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<blockquote data-quote="sendagain" data-source="post: 154523" data-attributes="member: 1695"><p>The family feel of the company eroded away some time ago, and the ever increasing size of centers makes it worse. The constant shrinkage of the allowances during each successive time study added to the growing unhappiness with the work. It's one thing to get paid an hour of incentive pay for working hard, and quite another when that level of effort becomes your "standard". The TLA yearly talks with the manager largely disappeared, leaving a driver to sense his impute was unimportant. The yearly event when a center was taken out to a restaurant to talk about where the company was headed, also was trimmed down to some force feeding in the hub. The quality of our work force started to decline with the lowering of wages for part timers, including fewer and fewer college students with some brains in their head. Each new service we brought on board brought some new pressure and deadline to be met, making the entire day a race against the clock. Then we have to compete against companies whose employees are willing to work for a lot less money than us, some of whom are every bit as good as our people. Then we bring PAS along, and some wet-nosed supervisor is going to sit down on a map and tell some guy with over twenty years experience in a package car, which way he should run his route, having not even driven on one of the center's streets. I never knew if these people had college degrees, but I had two of them for what that's worth. Stupid is as stupid does. Trying to design a route from the center is like trying to climb Everest after you glanced at some topo map. But hey, I'm sure the other guys are having their own problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sendagain, post: 154523, member: 1695"] The family feel of the company eroded away some time ago, and the ever increasing size of centers makes it worse. The constant shrinkage of the allowances during each successive time study added to the growing unhappiness with the work. It's one thing to get paid an hour of incentive pay for working hard, and quite another when that level of effort becomes your "standard". The TLA yearly talks with the manager largely disappeared, leaving a driver to sense his impute was unimportant. The yearly event when a center was taken out to a restaurant to talk about where the company was headed, also was trimmed down to some force feeding in the hub. The quality of our work force started to decline with the lowering of wages for part timers, including fewer and fewer college students with some brains in their head. Each new service we brought on board brought some new pressure and deadline to be met, making the entire day a race against the clock. Then we have to compete against companies whose employees are willing to work for a lot less money than us, some of whom are every bit as good as our people. Then we bring PAS along, and some wet-nosed supervisor is going to sit down on a map and tell some guy with over twenty years experience in a package car, which way he should run his route, having not even driven on one of the center's streets. I never knew if these people had college degrees, but I had two of them for what that's worth. Stupid is as stupid does. Trying to design a route from the center is like trying to climb Everest after you glanced at some topo map. But hey, I'm sure the other guys are having their own problems. [/QUOTE]
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