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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4479510" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Because knowing how to run a route gives you insight that makes you a better manager. The best managers I've had were all very good at running routes. Most mgrs I've worked for hated courier work and would on occasion say things that demonstrated they didn't know what we do on a regular basis. I've had mgrs who couldn't understand how with a fourth of the stops of other couriers why I couldn't get done a lot sooner. Never mind that I drove five times as far if not further and spent much of my day on slow washboard roads. Same mgrs wouldn't check ride me. And many mgrs always seem to approach everything as if it's a courier problem. They assume that if a courier gets in later he's a slacker. I've had the heaviest routes in quite a few stations. Had mgrs act shocked at what I was doing when they gave me a check ride but wouldn't listen to me or my 4/10 cover before the check ride. They truly seem to approach routes as all being more or less equal, drawn up as equal by engineering, and it's a courier problem, not the company's. One of the few satisfactions I got working like a dog was the anger of a hotshot swing driver over not achieving my numbers when I was on vacation. And yeah, I worked hard so expected better than what I was getting in raises. One year because of a recession getting a poor raise is one thing. 10+ years of running like a dog for crap raises is quite another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 4479510, member: 24302"] Because knowing how to run a route gives you insight that makes you a better manager. The best managers I've had were all very good at running routes. Most mgrs I've worked for hated courier work and would on occasion say things that demonstrated they didn't know what we do on a regular basis. I've had mgrs who couldn't understand how with a fourth of the stops of other couriers why I couldn't get done a lot sooner. Never mind that I drove five times as far if not further and spent much of my day on slow washboard roads. Same mgrs wouldn't check ride me. And many mgrs always seem to approach everything as if it's a courier problem. They assume that if a courier gets in later he's a slacker. I've had the heaviest routes in quite a few stations. Had mgrs act shocked at what I was doing when they gave me a check ride but wouldn't listen to me or my 4/10 cover before the check ride. They truly seem to approach routes as all being more or less equal, drawn up as equal by engineering, and it's a courier problem, not the company's. One of the few satisfactions I got working like a dog was the anger of a hotshot swing driver over not achieving my numbers when I was on vacation. And yeah, I worked hard so expected better than what I was getting in raises. One year because of a recession getting a poor raise is one thing. 10+ years of running like a dog for crap raises is quite another. [/QUOTE]
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