Westsideworma, I wish you good luck. We need people with that attitude.
Will it change you, probably not, will it frustrate you and keep you up at night, probably. When you KNOW what you are asking someone to do, is physically impossible, and you still tell them they gotta meet that mar, because you were told to MOTIVATE them, you will lose that person as a friend. And they wont trust you anymore. And you will have to do that or you will be on the street. And they wont respect you anymore, friendship aside.
When I have a sup with me for three days, who watches everything I do and doesnt help me at all and I do the same with them as I do without them, and all they can tell me Is we know the numbers come up wrong, but you have got to get to X number of stops per hour, where does that leave us/me? It leaves me unmotivated, and frustrated and stressed. Because the person who is telling me I have to do better, cannot tell me how.
We are all special in some way or we would not have been hired, 95% of the people I work with work their hearts out to do a job, and are totally whipped from hearing we arent doing enough. Fast enough, safe enough, soon enough. Unless you are in an area where they hire just anyone, you are the cream of the crop. Especially the people with some seniority, they didnt used to hire, "just anyone".
I have noticed they tightened the screws again, I was going out with 60-80 two yrs ago, then when the 5.8 seconds were implemented, it went to 100, now its 120.
Just because someone makes a few keystrokes that says 120= 8.5 hrs, but it takes 10, does not mean it is possible. It actually is ludicrous. It has met the point of diminished return. What does UPS gain from seeing people be 2 hrs or more late on their OR? The only thing that changes is the numbers, not the people, their motivation, their ability or their pride. And there lies the problem between hourlies and management. You wish you could make a difference, I do too. I wish you luck trying to do so, but as the new kid on the block, you better have back up. Because try as you may, you are not going to change things, You will not have enough clout, at this point I dont think anyone does.
OUr union just tells us, production is not recognized, I think there must be a way to voice our opinions, and I only speak from the driver side as my preload time is old, to tell corporate, it aint working. Yes production probaly wont get you fired, but it will keep you out late every single night for the rest of your days. I expect to work hard, I actually like to work hard, but when I bust my butt to get through a day, and see the next its called a 7.9... so I get 20 more, but it took me ten, its 10. And I dont want to do that for the rest of my working life. And I didnt used to, If I needed to get done early, I could turn up the throttle on the body and get done reasonably early. Now I turn up the throttle to make it in by 8. I might have gotten older, but with age I have gotten smoother, I cant even imagine what a swing driver goes through now, when you dont know where a street is or where a number is, when I know every single one and without a flaw, I get to each one. And am still working 10 hrs.
So once again I will wish you luck, but being young educated, and motivated I would tell you to go where your attributes will be appreciated, and not denegrated.
