Forced 1hr lunch

[Jones]

I never did anything different during peak, followed the methods and took my hour lunch just like every other day.

 

[Back first]

An hour during peak? Not happening. If I start at 8:00 AM and work 13 hours and 59 minutes, an hour lunch means I don't punch out until 11:00 PM. I have no interest in knocking on doors and delivering packages at 10:30 at night, plus if I punch out at 11:00 PM I cant clock on again until 9:00 AM the following day....which puts me out on the route an hour later.....which means I could be out until midnight if I take a full hour.

We have the option of taking half an hour here, and during peak I don't take a lunch at all. I enter "lunch--12:00-12:00" in the DIAD so that I am being honest and being paid for all hours worked. It is what it is.

Wow everyone has a
Some type of excuse why they can't take a lunch. I am calling BS working til 11 during peak. I have been driving 16 years and have never worked til 10. Take lunch 4-5 hour even during peak and stop making excuses why you can't take lunch.

 

[wayfair]

I am calling BS working til 11 during peak.

that would be a bad call here...

 

[soberups]

Wow everyone has a
Some type of excuse why they can't take a lunch. I am calling BS working til 11 during peak. I have been driving 16 years and have never worked til 10. Take lunch 4-5 hour even during peak and stop making excuses why you can't take lunch.

Friday, December 19th 2014. I brought 22 stops back and clocked out at 10:04 PM in order to keep from running out of DOT hours. We had drivers out until midnight that day. The previous evening I clocked out at 10:30.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Gee, I wonder what some of those 10 messages were about?

 

[cosmo1]

Gee, I wonder what some of those 10 messages were about?

I'm guessing at least 8 were, "Don't pay attention to Dave. The BOG is not the real world."

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I'm guessing at least 8 were, "Don't pay attention to Dave. The BOG is not the real world."

..."If you would stop wasting so much time feeding every stray in a 3 county area you wouldn't have 22 missed packages"...

 

[Back first]

Friday, December 19th 2014. I brought 22 stops back and clocked out at 10:04 PM in order to keep from running out of DOT hours. We had drivers out until midnight that day. The previous evening I clocked out at 10:30.
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Still should of taken your lunch. You are only helping UPS and hurting yourself.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Still should of taken your lunch. You are only helping UPS and hurting yourself.

It was Peak----the rules go out the window during Peak.

 

[andrsnbkj]

Your only fu$&);ing yourself in the long run by not taking your lunch

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Your only fu$&);ing yourself in the long run by not taking your lunch

Yawn.

 

[ZQXC]

Your only fu$&);ing yourself in the long run by not taking your lunch

Wouldn't that double your pleasure?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Wouldn't that double your pleasure?

It would certainly cut out the middle man.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

Friday, December 19th 2014. I brought 22 stops back and clocked out at 10:04 PM in order to keep from running out of DOT hours. We had drivers out until midnight that day. The previous evening I clocked out at 10:30.
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you were over-dispatched by boneheads who were home safe and sound with their families, and you skipped a meal. I would have brought back 55.

 

[wayfair]

you were over-dispatched by boneheads who were home safe and sound with their families, and you skipped a meal. I would have brought back 55.

even when they tell you the 14 hour rule is in effect?


thought that meant feeder hours though

 

[brownmonster]

It was Peak----the rules go out the window during Peak.

That's what's nice about being in a bonus center. I can skip my lunch and doesn't cost me a dime. Same holds true now. Allegedly.

 

[soberups]

you were over-dispatched by boneheads who were home safe and sound with their families, and you skipped a meal. I would have brought back 55.

It was peak season. Anything I brought back at night would simply get loaded in over the top of the following day's dispatch. After a couple of days those missed stops will start "snowballing" and instead of bringing 20 or 30 back it becomes 100 or 200. My personal record for missed stops stands at about 200, that I brought back at midnight during peak season in 1989. I don't ever want that to happen again.

 

[soberups]

Still should of taken your lunch. You are only helping UPS and hurting yourself.

How so? I am being paid for all hours worked, and accurately entering my breaks and lunch (none) in the DIAD. I could see your point if I was working off of the clock, but I'm not.

 

[soberups]

..."If you would stop wasting so much time feeding every stray in a 3 county area you wouldn't have 22 missed packages"...

Right.

I am bringing 22 missed stops back, eating my lunch off of the dashboard while I sort packages, and getting home at 10:30 at night after my wife has already gone to bed....all because I felt like wasting time feeding dogs. NOT.

 

[Dr.Brownz]

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