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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 3755290" data-attributes="member: 14668">The scary part about your statement is that it is probably true.While forced stupidity for the sake of generating compliance metrics is certainly nothing new at UPS, with ORION we have taken it to a new and exponentially worse level. The stupidity has gone from being benign to downright malevolent.It will be interesting to see what sort of work-arounds and creative solutions our management people can come up with to defeat ORION this peak. I have already heard of OMS’s transferring entire routes out of one DIAD and into another which automatically puts them back into RDO without triggering a report. We also have drivers getting their dispatch printed out on paper in RDO order or even using their phones to take pictures of the screen in the AM and using those as a reference so that they have at least a minimal ability to function. And older drivers such as myself are simply abandoning the DIAD entirely and reverting to pre-EDD methods of manual sorting.My hunch, however, is that once the service failures begin to reach truly catastrophic levels UPS will have no alternative but to temporarily suspend the forced stupidity and revert to RDO for a few days until peak is over and the backlog of undelivered volume is cleaned up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 3755290, member: 14668"] The scary part about your statement is that it is probably true. While forced stupidity for the sake of generating compliance metrics is certainly nothing new at UPS, with ORION we have taken it to a new and exponentially worse level. The stupidity has gone from being benign to downright malevolent. It will be interesting to see what sort of work-arounds and creative solutions our management people can come up with to defeat ORION this peak. I have already heard of OMS’s transferring entire routes out of one DIAD and into another which automatically puts them back into RDO without triggering a report. We also have drivers getting their dispatch printed out on paper in RDO order or even using their phones to take pictures of the screen in the AM and using those as a reference so that they have at least a minimal ability to function. And older drivers such as myself are simply abandoning the DIAD entirely and reverting to pre-EDD methods of manual sorting. My hunch, however, is that once the service failures begin to reach truly catastrophic levels UPS will have no alternative but to temporarily suspend the forced stupidity and revert to RDO for a few days until peak is over and the backlog of undelivered volume is cleaned up. [/QUOTE]

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