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A supervisor stands up to the IE manager...and pays the price
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<blockquote data-quote="brownIEman" data-source="post: 604200" data-attributes="member: 14596"><p>Flipping chanels last night and came upon Star Wars during this scene. Made me think of this thread and chuckle.</p><p> </p><p>Sober, it really is a good analogy, I can recall many, many conference calls in which some poor supervisor got the Darth Vader treatment from an IE manager. </p><p> </p><p>But just for fun, lets take the analogy a bit further. The supervisor, you see, is not powerless. He too can tap into the Force, and defend himself from Vader, if his Jedi's will back him. The Force, in this case, is of course the power that binds all things, controls all things. The numbers. If a sup stands up the the IE manager and tells him his Dark side numbers of 45 routes with a given volume is insane and cruel to the drivers, he is headed for trouble. However, let us say he goes against the evil lord and dispatches 47 routes to lighten everyones day a bit and help his drivers out. Vader is out for blood at this point. But wait, what if his Jedi (drivers) bring in the work in much less time than the prior day with 45 routes. Say the day we ran Darth's plan we had an average paid day of 10.5 hours. With the sups day, say on the same volume, we get an average paid day of 8.75 hours. When you add it all up, the sup can show that his plan produced a less expensive per piece operating day. At which point Granmall Tarkin (the Operations Manager) will politely but clearly tell Darth the IE manager to STFU.</p><p> </p><p>Sadly, I have yet to see it. Had a friend move out of IE to a dispatch position in a center. He put on extra routes in opposition to the IE plan to ease up the work load. The drivers with the lighter loads in their cars had the normal human reaction "ah nice, car is not jammed up, not gonna be a bad day, I can relax abit". The paid day did not go down one bit. I was on the call the next day. I can assure you, Darth had a field day on my friends skull. I can also assure you he never tried that again.</p><p> </p><p>just another perspective...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brownIEman, post: 604200, member: 14596"] Flipping chanels last night and came upon Star Wars during this scene. Made me think of this thread and chuckle. Sober, it really is a good analogy, I can recall many, many conference calls in which some poor supervisor got the Darth Vader treatment from an IE manager. But just for fun, lets take the analogy a bit further. The supervisor, you see, is not powerless. He too can tap into the Force, and defend himself from Vader, if his Jedi's will back him. The Force, in this case, is of course the power that binds all things, controls all things. The numbers. If a sup stands up the the IE manager and tells him his Dark side numbers of 45 routes with a given volume is insane and cruel to the drivers, he is headed for trouble. However, let us say he goes against the evil lord and dispatches 47 routes to lighten everyones day a bit and help his drivers out. Vader is out for blood at this point. But wait, what if his Jedi (drivers) bring in the work in much less time than the prior day with 45 routes. Say the day we ran Darth's plan we had an average paid day of 10.5 hours. With the sups day, say on the same volume, we get an average paid day of 8.75 hours. When you add it all up, the sup can show that his plan produced a less expensive per piece operating day. At which point Granmall Tarkin (the Operations Manager) will politely but clearly tell Darth the IE manager to STFU. Sadly, I have yet to see it. Had a friend move out of IE to a dispatch position in a center. He put on extra routes in opposition to the IE plan to ease up the work load. The drivers with the lighter loads in their cars had the normal human reaction "ah nice, car is not jammed up, not gonna be a bad day, I can relax abit". The paid day did not go down one bit. I was on the call the next day. I can assure you, Darth had a field day on my friends skull. I can also assure you he never tried that again. just another perspective... [/QUOTE]
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