(sorry going to rant) Okay I was hired as an unloader early this year, but in that time I've been made to sort mail, load trucks. load trailers, play clerk, break jams, ect near everyday I've been working there. And I'm sick of it. I applied for and was hired to unload trailers. Thats all I was hired to do, thats all I enjoy to do, thats all I want to do. Yet, my supe keeps seeing fit to send me to these other departments or their supes see fit to grab me whenever they need an extra body because they A- Fired their own personnel and won't hire new ones, B- Cut them early, C- Let 92% of the workers take Saturday as well as monday off and D- Had workers straight up quit and won't hire new ones. So they run our facility on a semi skeleton crew and I have to do near everyone else position.
And yeah, I could see if I was a bad unloader why I would be moved around so much, but I'm a pretty fast unloader getting consistent praise from my supe for beating out most of my peers in packages per hour at 1,200 to 1,300 while they're middling in the 900 to 600 range. Yet even so my supe sends me to the other departments when they need a body first over the new hires and slow females in our department who take an hour to clear shorties. My supe says its because I'm a good worker and can follow directions well compared to my peers.
Thats nice, but when we have new hires in our department I think they should send the new meat over me like they did when I was new and on probation. I was sent to the other areas because the other guys had seniority over me so I was kicked around like a can from place to place doing whatever they wanted so I didn't get terminated. But you see, I passed my probation, got in the union and got a little seniority under my belt compared to the new hires. So it should be them first down the river on the sacrificial list, Yet they still see fit to move me around like I was prized chess piece. When I bring this up to my supe, she gets angry and hollers at me about not being grateful & happy about having more hours. I never asked for more hours tho. I mean I'm thankful she is looking our me, but why am I getting chewed out for not being happy with favors I never requested? I just don't understand.
Every Saturday, without fail, I am called away from unload to work loading up the bleeping trailers. I HATE loading up those freaking trailers. I hate it so much, I build a wall of china and just throw everything in a rage behind the wall. Supes complained to me at first about not stacking properly & safely and throwing the boxes (never a write up), yet I still keep throwing and they still keep making me their first round draft pick knowing I'm going to toss those packages in there like footballs with wild abandon. Its come to the point now where they don't even mention it anymore, they just come get me, put me in the trailer, let me throw the packages in there and tell me to have a great weekend once I'm through with my work. Personally, if I had a worker that bad, I wouldn't call them back but I'm starting to think that they don't really care about the packages and just need tho trailer quotas filled. Stack properly or throw them in, I still get dragged into that loading hell the next week while the new guys & seniority continue to work in unload and go home before me.
Just today, I had finished unloading my trailers, pulling out my irregs and I was sent to load up the trucks because they need an extra body and "No one comes in on monday". So I get over there and this little short female supe says "These 5 trucks are yours" while the few regulars there only have one and two trucks. At this point I'm boiling with rage. Why do I, who doesn't even work in this department, have to cover 5 trucks while your actual subordinates get lighter work!? And if thats not bad enough, while I'm loading she keeps nitpicking at me about stupid things like making a mistake and having 4001,4003 and 4002 lined up instead of the actual numerical order. Or I placed some big boxes (very light like fluff) on the top 1000 shelf where they belong but she personally likes the big boxes at the bottom. or whining at me about stacking boxes in the truck to keep red lights from going off on a severely clogged up chute that can't hold anymore boxes, but wanting me to break the red lights as well. or whining about how the driver likes this mail here and this irreg here or they get mad (like I give AF). Absurdly petty BS to pull me aside for when I'm dealing with 5 trucks. This ain't the drivers first rodeo and he knows not everything will be pristine in the truck and some things hes going to have to correct or sort himself. I'm there to cover for 5 people after doing my own strenuous work, not cater to the feelings of some anal Prima donna who is thrown all out of whack if he/she sees 1,3,2 instead 1,2,3. Me and the drivers? Both union/ non fire at will. If the driver doesn't like how I don't load his truck to his preference, the worst thats going to happen is we're going to get into it and he is going to request I don't load his truck, which is great by me because I don't want to be there anyway. She on the other hand, a supe, is fire at will so she has to kowtow to their whims because their complaints are acid to her where they fly off me like water. Eventually I just start giving her hostile looks because shes annoying and she limits her interaction or apologizes every time she disturbs me from then on.
When the driver shows up and looks around the truck, I look down in his eyes and he doesn't say a word, just starts helping me load up the truck. So we got the trucks done, but I never want to go through that again. I'm tired of having to do my job and everyone else. So I want to know if I can file a grievance on being forced to do jobs in departments I wasn't hired for nor volunteered for.
And yeah, I could see if I was a bad unloader why I would be moved around so much, but I'm a pretty fast unloader getting consistent praise from my supe for beating out most of my peers in packages per hour at 1,200 to 1,300 while they're middling in the 900 to 600 range. Yet even so my supe sends me to the other departments when they need a body first over the new hires and slow females in our department who take an hour to clear shorties. My supe says its because I'm a good worker and can follow directions well compared to my peers.
Thats nice, but when we have new hires in our department I think they should send the new meat over me like they did when I was new and on probation. I was sent to the other areas because the other guys had seniority over me so I was kicked around like a can from place to place doing whatever they wanted so I didn't get terminated. But you see, I passed my probation, got in the union and got a little seniority under my belt compared to the new hires. So it should be them first down the river on the sacrificial list, Yet they still see fit to move me around like I was prized chess piece. When I bring this up to my supe, she gets angry and hollers at me about not being grateful & happy about having more hours. I never asked for more hours tho. I mean I'm thankful she is looking our me, but why am I getting chewed out for not being happy with favors I never requested? I just don't understand.
Every Saturday, without fail, I am called away from unload to work loading up the bleeping trailers. I HATE loading up those freaking trailers. I hate it so much, I build a wall of china and just throw everything in a rage behind the wall. Supes complained to me at first about not stacking properly & safely and throwing the boxes (never a write up), yet I still keep throwing and they still keep making me their first round draft pick knowing I'm going to toss those packages in there like footballs with wild abandon. Its come to the point now where they don't even mention it anymore, they just come get me, put me in the trailer, let me throw the packages in there and tell me to have a great weekend once I'm through with my work. Personally, if I had a worker that bad, I wouldn't call them back but I'm starting to think that they don't really care about the packages and just need tho trailer quotas filled. Stack properly or throw them in, I still get dragged into that loading hell the next week while the new guys & seniority continue to work in unload and go home before me.
Just today, I had finished unloading my trailers, pulling out my irregs and I was sent to load up the trucks because they need an extra body and "No one comes in on monday". So I get over there and this little short female supe says "These 5 trucks are yours" while the few regulars there only have one and two trucks. At this point I'm boiling with rage. Why do I, who doesn't even work in this department, have to cover 5 trucks while your actual subordinates get lighter work!? And if thats not bad enough, while I'm loading she keeps nitpicking at me about stupid things like making a mistake and having 4001,4003 and 4002 lined up instead of the actual numerical order. Or I placed some big boxes (very light like fluff) on the top 1000 shelf where they belong but she personally likes the big boxes at the bottom. or whining at me about stacking boxes in the truck to keep red lights from going off on a severely clogged up chute that can't hold anymore boxes, but wanting me to break the red lights as well. or whining about how the driver likes this mail here and this irreg here or they get mad (like I give AF). Absurdly petty BS to pull me aside for when I'm dealing with 5 trucks. This ain't the drivers first rodeo and he knows not everything will be pristine in the truck and some things hes going to have to correct or sort himself. I'm there to cover for 5 people after doing my own strenuous work, not cater to the feelings of some anal Prima donna who is thrown all out of whack if he/she sees 1,3,2 instead 1,2,3. Me and the drivers? Both union/ non fire at will. If the driver doesn't like how I don't load his truck to his preference, the worst thats going to happen is we're going to get into it and he is going to request I don't load his truck, which is great by me because I don't want to be there anyway. She on the other hand, a supe, is fire at will so she has to kowtow to their whims because their complaints are acid to her where they fly off me like water. Eventually I just start giving her hostile looks because shes annoying and she limits her interaction or apologizes every time she disturbs me from then on.
When the driver shows up and looks around the truck, I look down in his eyes and he doesn't say a word, just starts helping me load up the truck. So we got the trucks done, but I never want to go through that again. I'm tired of having to do my job and everyone else. So I want to know if I can file a grievance on being forced to do jobs in departments I wasn't hired for nor volunteered for.
