It's fun, talking to and seeing old comrades from the brown country.
Nothing, it appears, has changed, and I don't go looking, or asking for this stuff, drivers want to tell me.
Drivers have a min/optimum & max stop count (the number of deliveries loaded). Usual load is just over max, because you can always do that little bit more (or threaten drivers with the sack for not following a reasonable request) You would think, therefore, that if you were given work in a bigger area, then your stop count would fall. (More miles, less time to deliver) Wrong, the UPS answer is....your stop count stays the same.
A similar scenario relates to the UPS 8 hour plan. (each driver should reach a planned 8 hours work, based on time study work) Whatever the driver is doing, if he doesn't reach the 8 hour plan, give him more work. I proved the figures from the time study were wrong, (that's what happens when its done from guesswork) Did that change anything? No, it would have meant drivers taking less work out. The mantra was....the figures are the figures. The 8 hour plan was mentioned to me yesterday.
Even when the 8 hour plan is achieved, and the driver is out of range (between 8 & 9.5 hours) work will not be taken off. Again it affects productivity. So the same load pattern continues, the driver I saw tonight was on his way back to UPS at 18.55, he would have been a 7.30 starter and unlikely to finish work until at least 19.15.
How's that for bullying scenarios?
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