Most of you drivers have been hearing about the”Center’s over allowed hours” at the AM meetings these days. The idea being to pump up production by giving you a number to beat. The interesting part about the “Over allowed hours” is the formula they use to get the number they announce.
No matter how far under you run, it equals zero. That’s right Zero. If you are 15 minutes “under”, that equals zero. If you are 1 hour “under”, that equals zero. If you are 5 hours “under”, that equals zero.
If you run “over”, they add it up. 10 minutes, plus 1 hour, plus 2 hours equals 3 hours and 10 minutes total “over allowed” for the center.
My point here is to let you know that under the system currently used to measure the centers performance, no matter how much you run “under”, you are considered a “Zero” by management.
Driver 1- 1 hour over
Driver 2- 30 minutes over
Driver 3- 2 hours under
Driver 4- 10 minutes under
Driver 5- 50 minutes over
Driver 6- 4 hours under
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Total Center over allowed hours- 2 hours 20 minutes
Daily Archives: October 10, 2009
Hop-a-Long the “Super Hero”
Here’s a short story about my observations during this week. We have a younger, newbie driver in our center. She fought hard to get on driving this year, and had to endure layoffs through the summer this year, due to volume issues, and car cutting. Needless to say she appreciates it when she can work full time. In her interest to have the company work her on a daily basis, she has become a real fireball out there. She smokes any route off, to the tune of 2 hours under allowed. The manager would just sing her praises, and would be very upset if he had to lay her off. They would search high and low for a senior, pokey, driver to give the day off, just to keep her working.
All was well in “brown land”, until——— she came out of the truck, (three points of contact?) and rolled her ankle. In her interest of keeping working she has let them keep her driving, and working the pre-load, etc. under the guise of TAW. She finally came to me, (the Union steward), and complained that her ankle was not getting any better. I gave her the low down on workers comp. and advised her to get to the doctor and have it checked, and that she might be interested in staying home and giving it a couple of days rest, otherwise she may risk long term problems. You should have seen the dirty look from the division manager when she advised him she needed to be off on comp. Now she is very worried about how they will treat her since she is injured and now “damaged goods”.
Everyone needs to remember, you are only a hero when the job gets done everyday, and you make no mistakes, or have no issues. Your past history means “nothing”, when something happens.
Now, no matter what she does, she is tainted goods. She couldn’t be a hero without being hurt.
There’s no such thing as a Gimpy Super-Hero!