screwed or off today?

[Re-Raise]

This is the case in my ctr. As somebody else said earlier, they will drag out a 7.85 plan day to over 8.5 just to put another 8 hr in for next Friday.

I understand why it's in the contract. I just don't like it very much. Probably because i don't use them.

But then again. There is a lot i don't like.

I don't use them very often either. It is too bad that it ends up screwing the other drivers in the loop.

We have a few drivers that quite frankly don't want to work and they do everything they can to do as little as possible.

They are in the office complaining every morning before start time about how late they are going to be, and they call in sick all the time leaving us short handed.

I wish that 8 hours was a normal dispatch and we didn't have to play games all the time.

 

[Re-Raise]

Just like there,the worst part of the day is listening to the crap at the pcm

You listen to the pcm ???

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

8 hour requests in my center are accomodated by shifting the work to the other drivers in the loop rather than adding another run.

If I need to get done early I will ask if they can cover a few of my late pickups.

 

[brownmonster]

Generally when I request an 8 its so I don't get an 11.

 

[dilligaf]

I was thinking the same thing and was not going to post anything about it, but since someone already did, i'll chime in. I understand its our contractual right, but come on guys. All you're doing is screwing you fellow drivers. When I signed up for UPS there was no 8 hour letters. I go into every week with the assumption that I will have to work until 8PM every night. I think I put in 1 8 hour letter since 2002 and will probably not put another one in, ever. 8 hours does nothing for me. 545 is 8 hours for me and by the time I get home through the traffic its 715-too late to meet normal people. All this does is give the guy next to me an 11 hour day. Why would any of us do this to our fellow drivers? If I have something to do I just take the day off.

I know its in the contract but under the common courtesy rules it doesn't jive. You just shouldn't do that.

And there is also a reason why it is limited to 2 requests a month (per driver) and only 1 request per loop on any given day and 2 requests per day (in our ctr). I don't agree with this type of mentality. Every one has an equal opportunity to request 8 hr days. Just because you don't want to ask for one doesn't mean that you should blame someone else because they do.

 

[Brownslave688]

We actually get 3 a month at my center. Just that extra one really screws most of the younger drivers. There were many months up until I had about 5 years in the I would write down for one every day and not get any.

 

[brownmonster]

We actually get 3 a month at my center. Just that extra one really screws most of the younger drivers. There were many months up until I had about 5 years in the I would write down for one every day and not get any.

I have 23 years in and got turned down for my last 8 hour.

 

[Buck Fifty]

8 hour requests in my center are accomodated by shifting the work to the other drivers in the loop rather than adding another run.

If I need to get done early I will ask if they can cover a few of my late pickups.

Who is "they" ?

 

[gorilla75jdw]

11:45 mns for me , long day .

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Who is "they" ?

My mgt team.

 

[bottomups]

I have 23 years in and got turned down for my last 8 hour.

Rookie! Put in a few more years and seniority will be on your side.

 

[Big Babooba]

Screwed or off??? I screwed off!!!

 

[dilligaf]

Screwed or off??? I screwed off!!!

​Of course, you were on vacation. LMAO

 

[Buck Fifty]

My mgt team.

Just makes you want to puke !!! Not their mgmt team, not even our mgmt team, but MY mgmt team. Upstate you have to get out of there right away.