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<blockquote data-quote="extranatty" data-source="post: 2629104" data-attributes="member: 66381"><p>I work on a main belt loading package cars. There are 35 trucks on this belt during off season. Say start time is 4:00, my staggered start time will be 4:10. I requested to be put at regular start time and was denied. However, packages start passing my car at 4:03 at a rate of between 150-350 PPH depending on the package Gods. </p><p></p><p>If I choose to not work until 4:10, I will only be making my job impossible, as I'll be too slow with packages already stacked up at the beginning of the day, leading to more stacking, lagging my work pace further and causing injuries. There is no extra help, our supervisor always sends too many people home and likes to work himself just to save a few hours. He takes the union fine everyday. My choosing to work 7 minutes off the clock everyday is like choosing to breathe air; not really a choice.</p><p></p><p>My PPH on the sheet is always 195-205. Pretty sure they just pick a number, but if I add up the pieces for my trucks and divide by the hours worked, it tells a different story. Half the days my PPH will be about 200 but the other half; 250-270. That's not including the fact that the load sheets are usually incomplete. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, of course UPS would want to use their existing system and overwork their employees. Still relying on bar codes and lasers.</p><p></p><p>I'm talking about essentially a precursor to a HUD, heads-up display, like Google Glass. The first version doesn't need to be a HUD, just a camera piece you wear that sees what you see while a program in the background is constantly attempting to read stickers on the packages you handle. You grab a box for 216, the camera/program reads a sticker for 216, you enter truck 215, and the device starts repeatedly screaming "Mis-load!" at you in your supervisor's voice. A piece of cake compared to self-driving cars.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I complain and they fix it but nothing changes. The union is working for management. Another lovely thing this supervisor likes to do is have people work for a half hour, send them home, and put it in the system as 'LAYOFF' ie. no hours. He did it to me 8 times before I started documenting everything and checking the timecard myself. Now I show the new hires how to check and let everyone know when he sets a clock-out time for the entire belt. This supervisor was only demoted years ago for stealing hours when he should be in prison.</p><p></p><p>"Treat us with respect"... that's hilarious. It takes a special kind of masochist to work this job and I suppose that includes myself. 90% of our new hires quit in the first two days and I can't blame them. People are paid more to play on their phones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="extranatty, post: 2629104, member: 66381"] I work on a main belt loading package cars. There are 35 trucks on this belt during off season. Say start time is 4:00, my staggered start time will be 4:10. I requested to be put at regular start time and was denied. However, packages start passing my car at 4:03 at a rate of between 150-350 PPH depending on the package Gods. If I choose to not work until 4:10, I will only be making my job impossible, as I'll be too slow with packages already stacked up at the beginning of the day, leading to more stacking, lagging my work pace further and causing injuries. There is no extra help, our supervisor always sends too many people home and likes to work himself just to save a few hours. He takes the union fine everyday. My choosing to work 7 minutes off the clock everyday is like choosing to breathe air; not really a choice. My PPH on the sheet is always 195-205. Pretty sure they just pick a number, but if I add up the pieces for my trucks and divide by the hours worked, it tells a different story. Half the days my PPH will be about 200 but the other half; 250-270. That's not including the fact that the load sheets are usually incomplete. Yeah, of course UPS would want to use their existing system and overwork their employees. Still relying on bar codes and lasers. I'm talking about essentially a precursor to a HUD, heads-up display, like Google Glass. The first version doesn't need to be a HUD, just a camera piece you wear that sees what you see while a program in the background is constantly attempting to read stickers on the packages you handle. You grab a box for 216, the camera/program reads a sticker for 216, you enter truck 215, and the device starts repeatedly screaming "Mis-load!" at you in your supervisor's voice. A piece of cake compared to self-driving cars. I complain and they fix it but nothing changes. The union is working for management. Another lovely thing this supervisor likes to do is have people work for a half hour, send them home, and put it in the system as 'LAYOFF' ie. no hours. He did it to me 8 times before I started documenting everything and checking the timecard myself. Now I show the new hires how to check and let everyone know when he sets a clock-out time for the entire belt. This supervisor was only demoted years ago for stealing hours when he should be in prison. "Treat us with respect"... that's hilarious. It takes a special kind of masochist to work this job and I suppose that includes myself. 90% of our new hires quit in the first two days and I can't blame them. People are paid more to play on their phones. [/QUOTE]
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