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<blockquote data-quote="Artee" data-source="post: 1495900" data-attributes="member: 24351"><p>Maybe things have changed. I have not been a courier for 15 years. The 7 years I was a courier I was a float for half that time, including the last year I was a courier. I did different routes every week, if not every day including a major university campus where you to learn the different professors names to know where they were or if they were even on your route or the other route that split the campus with you. If a person is an old school courier I just don't know how this stuff is all that difficult. </p><p></p><p>If you have never been on a route or an area you go out and you either do ok or it sucks. But you learn from your mistakes and next time you do it you already know in your mind what changes you are going to make and how you are going to run it differently to make it more efficient. Some people cannot self learn and make decisions on their own and maybe should not be in this job. I was an old school courier. There was no DRA or SRA. You either walked up to a Grumman that was full of just freight thrown everywhere inside or a baseline route with a pile or freight left on the floor of the station. I had a map book of the region, made a few copies of the general area, plotted some stops, and went and emptied the truck. It was all very simple. I had no computer to tell me how to run the route or a powerpad that listed the stops in order. I made the decision on the most efficient manner to run the route. </p><p></p><p>Don't you have a map book or maps for the area you work in? If you are in a different area everyday then you need to ask them for the materials you need to do your job. You have taken the onus of providing the items needed to do your job and placed that on yourself. You need to redirect it and place it on them. You are letting them walk all over you and get away with it. Either you are using DRA and having the stops and maps handed to you or you are running it old school and you have to figure it out. Either way i do not see what the problem is. Is there a 3rd alternative I am not aware of?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Artee, post: 1495900, member: 24351"] Maybe things have changed. I have not been a courier for 15 years. The 7 years I was a courier I was a float for half that time, including the last year I was a courier. I did different routes every week, if not every day including a major university campus where you to learn the different professors names to know where they were or if they were even on your route or the other route that split the campus with you. If a person is an old school courier I just don't know how this stuff is all that difficult. If you have never been on a route or an area you go out and you either do ok or it sucks. But you learn from your mistakes and next time you do it you already know in your mind what changes you are going to make and how you are going to run it differently to make it more efficient. Some people cannot self learn and make decisions on their own and maybe should not be in this job. I was an old school courier. There was no DRA or SRA. You either walked up to a Grumman that was full of just freight thrown everywhere inside or a baseline route with a pile or freight left on the floor of the station. I had a map book of the region, made a few copies of the general area, plotted some stops, and went and emptied the truck. It was all very simple. I had no computer to tell me how to run the route or a powerpad that listed the stops in order. I made the decision on the most efficient manner to run the route. Don't you have a map book or maps for the area you work in? If you are in a different area everyday then you need to ask them for the materials you need to do your job. You have taken the onus of providing the items needed to do your job and placed that on yourself. You need to redirect it and place it on them. You are letting them walk all over you and get away with it. Either you are using DRA and having the stops and maps handed to you or you are running it old school and you have to figure it out. Either way i do not see what the problem is. Is there a 3rd alternative I am not aware of? [/QUOTE]
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