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<blockquote data-quote="ezrider" data-source="post: 57433"><p><font color="0000ff">If you are a good methods driver that is all you need to do. Let any pressure or "threats" from management roll off your shoulders as the "worst" thing they can do to you (if you don't let them get to you) is ride with you and if you are a good methods driver that not only gets them nothing, but strengthens your situation.</font> </p><p> </p><p>Clever, I'd agree that's certainly the safest path to travel, but like the tiny fine print buried under the rosy optimistic charts of mutual fund prospectuses always stated...<em>Past performance does not guarantee future results</em> </p><p> </p><p>Funny how the "methods" seem to have expanded at a rate that rivals the spike in the stop counts. A driver can go on a week of vacation and upon coming back easily fail a quiz due to subtle additions and changes that render the worksheets he or her reffered to as "no longer the method". </p><p> </p><p>I talked to a guy from another building awhile back who had a sup ride with him on a 13hr planned day with the shelves loaded entirely out of sequence. Very hard to sustain the method and follow EDD trace when the load quality boils down to 52-pickup at every stop. Interesting tidbit was the sup's response to the driver remarking that it was days like that that made him want to quit. The sup answered <em>"That's what we want."</em> </p><p> </p><p>Granted, that might just be an exception. Then again it may be the unwritten rule that's going to be followed until 2008. It seems every few years the long hours have come and gone for many reasons good and bad, but this isn't just a passing shower. This storm feels like it's going to rain well into 2008 and they want the hourlies to be plenty scared and willing to accept and concede anything and everything. Wanna break a driver on performance standards, just jack up the spohr standards. Wanna bust a driver on methods, just make them impossible to do. </p><p> </p><p>Following them to the letter as they exist now can be done and can get the driver safely to shore, but in two years at the rate the standards are rising it may only be enough to keep your head above the water only until the next wave hits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ezrider, post: 57433"] <font color="0000ff">If you are a good methods driver that is all you need to do. Let any pressure or "threats" from management roll off your shoulders as the "worst" thing they can do to you (if you don't let them get to you) is ride with you and if you are a good methods driver that not only gets them nothing, but strengthens your situation.</font> Clever, I'd agree that's certainly the safest path to travel, but like the tiny fine print buried under the rosy optimistic charts of mutual fund prospectuses always stated...[i]Past performance does not guarantee future results[/i] Funny how the "methods" seem to have expanded at a rate that rivals the spike in the stop counts. A driver can go on a week of vacation and upon coming back easily fail a quiz due to subtle additions and changes that render the worksheets he or her reffered to as "no longer the method". I talked to a guy from another building awhile back who had a sup ride with him on a 13hr planned day with the shelves loaded entirely out of sequence. Very hard to sustain the method and follow EDD trace when the load quality boils down to 52-pickup at every stop. Interesting tidbit was the sup's response to the driver remarking that it was days like that that made him want to quit. The sup answered [i]"That's what we want."[/i] Granted, that might just be an exception. Then again it may be the unwritten rule that's going to be followed until 2008. It seems every few years the long hours have come and gone for many reasons good and bad, but this isn't just a passing shower. This storm feels like it's going to rain well into 2008 and they want the hourlies to be plenty scared and willing to accept and concede anything and everything. Wanna break a driver on performance standards, just jack up the spohr standards. Wanna bust a driver on methods, just make them impossible to do. Following them to the letter as they exist now can be done and can get the driver safely to shore, but in two years at the rate the standards are rising it may only be enough to keep your head above the water only until the next wave hits. [/QUOTE]
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