New Policy Phasing PT'ers Out?

[dezguy]

You must either be on the West coast or in the middle of nowhere. AM sort in my station usually starts about 0600 and our counter closes at 2145. We have to have two different shifts.

I've worked in large, medium and small stations. Even locations that had fo service, the people who had fo routes woukd come back for stuff after the main sort, run a half route with pups.

 

[McFeely]

My station actually has a PT pup route/PM sort position listed right now on JCATS.

So I don't think they're trying to get rid of these PTers at least in my station.

 

[MAKAVELI]

You must either be on the West coast or in the middle of nowhere. AM sort in my station usually starts about 0600 and our counter closes at 2145. We have to have two different shifts.

We have them on the West coast as well.

 

[Operational needs]

We have them on the West coast as well.

Don't y'all have to be back at the building early, like maybe 1700?

 

[Operational needs]

We have them on the West coast as well.

What time does your AM sort usually start?

 

[MAKAVELI]

Don't y'all have to be back at the building early, like maybe 1700?

Depends on the station and how close it is to a hub/ramp. The smaller outlining stations do have early CTV pull times.

 

[Operational needs]

Depends on the station and how close it is to a hub/ramp.

Ours have to be back NLT 2000., I think.

 

[MAKAVELI]

What time does your AM sort usually start?

We have stations that start just as early as yours.

 

[Sparky]

2030 drop boxes though

 

[Nolimitz]

I'm in Mnt time zone must RTB by 1745. Am sort starts around 0700

 

[McFeely]

I'm in Mnt time zone must RTB by 1745. Am sort starts around 0700

Roughly the same at my station. It's possible to do a 10-hour route at my station including AM sort, deliveries, pup route, and PM sort.

In mgmt's infinite wisdom, they got rid of the 4-10s and elected to have PTers do the pup routes and the PM sorts. Problem is, they can't keep anybody as a PTer. So now all the swings run P1 overflow then go on break for 4 hours then do pup routes.

 

[whenIgetthere]

What time does your AM sort usually start?

Due to the distance we are from our ramp, sort starts at 0815, and last CTV leaves the station at 1900.

 

[overflowed]

What time does your AM sort usually start?

Station I used to work in Metro sort starts 0515 , be back to station for outbound by 1800

 

[Fred's Myth]

Yep Signing into the green screen and typing "hrspaid" and the word "checks" is very difficult to master. Might just be operator error.

Except at our station, the computers are so slow, it takes 15 minutes just to log on!

 

[Oldfart]

Except at our station, the computers are so slow, it takes 15 minutes just to log on!

Dial-up is a pain.

 

[Fred's Myth]

Dial-up is a pain.

More like tin cans and waxed kite string. AOL would be an improvement .

 

[Route 66]

I always say I don't know how we can possibly be in the business of "the world on time" when we seem to have the slowest computer system on the planet.

 

[Star B]

The old stations are connected via a T1. When the managers have youtube open and the 80th new handler in a month is doing DG training, there isn't much bandwidth available for eOps to load.

 

[59 Dano]

The old stations are connected via a T1.

Remember when T1 was da bomb?

 

[Star B]

Oh yeah. I remember having DUAL T1s at a place I worked at. We even bonded them to make one SUPER ULTRA MEGA 3Mbit connection. All for 600 a month... 300 each line