Driver/Dispatcher Bashing Time

[BrownArmy]

What does that even mean? And how does calling out driver dispatchers not qualify as worrying about my job?

I think it means, just do your job and don't worry about the whiner-babies.

Every center has them, and it's just not worth your time trying to do your job plus the dispatch job plus babysitting the cry-babies.

I'm lucky in that my center is fairly large (120+routes), and there just isn't the time for all those shenanigans with drivers trying to get work moved, etc.

 

[moldsporh]

If they are giving you the extra work, there is a lunch to take between the 4th and 6th hour.

Tell them before lunch what your eta is and you might have missed business.

Things may change.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

I think it means, just do your job and don't worry about the whiner-babies.

Every center has them, and it's just not worth your time trying to do your job plus the dispatch job plus babysitting the cry-babies.

I'm lucky in that my center is fairly large (120+routes), and there just isn't the time for all those shenanigans with drivers trying to get work moved, etc.

I by no means worry about them. And I definitely don't try and dispatch. But in order for me to just to my job I don't need some selfish prick getting more garbage tossed into my truck. Thats why my philosophy is that if you bid a route, whether it be for one day or three years, then you should do the work on it. But that is not's whats happening. Letting them get away with it is the same as approving of it. It's that whole apathy thing again that I mention on here from time to time.

 

[BrownArmy]

I by no means worry about them. And I definitely don't try and dispatch. But in order for me to just to my job I don't need some selfish prick getting more garbage tossed into my truck. Thats why my philosophy is that if you bid a route, whether it be for one day or three years, then you should do the work on it. But that is not's whats happening. Letting them get away with it is the same as approving of it. It's that whole apathy thing again that I mention on here from time to time.

File a grievance.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

File a grievance.

Its already in the works. Another driver wants to try a disparity grievance.

 

[BrownArmy]

Its already in the works. Another driver wants to try a disparity grievance.

I'm cover, but I see the work getting moved around from bid routes all the time.

Where I am, it's the idiot stops-per-car metric more than anything else.

We're not on ORION (yet), and our Dispatch sup is generally a nice person, but he makes strange decisions and really doesn't give a crap about what happens after the trucks leave the building.

As long as the belts are clean in the AM, he's happy, even if it means endless PM re-dispatching, if you get my drift.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

What the heck is a disparity grievance?

 

[Jack4343]

The ones that bug me are the drivers that get add-cuts made and move the packages themselves. That in itself isn't a problem. When the driver decides to move another 10 since it's right next to those other stops....that is what irks me.

 

[OPTION3]

We had a dispatcher who flipped on a driver and went hands on.

They told us that the only reason he didn't get fired is that no one called the cops.


He did get suspended and ordered to anger mgmt classes

As is still in the same job in the same center

Must have been one of those "caring" managers I've heard about!

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

What the heck is a disparity grievance?

It's used different ways. Typically it's used for unfairness or favoritism.

 

[tacken]

Lazy gets the help. Really how is this a shock to anyone. We have a driver in my center with a sign on the back of the PC. And I quote " PERFECT LOAD" this driver gets help everyday. Perfect example of squeaky wheel gets the oil. Now just imagine if we all got this treatment. Nothing would get done..

 

[Shifting Contents]

Must have been one of those "caring" managers I've heard about!

This same dispatcher flipped his crap on me today when I went to him to ask him to unlock my edd as I was leaving early.

"Why?!?!?"
"Because the center manager told me to"
"You can't do that! It's not set for you to leave early!!!"
"I don't care. Yell at him not me. He's the one that told me to leave early."
"WHATEVER! Your ICO is already all screwed up anyways!"
Slams keys on keyboard
"There! It's unlocked!"
"Uh . . . Thanks, I guess."

 

[Jones]

The ones that bug me are the drivers that get add-cuts made and move the packages themselves. That in itself isn't a problem. When the driver decides to move another 10 since it's right next to those other stops....that is what irks me.

Had a driver pull that move on me, I took the "extra" stops to his last pickup and said "Hey give these to Joe when he comes in". He never did that again.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

Had a driver pull that move on me, I took the "extra" stops to his last pickup and said "Hey give these to Joe when he comes in". He never did that again.

I've not had the opportunity to try that yet but I have left a few of those "strays" at the dock space where those drivers were parked. Looks like they just left them there. I've even tossed them back into their trucks when they were still there.

 

[wayfair]

But 30 residential stops is not the same as 30 business stops. I do 135 stops/day but my neighbor day 110 stops/day but I am done before him almost every day.

we all have the same number of bus deliveries in my loop.

135 stops is def a 9.5 day

120-130 deliveries plus 30 p/ups is an everyday dispatch.

the day I had 30-40 stops more than the others, I was at 150 plus 30 p/ups

 

[box_beeyotch]

Why can't everyone just deliver what they put on their truck and stop crying about it?? Jesus Christ it means you make even more money than you already do.

 

[toonertoo]

I rarely look, and if I do its about air, as Orion doesnt load til we are spinning our wheels at the exit to the building. Whatever they give me I do the best I can. How it shows up the next day might be ugly, but it gets done.

 

[Ecw21411]

I worked 12 today and was told I had a good dispatch today[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] lol

 

[wayfair]

Why can't everyone just deliver what they put on their truck and stop crying about it?? Jesus Christ it means you make even more money than you already do.

it's more than that...

sure I don't mind doing "MY ROUTE" work,

when I have to take splits from 4 different routes on the same day, I might "cry" about it, until I cash the check! lol

 

[SCV good to go sir.]

I don't know if we got drivers that get routes adjusted by crying to the dispatcher, but we definitely have some crybabies up in this bitch. I really don't understand how they get through their day (let alone this far in their careers).

I might be biased because I don't really have a life outside of brown, but people need to shut up and do the work according to the methods. If one finishes early, great. If not, then suck it up buttercup. And if someone needs help, for god's sake, (at the risk of sounding like management) the operation is more important than any individual. We're a team, let's act like one, stop bitching, and get this done.