Sending workers home regularly

[JackOfClubs]

I'm a relatively new PT sup. One thing that my FT sup does that bothers me is that, most every day, he sends a handful of hourly employees home once the 22.3 employees arrive. He claims that it's because we "don't have work for them".

However, my work area often needs help when the volume gets heavy and the tilt tray (I work in Smalls, if any of you are familiar with those) shuts off.

I once told him I don't like that we send so many people home because it leaves my people overworked and stretched too thin, and he went ballistic on me. Pretty much every hourly I've talked to about it agrees with me, and say my FT I'd trying to maximize our numbers with as few people as possible (apparently, his bonus depends on it.)

Lastly, the ones who always go home are the kind of people who give unions a bad name* (I have seen adults throw tantrums when I asked them to do a simple task).

Does anyone else see this, and do you agree/disagree with it?

*disclaimer: I know many union employees are good, honest, hard-working people.

 

[Indecisi0n]

New ambitious sups are so cute.

 

[By The Book]

Lastly, the ones who always go home are the kind of people who give unions a bad name* (I have seen adults throw tantrums when I asked them to do a simple task).

I think your issue is with staffing not who your boss sends home. Your just padding your resume with this observation.

 

[JackOfClubs]

New ambitious sups are so cute.

We also know how to do your job better than you; we read a piece of paper once.

 

[By The Book]

We also know how to do your job better than you; we read a piece of paper once.

Easier said than done.

 

[anHOURover]

I'm a relatively new PT sup. One thing that my FT sup does that bothers me is that, most every day, he sends a handful of hourly employees home once the 22.3 employees arrive. He claims that it's because we "don't have work for them".

However, my work area often needs help when the volume gets heavy and the tilt tray (I work in Smalls, if any of you are familiar with those) shuts off.

I once told him I don't like that we send so many people home because it leaves my people overworked and stretched too thin, and he went ballistic on me. Pretty much every hourly I've talked to about it agrees with me, and say my FT I'd trying to maximize our numbers with as few people as possible (apparently, his bonus depends on it.)

Lastly, the ones who always go home are the kind of people who give unions a bad name* (I have seen adults throw tantrums when I asked them to do a simple task).

Does anyone else see this, and do you agree/disagree with it?

*disclaimer: I know many union employees are good, honest, hard-working people.

Quit as soon as you can.
It's a dead end job.
You'll thank me later
FACT

 

[burrheadd]

I'm a relatively new PT sup. One thing that my FT sup does that bothers me is that, most every day, he sends a handful of hourly employees home once the 22.3 employees arrive. He claims that it's because we "don't have work for them".

However, my work area often needs help when the volume gets heavy and the tilt tray (I work in Smalls, if any of you are familiar with those) shuts off.

I once told him I don't like that we send so many people home because it leaves my people overworked and stretched too thin, and he went ballistic on me. Pretty much every hourly I've talked to about it agrees with me, and say my FT I'd trying to maximize our numbers with as few people as possible (apparently, his bonus depends on it.)

Lastly, the ones who always go home are the kind of people who give unions a bad name* (I have seen adults throw tantrums when I asked them to do a simple task).

Does anyone else see this, and do you agree/disagree with it?

*disclaimer: I know many union employees are good, honest, hard-working people.

Does a guy they call little Hitler still run the hub there

 

[JackOfClubs]

Quit as soon as you can.
It's a dead end job.
You'll thank me later
FACT

Already working on it.

 

[JackOfClubs]

Does a guy they call little Hitler still run the hub there

The question is, "which one?"

Mine happens to a be a real-life Pointy-haired Boss from Dilbert.

 

[UPSGUY72]

I'm a relatively new PT sup. One thing that my FT sup does that bothers me is that, most every day, he sends a handful of hourly employees home once the 22.3 employees arrive. He claims that it's because we "don't have work for them".

However, my work area often needs help when the volume gets heavy and the tilt tray (I work in Smalls, if any of you are familiar with those) shuts off.

I once told him I don't like that we send so many people home because it leaves my people overworked and stretched too thin, and he went ballistic on me. Pretty much every hourly I've talked to about it agrees with me, and say my FT I'd trying to maximize our numbers with as few people as possible (apparently, his bonus depends on it.)

Lastly, the ones who always go home are the kind of people who give unions a bad name* (I have seen adults throw tantrums when I asked them to do a simple task).

Does anyone else see this, and do you agree/disagree with it?

*disclaimer: I know many union employees are good, honest, hard-working people.

Welcome to management.

However, I find it hard to believe you tell people to go home and the union doesn't do anything. I would think it would be your told to ask people if they want to leave and they say yes.

Any business is all about numbers, those business that don't continue to worry about number go out of business...

 

[KOG72]

Welcome to management.

However, I find it hard to believe you tell people to go home and the union doesn't do anything. I would think it would be your told to ask people if they want to leave and they say yes.

Any business is all about numbers, those business that don't continue to worry about number go out of business...

Hi

 

[burrheadd]

The question is, "which one?"

Mine happens to a be a real-life Pointy-haired Boss from Dilbert.

He used to be the hub division manager
A real Tool

 

[JackOfClubs]

Welcome to management.

However, I find it hard to believe you tell people to go home and the union doesn't do anything. I would think it would be your told to ask people if they want to leave and they say yes.

Any business is all about numbers, those business that don't continue to worry about number go out of business...

Well yeah, that's what I meant.

Of course, I'm still young, naive, and idealistic. I look at some of these people's hours and think, "how do they make a living?"

 

[km3]

If you're performing work, you could always encourage your employees to grieve you for it. They might start letting you keep more people if they have to keep paying grievances out.

 

[burrheadd]

If you're performing work, you could always encourage your employees to grieve you for it. They might start letting you keep more people if they have to keep paying grievances out.

A supe soliciting grievances
Don't see that ending well for him

 

[Indecisi0n]

Well yeah, that's what I meant.

Of course, I'm still young, naive, and idealistic. I look at some of these people's hours and think, "how do they make a living?"

How young...

 

[JackOfClubs]

If you're performing work, you could always encourage your employees to grieve you for it. They might start letting you keep more people if they have to keep paying grievances out.

Yes, but, in Soviet UPS, sup make less than you.

 

[km3]

A supe soliciting grievances
Don't see that ending well for him

Maybe, maybe not. I have a sup who will work if the job wouldn't get done otherwise, but afterwards he'll fill out the grievance form himself and take it to the steward. He hates doing our work that much.

He's been around for a while, though, so I don't know if they take into account his years of service. In any case, he's the only supervisor that gets the help he says he needs when he asks. They know better than to take his people away.

 

[km3]

Yes, but, in Soviet UPS, sup make less than you.

What does that have to do with it?

 

[JackOfClubs]

What does that have to do with it?

Can't they demand money out of my paycheck in a grievance?