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<blockquote data-quote="barnyard" data-source="post: 3432201" data-attributes="member: 13921"><p>I am not in the West, so grain of salt and all that....</p><p></p><p>In my building, every Spring when the end of layoffs are near, we have a 10 minutes early start for all bid cover guys (or unassigned or extra board, the meaning is the same, unassigned FT drivers). The driver supe passes out a sheet to every driver that shows what routes we know and which we prefer. I just bid a route, but I knew more than 3/4s the routes in my building. The routes that I did not want to do at all, I crossed off for knowledge. </p><p></p><p>On Thursdays, I would get message asking what route I wanted to do, they worked off the list and would typically send me only my top 2 or 3, rather than the whole vacation list. If there were only crappy routes for the week, I would go unassigned and work call ins for the week.</p><p></p><p>There were occasionally weeks where they wanted to train someone on a route that I knew. If there was something agreeable AND a lower person did not bump the new person wanting to learn a route, I would do it. </p><p></p><p>I was the #1 unassigned guy in my building for 5 or 6 years and I have my own bid route now and I am not really liking it. I would much rather do an 85 stop rural route than a 130 stop in town route.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barnyard, post: 3432201, member: 13921"] I am not in the West, so grain of salt and all that.... In my building, every Spring when the end of layoffs are near, we have a 10 minutes early start for all bid cover guys (or unassigned or extra board, the meaning is the same, unassigned FT drivers). The driver supe passes out a sheet to every driver that shows what routes we know and which we prefer. I just bid a route, but I knew more than 3/4s the routes in my building. The routes that I did not want to do at all, I crossed off for knowledge. On Thursdays, I would get message asking what route I wanted to do, they worked off the list and would typically send me only my top 2 or 3, rather than the whole vacation list. If there were only crappy routes for the week, I would go unassigned and work call ins for the week. There were occasionally weeks where they wanted to train someone on a route that I knew. If there was something agreeable AND a lower person did not bump the new person wanting to learn a route, I would do it. I was the #1 unassigned guy in my building for 5 or 6 years and I have my own bid route now and I am not really liking it. I would much rather do an 85 stop rural route than a 130 stop in town route. [/QUOTE]
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