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<blockquote data-quote="oakland" data-source="post: 54193"><p>I have learned alot about time studies in the last 2 years. It really opened my eyes to alot of things about how this company is run. I realize to manage a large package delivery company you need standards to run operations effectively. The company uses a national average for all the time study categories. People think that if someone rides with you on your route and measures you all day that is how your time study will come out. That is not what happens. It is called a "Time Study". They study how you work and compare how you do against a national average. Your gains or losses are decided at a round table meeting with many outside factors involved. I know that before this recent wave of time studies started, I.E. was told what kind of production they need to get out of the package centers. You don't spend the kind of money they are spending on PAS and relooping to come out with flat or less than improved results. We have had many routes done here and some routes gained enormous amounts of time. We have a little sit down and go over "The Study", and our numbers for the past week. They compare stops per hour for the week and during the time study and basically tell everyone they need to do more. My reply was "ok daddy I'll bend over now". I think the days of the 20, 25 or 30 year UPS driver careers are over. I think the results from the time studies were less favorable than anticipated and more cars should be on road running routes, but they would rather have less cars on the books and have one or two per center driving around shuttling misloads, bulk stops and left in buildings all day. Don't need time studies for those cars because they don't exist!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oakland, post: 54193"] I have learned alot about time studies in the last 2 years. It really opened my eyes to alot of things about how this company is run. I realize to manage a large package delivery company you need standards to run operations effectively. The company uses a national average for all the time study categories. People think that if someone rides with you on your route and measures you all day that is how your time study will come out. That is not what happens. It is called a "Time Study". They study how you work and compare how you do against a national average. Your gains or losses are decided at a round table meeting with many outside factors involved. I know that before this recent wave of time studies started, I.E. was told what kind of production they need to get out of the package centers. You don't spend the kind of money they are spending on PAS and relooping to come out with flat or less than improved results. We have had many routes done here and some routes gained enormous amounts of time. We have a little sit down and go over "The Study", and our numbers for the past week. They compare stops per hour for the week and during the time study and basically tell everyone they need to do more. My reply was "ok daddy I'll bend over now". I think the days of the 20, 25 or 30 year UPS driver careers are over. I think the results from the time studies were less favorable than anticipated and more cars should be on road running routes, but they would rather have less cars on the books and have one or two per center driving around shuttling misloads, bulk stops and left in buildings all day. Don't need time studies for those cars because they don't exist! [/QUOTE]
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