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<blockquote data-quote="BMWMC" data-source="post: 952544" data-attributes="member: 37461">Past performance is no guarantee of future results.&nbsp; There a simple solution for managements need for information; let drivers code off all &quot;time events&quot; not part of that days assigned delivery and pick up trace.&nbsp;&nbsp;For instance something as giving a dog a biscuit.&nbsp; Sound innocent enough, right.&nbsp; But no where in your assigned duties, methods, or procedures does it account for any time to give a dog a biscuit nor have you been given any written authorization to do so.&nbsp;&nbsp; Management could easily say you intentionally deviated from your assigned duties that cost the company money (stealing time.)&nbsp; If that sounds overly nit picky then imagine or think back across your own day at how many times you engaged in innocent conversations or activities with people most instigated by those same people.&nbsp;&nbsp;I could nit pick and nit pick hundreds of circumstances and situation that a driver encounters that are not assigned, measured, and recorded by Telemetrics that for all intensive purposes can be maligned by management as stealing time.&nbsp; Allowing drivers to &quot;code off with text memo&quot; any particular event that they felt or believed they could or should engage in puts the ball back in the companies court to either reject any future like kind activity or authorize it.&nbsp; The company wants to use Telemeterics for accountability and efficiency then why shouldn&#039;t the driver be allowed to fully account for all that his/her days work may entail. Are we just programmed machines executing instructions in a sequence serving other machines, or, are we people, humans, serving other humans in a human environment.&nbsp; The way Telemetrics see&#039;s the world and how management can define the world, we are machines, serving machines, every second of every minute, of every day.PS: During Christmas and many other holiday&#039;s I deliver to a senior housing complex.&nbsp; Many of these sweet old lady&#039;s and worn down men get flowers in box&#039;s and other gifts.&nbsp; Now those flower have plastic ties that you have to cut with scissors.&nbsp; I have to, by request of the customer, open the box, cut the ties, and remove the flowers.&nbsp; They have arthritis you see and can&#039;t do it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Have I been given authorization by UPS?&nbsp; Have I been assigned a time unit for this? No.&nbsp; I just do it because I have empathy for these folks and they asked me.&nbsp; Am I stealing time?&nbsp; Depends right?&nbsp; Am I a scratch driver?&nbsp; Do I file grievances?&nbsp; Is my management team ball breakers looking for any kind of leverage to get me to work through unpaid lunch period?&nbsp;&nbsp; You tell me.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Am I stealing time?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BMWMC, post: 952544, member: 37461"] [U][I][B]Past performance is no guarantee of future results.[/B][/I][/U] There a simple solution for managements need for information; let drivers code off all "time events" not part of that days assigned delivery and pick up trace. For instance something as giving a dog a biscuit. Sound innocent enough, right. But no where in your assigned duties, methods, or procedures does it account for any time to give a dog a biscuit nor have you been given any written authorization to do so. Management could easily say you intentionally deviated from your assigned duties that cost the company money (stealing time.) If that sounds overly nit picky then imagine or think back across your own day at how many times you engaged in innocent conversations or activities with people most instigated by those same people. I could nit pick and nit pick hundreds of circumstances and situation that a driver encounters that are not assigned, measured, and recorded by Telemetrics that for all intensive purposes can be maligned by management as stealing time. Allowing drivers to "code off with text memo" any particular event that they felt or believed they could or should engage in puts the ball back in the companies court to either reject any future like kind activity or authorize it. The company wants to use Telemeterics for accountability and efficiency then why shouldn't the driver be allowed to fully account for all that his/her days work may entail. Are we just programmed machines executing instructions in a sequence serving other machines, or, are we people, humans, serving other humans in a human environment. The way Telemetrics see's the world and how management [I][B]can[/B][/I] define the world, we are machines, serving machines, every second of every minute, of every day. PS: During Christmas and many other holiday's I deliver to a senior housing complex. Many of these sweet old lady's and worn down men get flowers in box's and other gifts. Now those flower have plastic ties that you have to cut with scissors. I have to, by request of the customer, open the box, cut the ties, and remove the flowers. They have arthritis you see and can't do it. Have I been given authorization by UPS? Have I been assigned a time unit for this? No. I just do it because I have empathy for these folks and they asked me. Am I stealing time? Depends right? Am I a scratch driver? Do I file grievances? Is my management team ball breakers looking for any kind of leverage to get me to work through unpaid lunch period? You tell me. Am I stealing time? [/QUOTE]

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