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Let's work the numbers on forced overtime
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 764482" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>We are overlooking the most important fact here---that UPS's <em>entire business model</em> is predicated upon coercing as many employees as possible to work off of the clock.</p><p> </p><p>They are doing this at my center now. The center average paid day is 10.5 hours on a 77 route center.</p><p> </p><p>Lets say 36 of those drivers knuckle under and work through their required minimum 1/2 hr lunch in order to get home to their families by 9:00 at night. That equals 18 hours of free labor, which is the equivalent of two full routes eliminated and two FT employees dropped from the payroll.</p><p> </p><p>The company is <em>more than willing</em> to pay the overtime and even the triple-time penalty pay to those who are willing to file, because they are getting it all back from the ones who have surrendered and are skipping lunch in order to have some semblance of a life after work.</p><p> </p><p>The brutal reality here is that some soulless bastard from I.E, sitting in a dark little room with no air in it, has done all of the math, crunched all the numbers onto a spreadsheet, and calculated down to the last dime how many drivers he can screw out of half an hour's pay per day just by rigging the allowances and mandating an impossible number of stops per car that each center has to dispatch in order to meet its quota.</p><p> </p><p>The contract means nothing; common sense means nothing; the reality of what is necessary to run the operation and provide quality service to our customers in a rational, efficient manner means nothing. It has all been reduced to a simple, inhuman, impossible metric that must be generated. The center manager has been reduced to a powerless puppet who will either generate that metric or be replaced by another puppet who can.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 764482, member: 14668"] We are overlooking the most important fact here---that UPS's [I]entire business model[/I] is predicated upon coercing as many employees as possible to work off of the clock. They are doing this at my center now. The center average paid day is 10.5 hours on a 77 route center. Lets say 36 of those drivers knuckle under and work through their required minimum 1/2 hr lunch in order to get home to their families by 9:00 at night. That equals 18 hours of free labor, which is the equivalent of two full routes eliminated and two FT employees dropped from the payroll. The company is [I]more than willing[/I] to pay the overtime and even the triple-time penalty pay to those who are willing to file, because they are getting it all back from the ones who have surrendered and are skipping lunch in order to have some semblance of a life after work. The brutal reality here is that some soulless bastard from I.E, sitting in a dark little room with no air in it, has done all of the math, crunched all the numbers onto a spreadsheet, and calculated down to the last dime how many drivers he can screw out of half an hour's pay per day just by rigging the allowances and mandating an impossible number of stops per car that each center has to dispatch in order to meet its quota. The contract means nothing; common sense means nothing; the reality of what is necessary to run the operation and provide quality service to our customers in a rational, efficient manner means nothing. It has all been reduced to a simple, inhuman, impossible metric that must be generated. The center manager has been reduced to a powerless puppet who will either generate that metric or be replaced by another puppet who can. [/QUOTE]
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