Can Anything be Done About the Runners?
- Thread starter Dangler
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badpal
Well-Known Member
Being on Brown cafe for all these years its always fascinated me the amount of people wasting time worried about what other drivers are doing on thier routes. i can barely keep focused on mine. Rather another drive runs his too fast or too slow aint my worry. I work in a small backwater center and have never even heard term RUNNER GUNNER used. Usually if a rookie goes to fast and cuts too many corners, thier lucks runs out sooner rather than later.
I have been lurking
Tired hubrat
Bluefootedoobie
Damage Inc.
They don’t care about us.
allahuakbar
She/Her
I ran a dudes route up like 50 stops before I got mine cause he was out injured. It was the best! Got out everyday by 5.
LoadJockey
Member
But I heard if I run faster I get RPCD faster?!ALL RUNNERS MUST BE DESTROYED
Did management lie to me?? They wouldn't lie right? 
SorryLazyPOS
Big Kahuna Burger
How do I get one to the route next to mine? I could use 20 less stops. I’m doing 90 now.
Bubblehead
My Senior Picture
We used to have fun with the daily report, routinely playing "penny a point", wagering on who would be the most over or under allowed.
One year we actually had a fantasy draft for runners to see who could amass the most under allowed with their draft picks in a weekly head to head format.
Management hated it and so did the runners.
BigUnionGuy
Got the T-Shirt
Thats good stuff.
Watching drivers "pore over" the morning re-cap was funny.
Now, they stand in front of a computer screen looking at their Orion dispatch before work.
And then (this is the best part) look at the forecast for the next day.... after work.
This is awesome. Need to get this going at our Center.
oldngray
nowhere special
Shouldn't it have been a prize for most over allowed? High score wins!
UnionStrong
Sorry, but I don’t care anymore.
My center manager would leave the report on the desk. Occasionally it would have a particular name circled in red with a WTF in big letters. I’m proud to say I made that circle
️ a few times. Lol
SorryLazyPOS
Big Kahuna Burger
Loser gets the winner’s runner as a cover driver.
Sacrificial Lamb
Package Shepherd
O for outstanding!My center manager would leave the report on the desk. Occasionally it would have a particular name circled in red with a WTF in big letters. I’m proud to say I made that circle
If they don’t discipline runners for safety, then they can’t come after you for over allowed. That’s called discrimination.In my Center Runners have taken over. These aren’t the kind of guys that just run through their routes either; they’res to customers, don’t ring doorbells, drive fast by pedestrians, leave small packages at the garage, you name it. They’ll cut every corner to get done early, while putting excessive mileage on their routes to get a better time allowance, and then claim they work the hardest in the building because they’re usually 200+ clicks under.
Normally, I just recognize these Drivers for being the losers they are and move on, but lately I’ve been being asked to help, which I’m normally happy to do, while the Center lets our Runners go home at 1530. The other day we had Runners go home pre-1600 only to have an On-Car get forced on road later that evening to make service.
The newer Drivers are getting totally abused because they’re getting the volume the Runners should be getting. This is bothering me quite a bit.
I like putting in a solid day’s work, and if another Driver is struggling, especially a new one, I do not mind helping, but getting gamed by a bunch of
In my Center the Runners are confrontational and super whiney, so they always get their way. Is it possible to grieve their guarantee if you have higher seniority? Can it be grieved if you’re sent to help, but the lower seniority Driver next to the Driver you’re helping punched out at 1530?
Sorry if I’m ignorant about this stuff. When I first started we had old-timer Stewards that were awesome and I took them for granted and now don’t know anything.
Thanks.
I’m a driver not a supervisor.
Analbumcover
ControlPkgs
That's starting to become a problem at my center. Boo hoo hoo I don't like this area can someone else have it?
BigUnionGuy
Got the T-Shirt
Aside from the obvious grammatical error...
