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You are assuming that the time study that is done on each route, which is what the bonus is based on, was done correctly. Unfortunatly it is not.
As a cover driver, my work pace is pretty much the same on every route I work. So why in a 10 hour day on two different routes should I be under 2.3 hours on one but 1.9 hours over on the other? Day in and day out? Did I spend over four hours more screwing around on that one, even though I know both routes very well?
So while your comment is true to an extent, routes are not studied the same way. During the last time study here, my current route was timed and I lost almost 2 hours. The head IE guy did it again almost a month later and the route gained almost 30 minutes.
Maybe it was all the crap they took off my route the first time study, and then put back on with the second one. It is funny how that works, pull stuff off your route when the time study is done so you dont have it, then put it back on afterwards. Actually a full 20-25% of our area here has never been time studied because when they did the time studies on the routes that normally carry them, it was shuffled to other routes just for that day.
And this can either help or hurt a route, and that all depends on the management team. It is not some double blind test where the track is level and each athlete can compete on a level playing field and show how well they can excell.
Do you realize that means there are large portions of my route that have never had a time study done on that portion, because it was allways pulled off me when they did the time study, but yet it is allways on my route the rest of the time.
So why is that. IF we are to be totally honest, it is because the numbers game that Ups plays is just that, a game. The way you explain it the guy that makes 2 hours a day bonus is a faster delivery driver than one that gets beat 2 hours.
And that sir is just not so. And if you believe in that, then I have some other things I would love to discuss with you.
So it is not the envy you think, one driver not making bonus while others do. It is that due to UPS time study game and the way it is implimented that does not work. That is why more and more it is being voted out of the centers.
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