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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 595002" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>My wife is the HR and finance manager for a manufacturing company. Her job is similar in some respects to that of a UPS center manager.</p><p> </p><p>Her company manufactures dental components (suction tubes) on an assembly line. Like UPS, they do work measurements to develop a time study for how long it should take an employee to assemble each item.</p><p> </p><p><em>Unlike</em> UPS, the process for developing this measurement is fair, realistic and straightforward; the manager for the assembly line sits down with a stopwatch, and assembles the item himself. Whatever time it takes <em>him</em> to do it...is the "standard" for that item.</p><p> </p><p>A new employee is trained by this manager, and the expected level of production is <em>demonstrated </em>by that manager.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Contrast this with the UPS "timestudy", in which an unaccountable person with <em>no</em> knowledge of the area and <em>no</em> real experience as a driver creates a "standard" that, no matter <em>how </em>inaccurate, will <em>never </em>be corrected.</p><p> </p><p>This allowance is <em>chiseled in stone</em>. It cant be disputed, it cant be adjusted, it cant be verified. Even if every single manager in the building agrees that it is wrong....they <em>wont fix it. Ever.</em></p><p> </p><p>Its tough to place any faith in a system that purports to be fair...when company policy absolutely<em> refuses</em> to correct that system when it isnt fair.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 595002, member: 14668"] My wife is the HR and finance manager for a manufacturing company. Her job is similar in some respects to that of a UPS center manager. Her company manufactures dental components (suction tubes) on an assembly line. Like UPS, they do work measurements to develop a time study for how long it should take an employee to assemble each item. [I]Unlike[/I] UPS, the process for developing this measurement is fair, realistic and straightforward; the manager for the assembly line sits down with a stopwatch, and assembles the item himself. Whatever time it takes [I]him[/I] to do it...is the "standard" for that item. A new employee is trained by this manager, and the expected level of production is [I]demonstrated [/I]by that manager. Contrast this with the UPS "timestudy", in which an unaccountable person with [I]no[/I] knowledge of the area and [I]no[/I] real experience as a driver creates a "standard" that, no matter [I]how [/I]inaccurate, will [I]never [/I]be corrected. This allowance is [I]chiseled in stone[/I]. It cant be disputed, it cant be adjusted, it cant be verified. Even if every single manager in the building agrees that it is wrong....they [I]wont fix it. Ever.[/I] Its tough to place any faith in a system that purports to be fair...when company policy absolutely[I] refuses[/I] to correct that system when it isnt fair. [/QUOTE]
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