Get your ice before you clock in
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Brownsocks
Just a dog
You get 2 paid breaks, and if it's dangerously hot you can take as many as you need to perform your job safely. Their numbers are bull
and over allowed doesn't reflect real world conditions on a lot of routes.
Integrity
Binge Poster
UPS should have bagged ice brought in.What if there was no ice machine, or the sucker broke?
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Install an ice vending machine. Problem solved.
watch the ned ice guys suddenly not need ice.
mcsketcher
Well-Known Member
2?! So another lie. Is this in the contract? I need to read it better.You get 2 paid breaks, and if it's dangerously hot you can take as many as you need to perform your job safely. Their numbers are bull
oldngray
nowhere special
1 paid break for part timers but 2 for full time
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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"Arrive at your center on time" is somewhat ambiguous. Suppose your start time is 8am-----does this mean that you show up at 7:45am and then "complete your morning activities" before the PCM "without having to rush" or do you show up right at 8am and you are "having to rush" after the PCM to grab your DIAD, supplies and, if needed, ice, before going to your PC , putting your stuff away, linking the DIAD to the PC, downloading EDD while performing the pretrip? Back in the day we were instructed to show up at least 10-15 minutes early to ensure that we are ready to go once the PCM was done; in fact, there was one morning when our DM was giving the PCM and one of our drivers strolled in at 5 minutes after start time. The look on our DM and center manager's faces was priceless. 10:30 doesn't change-----"not being on time can jeopardize service commitments to our customers".
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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We had a 10 minute paid break between the first and third hours and a 45 unpaid meal break between the third and fifth hours. I did hear of some centers that had an additional paid 10 minute coffee break first thing in the morning.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
....and stored where....? Unlike the turkeys, which they just threw in to a spare PC, bagged ice melts very quickly.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
A few years before I retired we had an issue with feeder drivers taking their time punching out. The time clock was near the managers office and the feeder drivers would enter the building through the mechanic's bay, which was on the other side of the building, and they would stop and BS with the mechanic. It got to the point where a time clock was installed near that door.
tripperslipper
OK to operate
Just to add a little fuel to the fire, my supervisor didn't specifically tell me to get ice before clocking in. They said "fill your water bottles," which implies water and ice in this weather. It's 104 friend out today. Ice is not optional.
Furthermore, I use water to facilitate the connection of the diad to the cradle. So if I wanted to be a smartass, let's acknowledge that encouraging or knowingly allowing employees to complete work tasks off the clock is illegal.
To be clear I don't give a rats ass about 2 minutes here or there on my timecard. What am I gonna do with that buy a stick of gum? It's the principal of the micromanagement and disregard for anything beyond numbers that invigorates me
Furthermore, I use water to facilitate the connection of the diad to the cradle. So if I wanted to be a smartass, let's acknowledge that encouraging or knowingly allowing employees to complete work tasks off the clock is illegal.
To be clear I don't give a rats ass about 2 minutes here or there on my timecard. What am I gonna do with that buy a stick of gum? It's the principal of the micromanagement and disregard for anything beyond numbers that invigorates me
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
How does water facilitate Diad/cradle connection???
tripperslipper
OK to operate
You put a little water on your pins and suddenly the POS works.
We're on diad V by the way.
Professionals use a mister bottle...one spritz after each stop and it's like it isn't even a completely incapable, incompetently designed piece of technology in the first place
We're on diad V by the way.
Professionals use a mister bottle...one spritz after each stop and it's like it isn't even a completely incapable, incompetently designed piece of technology in the first place
tripperslipper
OK to operate
You never learned that trick??
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
tripperslipper
OK to operate
Fair enough, can't be mad at that. Personally i'm willing to compromise and assist with someone/thing's shortcomings if it improves my life too.
The other option is having my board die around 5pm and delivering with no EDD until around 9 by taking pictures of the labels on my phone, then getting back to the building, getting a new battery and sheeting everything, only to find out I had signature packages, intercepts, etc.
Reading one label at a time and driving to that stop in PAL order gets old fast. I'd rather just splash some water on it
The other option is having my board die around 5pm and delivering with no EDD until around 9 by taking pictures of the labels on my phone, then getting back to the building, getting a new battery and sheeting everything, only to find out I had signature packages, intercepts, etc.
Reading one label at a time and driving to that stop in PAL order gets old fast. I'd rather just splash some water on it
MyTripisCut
Never bought my own handtruck
Beat it @Barney
El Correcto
god is dead
Mr. Dave I don’t got to win this argument with you because I have already won it against an on road, multiple times.
El Correcto
god is dead
Here we do not have to gather supplies before start time. If they want us to gather supplies before pcm they need to make our start time before pcm.
tripperslipper
OK to operate
The only Barneys I know are a big purple dinosaur and an inept police officer
