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<blockquote data-quote="sortaisle" data-source="post: 676040" data-attributes="member: 17605"><p>From the numbers you quoted from the drivers, it sounds like a cake walk compared to Spokane. 120 stops...I could be done with those by lunch. Only 20 or 30 pickups? How are the managers not stressing cutting routes to make the numbers look better? Trust me it's on the way. What you need to understand is the folks that are complaining about the job have worked there for many years and have watched the slow deterioration of this once great company. Don't get me wrong, I love my job, but I've been here a mere 13 years and even I can see the company falling apart at the seams. It all started when UPS went public and as if by magic they had to answer to shareholders and make the numbers look good for investors. Investors don't have clue one about the job. Numbers don't have a place in reality simply because they're too many people involved in the job to make accurate numbers. They're a good baseline to follow, but they want you to achieve those numbers as if lives are in the balance. Aside from all of that, the job is fantastic. Good pay, good benefits, weekends off (unless Christmas Eve is on a Saturday,) but it's not what it used to be and that's where some of the guys complaining are coming from. It used to be that 100 stops and your pickup route was a dispatched 8.5 day. Now, with PAS and the vaunted telematics system 125 stops and full pickups is considered 8.5 dispatched day. What changed? The stops didn't move closer together...the businesses didn't move closer together...just the numbers changed. Average stops per car in Spokane is 135 right now. When I started driving 4 years ago, it was 118. Can you see where we can start bitching yet? Have some perspective. But by all means, it's still better than a lot of places to work, but understand where these guys are coming from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sortaisle, post: 676040, member: 17605"] From the numbers you quoted from the drivers, it sounds like a cake walk compared to Spokane. 120 stops...I could be done with those by lunch. Only 20 or 30 pickups? How are the managers not stressing cutting routes to make the numbers look better? Trust me it's on the way. What you need to understand is the folks that are complaining about the job have worked there for many years and have watched the slow deterioration of this once great company. Don't get me wrong, I love my job, but I've been here a mere 13 years and even I can see the company falling apart at the seams. It all started when UPS went public and as if by magic they had to answer to shareholders and make the numbers look good for investors. Investors don't have clue one about the job. Numbers don't have a place in reality simply because they're too many people involved in the job to make accurate numbers. They're a good baseline to follow, but they want you to achieve those numbers as if lives are in the balance. Aside from all of that, the job is fantastic. Good pay, good benefits, weekends off (unless Christmas Eve is on a Saturday,) but it's not what it used to be and that's where some of the guys complaining are coming from. It used to be that 100 stops and your pickup route was a dispatched 8.5 day. Now, with PAS and the vaunted telematics system 125 stops and full pickups is considered 8.5 dispatched day. What changed? The stops didn't move closer together...the businesses didn't move closer together...just the numbers changed. Average stops per car in Spokane is 135 right now. When I started driving 4 years ago, it was 118. Can you see where we can start bitching yet? Have some perspective. But by all means, it's still better than a lot of places to work, but understand where these guys are coming from. [/QUOTE]
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