Break Violations

[falcon back]

And the break rule is not changed in your favor. You actually think couriers will get home 30min earlier during peak if they are allowed a 30min break after 8 hours?

Why wouldn't shorter breaks mean shorter days? What kind of math are you using?

 

[59 Dano]

How about the workforce changing a few rules then?

Uh, we don’t want to wait until the end of sort to leave the building. “We’ll now leave when we feel we have enough freight instead.”

How about you see if you can give people a reason to take you seriously?

 

[59 Dano]

The rules don't change, just the decision to enforce them to fit their needs.

OK, then. What about it? Is that wrong?

And the break rule is not changed in your favor. You actually think couriers will get home 30min earlier during peak if they are allowed a 30min break after 8 hours?

I don't know about you, but when I was a courier I got home 30 minutes earlier when I took a 30 minute break vs a 60 minute break.

 

[59 Dano]

The 60 min rule hasn’t been enforced at my station in YEARS. I cannot even remember the last time I took anything over 30.

You're assuming that there is an active 60 minute rule. It can vary by region, district, market... In my last district where I worked as a courier, it was up to the senior whether they had 60 or 30.

 

[McFeely]

I should have said 60 minute “rule”

 

[falcon back]

I don't know about you, but when I was a courier I got home 30 minutes earlier when I took a 30 minute break vs a 60 minute break.

You were a courier? Why don't you know anything about the job?

 

[Cactus]

How about you see if you can give people a reason to take you seriously?

So you think anybody here takes your job seriously?

Guess again! Thanks for playing and get lost.

 

[outtatime]

OK, then. What about it? Is that wrong?

It is when rules are selectively enforced. If you're going to enforce certain rules for one person, you should enforce it on everyone, every time. If you're not going to enforce the rules all the time, do I have to follow them all the time?

 

[outtatime]

Why wouldn't shorter breaks mean shorter days? What kind of math are you using?

The kind where management sees you're finished delivering at 1430 and makes you go help some slow-ass old-timer who milks the clock every day. Better off just taking 60min and slowing down a bit. Same hours...less work.

 

[falcon back]

The kind where management sees you're finished delivering at 1430 and makes you go help some slow-ass old-timer who milks the clock every day. Better off just taking 60min and slowing down a bit. Same hours...less work.

Who finishes at 1430? You must have issues doing the job and they gave you light deliveries.

 

[59 Dano]

So you think anybody here takes your job seriously?

I hadn't really thought about it. It's a bigger deal to you than it is to me, apparently.

 

[59 Dano]

If you're not going to enforce the rules all the time, do I have to follow them all the time?

You have to follow them when they're being enforced.

 

[NC man]

The 60 min rule hasn’t been enforced at my station in YEARS. I cannot even remember the last time I took anything over 30.

Me either

 

[NC man]

Used to be we heard all year that had to do an hour,DOT rules, when peak came those so called DOT rules wentbout the window. I know DOT doesn’t changes rules for December.
Just curious ,has anyone ever been stopped by police etc and asked to show medical card?

 

[Cactus]

I hadn't really thought about it. It's a bigger deal to you than it is to me, apparently.

And you apparently arrived at that conclusion from the voices in your head?

 

[McFeely]

Used to be we heard all year that had to do an hour,DOT rules, when peak came those so called DOT rules wentbout the window.

There is no DOT regulation about 60 min. There is one about 30 min breaks, however.

I suppose a state may have a more restrictive break law on the books (some states require a 30 for a 5+ hour work day, etc), but 60 min is not a DOT thing.

 

[59 Dano]

And you apparently arrived at that conclusion from the voices in your head?

You and falcon are the ones who keep bringing up how important I am or am not. No one else, me included, cares.

 

[vantexan]

OK, then. What about it? Is that wrong?



I don't know about you, but when I was a courier I got home 30 minutes earlier when I took a 30 minute break vs a 60 minute break.

Don't know about you but I always took hour lunches until so much extra was forced on me I could barely get in a half hour before returning to the station. As usual the question was when transferring: "why do you want to leave?"

 

[vantexan]

There is no DOT regulation about 60 min. There is one about 30 min breaks, however.

I suppose a state may have a more restrictive break law on the books (some states require a 30 for a 5+ hour work day, etc), but 60 min is not a DOT thing.

I worked in a couple of states where two ten minute paid breaks were allowed if the employee wanted them. Oddly the mgrs never told me about them. Found out from co-workers months after arriving.

 

[falcon back]

As usual the question was when transferring: "why do you want to leave?"

More like, the managers requested you leave.