Peak horror stories
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Jack4343
FT DR Specialist
My first helper on my 2nd peak met me at an high-rise office building. She had previous experience with helping and a DIAD so I gave her the board and loaded a floor's worth of stops and sent her on her way so I could sort thru the rest of the building's stops. 40 minutes later, I'm done sorting my whole truck stop per stop and I'm getting ready to go up and look for her when she finally returns with the handtruck in one hand and a container of lunch that she had just ate. She had decided that she was hungry so she stopped at the restaurant on the main floor and plopped her fat butt down for some food. Of course, she was sluggish and tired and was crap the rest of the day. I would get out at a resi, give her one stop and I'd take stops for the 3 neighbors. I'd walk up and down those 3 driveways before she'd finish that one house and I parked at that driveway. Finished with 190 that day and I doubt she did 20 of those. I would've been done faster without her help. She complained all day also.
Some of the drivers in our center refuse helpers and the center lets the run without them. One driver in our center ran 283 stops without a helper and clocked out before 6pm. I asked him why he ran so hard and he stated that he hated delivering in the dark so he ran every stop. His SPORH was over 35 that day. Incredible. I can run 30 an hour at times but not EVERY hour. I think my legs would fall off first. His driveways were not short either. It was a well-to-do area in our center and had plenty of long uphill driveways.
Some of the drivers in our center refuse helpers and the center lets the run without them. One driver in our center ran 283 stops without a helper and clocked out before 6pm. I asked him why he ran so hard and he stated that he hated delivering in the dark so he ran every stop. His SPORH was over 35 that day. Incredible. I can run 30 an hour at times but not EVERY hour. I think my legs would fall off first. His driveways were not short either. It was a well-to-do area in our center and had plenty of long uphill driveways.
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westsideworma
Guest
The inside could be a horror story this year on our preload. We barely get enough to run the shift correctly now without using extensions (and even then sometimes not enough want to suffer lol). Most of the ones who show up everyday (management and hourly alike) are getting pretty nervous about this peak. I've been here a short few years but I've never seen it as bad as this (staffing wise) and others that have been here far longer said the same. Even the people who show up everyday are getting frustrated because they are being asked to go way above and beyond everyday (workload wise) because no one wants to work.
Some were quick to thumb their nose at HR. How is it HRs fault if no one good applies? lol Especially now that its getting into the free period, come get worked like a dog for no money and no benefits and maybe we'll hire you on in January...if IE dictates we need you....because you know volume goes WAAAAY down
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Anyone else running into this at their hub?
Some were quick to thumb their nose at HR. How is it HRs fault if no one good applies? lol Especially now that its getting into the free period, come get worked like a dog for no money and no benefits and maybe we'll hire you on in January...if IE dictates we need you....because you know volume goes WAAAAY down
. Anyone else running into this at their hub?
RockyRogue
Agent of Change
Ohhhhh, YEAH
!!!!! There's pretty much open-doubleshifting here for anyone that wants it right now. Can only see Peak getting worse (as if that's possible). I'm with you on thinking this could be a mean Peak. Fortunately, I won't be here to put out the fires 
! -Rocky
Big Babooba
Well-Known Member
Were there a lot of little white wiggly things? YUK
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