Mythical Methods
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In the last four months our center has been out right jerks about mis-loads to most of us. I was wondering if this is going on nationwide, district wide, or just mainly where I am at? I am not sure what the ordeal is. We can have two mis-loads in our entire center with a volume of 10,000 and the sups go insane.
Monday it was knocked up a notch and they had this huge meeting with everyone who had mis-loads. This is up from the verbal warnings, the written letters, but hasn't hit suspension yet. Some of the loaders are literally scared they are going to lose their jobs, I am not because quite frankly they are setting us up to fail and I document all of this.
I blame most of this on management setting the team up to fail. They let countless people go home everyday. We will be loading for thirty minutes to half a shift before we get our truck placards, our bulk reports, sometimes before there is even a truck there to load so you are just stacking, ect. They move people to pulls they have never seen in their life, with no training, and expected to run a perfect pull with no mis-loads. Stuff comes down the wrong belts that are on the other side of the building.
They cut stuff from routes and move it to another one only to move it back again. They try to blame it on the flow rate, which I admit sucks. The supervisor they have back there is an awesome guy, and he cares about his job. He does everything he can to make sure it runs smoothly, but there is way to much going on in that one area with the number of people they give him back there to even consider running it smoothly. It happens because they send people home and then take his guys to load trucks, so he ends up short handed. I actually feel sorry for the guy, and I can't stand how they use him as a whipping boy, and I am a Union Man. If I could take up for him some way I would.
I want to know at what point I can start filing on some of this, and what Articles does this fall under.
If this puts it in prospective it is starting to get to the point that even our senior drivers are scratching their heads asking WTF. A driver I know well asked me this morning if this is progressively getting worse from management. He told me to file for harassment without me even asking or saying anything to him about it. I have considered it but I don't think it would carry any weight. Also, I am not afraid to file on anything as long as it is legit, true, and will work.
Monday it was knocked up a notch and they had this huge meeting with everyone who had mis-loads. This is up from the verbal warnings, the written letters, but hasn't hit suspension yet. Some of the loaders are literally scared they are going to lose their jobs, I am not because quite frankly they are setting us up to fail and I document all of this.
I blame most of this on management setting the team up to fail. They let countless people go home everyday. We will be loading for thirty minutes to half a shift before we get our truck placards, our bulk reports, sometimes before there is even a truck there to load so you are just stacking, ect. They move people to pulls they have never seen in their life, with no training, and expected to run a perfect pull with no mis-loads. Stuff comes down the wrong belts that are on the other side of the building.
They cut stuff from routes and move it to another one only to move it back again. They try to blame it on the flow rate, which I admit sucks. The supervisor they have back there is an awesome guy, and he cares about his job. He does everything he can to make sure it runs smoothly, but there is way to much going on in that one area with the number of people they give him back there to even consider running it smoothly. It happens because they send people home and then take his guys to load trucks, so he ends up short handed. I actually feel sorry for the guy, and I can't stand how they use him as a whipping boy, and I am a Union Man. If I could take up for him some way I would.
I want to know at what point I can start filing on some of this, and what Articles does this fall under.
If this puts it in prospective it is starting to get to the point that even our senior drivers are scratching their heads asking WTF. A driver I know well asked me this morning if this is progressively getting worse from management. He told me to file for harassment without me even asking or saying anything to him about it. I have considered it but I don't think it would carry any weight. Also, I am not afraid to file on anything as long as it is legit, true, and will work.
doesn't get loaded on time. Don't let them bully you into speeding up either or stack the 
