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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 469664" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I remember when the commit time for my area was changed from 12:00 to 10:30 by Corporate. No negotiation; no additional routes allowed; just find a way to make it work. It was, essentially, an "unfunded mandate" imposed upon our center.</p><p> </p><p>I made a list of the areas that I would not be able to deliver to by 10:30 and gave it to my sup. He told me "just find another driver in your loop to take it, you need to figure it out, there's nothing I can do."</p><p> </p><p>I spent a couple of weeks running up and down the belt every morning, all stressed out, trying to dispatch my own air. Then I started popping up on a report and got written up for "excessive AM time" due to being in the building for longer than 11 minutes in the morning.</p><p> </p><p>It finally dawned on me that none of this had to be my problem. I had notified my management of the situation; they were either unwilling or unable to solve the problem; so all I could do was give it right back to them.</p><p> </p><p>So I started keeping all the air, getting out of the building in the allowed 11 minutes, and just delivering it late. I would type in "X" for "other" and in the remarks column type in "impossible commit time" and go about my business. I averaged 7 or 8 late air per day.</p><p> </p><p>It took all the stress off of me, and removed any temptation on my part to cheat or falsify records. It wasnt my problem any more. I was being honest and simply taking their problem and giving it back to them.</p><p> </p><p>After about 2 weeks of this, they got the message and started dispatching the work to another route. This was a "partial" route that only got dispatched during heavy volume and was only in 2 or 3 days a week. Once it started getting my air, it went out every day and wound up being put up for bid.</p><p> </p><p>There is a moral to this story; late air is THEIR problem and not YOUR problem. Just deliver it late.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 469664, member: 14668"] I remember when the commit time for my area was changed from 12:00 to 10:30 by Corporate. No negotiation; no additional routes allowed; just find a way to make it work. It was, essentially, an "unfunded mandate" imposed upon our center. I made a list of the areas that I would not be able to deliver to by 10:30 and gave it to my sup. He told me "just find another driver in your loop to take it, you need to figure it out, there's nothing I can do." I spent a couple of weeks running up and down the belt every morning, all stressed out, trying to dispatch my own air. Then I started popping up on a report and got written up for "excessive AM time" due to being in the building for longer than 11 minutes in the morning. It finally dawned on me that none of this had to be my problem. I had notified my management of the situation; they were either unwilling or unable to solve the problem; so all I could do was give it right back to them. So I started keeping all the air, getting out of the building in the allowed 11 minutes, and just delivering it late. I would type in "X" for "other" and in the remarks column type in "impossible commit time" and go about my business. I averaged 7 or 8 late air per day. It took all the stress off of me, and removed any temptation on my part to cheat or falsify records. It wasnt my problem any more. I was being honest and simply taking their problem and giving it back to them. After about 2 weeks of this, they got the message and started dispatching the work to another route. This was a "partial" route that only got dispatched during heavy volume and was only in 2 or 3 days a week. Once it started getting my air, it went out every day and wound up being put up for bid. There is a moral to this story; late air is THEIR problem and not YOUR problem. Just deliver it late. [/QUOTE]
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