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Have you heard of the Orion System, what do you know?
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1153654" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The geniuses who are implementing ORION have this fantasy that so many miles and time will be saved that entire routes can just be eliminated with a few mouse clicks and the work will just flow into and out of the remaining cars as if by magic. Its pretty easy to buy into that fantasy when your world view of UPS consists of "stops" that are nothing more than colored dots on a map connected with lines viewed through a monitor. Its a little more complicated to maintain that fantasy when those monitors and dots and lines all go away and you are dealing with <em>real</em> packages, <em>real</em> stops, <em>real</em> pickups and <em>real</em> time in the <em>real</em> world. Yesterday, for example, it was <em>my</em> turn to experience the joy of their fantasies running face first into the brick wall of reality. I wound up having to give 2.5 <strong>hours</strong> worth of work to another driver (who will make triple time for his efforts since he is on the 9.5 list and has now been violated 4 times this week) so that I could clock off by 8:15 last night. I have averaged approximately 11.5 stops per hour on my rural route for years now so it doesnt take a PHD in higher mathematics to figure out what will happen when you send me out the door with 140 stops. These guys are great at playing Pac Man on a computer screen, but they apparently cant do simple arithmetic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1153654, member: 14668"] The geniuses who are implementing ORION have this fantasy that so many miles and time will be saved that entire routes can just be eliminated with a few mouse clicks and the work will just flow into and out of the remaining cars as if by magic. Its pretty easy to buy into that fantasy when your world view of UPS consists of "stops" that are nothing more than colored dots on a map connected with lines viewed through a monitor. Its a little more complicated to maintain that fantasy when those monitors and dots and lines all go away and you are dealing with [I]real[/I] packages, [I]real[/I] stops, [I]real[/I] pickups and [I]real[/I] time in the [I]real[/I] world. Yesterday, for example, it was [I]my[/I] turn to experience the joy of their fantasies running face first into the brick wall of reality. I wound up having to give 2.5 [B]hours[/B] worth of work to another driver (who will make triple time for his efforts since he is on the 9.5 list and has now been violated 4 times this week) so that I could clock off by 8:15 last night. I have averaged approximately 11.5 stops per hour on my rural route for years now so it doesnt take a PHD in higher mathematics to figure out what will happen when you send me out the door with 140 stops. These guys are great at playing Pac Man on a computer screen, but they apparently cant do simple arithmetic. [/QUOTE]
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