turdburglar
Well-Known Member
You are missing the part where my focus is on not getting misloads, and on loading the packages stop-for-stop. These are things that I have always done, and believe it or not I do take pride in my work. I know that I have a reputation for being the loader that all the drivers want to load their trucks. Back when I was loading whatever load area had call-ins, drivers would wonder and even sometimes specifically ask where "that one loader who had no misloads" went. I was always moved from load area to load area to replace people who had called in since the full-time supervisor at the time knew that I would never get a misload, and that if he put someone else in the load area that there would be many misloads (since it would not be their usual spot). Many drivers have told me that I load far better than their usual loaders who have loaded their areas sometimes for as long as 2-3 years.4 packages a minute? I haven't loaded in a long time, but that doesn't seem to hard unless it's all heavy stuff. 1 package every 15 seconds in 4 cars? I am by no means saying you need to work harder because they say so, but am I missing something?
Another thing is that I have repeatedly told the supervisors that have been harassing me that if the numbers show that I am not loading 4 packages a minute, then they need to come see me work and see if I am indeed trying. I am not ashamed at the end of the day of the speed that I was working at throughout the day, and would have no trouble with them watching me at the speed that I am normally loading at. If the speed that I am moving at is not sufficient to load 4 packages a minute, then there are a whole lot of people in the building that are not loading at 4 packages a minute either, but I am being harassed about it since I am filing grievances. Not to mention that 4 packages a minute equates to 1200 packages in 5 hours, which is about how long the sort has been lasting for a while now, and the vast majority of people in the building cannot load that many packages without some help. 4 packages a minute also seems reasonable until you consider things like getting irregulars, heavy packages that cannot be made into "optimal carries", rollers to aisle cars with their volume in your load area, and very little room on the slide to quickly make "optimal carries" (since packages of various route IDs are everywhere and you sometimes have to walk a bit farther to get some of the same route ID), and you can begin to understand why not very many other people in the building are getting 4 packages a minute (and if they are, they sure as hell are not getting perfect loads and service like I am).
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