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<blockquote data-quote="laffter" data-source="post: 1145839" data-attributes="member: 43119"><p>While misloads are technically a service failure on the part of the preloader (failure of service to the company), they typically do not result in a service failure to the customer, in my building anyway. Full time preload sups run misloads (between drivers) in their personal vehicles. Maybe not every day, but they do it. They do it now and I've personally seen it during peak. I've even seen the center manager run them. I've witnessed a phone conversation between the driver I was helping and an on-car sup where the sup ended up delivering a package directly to the recipient's door, with no DIAD. He and the driver exchanged the tracking number over the phone. They break a lot of rules here (and everywhere else, I'm sure) to make their numbers look better.</p><p></p><p>The "scare tactic" of writing up preloaders for misloads is somewhat successful, in my opinion. There were a couple of weeks recently where I was getting misloads all the time. Almost every day. I had a "talk to" by the full time sup one day, accompanied by the steward. I'm not entirely sure what took place, as this was nearly a walk-by "talk to". The sup barely stopped moving. Words came out of his mouth that I didn't fully understand and I just kind of stared at him as he walked away. *shrug*</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I personally never feel good about misloads. Following that, I've had zero misloads for two weeks straight until yesterday, when I got 1. Why the sudden improvement? I don't really know. It just happened. I'm not afraid of losing my job. Meaning... not that I don't care about it, but that it will not happen. They will never try to fire me over bloody misloads.</p><p></p><p>One interesting thing though. The misload sheet for my center this morning showed that I had 4 misloads yesterday. I didn't look into it much and just assumed I effed up really badly. A bit later, while things were going slow, I went over and took another look. 3 of those 4 misloads were for a route I did not load. I was supposed to load it, but they switched it up on me last-minute. Isn't that nice? They make a big deal about us being accurate but are themselves careless. I really, really hoped that a full time sup would come to talk to me, so I could point out their hypocrisy. But, it didn't happen. I told my belt sup and he fixed it. Oh well.</p><p></p><p>Bit of a rant. Bit drunk. Move along, nothing to see here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="laffter, post: 1145839, member: 43119"] While misloads are technically a service failure on the part of the preloader (failure of service to the company), they typically do not result in a service failure to the customer, in my building anyway. Full time preload sups run misloads (between drivers) in their personal vehicles. Maybe not every day, but they do it. They do it now and I've personally seen it during peak. I've even seen the center manager run them. I've witnessed a phone conversation between the driver I was helping and an on-car sup where the sup ended up delivering a package directly to the recipient's door, with no DIAD. He and the driver exchanged the tracking number over the phone. They break a lot of rules here (and everywhere else, I'm sure) to make their numbers look better. The "scare tactic" of writing up preloaders for misloads is somewhat successful, in my opinion. There were a couple of weeks recently where I was getting misloads all the time. Almost every day. I had a "talk to" by the full time sup one day, accompanied by the steward. I'm not entirely sure what took place, as this was nearly a walk-by "talk to". The sup barely stopped moving. Words came out of his mouth that I didn't fully understand and I just kind of stared at him as he walked away. *shrug* Anyway, I personally never feel good about misloads. Following that, I've had zero misloads for two weeks straight until yesterday, when I got 1. Why the sudden improvement? I don't really know. It just happened. I'm not afraid of losing my job. Meaning... not that I don't care about it, but that it will not happen. They will never try to fire me over bloody misloads. One interesting thing though. The misload sheet for my center this morning showed that I had 4 misloads yesterday. I didn't look into it much and just assumed I effed up really badly. A bit later, while things were going slow, I went over and took another look. 3 of those 4 misloads were for a route I did not load. I was supposed to load it, but they switched it up on me last-minute. Isn't that nice? They make a big deal about us being accurate but are themselves careless. I really, really hoped that a full time sup would come to talk to me, so I could point out their hypocrisy. But, it didn't happen. I told my belt sup and he fixed it. Oh well. Bit of a rant. Bit drunk. Move along, nothing to see here. [/QUOTE]
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