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<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 1299171" data-attributes="member: 17969">The case to use under Article 37 is a &quot;contradicting directive&quot;.&nbsp; The &quot;DIRECTIVE&quot; given in Article 37 comes before any &quot;work as directed&quot;&nbsp; DIRECTIVE.The center manager cannot give you an instruction that forces you to abandon the &quot;obligation&quot; of running the route with the company&#039;s best interests in mind.If you know you are going to add miles using VDO, then thats NOT in the companys best interests.&nbsp; If you know you are going extend your day using VDO, then thats not in the companys best interests.&nbsp; If you know you are going to miss a business stop or school using VDO, then thats not in the companys best interests.If you are placed into a situation where your &quot;judgement&quot; has to override an ORION instruction, then you are using the obligation under article 37.The company cannot deny this, for its the instruction they are giving in saying to be only 85% in compliance.&nbsp; This alone is a self admission that ORION does not work.Contradicting directives can never be forced upon an employee.Nobody knows the direction of any route other than the person running it day after day and the final decision about timeliness always defaults back to the driver. ORION makes huge mistakes as we can all see, and its the driver who has to fix those mistakes day in and day out.However, if you talk to your center manager, all he can tell you is how wonderful ORION is working and how many miles its saving the company because thats the smoke that got blown up his rear end in district meetings.If the company forced its managers to ride along with a driver once ORION was installed and allow the driver to use ORION 100%, they would see that NO MILES are saved, Business failures created, next day air failed and pickups missed. They would also see that ORION would have to be turned off and the drivers descretion utilized in the alternative.Of course, they wont.&nbsp; They dont want to know the truth. TOS.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 1299171, member: 17969"] The case to use under Article 37 is a "contradicting directive". The "DIRECTIVE" given in Article 37 comes before any "work as directed" DIRECTIVE. The center manager cannot give you an instruction that forces you to abandon the "obligation" of running the route with the company's best interests in mind. If you know you are going to add miles using VDO, then thats NOT in the companys best interests. If you know you are going extend your day using VDO, then thats not in the companys best interests. If you know you are going to miss a business stop or school using VDO, then thats not in the companys best interests. If you are placed into a situation where your "judgement" has to override an ORION instruction, then you are using the obligation under article 37. The company cannot deny this, for its the instruction they are giving in saying to be only 85% in compliance. This alone is a self admission that ORION does not work. Contradicting directives can never be forced upon an employee. Nobody knows the direction of any route other than the person running it day after day and the final decision about timeliness always defaults back to the driver. ORION makes huge mistakes as we can all see, and its the driver who has to fix those mistakes day in and day out. However, if you talk to your center manager, all he can tell you is how wonderful ORION is working and how many miles its saving the company because thats the smoke that got blown up his rear end in district meetings. If the company forced its managers to ride along with a driver once ORION was installed and allow the driver to use ORION 100%, they would see that NO MILES are saved, Business failures created, next day air failed and pickups missed. They would also see that ORION would have to be turned off and the drivers descretion utilized in the alternative. Of course, they wont. They dont want to know the truth. TOS. [/QUOTE]

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