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<blockquote data-quote="musicman" data-source="post: 108528" data-attributes="member: 5634"><p>I would just like to weigh in on the 6 second per pkg allowance that was taken from us. I find the justification for this was laughable. Supposedly it is so much faster to sheet pkgs with the diad than it is with paper. Well in some cases yes. The problem with this thinking is that there are so many other things that we are doing now with the diad that we didn't with paper that I don't think we save that much time with it. What about all the ODS messages we have to respond to. What about all the manually entered tracking numbers. I raised a great argument with our division mgr. when he visited our building to make this announcement. I asked him if he really believed that he could scan 20 pkgs faster than I could sheet them. He replied, "Absoulutely". I pointed out to him that If he took 2 seconds to scan each package it would take him approx. 40 seconds to scan all 20. I held up a piece of paper wrote down shpr number 980-222 drew a diagonal line to the bottom of the paper and said, "Sign here for 20 please". The whole room broke up in laughter. His faced turned a beet red and he quickly tried to get his game face back on. Anyway the whole theory behind it is faulty. For instance a driver only delivers 100 pkgs a day won't lose as much time as the driver who delivers 750. This was just a way of cutting down on bonus pay for drivers who made incentive. Some accountant somewhere said, Hey if we cut out the incentive for the drivers it will pay for the next couple of years raises countrywide. But all this talk of time studies really has no impact at all on the driver who follows the methods, keeps a smooth brisk pace and does his job by the book. He is in no jeopardy and is not affected by overallowed because when the sups ride with him the numbers don't change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="musicman, post: 108528, member: 5634"] I would just like to weigh in on the 6 second per pkg allowance that was taken from us. I find the justification for this was laughable. Supposedly it is so much faster to sheet pkgs with the diad than it is with paper. Well in some cases yes. The problem with this thinking is that there are so many other things that we are doing now with the diad that we didn't with paper that I don't think we save that much time with it. What about all the ODS messages we have to respond to. What about all the manually entered tracking numbers. I raised a great argument with our division mgr. when he visited our building to make this announcement. I asked him if he really believed that he could scan 20 pkgs faster than I could sheet them. He replied, "Absoulutely". I pointed out to him that If he took 2 seconds to scan each package it would take him approx. 40 seconds to scan all 20. I held up a piece of paper wrote down shpr number 980-222 drew a diagonal line to the bottom of the paper and said, "Sign here for 20 please". The whole room broke up in laughter. His faced turned a beet red and he quickly tried to get his game face back on. Anyway the whole theory behind it is faulty. For instance a driver only delivers 100 pkgs a day won't lose as much time as the driver who delivers 750. This was just a way of cutting down on bonus pay for drivers who made incentive. Some accountant somewhere said, Hey if we cut out the incentive for the drivers it will pay for the next couple of years raises countrywide. But all this talk of time studies really has no impact at all on the driver who follows the methods, keeps a smooth brisk pace and does his job by the book. He is in no jeopardy and is not affected by overallowed because when the sups ride with him the numbers don't change. [/QUOTE]
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