pretzel_man
Well-Known Member
Yes, I did gain a small amount of time....for the first time in over 22 years.
Hey, if you shove enough quarters into a slot machine for long enough, you will wind up hitting a jackpot....eventually. It doesnt change the fact that the slot machine...like the timestudy...is designed to produce only the outcome that its programmers want.
And as far as the poor manager that thinks every driver is out to "screw" the company....they might not think that way if the standards that they were using to judge their drivers had some basis in reality. When your own job security and goals of promotion are based solely upon the ability of your drivers to manufacture arbitrary and impossible numbers, its human nature to think they are "screwing" you for failing to meet those goals.
We have gone round and round on this before... I have done countless studies, countless audits, taught classes, and was certified in original analysis. Not once was there any hint of a rigged system out to "screw" a driver.
I've been in these conversations before and there will be nothing I can say.... The response will be that either I'm lying, or so naive that I was fooled by the big conspiracy. There is no way to ever counter an argument like that.
If you lose time, its because they were out to screw you. If you gain time, its because they were out to screw you.
As I said, just like a poor manager. You can't convince them that drivers are not out to screw the company. I can't convince you that work measurement is not conceived to screw a driver.
Finally, you asked about what happens when a driver has a good job setup and good methods, but is still over allowed. What is the recourse? There is something called a variance for cases where the work measurement does not fit. It requires region approval, but I have put in many, many of them.
Its not easy to do, but can be done.
P-Man