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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 3798013" data-attributes="member: 4550"><p>If you can get that, then more power to you but that clearly was not the norm for most every other driver in most every other building in December of 2017 when an abundant amount of full time hourlies were being subjected to 70 hour workweeks and didn't see two consecutive days off on a Saturday and Sunday for the better part if not the entire month. And it could easily be a repeat of that scenario again and perhaps worse if the possibility of being hamstrung with the inferior ORION program becomes the reality. That's only one way out of many things could become much worse.</p><p></p><p>Many of us here have been working at this job several decades or more and we've all seen and heard the assurances, vague promises, targeted goals, and suggested benchmarks come and go like flavors of the month. This time it hasn't even been lasted even an entire month and yet there's guys here assuming this is somehow a sure lock to remain because they were told by management in a meeting that this is currently a priority? As if management has a long established track record of transparency with regard to motives or never abruptly changing priorities? </p><p></p><p>Time will tell but past experience and the law of averages applied to management executing on stated plans suggest that forced overtime will be telling many off not most of us far more in less than a month. "Because management said this is how things will unfold" isn't going to convince me in any way that this experiment in certain areas and not others is going to take hold and become the established practice everywhere. And they certainly wouldn't be doing it long term solely out of any genuine concern for the health and welfare of the hourlies. They would do it only if it somehow benefited short and/or long term interests pertaining to the bottom line - and that goalpost is really ever firmly entrenched deeply in the ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 3798013, member: 4550"] If you can get that, then more power to you but that clearly was not the norm for most every other driver in most every other building in December of 2017 when an abundant amount of full time hourlies were being subjected to 70 hour workweeks and didn't see two consecutive days off on a Saturday and Sunday for the better part if not the entire month. And it could easily be a repeat of that scenario again and perhaps worse if the possibility of being hamstrung with the inferior ORION program becomes the reality. That's only one way out of many things could become much worse. Many of us here have been working at this job several decades or more and we've all seen and heard the assurances, vague promises, targeted goals, and suggested benchmarks come and go like flavors of the month. This time it hasn't even been lasted even an entire month and yet there's guys here assuming this is somehow a sure lock to remain because they were told by management in a meeting that this is currently a priority? As if management has a long established track record of transparency with regard to motives or never abruptly changing priorities? Time will tell but past experience and the law of averages applied to management executing on stated plans suggest that forced overtime will be telling many off not most of us far more in less than a month. "Because management said this is how things will unfold" isn't going to convince me in any way that this experiment in certain areas and not others is going to take hold and become the established practice everywhere. And they certainly wouldn't be doing it long term solely out of any genuine concern for the health and welfare of the hourlies. They would do it only if it somehow benefited short and/or long term interests pertaining to the bottom line - and that goalpost is really ever firmly entrenched deeply in the ground. [/QUOTE]
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