brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
I had 103 stops today. 1st time I cracked triple digits since Monday's monster 116.
I was thinking the same thing... great typoIf I had a P12000 life would be wonderful.
That would be one long-ass vehicle
3 weeks till Christmas and added 2 routes yesterday. That's actually significant considering they usually only run 15 or 16 at our center. But, they never hired any additional help or driver helpers here so there are going to be some late nights for some, including us on the sort. We basically stood around and twiddled our thumbs for an hour waiting for the first car to show up.
I'm getting my but kicked out there. I have 1/2 business and 1/2 residential the other 11 months of the year. Now my businesses are getting twice as many pieces because of personal Christmas shopping at work and this is what's killing me. I'm finishing my businesses almost 2 hours later than normal. Add 130 stops to be done after 3 and I'm toast!
I was dispacthed with 170 stops today. In October I was sent out with 90-100. 170 is almost 2 days worth of work to me! I will credit my supervisor here (not the dispacth sup. the on-road) I have got help every day. I dumped 60 to a base-line route that has a helper and it took 15 minutes to transfer the work. My on-road is pissed that this work isn't just put on the route to begin with!
I don't think this guy has a clue. He sends the baseline (no pick-ups)under range with a helper and over dispatches me by 60 and I pick up 2-300 pieces and 30-60 airs every day. My boss critizes him everyday and the entire center hates him. Isn't the point to get the volume back to the hub ASAP?
Its unproductive for me to meet someone to dump 60 stops and 100 pieces when it can be done on the pre-load with the click of a button. Instead this idiot (who owns UPS stock but must not care) is wasting: 1) fuel for the drivers to meet, 2) labor at 42+/hour to transfer work and 3) labor again in having the baseline's helper twindle his thumbs for 15 minutes while we dig for packages.
All the dispatch sup. has to do is program the plan to put the work on the car in the first place by pre-loaders maiking $9.50/hour.
Its a wonder UPS makes money. Its a wonder that his superiors allow this to continue.
I don't want to be a manager, but if I was I would not tolerate this inefficency for 1 second. I don't understand why this is allowed to continue. Am I missing something?
I am pushed to meet production standards. My superiors would drool if I could produce another .25 stops/hour, but will allow 2 drivers and a helper to transfer work for 15 minutes wasting more than 45 minutes of delivery time? It just doesn't make any sense to me????
Anybody with a logical explination to this?
If I had a P12000 life would be wonderful.
That would be one long-ass vehicle
We got slammed bad yesterday, and then it slacked back off today. Our IE gal missed one of our Center's forecast by 2200 stops. I knocked out 217 stops yesterday, and had 165 today. My maximum to stay at 9.5 is about 175.
I remember my busiest day last year was 261. Volume is definitely off compared to any other year I can remember. I find it interesting that drivers are flipping out with 200 stop days. I still remember my earlier years in a bricked out P600 with 350+ stops.....
We are UP 5% over our numbers from this week last year.
Glad corporate knows whats going on!
We are out of package cars and drivers in worcester
they are building routes for supes....
One of the guys in our center that has a P800 turned down a P1000 because he was worried that they would add more stops to a heavy route......
TB
Must be delivering from a feeder with triples. lol
I think you should get with HR and suggest hiring more hourly folks. If supervisors need to go on the road, some hiring needs to be done. Same old story. I honestly believe this is the only company that is not aware when Christmas comes. You would think knowing this information would allow for a better plan, but seems many are surprised when peak rolls around. Where is all this volume coming from?? Oh well, I am having an easy peak on feeders. Come back empty every morning. Under 8 most days.We are out of package cars and drivers in worcester
they are building routes for supes....
our stops were off by an extremely large margin as well though I don't know the exact number. I do know that my line is 1800 pieces heavier year to year.
Added 2 routes again today and everybody was still blown out. The last car got in 3 hours later than normal time. They actually pulled a couple guys from preload to help the guys with 195 stops.