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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 4591116" data-attributes="member: 4550">If history is any guide, I&#039;m afraid you&#039;re right.&nbsp; We&#039;ve had ORION here for well over 5 years and it has always been a constant detriment to not only employee moraleproduction but even safety.&nbsp; For drivers who had delivery areas out in the rural and and hilly terrain, many would run their two-lane highway and 3 block long uphill driveway stops first if they knew bad weather was going to hit by the mid point of the day.&nbsp; Then the office begins the usual threats over complying with a program that simply can&#039;t lay out a sensible trace even in decent weather and what happens?&nbsp; Guys stuck in snow drifts out in the middle of nowhere, sometimes missed stops in the hundreds just for one car, and/or accidents and injuries due to the fact that total darkness and slippery surfaces is never a safe situation to be forced to work in.Yet that&#039;s what management&#039;s commitment to this &quot;Too Big To Fail&quot; charade known as ORION has done.&nbsp; It forces the employees into situations that are most often best avoided.&nbsp; I simply can&#039;t count how many times this program insists on delivering to restaurants at the height of lunch hour, schools when when the line of buses to pick up students stretches more than a city block long, or seems to think a good time to deliver the 75 piece dump stop to the big box retail store is somehow after the last pickup of the day.&nbsp; It&#039;s just simply always failing.&nbsp; Had a driver performed as pathetic and made as many stupid decisions 25 years ago at the daily rate ORION does now, He or She would have been written up and fired in a matter of weeks and perhaps even days.&nbsp; I think that&#039;s really one of the things some of us that are in the later innings of our working days resent most about it still being allowed to wreak havoc.&nbsp; I laughed out loud when I first heard about a petition being circulated regarding putting air conditioning into the delivery trucks, but when I think about the amount of money the company has thrown out the window trying to prop up the corpse known as ORION, keeping the drivers a little cooler probably would have been a far better allocation of resources.&nbsp; The working conditions with the heat, the pandemic, and the terrible load quality are enough to deal with as things are already.&nbsp; Being burdened with ORION and it&#039;s non-stop blunders and endless string of flaws just begs drivers to go on the 9.5 list and never come off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 4591116, member: 4550"] If history is any guide, I'm afraid you're right. We've had ORION here for well over 5 years and it has always been a constant detriment to not only employee moraleproduction but even safety. For drivers who had delivery areas out in the rural and and hilly terrain, many would run their two-lane highway and 3 block long uphill driveway stops first if they knew bad weather was going to hit by the mid point of the day. Then the office begins the usual threats over complying with a program that simply can't lay out a sensible trace even in decent weather and what happens? Guys stuck in snow drifts out in the middle of nowhere, sometimes missed stops in the hundreds just for one car, and/or accidents and injuries due to the fact that total darkness and slippery surfaces is never a safe situation to be forced to work in. Yet that's what management's commitment to this "Too Big To Fail" charade known as ORION has done. It forces the employees into situations that are most often best avoided. I simply can't count how many times this program insists on delivering to restaurants at the height of lunch hour, schools when when the line of buses to pick up students stretches more than a city block long, or seems to think a good time to deliver the 75 piece dump stop to the big box retail store is somehow after the last pickup of the day. It's just simply always failing. Had a driver performed as pathetic and made as many stupid decisions 25 years ago at the daily rate ORION does now, He or She would have been written up and fired in a matter of weeks and perhaps even days. I think that's really one of the things some of us that are in the later innings of our working days resent most about it still being allowed to wreak havoc. I laughed out loud when I first heard about a petition being circulated regarding putting air conditioning into the delivery trucks, but when I think about the amount of money the company has thrown out the window trying to prop up the corpse known as ORION, keeping the drivers a little cooler probably would have been a far better allocation of resources. The working conditions with the heat, the pandemic, and the terrible load quality are enough to deal with as things are already. Being burdened with ORION and it's non-stop blunders and endless string of flaws just begs drivers to go on the 9.5 list and never come off. [/QUOTE]

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