world? It would never happen except at UPS. Can you imagine an office worker sitting at his desk from 1800-1900 because he didn't get his lunch hour in because he was too busy? Its ridiculous.
And before anyone wants to bring it up, I don't want to play the game of "i'm going to miss 10 stops if you don't get them off my truck: just so I can have a lunch hour. Because if I send that message, I'm just going to screw one of my fellow workers doing a house-call route and I dont want to do this.
What I want is to do the route and just put in the time I take for lunch. Why can't it just be that simple? For the love GOD, I ask this question: why can't it be that simple?????