ManInBrown
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No. Knowing what routes are going out, or how many are "in" is management's job. They don't let us know that stuff in advance, nor do I care to know. If my route isn't in point me to the broom closet.
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Re-Raise
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So you don't have to follow your work and run a combo route?
Re-Raise
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Here they post a schedule at the beginning of the week that says what day my route is cut and they have me forced to run the route next to mine which has some of my work. They claim the lower seniority drivers are scheduled off so they don't even show up.
Re-Raise
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My surgeon said "Oh you are a driver so you mostly drive? I don't see why you couldn't go back to work then."
I just sighed and decided I would work at my own pace. I just wish I didn't have to cover two combined routes to make some guy's stops per car numbers look better.
DriveInDriveOut
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He would have gotten an earful after I got done laughing.
Re-Raise
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The physical therapy they had me doing would never have had any impact on preparing me for the job we do. Luckily I have a pretty good home gym where I could still work my upper body even while I wasn't allowed to put any weight on my foot. And I made sure not to pack on any weight while I was off.
I would love to post the pictures of the loads I went out with my first days back, but I am afraid that you can read some of the labels. I took them so I would never forget how they eased me back into it.
ManInBrown
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No. Route usually cut once a week. Once in a blue moon twice. The days it's cut the majority of my work goes on the other 2 routes in my loop. Both of those drivers have more seniority than me. I'll run a route of a driver who's on vacation usually. If not then point me in the direction of the broom closet. It will be a day of sweeping floors
Re-Raise
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So you show up to work even if you know you are an extra driver that day?
tiredofhelping
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I would love to start at 8:40 everyday....actually I would have to tweak my morning routine but it would so be worth it. 9:00 is too late of a start for me.
ManInBrown
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I don't know whether I am an extra driver till that morning, when I walk in. We don't have a schedule. Drivers start at 8:40. They don't let us know in advance what routes are "in" what days. I don't go home no matter what. If I get in my car and drive all the way there, I'm working. I have enough seniority and enough route knowledge that I can work every day, which I do.
Re-Raise
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We never have extra people show up wanting to work like they seem to at some of these centers
ManInBrown
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It doesn't work like that here. Unless you're on vacation, called out sick, on disability, or have the day scheduled off you show up. Bunch of low seniority drivers go home most days. But they still have to show up. Everyone shows up, every day.
MC4YOU2
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Here, contractually they must post the schedule by the previous Friday. They were very lax at one time and it took a grievance to get them to do it dependably.
Anyone, who is not a low seniority cover driver, is listed by their route, with the remainder listed as "call in."
They usually cut the same one or two routes first if they're going to cut. I bid a route, when gained enough seniority, that was never cut to avoid that scenario, although my first two earlier routes were cut continually.
They used that same old "Billy Bob doesn't know that route, so we need your knowledge there, and we don't know when (if ever) he'll be trained on that one" line on me too. Soooo I helped them out by taking sick days that enabled Billy Bob the opportunity to learn it cold like we did in the good old days. Win/win.
If a driver, regardless if seniority, is on that list, he/she is guaranteed 8 hours. If they bring you in and have no work, they need to either 1. Find a route for you somehow, which is usually easy to get a volunteer to take a dead day, or 2. Pay you and send you home.
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We have no idea who is off till we start at 8:30. 8:40 Tues to Friday. They do call when they want a senior guy to take off. If I already left the house I say I'm coming in. We have about 5 guys who take dead days. A lot of them. Our pt covers work steady by March till x Mas.
They did try to cut my area a few times. But for some reason I'd work till 9pm. Needless to say ,my route is on each day. With no less or more than 100 stops.
They did try to cut my area a few times. But for some reason I'd work till 9pm. Needless to say ,my route is on each day. With no less or more than 100 stops.
JL 0513
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So does the center pay for all that wasted time and gas that the drivers use up all those days? Didn't think so. That would never fly here.
No one has to show up and then get sent home in my center. How hard is it for sups to know the number of routes going out an hour in advance and start making phone calls? That's what they do in my center. All low seniority drivers work everyday. Monday's, in particular, they call seniority drivers to see who wants it off. There's always enough volunteers.
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DriveInDriveOut
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If they're FT drivers why aren't they demanding their 8 everyday?
JL 0513
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Isn't that a question for the other posters who's centers are sending drivers home after they get ready and drive all the way to work? Nobody gets sent home or is forced off in my center. As I said, seniority guys always want time off.
DriveInDriveOut
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True, but there's a big difference between showing up and being "sent" home, and showing up and choosing to take a dead day. If FT drivers are called and offered to have a dead day, I'd say that's a pretty nice courtesy your management team is offering.
But I do hear your point so....
If they're FT drivers why aren't they demanding their 8 hours?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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If you think starting at 9 sucks you should try starting at 9:30.
ManInBrown
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My guess is most of them would rather just go home instead of being sent out in the blind
