Just because they didn’t do it doesn’t mean they couldn’t. Now there is language to combat it.
Can RPCD's be forced to work weekends during peak?
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Now we have language on the issue. A lot of people were abused and now there is double time on the issue and if you don’t have 8 hours they can force you to work. Even an unreasonable person has to see this.
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
No there isn’t. You are allowing a seventy hour work week, which is the maximum allowed by law. Do you not see how much this doesn’t help?
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
Ohhhhhh double time, that will make the multi billion dollar corporate giant tremble! Lmao.
See this right here is unreasonable. This is the logic that will ultimately destroy the whole thing.
If it’s the law and we are under the dot what would you propose? In fact what was your proposal on the issue?
Yes let’s pay them a million dollars per shift!! Lmao!! Unreasonable entitled turd
I see a grievance. They won’t be able to honor your regular work schedule
Not true here in 804 they can’t force the 6th day period. They can’t even force us in the day after Thanksgiving.
I disagree
In that scenario no, but these kind of things aren’t happening except during peak and I’d say very rarely.
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Deranged lunatic
Yes and lmao dude.
I wish I had a million dollars.
how come I cannot pay rent.
why are part time shifts 7 hours long and full time shifts 13 hours long.
all of these and more on: real life.
We got screwed last year. We were all forced to come on Sats during peak and the day after Thanksgiving. I filed a few grievances when they would let a less senior go home before me. Because of a snow storm, they claimed emergency conditions and tried to intimidate people to work one Sunday as well during peak.
Can't wait for this peak!
Can't wait for this peak!
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Deranged lunatic
obligatory 2nd post because damn you used two accounts and 8 posts on a single page geeeeeezz
I'd agree about the DOT law. From a health and practicality standpoint, it's being grossly distorted. There's certain areas from coast to coast where drivers weren't forced into a 6th punch, but that doesn't mean they weren't subject to pressure and/or coercion when saying "No Thanks" to bail management out of the usual mess they created entirely on their own.
More seasonal drivers and helpers? It might work here and there, but in my area the seasonal hires by far have been the absolute least reliable employees and often bail out well before the halfway point of peak arrives. Experience counts and the vast majority of the temporary help has little or none of it to handle the chaotic conditions that are now guaranteed to be part of that time of the year.
I said it at the end of last year and I think it still goes for many others - Upper management lost the hearts and minds of too many of the committed hourlies with how badly they botched the 2017 peak and the morale killing mess that was Saturday deliveries and they risk losing nearly everybody if they keep trying to cram these ill conceived ideas and botched rollouts onto the already taxed workforce instead of fixing many of the problems that already demand attention. My building lost a lot of strong package car drivers since January because so many of them simply weren't willing to stomach another year like 2017 and had zero confidence in the managers to address issues that were and continue to be routinely ignored.
Roughly a year or two later and we are still in the same dysfunctional mess where chronic understaffing is again the norm and DIAD batteries are still too weak to handle a 10 hour day much less the 12+ some get stuck with. There was a grudging willingness among the rank and file here to save upper management from themselves and bail the company out from the glut that their collective ineptitude produced after Thanksgiving 2017. Won't happen this year. The goodwill and patience has run out. They botch it this peak (and nothing to this point suggests they learned anything from last year) then it's going to be a mess well into January with even more acrimony.
You are wrong. They try and fail. Now they just beg us to come in. You could have gotten that for everyone but you didn’t. So don’t come here and say this little crumb is the best you could do.
