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At what point is it "too late" to be making deliveries?
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 772006" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>He was a cover driver, sent out on the route cold, to an area he had absolutely no knowledge of. Like me, he was recently involuntarily transferred to this new center so his 4 years of area knowledge on his old center are now useless. And the route he got put on is an exceptionally tough one to do cold; the streets are narrow and poorly lit, parking is a huge issue, EDD is a farce, and the addresses are a confusing mix of city and unincorporated suburban number grids.</p><p> </p><p>When every route in the loop is already getting dispatched with 11+ hour planned days as a matter of routine and one of the regular drivers is sick or on vacation, a cover driver with no area knowledge on such a route is dead meat. He doesnt have a chance. No one else in the loop can help him because they are maxed out themselves.</p><p> </p><p>And the situation I am describing is not the exception, it is the <em>norm</em> for this new center. In my 23 years at UPS it is by far the most chaotic and dysfunctional operation I have ever been a part of. At one point last month the center paid out <strong>over $5000</strong> in penalty pay for sixty-four over-9.5 grievances that were filed <strong>in one week</strong>.</p><p></p><p>Last week I had 14 hours of OT, including an 11.8 hour day that I made bonus on. And I had it easy compared to most.</p><p> </p><p>The <strong>real </strong>fun starts on Monday Oct. 4th. On that day, my building is transferring 15 routes up to the new facility on Swan Island that is in the process of implementing EDD. Most of those routes will be run cold by the drivers who bid them as part of the change-of-operations procedure. And the routes in my building that <em>those</em> drivers vacated have <em>also</em> been bid on, and will <em>also</em> be run cold that day by the successful bidders. All told, there will be at least 20 routes going out for which the drivers have <strong>no training at all</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>The whole mess would be manageble if we could just cut back on the planned days and make some help available during the transition. But it wont happen that way; Atlanta will just keep on cramming an impossible number of stops down everybody's throat and make an already insane situation even worse. Its going to be an absolute custerfluck, and its happening just in time for peak season.</p><p> </p><p>Part of me is dreading it, the other part of me is looking forward to it with a sort of morbid fascination....the same sort of fascination that compels you to look at a car wreck as you drive by. If I didnt actually have to work here, I would want to grab a seat and get a bucket of popcorn and watch the drama unfold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 772006, member: 14668"] He was a cover driver, sent out on the route cold, to an area he had absolutely no knowledge of. Like me, he was recently involuntarily transferred to this new center so his 4 years of area knowledge on his old center are now useless. And the route he got put on is an exceptionally tough one to do cold; the streets are narrow and poorly lit, parking is a huge issue, EDD is a farce, and the addresses are a confusing mix of city and unincorporated suburban number grids. When every route in the loop is already getting dispatched with 11+ hour planned days as a matter of routine and one of the regular drivers is sick or on vacation, a cover driver with no area knowledge on such a route is dead meat. He doesnt have a chance. No one else in the loop can help him because they are maxed out themselves. And the situation I am describing is not the exception, it is the [I]norm[/I] for this new center. In my 23 years at UPS it is by far the most chaotic and dysfunctional operation I have ever been a part of. At one point last month the center paid out [B]over $5000[/B] in penalty pay for sixty-four over-9.5 grievances that were filed [B]in one week[/B]. Last week I had 14 hours of OT, including an 11.8 hour day that I made bonus on. And I had it easy compared to most. The [B]real [/B]fun starts on Monday Oct. 4th. On that day, my building is transferring 15 routes up to the new facility on Swan Island that is in the process of implementing EDD. Most of those routes will be run cold by the drivers who bid them as part of the change-of-operations procedure. And the routes in my building that [I]those[/I] drivers vacated have [I]also[/I] been bid on, and will [I]also[/I] be run cold that day by the successful bidders. All told, there will be at least 20 routes going out for which the drivers have [B]no training at all[/B]. The whole mess would be manageble if we could just cut back on the planned days and make some help available during the transition. But it wont happen that way; Atlanta will just keep on cramming an impossible number of stops down everybody's throat and make an already insane situation even worse. Its going to be an absolute custerfluck, and its happening just in time for peak season. Part of me is dreading it, the other part of me is looking forward to it with a sort of morbid fascination....the same sort of fascination that compels you to look at a car wreck as you drive by. If I didnt actually have to work here, I would want to grab a seat and get a bucket of popcorn and watch the drama unfold. [/QUOTE]
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