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<blockquote data-quote="ezrider" data-source="post: 57879"><p>Air Upser I certainly won't speak for any other hourly who posts here but I can say that when I do express discontent with results of recent directives from corporate, that my voice does reflect an overwhelming majority of those that I personally work with. After a decade wearing BROWN I'm realistic enough to know that no management team anywhere, regardless of how hard they try, can execute mistake-free day in-day out. But the bar has been raised on the hourlies dramatically at the very same time that the micromanagement has become a detriment to virtually every task that once could be done smoothly. It's one thing to raise the standards on the drivers, but the standards for load quality and on-time departure needed to be flawless for any fair chance at all for the driver to achieve the standards now being demanded. </p><p> </p><p>To put it nicely, management has not fulfilled that obligation to it's front line workers. To put it realistically, it doesn't look like they even tried to make it happen. A driver that has at least some say or measure of control will usually accept higher stops and enlarged area, but when continually handed a mess the driver no longer looks at it as a challange to learn from but as being continually set up to fail. </p><p> </p><p>Anti-management? If Atlanta's idea of the management team's success is rooted in the idea of being "anti-worker", then yeah there's going to be some anti-management postings. When the suits insist on having all decision making control, all it takes is one of them to make a terrible decision at a crucial time and drivers' days can be wrecked before the trucks even leave the building. It rarely happened before PAS/EDD showed up. Now it's the same comedy of errors everyday. If management had the nerve to try and squeeze us for more than they should have had a master plan to deal with the multitude of variables that come with cutting routes and dumping more stops and miles on drivers. It's obvious they didn't and the hourlies and even the customers are paying the price for the small group that decided they could wing it. If they had listened to even 10% of the feedback, they could have avoided 10 times the criticism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ezrider, post: 57879"] Air Upser I certainly won't speak for any other hourly who posts here but I can say that when I do express discontent with results of recent directives from corporate, that my voice does reflect an overwhelming majority of those that I personally work with. After a decade wearing BROWN I'm realistic enough to know that no management team anywhere, regardless of how hard they try, can execute mistake-free day in-day out. But the bar has been raised on the hourlies dramatically at the very same time that the micromanagement has become a detriment to virtually every task that once could be done smoothly. It's one thing to raise the standards on the drivers, but the standards for load quality and on-time departure needed to be flawless for any fair chance at all for the driver to achieve the standards now being demanded. To put it nicely, management has not fulfilled that obligation to it's front line workers. To put it realistically, it doesn't look like they even tried to make it happen. A driver that has at least some say or measure of control will usually accept higher stops and enlarged area, but when continually handed a mess the driver no longer looks at it as a challange to learn from but as being continually set up to fail. Anti-management? If Atlanta's idea of the management team's success is rooted in the idea of being "anti-worker", then yeah there's going to be some anti-management postings. When the suits insist on having all decision making control, all it takes is one of them to make a terrible decision at a crucial time and drivers' days can be wrecked before the trucks even leave the building. It rarely happened before PAS/EDD showed up. Now it's the same comedy of errors everyday. If management had the nerve to try and squeeze us for more than they should have had a master plan to deal with the multitude of variables that come with cutting routes and dumping more stops and miles on drivers. It's obvious they didn't and the hourlies and even the customers are paying the price for the small group that decided they could wing it. If they had listened to even 10% of the feedback, they could have avoided 10 times the criticism. [/QUOTE]
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