185 stops, clocked out at 2125
Once again, christmas eve snuck up on my management team. Sad thing is 9 drivers came in after I did. My management team, if you can call them a team, in their infinite wisdom decided to merge 3 routes into one at the last minute. Somehow they thought one driver could deliver 280 stops , 95% residential, covering about 20 mile area, and that's not including drive time to get on area and back to the building. They were even nice enough to PAL one entire route all as the 8000 section. So I was one of 4 lucky drivers who had to stay out late and bail this poor guy out.
Then once we all got back to the building, the plan was to unload all send agains and pickups on the shortest belt in our hub. Our hub has two centers running out of it. Drivers were supposed to unload and move their pkg cars out of the way for other drivers, since no car washers/porters were working to move the empty pkg cars.
Evidently the other center didn't get that memo, because it was one giant fluster
. The belt was stacked with pkgs, and pkgs were also filling out the aisles and pouring out of all the bay doors getting soaked in the rain. The massive amount of packages on the belt also caused the belt to slide half way off of the conveyor and PE had to fix it and get the belt back on track.
I'm going to make sure I give my management team those nifty calendars UPS prints out every year, and highlight Christmas Eve for 2010. Maybe it won't sneak up on them again...
FYI - No FT mgmt at the building after 1800. Guess they don't lead by example... err... they're not old school.