Hilarious. Mor like you need to get on the managments case to hire more people and stop working per pre-negotiated terms.
Unless the preload is getting OT, stop helping them. Also, be a good supervisor and make sure they're doing proper lift methods instead of killing theirselves to keep up.
It's so funny you guys think we actually have any say about corporate decisions. I can't speak for every center, but at mine we really do try to make things best for the loaders first, then deal with how to make The Man happy too. I don't have any control over the hours and how many new hires we are allowed to have at a time, but I do have control over how I run my people and my area, as mentioned in my last post, and it's working just fine for right now but we are trying to improve things, it just takes time. We are working in an building that is WAY too small for the volume we receive, a volume that is steadly increasing every year, with no solution available yet we have to make do with what we have here. When it comes to staffing, there are several issues that all effect each other, like, preload management, on average we handle 50,000-60,000 packages a day in a building designed for 40,000 and at max capacity 50,000. There are 4 full time sups and 7 pt sups in preload. All but 2 pt sups are basically brand new, still training themselves, and we are spread out 1-2 pt sups per area, and then 3 full time sups are in charge of 1/3 of the entire building each. I run one boxline, and help out the other 3 if they need it. We have just enough workers right now to be able to cover 3-5 areas if they need it every day, any more than that, we literally do not have the bodies yet. Corp has finally let us start hiring people for peak, my building can get 9 a week right now and we are burning up their background system like crazy to get those 9 in each week, but being able to properly train them QUICKLY is the issue, and most of them get frustrated and just don't come back after the 2nd or 4th day., and that takes time to clear them from the system so we can replace them with another newbie. Again, I am speaking for my building only, your building might really just be awful, I don't know.
I worry about MY boxline. MY team. That is my main priority, I don't have time to worry about other peoples areas and they dont' have time to worry about mine.
Most of them do get OT because of short staffing, however we do have to stick to a certain schedule because preload isn't the only shift, theres 4 other shifts before us, if they don't finish by a certain time then it effects us, then we effect the drivers time, and if we go over that too much, then that means the drivers will leave late and have to spend later hours out on the road, and some don't mind but a lot of them do because they are tired and want to go home to their families and it's a schedule we have to try to maintain for EVERYONE and I don't think a lot of you realize that.
I agree with you guys on giving preload more time to get things done. I loaded trucks for months, I sorted packages, I unloaded trucks, I did all of those things before going into management, I think the numbers they demand are ridiculous and that things should change and it would benefit everyone in the long run, but I am just one malnourished and extremely exhausted 29 year old woman who is trying her best to improve working conditions one day at time with the very limited resources given to me so if you guys want to be pissed off at management, just leave me out of it and if you actually made it this far into my rant then bless your heart I haven't slept for days and I am so sorry.