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<blockquote data-quote="Love2back" data-source="post: 1148187" data-attributes="member: 47985"><p>I hear the same things from loaders in my building. They want credit for doing the bare minimum. you want someone telling you "thank you" for coming to work. This isn't grade school anymore. Do your duty, what you are paid to do. IMO zero misloads is the least you should aim for. raise the bar for yourself. doing your job, whether it be misloads/tape ups/etc, is not reason to expect a trophy. is loading a truck correctly going above and beyond? no, its what you are paid for. loaders have no idea the expectation for drivers to be productive and 100% on every box in our truck. we are here to make money, not be polite and hold your hand. I see my loader and myself in a football analogy, the team expects the kicker to be 100% every kick, the entire team depends on us. If I am the kicker, my loader is holding the ball. if you don't hold it straight, how can i kick a 50 yard field goal? your job is to set me up to also do my job. if you guys fail, my job is just that much harder. its not ONE misload that kills a drivers day. what drivers do, is very similar to loaders. we do the same thing over and over all day. when a loader makes the same mistake throughout the load. its not just one mistake, its one mistake repeated hundreds of times per day. seconds lost due to a single mistake are multiplied hundreds of times throughout the load and the day. a 9 hour day quickly becomes a 10 hour day when small details are not adhered to.</p><p></p><p>truth is my loader doesn't give a <img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />. and drops the ball everyday. and its up to me to come through while the person i rely on the most, fails.</p><p></p><p>its not just a loader problem, its a management problem. my loader is female, her sup is female. two very sweet people i always get along with. but they are both lazy and don't give a <img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> and don't know what being professional and dedicated really means. </p><p></p><p>example: my truck is not finished loaded daily. the sups explanations is "oh she had to leave early to go to work, her other job" i get into the truck and its loaded extremely poor. again i ask the sup why this is allowed daily. sup has the balls to say "she doesn't have time to reorganize the load and as more things come down, she just puts it anywhere" you mean to say that everyday you let your loader leave early to go to another job, but she doesn't have time to finish the job she has with ups? on what planet does that make sense? our priority is UPS, not her job at mcdonalds! let me tell my center manager "you know what, i cant finish delivering my route today because i want to leave work early" i wouldn't have a job the next day. </p><p></p><p>i was a loader for 2 years. way before the current load system was in place. we had to know every address, every street of the trucks we load. sups didn't shuttle around misloads for 5 hours a day, because we didn't have more than 1 a month. preload needs to realize that they are so bad currently that a new, almost full time, job had evolved to clean up their mistakes everyday. that's three sups on road moving around misloads at about 5 hours a day each. that's 15 hours spent fixing mistakes each day. how can the preload be proud of that? it all comes down to attitude. a severe lack of work ethic. </p><p></p><p>i hate the way ups management behaves. i've been at ups for 12 years and i am seriously thinking of going into preload management. i am actually considering going to the darkside because the preload seriously lacks proper leadership. they need proper leadership, not someone who is a hypocrite or harasses but someone who leads by example.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Love2back, post: 1148187, member: 47985"] I hear the same things from loaders in my building. They want credit for doing the bare minimum. you want someone telling you "thank you" for coming to work. This isn't grade school anymore. Do your duty, what you are paid to do. IMO zero misloads is the least you should aim for. raise the bar for yourself. doing your job, whether it be misloads/tape ups/etc, is not reason to expect a trophy. is loading a truck correctly going above and beyond? no, its what you are paid for. loaders have no idea the expectation for drivers to be productive and 100% on every box in our truck. we are here to make money, not be polite and hold your hand. I see my loader and myself in a football analogy, the team expects the kicker to be 100% every kick, the entire team depends on us. If I am the kicker, my loader is holding the ball. if you don't hold it straight, how can i kick a 50 yard field goal? your job is to set me up to also do my job. if you guys fail, my job is just that much harder. its not ONE misload that kills a drivers day. what drivers do, is very similar to loaders. we do the same thing over and over all day. when a loader makes the same mistake throughout the load. its not just one mistake, its one mistake repeated hundreds of times per day. seconds lost due to a single mistake are multiplied hundreds of times throughout the load and the day. a 9 hour day quickly becomes a 10 hour day when small details are not adhered to. truth is my loader doesn't give a [IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG]. and drops the ball everyday. and its up to me to come through while the person i rely on the most, fails. its not just a loader problem, its a management problem. my loader is female, her sup is female. two very sweet people i always get along with. but they are both lazy and don't give a [IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG] and don't know what being professional and dedicated really means. example: my truck is not finished loaded daily. the sups explanations is "oh she had to leave early to go to work, her other job" i get into the truck and its loaded extremely poor. again i ask the sup why this is allowed daily. sup has the balls to say "she doesn't have time to reorganize the load and as more things come down, she just puts it anywhere" you mean to say that everyday you let your loader leave early to go to another job, but she doesn't have time to finish the job she has with ups? on what planet does that make sense? our priority is UPS, not her job at mcdonalds! let me tell my center manager "you know what, i cant finish delivering my route today because i want to leave work early" i wouldn't have a job the next day. i was a loader for 2 years. way before the current load system was in place. we had to know every address, every street of the trucks we load. sups didn't shuttle around misloads for 5 hours a day, because we didn't have more than 1 a month. preload needs to realize that they are so bad currently that a new, almost full time, job had evolved to clean up their mistakes everyday. that's three sups on road moving around misloads at about 5 hours a day each. that's 15 hours spent fixing mistakes each day. how can the preload be proud of that? it all comes down to attitude. a severe lack of work ethic. i hate the way ups management behaves. i've been at ups for 12 years and i am seriously thinking of going into preload management. i am actually considering going to the darkside because the preload seriously lacks proper leadership. they need proper leadership, not someone who is a hypocrite or harasses but someone who leads by example. [/QUOTE]
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