Well, today was a total disaster. Aside from way back when I'd run misloads, I'm confident I had my lowest SPORH of my career. I wasn't alone.
I'm pretty friendly with a few supes outside of Brown. I had two separate conversations about the Saturday thing with two different supes this week.
One claimed that his dispatcher is intentionally sabotaging the dispatch to drive up miles & make it virtually impossible to staff the routes with people who will know the entire area. He's supposedly doing this by creating routes that look good at a glance, but actually cover bits & pieces of different loops so few drivers will have enough area knowledge to run them without being at least partially blind. He's also supposedly splicing them together so the RDO will be all screwed up, which will obviously completely screw up ODO.
Judging by what I saw and heard from other drivers, he was quite successful.
The second supe claimed that no one - not even the division manager - wants this to work. That supe made it clear he/she doesn't want it to work (yes, I'm being intentionally ambiguous). So, it's being sabotaged from the top down... As a driver, that means Saturdays are going to be horrendous for the foreseeable future.
My route wasn't the worst, but it was pretty bad. Another guy had over 100 stops that covered parts of 6 routes & 3 different loops.
The tensions are high... I overheard a shouting match between a manager & some suit from corporate. Well, I overheard one line as I walked to clock in.
"You come in here & start yelling at these people, and they'll go the friend* home. They're all 6th punches. They'll go the friend* home, and you'll have these drivers loading their own friendg trucks til noon!"
Makes me proud to wear brown... not.
