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Should I become a Wellness Champion??
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1144105" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>If you are the type of person who enjoyed being a Hall Monitor in grade school, you will succeed as a Wellness Champion.</p><p></p><p>It is basically a warm-and-fuzzy feel good position that is an adjunct to the Safety Committee. You hand out brochures and read PCM's concerning high blood pressure, proper diet, stress reduction etc.</p><p></p><p>I recall a day about 2 years ago when our building was getting absolutely hammered by a ridiculous and impossible Stops Per Car mandate. We had drivers running out of DOT hours in August. We had drivers bringing 50-100 missed stops back to the building at 10:00 at night. We had entire pickup routes getting missed for days or even weeks at a time because the routes assigned to them were getting cut out in order to generate the SPC metric. Our center paid out over $65,000 in over-9.5 grievances that summer, and there were multiple management people in each center who went out on stress leave in order to keep from getting fired or going insane. Rather than, say, confront the company about the stressful and unsafe work enviornment that was being created or the obvious health risks associated with being forced to work 60 hour weeks in 100-degree weather....our "wellness committee" stood by the door one morning each week and handed out bananas.</p><p></p><p>To answer your question; if you just want some easy overtime, I would say go for it as long as you can accept the fact that nothing you do as a "wellness champion" will actually matter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1144105, member: 14668"] If you are the type of person who enjoyed being a Hall Monitor in grade school, you will succeed as a Wellness Champion. It is basically a warm-and-fuzzy feel good position that is an adjunct to the Safety Committee. You hand out brochures and read PCM's concerning high blood pressure, proper diet, stress reduction etc. I recall a day about 2 years ago when our building was getting absolutely hammered by a ridiculous and impossible Stops Per Car mandate. We had drivers running out of DOT hours in August. We had drivers bringing 50-100 missed stops back to the building at 10:00 at night. We had entire pickup routes getting missed for days or even weeks at a time because the routes assigned to them were getting cut out in order to generate the SPC metric. Our center paid out over $65,000 in over-9.5 grievances that summer, and there were multiple management people in each center who went out on stress leave in order to keep from getting fired or going insane. Rather than, say, confront the company about the stressful and unsafe work enviornment that was being created or the obvious health risks associated with being forced to work 60 hour weeks in 100-degree weather....our "wellness committee" stood by the door one morning each week and handed out bananas. To answer your question; if you just want some easy overtime, I would say go for it as long as you can accept the fact that nothing you do as a "wellness champion" will actually matter. [/QUOTE]
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