soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
Was told today it's because of the ass kicking we've been getting for the last 18 months. My center is cutting routes like never before. Guys are going out with over 250 stops, yes OVER 250 stops. A good friend of mine punched out tonight at 10 pm because they cut TWO business routes and piled it on the route he was covering. Enough is enough.
Did he get all of the stops done?
A couple of years ago they tried pulling a stunt like that on my route. I simply followed the methods, took my full hour lunch at noon, and called them at 1:00 to let them know that they had a problem.
I delivered businesses right up until it was time to begin the pickup route. About halfway through the pickup route I ran out of room to contain any more volume due to the space being taken up by the undelivered businesses. So I called in again to let them know that they had a problem.
I wound up with 4 or 5 missed pickups and 20 or 30 missed business stops that day. It wasnt fun. I'm not proud of it. But the funny thing is, they have yet to try doing that again.
Dealing with this company is a lot like dealing with a dog that pisses on your carpet. You catch them, and you yell at them and smack them with a newspaper and rub their nose in the mess, and they will usually stop doing it for awhile. But every so often, they will revert to old behavior and go back and piss on that same spot again, and you will have to repeat the process.