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<blockquote data-quote="Overpaid Union Thug" data-source="post: 108139" data-attributes="member: 198"><p><strong><span style="color: black">That is what happens when the goal of each sup running the areas is to get their "numbers". You'd think we worked in a factory nowadays. Someone should tell them that if they would actually stop or slow down once in a while to smooth the flow out so jams wouldn't occur that it would actually help raise their precious numbers because belts, packages, and even people, wouldn't break as much and that would result in less downtime overall. When I worked in a hub I worked in smalls a while and there was a belt everyone had to cross to get to their area (you could walk under it but it was a very long walk away)so it would be stopped hundreds of times during the sort. Sometimes people would forget to turn it back on and after about 30 seconds, if that, one of the sups would come running around the corner yelling "BELT BELT BELT" "I've got people down stairs screaming at me on the radio for screwing up their numbers!" We would hear our sup comming before they'd turn the corner becuase you could hair people screamin at them on the radio. It was a blast. One day we were instructed not to turn the belt off unless it was life or death and the belts downstairs jammed so badly they tore off and...well...I'll put it this way. It was about two hours before we were able to send anymore smalls bags down. Proof that stopping the belts once in a while actually helps productivity. What they want is like trying to pump all the blood through the heart at the same time instead of one continous flow. So in a way the hubs have a heart attack every day. </span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Overpaid Union Thug, post: 108139, member: 198"] [B][COLOR=black]That is what happens when the goal of each sup running the areas is to get their "numbers". You'd think we worked in a factory nowadays. Someone should tell them that if they would actually stop or slow down once in a while to smooth the flow out so jams wouldn't occur that it would actually help raise their precious numbers because belts, packages, and even people, wouldn't break as much and that would result in less downtime overall. When I worked in a hub I worked in smalls a while and there was a belt everyone had to cross to get to their area (you could walk under it but it was a very long walk away)so it would be stopped hundreds of times during the sort. Sometimes people would forget to turn it back on and after about 30 seconds, if that, one of the sups would come running around the corner yelling "BELT BELT BELT" "I've got people down stairs screaming at me on the radio for screwing up their numbers!" We would hear our sup comming before they'd turn the corner becuase you could hair people screamin at them on the radio. It was a blast. One day we were instructed not to turn the belt off unless it was life or death and the belts downstairs jammed so badly they tore off and...well...I'll put it this way. It was about two hours before we were able to send anymore smalls bags down. Proof that stopping the belts once in a while actually helps productivity. What they want is like trying to pump all the blood through the heart at the same time instead of one continous flow. So in a way the hubs have a heart attack every day. [/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]
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