Just A UPS Guy
Bully.
How frickin' obtuse can you be???
Sorts shutting down
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Bubblehead
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Assuming I am correct and "how does this square" means what I think it does, it's simple:
After more than 2 years of ridiculous unforcasted growth in the e-commerce market, UPS is now experiencing a natural contraction in volume on the backside of an unprecedented crisis and accelerated inflation, but UPS is well positioned going forward.
Being true to their longstanding playbook, the Company is again trying to squeeze yet more blood from the turnip, selling it as a long term downward market trend to try and scare our members into accepting less.
Where I am from supervisors working is being grieved at a blistering pace, drivers are still being scheduled for 6 days, 9.5 violations are now suddenly a problem again, egress remains the same problem it has been for years and nobody wants to work here anymore.
Don't fall for the banana in the tailpipe and hold solid on what is important.
~Bbbl~™
TSB
Yeah, I'm a road hog
clean hairy
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Those who volunteer to go to upstate ny get a condo and a leased altima?
iruhnman630
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Our building recently began writing drivers up for not unloading all smalls 'shoebox size ' or smaller and under 10 pounds.
For most of us that is about half or more of our pickup volume.
I would not be surprised if we end up unloading all of our own volume and seeing drastic reductions in the sort staffing.
For most of us that is about half or more of our pickup volume.
I would not be surprised if we end up unloading all of our own volume and seeing drastic reductions in the sort staffing.
My point: Freight was sold anyway. A smaller economic agreement made it easier to sell....
I actually think(mostly) you are exactly right.
21Savage
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That's what they started doing at my building. We're told to park our trucks in the same bay we left from and unload all pickup volume if back after 20:00
eats packages
Deranged lunatic
This just seems like a shell game, shut down one sort and all you do is increase hours on the adjacent sort and cause indirects aka everybody gets their package 1 day later and with an extra round of possible damages.
KearsargeCoop
Baseball, dart board
That's kind of what I was thinking.
"Shift labor from this region to this region for the 2nd quarter, then we will cut hard in the 3rd and shift labor again..."
allahuakbar
She/Her
Literally this!8:00 am START FOR ALL DRIVERS OR WE STRIKE
allahuakbar
She/Her
Is day sort really even needed?
Simple answer? Maybe.
What'dyabringmetoday???
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No worries- Sean is out in front of this. Going to be the best contract yet!
dudebro
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"This just seems like a shell game, shut down one sort and all you do is increase hours on the adjacent sort and cause indirects aka everybody gets their package 1 day later and with an extra round of possible damages."
That's true if you're processing the same amount of packages. If there's less volume to process, you get the lower volume of work done on one sort with the same hours as before, and you don't need the second sort.
That's true if you're processing the same amount of packages. If there's less volume to process, you get the lower volume of work done on one sort with the same hours as before, and you don't need the second sort.
eats packages
Deranged lunatic
Feela like the textbook rail example:
Instead of sending 4 crews with 4 trains. You can roughly double the length of the trains. The first crew goes but the second crew is now forced to wait. The second crew runs out of hours and must be replaced by a third crew. Therefore (after several hours of extra pay and a horrible timeframe and use of infrastructure) you save roughly the cost of a fourth crew.
Better not bigger.
dudebro
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Well, in your example, you still save one crew. But you describe a negative effect on the infrastructure. With less volume, the second crew isn't waiting, they're rescheduled.
In my opinion, if UPS is taking down sorts, they're projecting that the volume will be reduced at least until fall / peak season. Ops changes incur some chaos costs for a week or two until they stabilize. Closing sorts are months-long decisions.
Steamer
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I have NOT been lurking
Eat. Sleep. Work. Jork.
Would it involve leaving US politics alone and ending dual citizenship
Commercial Inside Release
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This is like in antiquity or perhaps the dark ages, where the chiefs of the tribes or clans are promised great things, but when invited to the meeting hall, they are all stabbed and hung from the rafters.
