agreed. But that process is already in place with the zero raises for supervisors this year and the shared cost for health care for benefits for supervisors.
Can I take it then you would be OK with setting up a similar compensation cost control structure for Drivers?
Maybe if you all joined a union.....
Actually I believe if the pay freeze you have been forced to take is just as likely the fuel behind the increase in expectations from the driver ranks as is the volume levels. First corporate pisses off all the mid management with goodie givebacks, then points an accusing finger at the hourlies because of negotiated increases benefits and pay and says "go get the
lost money from those guys by pushing them all harder".
Aside from the sheer grouchiness this all creates with management and hourly alike, the new new tight ship is just not customer friendly at all.
It's not conducive to creating new alliances or really even in keeping old ones as delivery times get later, less reliable and service providers are pushed to the point of not caring what the customer even thinks as long as we can empty out the truck, fill it up again, get it back to the barn and get the hell out of there. How can we slash and burn our way to keep customers and get new ones? That's the real question. If the company were floating in profit, there would likely be less to base the cuts on.
I believe we will of course have better future years, but only if we can bring our customers along with us.
The whole production thing goes back to at least when the paper to diad allowance was taken off. Most of the trust unfortunately went away with that decision. If they can take it away for that, they can take it away for any other reason. Production means less to most drivers now, because it has taken on more of a snake oil characteristic.
UPS knows if they say that it takes 8 hours to complete 8.25 hours of work, most of us will try to figure out how to make it happen. That's the way we were trained. But now it seems as if it has somehow slipped to 8.5 hours and 8.75 and 9.00 hours in some cases. We all know how to do our jobs, management and hourly alike. And we all know snake oil when we see it.
This is snake oil.