This place is an effing circus.

[splozi]

I'm sure all of you know this already.

So, it's 8:50AM. I've got a 100-piece bulk stop that was not going to fit on one of the trucks, piled up on both sides of my slide (typical Tuesday). Another bulk stop for another truck piled up next to it. I'm trying to finish bulking out this last truck, a 1300 I think. My driver is bitching (not at me) because he has to get the hell out of there. He's got about 20 or so NDA stops. To add to it, a safety auditor approaches me and attempts to interview. The preload manager quickly shoos him away, and I proceed. Now there is some other manager standing around getting in the way. After a couple of minutes, this manager (whoever he is) advises me to leave. He says (in his own words) that the driver, other drivers, and/or sups will finish the truck. My driver tells him that there are hourlies who can finish the work. Of course, nobody cares. So I leave. I'm not particularly eager to stick around for this nonsense.

This could have been prevented if they had brought me another truck for that 100-piece bulk stop (which they typically do). Space is a necessity. I need room to sort out whatever I can't load until the end. Without that space, it takes me far too long to sort out the order of things that will be center loaded. It also could have been prevented if they took a specific stop off of that 1300 on days when it exceeded a certain piece count.

After so many years that UPS has been in business, how is it possible to not figure this out? This efficiency garbage is absolute nonsense. There is no efficiency. Why do my forecast sheets show 6 pieces for a specific stop when I actually end up with 30? It just doesn't make sense to me. Do they really not know what's coming before it comes? Computers do all of this work for you... friggin' use them.

In the end, I don't really care. It just baffles me.

[Jigawatts]

Haha, sounds like my day. Had over 40 NDA's for one stop, plus about 30-40 more ground for said stop. I also have another bulk stop that generally gets around 100 pieces a day. My driver had to load the NDA's for the one stop, deliver them, come back for the rest of the ground and finish loading (by himself) and delivering the other bulk stop, which I'm sure he was late for. Could have been avoided by giving the 40 NDA's along with the rest of the ground for that stop to an air driver. I'm not sure why management didn't recognize that nearly 175 pieces for just two stops among many others in one package car would not fit or get loaded out in the allotted time.

Oh, and for my second package car I had to pull a last minute split (no one to run the cart so I had to do it) while the driver received another spit.

My third car was pretty much loaded out so the driver finished it off while I ignored him. I can tell he wasn't too happy but he can bugger off.

I'll I can do is laugh.

[Brownslave688]

Could have been avoided by giving the 40 NDA's along with the rest of the ground for that stop to an air driver.

Air drivers can't deliver ground packages.

[Brownslave688]

IAfter a couple of minutes, this manager (whoever he is) advises me to leave. He says (in his own words) that the driver, other drivers, and/or sups will finish the truck. My driver tells him that there are hourlies who can finish the work.

This always amazes me what kind of math do they work with. This time the driver takes to load ends up being OT in the end so essentially your paying them $47 an hour when the preloader could stay on the clock or better yet start earlier and be done when the driver starts for much cheaper.

[Jigawatts]

Yeah they do, unless the guys I see doing it are air drivers/seasonal. Not sure how that works.

[Sleeve_meet_Heart]

Air drivers can't deliver ground packages.

Yes, they can.

[Brownslave688]

Ok they CAN but once they deliver one ground package they should be guaranteed 8 hours and paid full driver pay. I'll
Check my contract tonight

[soberups]

Air drivers can't deliver ground packages.

Yes they can, they just get paid more money to do so.

[Brownslave688]

Yes they can, they just get paid more money to do so.

Ok this is more how I meant it they can't do it without penalty to the company

[soberups]

In the end, I don't really care. It just baffles me.

No...you really do care and that is the underlying problem. Unlike your "management" team, you actually give a sh%t about doing your job correctly and setting your driver up to be successful. The only thing your "management" team cares about is that you shovel the damn packages into whatever car happens to be closest so that you can get off the clock and make them look good on a PPH report.