Bonus is presumably put in place to benefit UPS but it seems like it's a more costly scenario for UPS. It clearly benefits the driver, although not at no cost (running, gunning, lunch skipping). Bonus can't financially benefit both UPS and the driver. So why implement it?
As I understand it, it's voted on at the local level. Bonus centers have become a sort of dinosaur due to the fact that, most locals have voted out the bonus system.
As with anything else, the company changes the rules (in this case via time study) in the middle of the game. I know several drivers that use to make 3+ hours bonus per day. Those drivers now get an extra 20-30 stops per day and struggle to make 1 hour of bonus per day.
How does that happen? Your center manager has to answer for this sort of thing on the conference call. He'll be instructed to correct it and somehow, with your PDS' help, he will.
At some point in time, bonus was beneficial to both bargaining unit and the company. The company however, being its usual self, decided to rape it.
The end result is a handful of scabs, continuing to work through their lunches to no one's benefit but, Atlanta's.
But I digress...
Bonus is a farce.
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