Lock out rides can happen.Why would you think his post is bogus? 3 day lock-in rides are common.
Wondering if any other centers have been through this "time stamping"? We had a flurry of about 20 suprivisors a day riding with drivers, telling them to move quicker all day. Riding with each driver for 3 days. Telling them to cut through lawns, 1.9 seconds to get package from back of truck and out the door, making sure they do not do anything but work all day and work quickly!
Now after the rides were over they have held the drivers to their "stops per hour" during those rides. We have had 4 drivers given warnings since they did not keep up with their time stamp.
Our center is a little shaken over this.
The terminations I've seen on drivers, were not for production, but for not following methods, or working as directed after a 3 day ride.
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I knew a feeder driver whose schedule said that he should 1) fuel his tractor and then 2) hook up his double trailers. The driver did just the exact opposite and got a warning letter for "....failure to follow instructions". Sound rather chicken####?. The job got done with no problem so the only thing a reasonable person could assume is there was a rogue supervisor out to "....teach someone a lesson"..
A REASONABLE person would assume the feeder driver was saying friend.U. to the supervisor, I'll do what I want to do, the way I want to do it, and I don't care what you want. I'm a feeder driver and I can do anything I want. Who do you think you are. my boss?
the 1 day a year ride i am pretty sure is referring to 2 members of mgmnt team on the car with you......
Now, in UPS's defense our center is one of the worse centers for time. We have problems. In fact, so many people filed about working over 9.5 that a few of our drivers are written up if they work over 8 hours. We figure they are being financially punished, but who knows.
.....so, essentially, what you're saying is "our" company has us by the ####'s and can, at a moments notice, arbitrarily and capriciously decide that we aren't ....following methods, working as directed or any one of a number of other excuses, and fire us? Of course, the reason used isn't always the real reason but it looks good on paper.
Time studies are based on delivery and pick up methods and the area. Not the person doing the study, they are just gathering the information.
Do the job by the methods, do not take shortcuts, as the time study person will not record the true picture of your route.
Examples: Do not drive by pick up stops if the customer normally puts a sign in the window for you. Stop, walk to the pick up point, even if no packages are being shipped
If you have to deliver to individual apartments, and then leave the packages at the office, make sure you don't go directly to the office
Make sure you make indirect delivery attempts for signature required packages.
Do not drive excessively to add miles to your route, it doesn't matter. The route already has miles assigned to it based on the trace.
When I was a business manager I sat down with every driver and time study person to ensure the day would be smooth for both employees.
Time studies are long overdue at UPS!!!