TooTechie
Geek in Brown
They're technically all supposed to be doing it, however they don't enforce it, which is what I said to the DM when I went to bat for him.
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bleedinbrown58
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Yeah writing all that crap is a waste of time.
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jibbs
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According to a supe in my center, it's done to draw attention to the truck you're walking towards as you circle the PAL, write the HIN and stare at the placard while you walk to the truck and load a package.
I asked "So when am I supposed to look where I'm stepping if I'm circling PALs, looking at placards and writing on boxes while I walk."
"You don't do it all at the same time," he tells me.
Well then why are you telling me to do it that way?
in' fools, every last one of them.
bleedinbrown58
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If you tell your sup you need to use the bathroom...to cool off for a min, they can't stop you.
Yes, we get a 10 min break...so do YOU and I'll be damned if I'm not going to take every single minute I'm entitled to! My break consists of texting my best friend while smoking 2 cigarettes as fast as I can. And nobody pulls my bulk or covers for me while I take my break...and the belts never stop...so I come back to a giant pile of cardboard schnit after my break. But very rarely do I not take it...I earned it.
It's not like other buildings where the whole building shuts the belts down during breaktime. Hell no. And let us not forget the 9.5 hour peak shifts...with only a 10 minute break!
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jibbs
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Thing about that is it could be construed as job abandonment if you let the work back up like that.
Also, if the work backs up for me and I'm not there to do anything about it, within 3-4min the sort aisle has nowhere to put packages for my "roller belt" because it backs up to the sort aisle. From Sort to the bottom of my belt is maybe 400ft, max.
I can't be away for 10min at a time while the work is flowing steadily without having some serious catch-up to play and bull
to hear. On the conveyor belts I can let things go by all day and they're simply gathered from the bottom of the belt and recycled through the system. On my rollers, there is no easy way to recycle packages. If they make it to the bottom of the belt and they're not supposed to be there, that's where they're damn well staying until I clear enough room to roll them back up and hand each one individually to the splitters and boy do they send a lot of stuff down my way that aren't meant for my trucks. That's another quick way to get backed up, and another sign of a rookie splitter.
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bleedinbrown58
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No, i never walk off the belt without telling my PT sup that I'm taking my break...if he has an issue with it...that's his time to tell me.Thing about that is it could be construed as job abandonment if you let the work back up like that.
Also, if the work backs up for me and I'm not there to do anything about it, within 3-4 min the sort aisle has nowhere to put packages for my "roller belt" because it backs up to the sort aisle. From Sort to the bottom of my belt is maybe 400ft, max.
I can't be away for 10min at a time while the work is flowing steadily without having some serious catch-up to play and bull
Believe me, I'd rather split 10 min into two separate 5min smoke breaks but my center manager decided that's stealing time (it never used to be, and I've worked here longer than her, but whatever.)
So, it's 10min or nothing. Most days I don't have time to use the.bathroom till my shift is over. i'm allowed to, but the ladies room is on the other side of the building...takes longer than 10min to walk there, use it and walk back.
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jibbs
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Our "Ladies Room" is an individual toilet with a doorway that looks like the entrance to a cleaning supplies closet.
I think it's just a handicap-accessible bathroom that everybody uses, but it's the only one the women use.
Hell, we've got two men's locker rooms but nothing for the ladies. Kinda sucks for you guys now that I think about it.
And, man... it takes me 10min for me to leave my pull at the end of the day, clock out, get to my car, and make it halfway home, lol. Over 10min to walk from one side of your building to the other, that's just stupid. They need to get y'all some golf carts.
bleedinbrown58
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We have 4 mens bathrooms an a locker room near the 10 separate loading belts (we call them lines) and one ladies room and female locker room..both are located in the back of the building near the primary and small sort...where most of the women work.
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
This is something I would like to fight for in the next contract. Work over 6 hours and you're entitled to a 30 minute continuous meal break.
bleedinbrown58
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Yes...its NY state law..more than 6 hours..30 min unpaid break.
bleedinbrown58
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oldngray
nowhere special
Atleast It doesnt look like,an accordion!
bleedinbrown58
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Nah....I'm a stickler when it comes to loading damaged stuff
oldngray
nowhere special
Nah....I'm a stickler when it comes to loading damaged stuff
You always make sure you load it if it looks damaged you mean? That is what most preloaders do.
bleedinbrown58
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I mean...if I can't fix it with tape...it goes to get rewrapped....especially overweights and irregs. I don't load damaged or open packages...and i can't stand loaders that do...it's complete laziness.
All loaders are not BB58!
bleedinbrown58
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Thanks Ivan
You're one of my favorite Teamster brothers.
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watdaflock?
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I don't believe the circled PAL and HIN wrote on every box is a new rule, I just use if PAL is facing outwards towards the isle you don't write the HINs on the box.....at least that's what our center manager allows.
I do know some "senior" union loaders never write HINs on boxes and follow a "just get it close" method.
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jibbs
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Brother, I know what they're telling me. Whether the rule's company-wide, regional, restricted to a single building or just being directed solely at me, that's what I've been told to do for the past couple of days.
The PAL label's been my method for years. All of a sudden, that's not good enough. Funny thing about that is the PAL'll tell you more information about the package than anything I would ever write on them.
[EDIT: God's honest truth? I pissed off a higher up manager (don't know the title) with a misload that, for whatever reason, he felt obligated to drive out and handle himself earlier in the week. A single misload after ~3 a month average for months now, and the storm rains.
In a way I feel I deserve it, but in another way I feel like them.]
The PAL label's been my method for years. All of a sudden, that's not good enough. Funny thing about that is the PAL'll tell you more information about the package than anything I would ever write on them.
[EDIT: God's honest truth? I pissed off a higher up manager (don't know the title) with a misload that, for whatever reason, he felt obligated to drive out and handle himself earlier in the week. A single misload after ~3 a month average for months now, and the
storm rains.In a way I feel I deserve it, but in another way I feel like
them.]
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