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Is this a unfair time study?
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<blockquote data-quote="jake_1996" data-source="post: 260083" data-attributes="member: 8108"><p>I hope this gets to you in time... There is very little you can do to affect your time study. Most of the allowances are determined by a count of the activities that you perform, and then multiplied by standard allowances. For example, you may stop your car and exit 130 times and you will get 0.067 hours each time you do it (this is not the actual allowance, since I forget it...). You can not stop your car randomly and get extra time... The TS observer will disallow it! The TS observer has a wide latitude for determining what you <em>should </em>have done, so it may be useful to question him/her in situations where you are unclear of the methods. Ask them especially if they re-wrote a stop ("Did you re-write that stop? Why?). This is a very innocuous question for a TS observer and should not be in any way controversial (the following discussion may be!). These folks are supposed to be the Methods experts in the District (and they were in mine, absolutely, although, that was 15 years ago... Don't worry... Time study has not changed, although the observers have). </p><p></p><p>Let's wrap this up... I always told a center's driver to make ALL their alternate deliveries (make sure you know the approved methods on this) , and that is pretty much the only thing that made a difference... Don't worry, though, if you have a competent IE department, they will build in the extra time. If you lose big-time, it will probably be because of a large negative travel variance. Each district is required to keep a travel variance log, so you should be able to track it down... Jake</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jake_1996, post: 260083, member: 8108"] I hope this gets to you in time... There is very little you can do to affect your time study. Most of the allowances are determined by a count of the activities that you perform, and then multiplied by standard allowances. For example, you may stop your car and exit 130 times and you will get 0.067 hours each time you do it (this is not the actual allowance, since I forget it...). You can not stop your car randomly and get extra time... The TS observer will disallow it! The TS observer has a wide latitude for determining what you [I]should [/I]have done, so it may be useful to question him/her in situations where you are unclear of the methods. Ask them especially if they re-wrote a stop ("Did you re-write that stop? Why?). This is a very innocuous question for a TS observer and should not be in any way controversial (the following discussion may be!). These folks are supposed to be the Methods experts in the District (and they were in mine, absolutely, although, that was 15 years ago... Don't worry... Time study has not changed, although the observers have). Let's wrap this up... I always told a center's driver to make ALL their alternate deliveries (make sure you know the approved methods on this) , and that is pretty much the only thing that made a difference... Don't worry, though, if you have a competent IE department, they will build in the extra time. If you lose big-time, it will probably be because of a large negative travel variance. Each district is required to keep a travel variance log, so you should be able to track it down... Jake [/QUOTE]
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