I was thinking if it's gonna be that busy, I might have 5 stops instead of my usual 3....I am glad I am over those days. I will have 5 stops tomorrow about 375 miles and 12 hrs.
I was once "dispatched" with over 500 stops. In a P-500. About 300 of them were brickloaded into the car, with another 200 sitting under the belt. The car was stuffed so tight that I could not open the bulkhead door. All residential stops, no bulk in there. I had to go out and find a garage to unload half the car into so that I could come back and get the remaining 200 stops "out of the building" and allow my "management team" to bask in the illusion of a clean dispatch for about 13 hours. I wound up doing about 250 stops that day with a helper, in just over 13 hours. I brought about 150 of the stops back to the building at 11:30 that night, the other 100 sat in the garage where I had left them for a few days until I was able to get them delivered. This was pre-DIAD of course, so there was no package tracking. Wanna hear the really sick part? My Center Manager was there at the building that night when I got back and she intructed me to unload the missed stops without sheeting them or recording any of them as "missed" on my timecard. This center manager was subsequently promoted to Division Manager and then District Labor Manager, where on several occasions she terminated drivers for dishonesty.
I was once "dispatched" with over 500 stops. In a P-500. About 300 of them were brickloaded into the car, with another 200 sitting under the belt. The car was stuffed so tight that I could not open the bulkhead door. All residential stops, no bulk in there. I had to go out and find a garage to unload half the car into so that I could come back and get the remaining 200 stops "out of the building" and allow my "management team" to bask in the illusion of a clean dispatch for about 13 hours. I wound up doing about 250 stops that day with a helper, in just over 13 hours. I brought about 150 of the stops back to the building at 11:30 that night, the other 100 sat in the garage where I had left them for a few days until I was able to get them delivered. This was pre-DIAD of course, so there was no package tracking. Wanna hear the really sick part? My Center Manager was there at the building that night when I got back and she intructed me to unload the missed stops without sheeting them or recording any of them as "missed" on my timecard. This center manager was subsequently promoted to Division Manager and then District Labor Manager, where on several occasions she terminated drivers for dishonesty.
I like setting up the lights and stuff, but maybe not till it's December.
And I don't like Christmas music till half way thru December!
We already decorated the house with the Xmas music playing. I love this time of year. I might even go out today and buy a few more decorations.
About 75 here. You're doing it wrong I think.240 stops tomorrow.
I was once "dispatched" with over 500 stops. In a P-500. About 300 of them were brickloaded into the car, with another 200 sitting under the belt. The car was stuffed so tight that I could not open the bulkhead door. All residential stops, no bulk in there. I had to go out and find a garage to unload half the car into so that I could come back and get the remaining 200 stops "out of the building" and allow my "management team" to bask in the illusion of a clean dispatch for about 13 hours. I wound up doing about 250 stops that day with a helper, in just over 13 hours. I brought about 150 of the stops back to the building at 11:30 that night, the other 100 sat in the garage where I had left them for a few days until I was able to get them delivered. This was pre-DIAD of course, so there was no package tracking. Wanna hear the really sick part? My Center Manager was there at the building that night when I got back and she intructed me to unload the missed stops without sheeting them or recording any of them as "missed" on my timecard. This center manager was subsequently promoted to Division Manager and then District Labor Manager, where on several occasions she terminated drivers for dishonesty.
"Gotta love the double standard!"
...paraphrased from Hoax
BTW, we start at 7:45, and my first 10 stops are businesses that won't even be open. Genius.:surprised
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Chances u r out of there by 8 are slim and I'm not sure we can sheet businesses as closed before 9.
The problem here is you were thinking. If anything had happened to those packages in todays UPS you'd probably be fired. I had them put 215 stops in a 6 cube one time which is out right stupid. With the amount of missed packages I had that night it will never happen again.
Your mistake here is in assuming that your "management team" has the authority to make the sort of rational operational decisions that are necessary to prevent that from happening again. They dont. If some high-ranking IE dipschitt in Atlanta instructs them to load "x" number of stops per car they will have no choice but to mindlessly obey, regardless of the real-world consequences. We are UPS, and when we decide to chase a number we get downright stupid. When you combine that sort of institutionalized stupidity with the midless obedience of a low level manager who is desperate to look good on a report...bad things can happen. Like bringing 250 stops back at 11:30 at night.