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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 785541" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I 100% agree with everything you just said.</p><p> </p><p>That does not change the fact that it is never in the best interests of the employee to sign any sort of documentation that could be used in a disciplinary process against him.</p><p> </p><p>Too often, what I see as a steward is that the company is less interested in <strong>solving</strong> the underlying problem than it is in simply <strong>assigning blame</strong> for it.</p><p> </p><p>Consider the issue of misloads by a preloader. Is the preloader really failing to follow the proper methods? Or is he/she simply being pressured into maintaining a workpace that makes following those methods impossible?</p><p> </p><p>My car is loaded from an outdoor MDU that the company jury-rigged together due to our building being horribly overcrowded. There are no stack tables in this MDU, the lighting is poor, and the belt that feeds it frequently jams up due to it being too small for the number and flow rate of packages that are sent out there. Irregs are hauled over from the sort aisle in carts and left to sit outside in the rain before being manhandled up the stairs and thru a door at the end, where they must then be pushed <strong>against</strong> the direction of the belt.</p><p> </p><p>A preloader working under these conditions cannot <em>possibly</em> be expected to work as efficiently as one who has been given a proper job setup, yet the expectations placed upon him/her are <em>not</em> adjusted to account for the conditions. So the result is chronically poor load qualty and a high misload rate.</p><p> </p><p>The underlying problems are obvious to anyone with a brain. But the company has no intention of <em>ever</em> solving them, because doing so would require taking responsibility for the situation and spending money to fix it. So instead, the preloaders are "written up" and threatened with the same disciplinary action as those who have been given a proper setup. As long as blame can be assigned and someone's job threatened, there is no need to ever actually <strong>fix</strong> the problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 785541, member: 14668"] I 100% agree with everything you just said. That does not change the fact that it is never in the best interests of the employee to sign any sort of documentation that could be used in a disciplinary process against him. Too often, what I see as a steward is that the company is less interested in [B]solving[/B] the underlying problem than it is in simply [B]assigning blame[/B] for it. Consider the issue of misloads by a preloader. Is the preloader really failing to follow the proper methods? Or is he/she simply being pressured into maintaining a workpace that makes following those methods impossible? My car is loaded from an outdoor MDU that the company jury-rigged together due to our building being horribly overcrowded. There are no stack tables in this MDU, the lighting is poor, and the belt that feeds it frequently jams up due to it being too small for the number and flow rate of packages that are sent out there. Irregs are hauled over from the sort aisle in carts and left to sit outside in the rain before being manhandled up the stairs and thru a door at the end, where they must then be pushed [B]against[/B] the direction of the belt. A preloader working under these conditions cannot [I]possibly[/I] be expected to work as efficiently as one who has been given a proper job setup, yet the expectations placed upon him/her are [I]not[/I] adjusted to account for the conditions. So the result is chronically poor load qualty and a high misload rate. The underlying problems are obvious to anyone with a brain. But the company has no intention of [I]ever[/I] solving them, because doing so would require taking responsibility for the situation and spending money to fix it. So instead, the preloaders are "written up" and threatened with the same disciplinary action as those who have been given a proper setup. As long as blame can be assigned and someone's job threatened, there is no need to ever actually [B]fix[/B] the problem. [/QUOTE]
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