Gee, when you've got your manager breathing down your neck, too many stops, and are threatened with the loss of your job both overtly and implicitly on a constant basis, why would you feel pressured? FedEx has taken micromanagement to a new extreme and a new low. I would love to see a fat, cubicle-bound Memphoid (the folks that "think up" this fecal matter) have to run an actual route and meet all goals and expectations.
That is the root of the problem, LTFedExer.
Route goals are set by the numbers you ran the past 6 months. If you did the stops the first 6 months, why should that change? Granted, weather/accidents/etc slow you down every now and then. But, to say you will lose your job due to lates? Can you honestly say you know someone that was fired for having lates?
1 day we left the building late.
I knew I would have lates and told my manager. He told me to go. I had 9 stops/22 lates. New procedure is my manager must write a letter to the DM, bypassing the SM. Nothing happened to me, no letter, no OLCC, nothing.
So please don't tell me because you go out with more than the sheet says you should have, you need to go any faster than you've been going.
BTW, IF the day comes that I am afraid to go into work scared because I think that's the day I'll be fired, they won't need to fire me, I'll hand them my ID and walk out.