Planned routes

[Re-Raise]

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They can force you off of your route?

If my route is cut, they say I can follow any of my work and bump a lower seniority driver.

I said why can't the lower seniority guy run the combined route?

They said he isn't scheduled to work.

I guess I could just call in sick because we literally have NO attendance policy, but I don't like to be dishonest.

The problem is I am going from 0 to 100 coming back from not being able to walk 3 weeks ago and now I have to run a 10 hr load on a route that isn't even mine.

My house is paid for, my kid's college has been paid for and I have plenty of money in the bank. I would be more than happy to let the 28 year old new driver still living with his parents work a couple of days a week until I at least get back into work shape.

 

[Re-Raise]

Actually they don't say "I can follow my work" they say "I have to follow my work" because seniority gives me the right to work not the right not to work.

Is it the same in your centers?

 

[oldngray]

Actually they don't say "I can follow my work" they say "I have to follow my work" because seniority gives me the right to work not the right not to work.

Is it the same in your centers?

You have the right to work. Not the right to not work. If there are extra people they can ask from the top if people want the day off though.

 

[Re-Raise]

You have the right to work. Not the right to not work. If there are extra people they can ask from the top if people want the day off though.

We never have extra people because they always schedule fewer routes than we run and call them in if they supposedly add routes.

An extra couple of hundred means nothing to me, but it would to some of these guys who only work a couple of days a week

 

[cosmo1]

Yes but I also like to make sure.

The two or three years I was senior driver, they basically asked me to tell them when I wanted off and not to worry after.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The two or three years I was senior driver, they basically asked me to tell them when I wanted off and not to worry after.

8/31 is in the week that the college kids come back. My route gets slammed for about 2 weeks.

 

[cosmo1]

8/31 is in the week that the college kids come back. My route gets slammed for about 2 weeks.

So? Staffing's problem, not your's.

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

You have the right to work. Not the right to not work.

Depends on your supplement.

 

[Re-Raise]

The two or three years I was senior driver, they basically asked me to tell them when I wanted off and not to worry after.

Our new guys are pretty bad. They don't know very many routes and our sups don't want to train them.

I know I could just start calling in sick and my wife wants me to because of the swelling in my foot I had surgery on, but I just hate being dishonest about it.

Why do I have to bump the guy off his route when my country bid route is cut?

 

[burrheadd]

Actually they don't say "I can follow my work" they say "I have to follow my work" because seniority gives me the right to work not the right not to work.

Is it the same in your centers?

Around here the kissers get about any day off they want
The rest not so much

 

[ManInBrown]

How does your center handle the cutting of routes each week? Does the schedule for the week ever accurately predict the number of routes each day? What do the extra drivers do? Do they show up and see if any driver wants to go home or do the lowest seniority drivers just stay home?

What do you mean schedule? Drivers start at 8:40. There is no schedule.

 

[Re-Raise]

What do you mean schedule? Drivers start at 8:40. There is no schedule.

They post a schedule for the week with the number routes each day and who is running each route each day.

It includes who is off for 8hr or 10 hr optional days too.

They don't post a schedule at your center?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

They post a schedule for the week with the number routes each day and who is running each route each day.

It includes who is off for 8hr or 10 hr optional days too.

They don't post a schedule at your center?

Nope.

 

[MC0493]

No schedule in my center either, i'm a low cover driver, have to go ask every morning what i'm doing.

 

[Re-Raise]

Nope.

So every driver shows up? If there isn't a route for them that day they just go home?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

So every driver shows up? If there isn't a route for them that day they just go home?

No. The casuals, unless previously scheduled, have to call in by 8 every morning.

There is a schedule but it is not posted for all to see.

 

[Re-Raise]

They let the senior drivers here take unpaid days off. Some guys here only work 2 days a week. They cut route almost every day, us lower seniority guys work every day.

So do you show up and see who wants to go home or do you sit at home and call in to see if you are scheduled to work that day?

 

[upschuck]

Here, the is a start time list, and uf to come in, and on call, you run the risk of not working, mist of the time, they'll know the previous evening. Also, if your route is cut, you have option to go home, or run an available route.

 

[By The Book]

Our new guys are pretty bad. They don't know very many routes and our sups don't want to train them.

I know I could just start calling in sick and my wife wants me to because of the swelling in my foot I had surgery on, but I just hate being dishonest about it.

Why do I have to bump the guy off his route when my country bid route is cut?

If you need the time to heal go to your doctor and get a note. If you were hurt at work go to their doctor and get a note.

 

[By The Book]

Here, the is a start time list, and uf to come in, and on call, you run the risk of not working, mist of the time, they'll know the previous evening. Also, if your route is cut, you have option to go home, or run an available route.

Humpty Bumpty!