Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
Don't worry yourself...we'll still sit and wait.
Why the 8 hour dispatch?
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Don't worry yourself...we'll still sit and wait.
Dracula
Package Car is cake compared to this...
You gotta love a dreamer.
Poop Head
Judge me.
Might be a valid point but I don’t think the math supports the point. If you have 100 stops to deliver is it more cost effective for one guy to do it or 2. More trucks, insurance, pension liability, health liability, unemployment insurance, workman’s comp liability etc etc, rises exponentially with each additional employee, perplexing what’s going on. Much more cost effective for the company to pay someone an hour and a half OT.
The bottom is going to fall out of this economy some day, then ups will have idle trucks and workers, I don’t know just seems strange.
Coldworld
60 months and counting
When I had a real 8 hour day my planned the next day was 6 something.... lmao whatever
Indecisi0n
Well-Known Member
Spicy
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
Coldworld
60 months and counting
You have a butt plug don’t you
Coldworld
60 months and counting
Did you gobble up his churro???
Heavy Package
Well-Known Member
Which one is it? Do drivers at UPS want (need) the OT or not?
At my hub I would say 25% NEED the OT and this new dispatch has them like a deer in the headlights. They are now making $600/wk less than they were just a month ago. That's a $30k swing in income over 12 months. Drivers as little as 5 minutes over are being sent to the office and being talked to and set up for progressive discipline.
Two points:
1. People need to budget based on 40-hrs a week. They are living beyond their means and have gotten so that 50+ hrs a week of pay is expected.
2. UPS did pull the rug out from all of us. No warning for both the good and bad - I could have helped coach my kids basketball team. At the same time, imagine if your boss just one day came up and said I am cutting your pay by $30k / yr. I am sure you would have liked some notice so you can make adjustments.
Damn brother...5 minutes? That's hard to believe. If so they are playing you for a bunch of scared nervous fools. My daily overage is that 5 minutes and add another 2 hours easily on top of it.
Heck, the fill in drivers who cut every corner on my route don't even keep it under an hour over.
You boys best toughen up and stick together and start dropping the hammer or you are all in for some rough sailing ahead.
Indecisi0n
Well-Known Member
Lots of corn.
I’m more worried about protection when this economy slows down. Ups always ran lean and when slow downs hit everyone still had work. If we get fat with people and trucks and then there’s a crash, not sure how that would end up.
ManInBrown
Well-Known Member
Wrong. I spend almost every night sitting around waiting somewhere
ManInBrown
Well-Known Member
Is that you Dave?
What I'm trying to say is, if you get everyone in on a timely matter, every job here can be a little more productive. One if the biggest problems with this company is that every operation runs like it's it's own business and nobody works with each other.
Poop Head
Judge me.
Discipline for what??
JL 0513
Well-Known Member
It's going to be bad for all the new drivers. UPS is over compensating in the midst of the strongest economy in history. There WILL be a recession, just a question of when.
Even under a normal M-friend operation running the lean. model they have for many years, they still have to cut routes Mondays. Now you throw Saturday ground in and over hire you're looking at mass layoffs in the future.
UnconTROLLed
perfection
insubordination/ failure to follow instructions most likely
