Glad Im Done
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Same problem in my hub forcing 25 plus drivers in because other drivers had no hours left. Told them I wasn’t doing it and solved the problem for them by retiring. Now they pay me 6 figures to enjoy life.
forced 6th punch every Saturday since peak
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SorryLazyPOS
Big Kahuna Burger
Really? Here they’re about to lay off the bottom 20. I guess they really are combo drivers.
21Savage
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burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
Who is it that’s demanding Saturday’s
I don’t know anybody that gives 2
s if it gets there Saturday or Monday
MECH-lift
Union Brother ✊🧔 RPCD
I heard supervisors get big bonuses for cleaning up mondays work.Who is it that’s demanding Saturday’s
I don’t know anybody that gives 2
eats packages
Deranged lunatic
Push a broom on monday. Pull seniority on the WORST route tuesday through friday. File 9.5. Then run out of hours saturday. Rinse and repeat.
Another way of thinking about it: if you want less hours. Work as long as possible. If you want more hours. Work as little as possible.
Another way of thinking about it: if you want less hours. Work as long as possible. If you want more hours. Work as little as possible.
Hot Carl
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The bottom of the 22.4s list is a revolving door, mostly due to them just doing dumb
or burning out.But as for calling out on your day off, we've had a few warning letters and a couple suspensions, but as far as I know nobody has gotten the ace for it just yet.
Whither
Scofflaw
TLDR: the company resorting to termination over forced 6 punches is their "nuclear" option. It's a threat they're not likely to press. Show up for your regular 5 day schedule, follow the methods, and don't lose sleep over their threats.
My local also allowed that side deal, just after peak. Forced 6 punches have been going on ever since Sat delivery started in my center. Last summer was the first time they dared to base attendance discipline on it. We had a few pending terms, but the company didn't even raise them at locals, let alone compel those drivers to fight for their jobs at panel.
The way I've looked at it is this: regardless of the contract (where, even here in the Central Region, I don't think the company has an air-tight case), if the company is resorting to discipline to cover Sat delivery, they're already showing weakness. They're short-handed on Sat. Their attempts to "force," which already imply threats to our jobs, aren't working. The only way discipline might work is if they risked taking 6 punch cases to panel and won. If they lost, their threat would be null and void. And even if they risked and won, who knows, there could be mutiny in the ranks. Needless to say even the die-hard paper-chasers get tired of doing deliveries 6 days a week, let alone low-seniority RPCDs still in progression who, in my experience, usually aren't interested in sacrificing their weekends. We had several quites last year due to forced 6 punches -- including drivers trying to qualify.
The weekend is sacred. The company might succeed in chipping away at it here and there, but once they meet serious resistance from reliable employees, terminations are only going to aggravate their staffing problem and they know it.
I will say, in my center we must've made an impression. A couple weeks ago we had severe winter weather and EC'd a mountain of volume Thurs and Fri. Center manager didn't force a soul. Several Sat routes were dispatched over 200 stops. Roads still weren't great so enough volume was rolled on to Monday to send plenty of our routes, including mine, up to spring/summer 2020 stop counts.
Commercial Inside Release
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Just every customer that paid for that "S" to be on their 1DA label.
EAM+S=CHA-Chinggg
yadadamean116
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I wish I could work a 6th punch. Need to buy more rental properties
Cowboy Mac
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Work Saturdays, Huh? How UPS Drivers Resisted by Complying
Like letter carriers at the Postal Service, UPS drivers are also facing forced overtime—and the problem is only going to get worse as the holidays get closer. In Columbus, Ohio, a little collective action “did a lot of good for morale,” said delivery driver and Teamsters Local 413 steward Nick...
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Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
It’s asinine. They’re just stealing Mondays work. Makes no sense at all. Now they want Sunday’s too. Mondays are going to look like the day after Xmas. We know how great that is every year.
Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
Truckloads of those. Great point.
Overpaid Union Thug
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It’s mostly the Amazon Prime zombies. Most of those people can’t even remember what they ordered though. LOLWho is it that’s demanding Saturday’s
I don’t know anybody that gives 2
Pullman Brown
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I saw emails last July from corporate-Supervisor. Either there lying or that’s what some of these accounts want. It was a general email didn’t have the specific accounts names. So are you saying that some of these accounts are indifferent to whether some of there packages get there Saturday or Monday. Come on! The customers might not care but if it’s available they’ll jump all over it. Whatever. Take the Red Pill!Who is it that’s demanding Saturday’s
I don’t know anybody that gives 2
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Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
These sound like low seniority problems, I’d love to help but this cloud I’m riding only goes one way.
Brownsocks
Just a dog
They can shift the volume they stole back to monday,, or set the routes up like they were when Sat started. The company is paying RPCDs 60hr to work Saturdays and then paying top rate guys to sit on their ass for 2 hours on Monday. Makes no sense.
