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<blockquote data-quote="scoobypanda" data-source="post: 508093" data-attributes="member: 13957"><p>from your lips to god's ears......I don't know where you work, but if you were to go into a hub one morning, download edd, and go to that truck, you would find quite a shock. We still have to sort as much as we used to, only now it's more frustrating because we know we shouldn't have to,and there is no time allowance for it. Smalls are NEVER loaded in sequence, label out or up. Loaders take totes into middle of truck and start flipping smalls onto (hopefully) right section of right truck.HIN # 2000 bulk on top of #1000 bulk...50/50 chance. If you went a step further and compared edd dispatch to a good old hagstrom or actually took a ride stop for stop through the route, you would find many mistakes. If a driver brings a mistake to his supe he is told "it's not a big deal" or "it's only one stop" or worse yet, " I will look into it". Dispatch supes are running preload, so by the time we leave the building, they are ready to have a quick conference call, take their verbal beating for not hitting impossible piece/hour number, and head home. On-car supes are too busy with shuttling misloads or OJS. OJS takes a full week now, one day to look for easy target where volume is down or big pickup is on vacation.3 days for ride, making sure to get all OCAs and air or over 70 meets covered by other drivers in the area. Finally the 5th and most important day: move time consuming stop or area to another driver that is isn't in that supe's work group, or to a driver that hasn't gotten a ride yet. This allows supe to show his boss that he picked up time on his OJS. When center number is unaffected because problems were moved rather than fixed, higher-ups can clearly see that these drivers are really playing games out there and we're gonna have to hammer them. If you believe that one word of this rant was fabricated or even exaggerated, you are most definitely one of the over insulated movers and shakers at UPS. The concepts make a lot of sense, but unfortunately the reality is, the system as it is presently operating cannot return the expected results and it has little or nothing to do with the 1 or 2 percent of the workforce that UPS management is obsessed with going after. Time and money are being wasted on a daily basis at an alarming rate and upper management is looking in the wrong places to find the leaks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scoobypanda, post: 508093, member: 13957"] from your lips to god's ears......I don't know where you work, but if you were to go into a hub one morning, download edd, and go to that truck, you would find quite a shock. We still have to sort as much as we used to, only now it's more frustrating because we know we shouldn't have to,and there is no time allowance for it. Smalls are NEVER loaded in sequence, label out or up. Loaders take totes into middle of truck and start flipping smalls onto (hopefully) right section of right truck.HIN # 2000 bulk on top of #1000 bulk...50/50 chance. If you went a step further and compared edd dispatch to a good old hagstrom or actually took a ride stop for stop through the route, you would find many mistakes. If a driver brings a mistake to his supe he is told "it's not a big deal" or "it's only one stop" or worse yet, " I will look into it". Dispatch supes are running preload, so by the time we leave the building, they are ready to have a quick conference call, take their verbal beating for not hitting impossible piece/hour number, and head home. On-car supes are too busy with shuttling misloads or OJS. OJS takes a full week now, one day to look for easy target where volume is down or big pickup is on vacation.3 days for ride, making sure to get all OCAs and air or over 70 meets covered by other drivers in the area. Finally the 5th and most important day: move time consuming stop or area to another driver that is isn't in that supe's work group, or to a driver that hasn't gotten a ride yet. This allows supe to show his boss that he picked up time on his OJS. When center number is unaffected because problems were moved rather than fixed, higher-ups can clearly see that these drivers are really playing games out there and we're gonna have to hammer them. If you believe that one word of this rant was fabricated or even exaggerated, you are most definitely one of the over insulated movers and shakers at UPS. The concepts make a lot of sense, but unfortunately the reality is, the system as it is presently operating cannot return the expected results and it has little or nothing to do with the 1 or 2 percent of the workforce that UPS management is obsessed with going after. Time and money are being wasted on a daily basis at an alarming rate and upper management is looking in the wrong places to find the leaks. [/QUOTE]
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