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<blockquote data-quote="Roughrider" data-source="post: 1010644" data-attributes="member: 41951"><p>No way this would work. First off, ROADS is nowhere NEAR accurate in either stop counts or "stop profiles" (which determines the amount of time you get at each stop). Unless the engineer goes in manually and adjusts every stop on every single route, this won't be close to being correct. As it is at our station, ROADS doesn't account for traffic on busy streets, whether you have 1 letter or 50 boxes at a stop, or how to properly place on-call pickups within your delivery cycle.</p><p></p><p>How the hell can they actually bring written discipline leading up to possible termination because a courier didn't meet some set of "random" goals set by a new system with obvious critical flaws? I think they are blowing smoke up us in hopes it scares some couriers to go faster and make the overall numbers look better. Pretty sure they know they would face some serious lawsuits if they were to actually fire people for not making goal, unless it is just blatantly obvious they are milking it. </p><p></p><p>The RTB times on ROADS are completely jacked up, with many people 20 minutes from the station being given only 5 minutes stem time back to the station. Engineers know this and have told us to ignore those times and that we should only focus on the time it says we should have our last stop made by. However, if ROADS is so incorrect on the stem time, what confidence can you have that it is somehow anymore accurate on determining all the other issues correctly and giving a truly accurate "clear" goal? In its infancy, ROADS doesn't have the capability of being extremely accurate and the higher ups know this. This becomes more evident if you end up being a baseline route in your loop. Since ROADS automatically fluctuates the routes in the loop to maximize and flow down, as a baseline you may be left some days with very little p1 or p2......however, there likely will have been a baseline route (routes starting with a "B") created that the baseline route in a loop is asked to take as well. Determining a clear goal in these instances is pretty much impossible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roughrider, post: 1010644, member: 41951"] No way this would work. First off, ROADS is nowhere NEAR accurate in either stop counts or "stop profiles" (which determines the amount of time you get at each stop). Unless the engineer goes in manually and adjusts every stop on every single route, this won't be close to being correct. As it is at our station, ROADS doesn't account for traffic on busy streets, whether you have 1 letter or 50 boxes at a stop, or how to properly place on-call pickups within your delivery cycle. How the hell can they actually bring written discipline leading up to possible termination because a courier didn't meet some set of "random" goals set by a new system with obvious critical flaws? I think they are blowing smoke up us in hopes it scares some couriers to go faster and make the overall numbers look better. Pretty sure they know they would face some serious lawsuits if they were to actually fire people for not making goal, unless it is just blatantly obvious they are milking it. The RTB times on ROADS are completely jacked up, with many people 20 minutes from the station being given only 5 minutes stem time back to the station. Engineers know this and have told us to ignore those times and that we should only focus on the time it says we should have our last stop made by. However, if ROADS is so incorrect on the stem time, what confidence can you have that it is somehow anymore accurate on determining all the other issues correctly and giving a truly accurate "clear" goal? In its infancy, ROADS doesn't have the capability of being extremely accurate and the higher ups know this. This becomes more evident if you end up being a baseline route in your loop. Since ROADS automatically fluctuates the routes in the loop to maximize and flow down, as a baseline you may be left some days with very little p1 or p2......however, there likely will have been a baseline route (routes starting with a "B") created that the baseline route in a loop is asked to take as well. Determining a clear goal in these instances is pretty much impossible. [/QUOTE]
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