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Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
Ever feel like the slave on a Roman Galley ship ????
Ever feel like the slave on a Roman Galley ship ????
I'm sure a lot of us have taken the long way home at some point, but if you get busted it's pretty indefensible. And these days that's an easy bust to make.It's all in how you work. On my rural route, I would sort my car after my last big bulk stop. I would my stops lined up in my head, and if I saw one of my out of town stops in town, I would give them their package. Save time. Then on the way home, I would take which ever route that would give my my miles back- BUT I WAS HEADING TOWARD THE CENTER. This gave me an avg of 7 tenths under every day.
Of course, the math works exactly as you say. 9 drivers skipping lunch means one less driver on road than is necessary.
Then again, the math also works the other way. 9 drivers taking just 30 seconds more per stop than is required means one more driver on the road than is necessary.
I have never accused drivers of purposely slowing down. I know that some do, but the majority work hard.
Its funny how others just asume the opposite when it comes to the company and management.
ok, you seem to grasp the whole concept that there are flawed time studies and flawed dispatches,, problem is,the vast majority of drivers have to carry this burden,, really,, whose fault is it?? at what point is it okay for the drivers to have to deal with flawed system? You blame operations,, the dispatcher,, but the only person being penalized in the real world, not paper,, is the driver , on a side note,, as a bonus driver runner pro management person,, its getting bad,, real bad
My thought is that the Company wants us to basicly "Lie". When we do these things to help out our paid day, the company can always get us for Dishonesty,lying etc. They want us to be our own worst enemy, so at any time they can point the finger and the blame is ours. When I do Everytrhing by the book , Im usually about 2 hours over and get a talk the next morning. This from 10 years driving. Anyone agree or dissagree??
Today, I go in the office with a driver, ojsed for 3 days. Average 165 a day 250 pieces average a day
, was over 1 hour 40 minutes. they said it was a 7.7 dispatch. So they dispatched him today at 190,
tell me how that is logic. P.S. I think he will be over today to.
The logic is actually quite simple. The company is counting upon the fact that a certain percentage of drivers will simply cave in to the production harassment and start working through their lunches and breaks in order to "make standard." UPS's entire business model is designed to maximize productivity by screwing as many people as possible out of their personal time through rigged time allowances. 9 skipped lunches equals one route eliminated, one less car on the road, one less fulltime employee with benefits on the payroll. On a nationwide basis we are talking about many millions of dollars per year. UPS may be admired as an "ethical" company in terms of how it
deals with customers and other businesses, but in terms of the expectations it places upon its employees it is devoid of any ethics at all.
Something is seriously wrong if the route driver who knows where to go and isn't spending excess time taking to customers is over by 2 hours.....and I would guess 90% of the time it isn't the driver. When mgt goes out and can't find where the excess time has gone why isn't mgt then forced to go to ie and correct the time study. This whole thing has totally become out of hand. Why isn't anything being done about it..it's wrong on so many levels. I sometimes wish the union would reconize the time study because ups would have to open up their book of secrets and I would bet the bank there would be many issues with the time study system...
The myth of "fairness" must be maintained at all costs. That is why it is against policy to ever correct a flawed timestudy. To correct a timestudy means admitting that it is flawed in the first place, and if you do that for one route it opens the door to having to do it for all of them which defeats the entire purpose of the timestudies to begin with...which is to create performance "standards" that are impossible to meet without working off of the clock. There is is nothing to be gained by having our union recognize a system of measurement that was never intended to be realistic in the first place.