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[brownmonster]

Sucks that your bonus is paid at straight time.

Didn't notice that. Kind of a dis-incentive.

 

[brownmonster]

If I get bonus that's great, if not, that's fine also. One good thing is if you get some runner gunner helpers doing pods and golfcarts, it can be lucrative.
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Pay rate 33.71 Current pay 33.81 Pull a trailer?

 

[Jackburton]

Pay rate 33.71 Current pay 33.81 Pull a trailer?

Yep, we get .10 more per hour all day if we pull a trailer.

 

[Jackburton]

Sucks that your bonus is paid at straight time.

Yeah, but found money is money.

 

[Jackburton]

If you get it fine. Ya right. 10 hours on a check. Sweet.

Yeah, those helpers were averaging 20+ stops a hour out of golf carts. Their stats get combined with mine, resulting in some extra $$$.

 

[brownmonster]

Yeah, those helpers were averaging 20+ stops a hour out of golf carts. Their stats get combined with mine, resulting in some extra $$$.

That's when a helper works.

 

[Jackburton]

That's when a helper works.

Yep, when he's not on my car slowing me up.

 

[FrigidAdCorrector]

It used to. Now I hardly ever get bonus. Seems time is edited away more and more each year.

The bonus system is screwed. We have one route in my center where the guy comes in 250 under every single day. Then other routes that come in 175 over everyday no matter how hard the guy goes. I'd bet the 250 guy makes more in just bonus every year than most of PTers make period. Good for him, don't get me wrong. But it's isn't applied fairly.

 

[joeboodog]

I've worked in both types of centers and in bonus centers the dispatched hours are far higher that a non bonus center. It is very common to get a 10.5-11.0 dispatch in a bonus center while in a non bonus center they tend to be at a more reasonable level.

 

[Johney]

Hopefully we don't loose the eight hour guarantee... If everyone works actual, they will slowly give less work to people they hate, and run them out of a job...

Then just take longer to do the work they give you. I know plenty of drivers who can make 5 hours of work last for 9 or more. Problem solved.

 

[mainebrown]

Haha I know a few too

 

[By The Book]

The bonus system is screwed. We have one route in my center where the guy comes in 250 under every single day. Then other routes that come in 175 over everyday no matter how hard the guy goes. I'd bet the 250 guy makes more in just bonus every year than most of PTers make period. Good for him, don't get me wrong. But it's isn't applied fairly.

Being the boss you can fix this right? See what you can do to get this bonus applied fairly. I say take all the bonus each day for each center and divide it so every driver that day received the same amount of bonus. If you can think of a fairer way to do it I'm all ears.

 

[By The Book]

I've worked in both types of centers and in bonus centers the dispatched hours are far higher that a non bonus center. It is very common to get a 10.5-11.0 dispatch in a bonus center while in a non bonus center they tend to be at a more reasonable level.

Why is that, in bonus centers they are told they can't run one more car, and if given the same volume you are saying a non bonus center will be able to run more routes. You've seen both sides but this might have to do with them taking all the bonus that the non bonus center would have paid and justified adding more routes that way. Guessing at best.

 

[Dracula]

They handle this in my Center so easily. Why so difficult other places?

Because you can never underestimate the stupidity, and the reach of some supervisors.

 

[joeboodog]

Why is that, in bonus centers they are told they can't run one more car, and if given the same volume you are saying a non bonus center will be able to run more routes. You've seen both sides but this might have to do with them taking all the bonus that the non bonus center would have paid and justified adding more routes that way. Guessing at best.

In a bonus center, if you get a 10.5 dispatch guys will break their neck to get it done and run ten minutes early. In a non-bonus center, a 10.5 dispatch the driver will run it in 10.5-11.00 hours. Sure, you have runners in non-bonus centers but they are generally rookies and once they figure out how to do math, they settle into running scratch.

 

[By The Book]

In a bonus center, if you get a 10.5 dispatch guys will break their neck to get it done and run ten minutes early. In a non-bonus center, a 10.5 dispatch the driver will run it in 10.5-11.00 hours. Sure, you have runners in non-bonus centers but they are generally rookies and once they figure out how to do math, they settle into running scratch.

In some bonus centers there are guys who are off the clock in 8.5 to 9 hours with a 10.5 hour dispatch. Sounds like the w.o.r in a non bonus center shows over/under. Which center are you in now?(bonus or non bonus), and which do you prefer.

 

[BrownChoice]

I work in a bonus center. If i figure i can make bonus on a particular day by working just a little faster, I sure will. If I realize it just aint gonna happen, im sure as heck not gonna waste money.....

 

[joeboodog]

In some bonus centers there are guys who are off the clock in 8.5 to 9 hours with a 10.5 hour dispatch. Sounds like the w.o.r in a non bonus center shows over/under. Which center are you in now?(bonus or non bonus), and which do you prefer.

I am in a bonus center but it doesn't matter to me because I am old and slow with a sucky time study. The planet's have to line up perfectly for me to get bonus.

 

[member6045]

Local 804 seems to have lost the 8 hour guarantee! If you work less than 8 hours a day you become a time only day!!! Does this now mean that if we finish before the eighth hour of work we don't receive a pension credit for that day?

 

[babboo25]

Sucks that your bonus is paid at straight time.

Not mine, paid at OT rate, Local 710