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<blockquote data-quote="fedupups" data-source="post: 1189148" data-attributes="member: 46733">Arguably, the only advance notice UPS is mandated to give is to PTers (in locals&nbsp; which TCD are required to work their PT shift) who could not legally drive should they work their scheduled sort.&nbsp; Since&nbsp; you work Local Sort, that does not include you.&nbsp; Instead, UPS is providing you&nbsp; advanced notice as a courtesy.&nbsp; Based on the text messages, you could grieve for&nbsp; a day&#039;s pay, but the company would argue that it had no obligation to provide&nbsp; you advanced notice and did so merely as an informal courtesy (because you&nbsp; asked) but you were aware that this was not firm and they had up to an hour&nbsp; prior to start to change their staffing.&nbsp; If you did indeed succeed, you would&nbsp; no longer receive any prior advance notice.&nbsp; Thus, it&#039;s a no-win situation for&nbsp; you.&nbsp;What sucks about seasonal &amp; TCD is that often your life&nbsp; revolves around UPS, as the company staffs based on preliminary forecast but&nbsp; does not make finite decisions until the last minute.&nbsp; I completely agree that&nbsp; it impedes heavily on your life, which is why I relinquished seasonal.&nbsp; Yet the&nbsp; decision making process is financially successful for UPS, there&#039;s no shortage&nbsp; of willing applicants for these jobs and the union has no problem with it thus&nbsp; nothing&#039;s likely to change anytime soon.&nbsp; If it&#039;s truly disrupting your life (as&nbsp; it does for many of us), it&#039;s best to give the job up.&nbsp; Once you know what&nbsp; you&#039;ve gotten yourself into, it&#039;s hard to empathize with you given that we&#039;ve&nbsp; all been there, done that...Just a reply about temporary vacation or in our language VCD drivers that other locals are dealing with....I heard that 804 board is pretty much sending out the same package...I really hope not...I hope at the very least VCD driver situation is out of our supplement...the headaches and the abusive ways of UPS would lead to such a mess...please 804 don&#039;t have this part-time garbage in our supplement</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fedupups, post: 1189148, member: 46733"] [B]Arguably, the only advance notice UPS is mandated to give is to PTers (in locals which TCD are required to work their PT shift) who could not legally drive should they work their scheduled sort. Since you work Local Sort, that does not include you. Instead, UPS is providing you advanced notice as a courtesy. Based on the text messages, you could grieve for a day's pay, but the company would argue that it had no obligation to provide you advanced notice and did so merely as an informal courtesy (because you asked) but you were aware that this was not firm and they had up to an hour prior to start to change their staffing. If you did indeed succeed, you would no longer receive any prior advance notice. Thus, it's a no-win situation for you. What sucks about seasonal & TCD is that often your life revolves around UPS, as the company staffs based on preliminary forecast but does not make finite decisions until the last minute. I completely agree that it impedes heavily on your life, which is why I relinquished seasonal. Yet the decision making process is financially successful for UPS, there's no shortage of willing applicants for these jobs and the union has no problem with it thus nothing's likely to change anytime soon. If it's truly disrupting your life (as it does for many of us), it's best to give the job up. Once you know what you've gotten yourself into, it's hard to empathize with you given that we've all been there, done that...[/B] Just a reply about temporary vacation or in our language VCD drivers that other locals are dealing with....I heard that 804 board is pretty much sending out the same package...I really hope not...I hope at the very least VCD driver situation is out of our supplement...the headaches and the abusive ways of UPS would lead to such a mess...please 804 don't have this part-time garbage in our supplement [/QUOTE]

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