Understaffed, now go home.
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The upper management is telling your bosses to do the job with less people so that you guys rush, and they hope that the situation gets desperate enough that you guys let the supervisors work. Stay strong and don't go any faster than normal. And file if the sups work.
watdaflock?
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Maybe trying to get the new hires some hours?
Analbumcover
ControlPkgs
Usually, yes. All things considered our center has a team of reasonable supervisors, both ORS and preload.
Matty_lawn
Poopin' on the clock
OP how long have you been here? I know its off topic just wondering anyways
Analbumcover
ControlPkgs
On the site or with OOPS the company?
Matty_lawn
Poopin' on the clock
Analbumcover
ControlPkgs
Close to a year, less on this site however.
watdaflock?
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What is so hard to understand? You think UPS wants to over-staff and have even more people standing around, doing practically nothing?
Analbumcover
ControlPkgs
Overstaffed? That's not a word I hear at our center.
Duckwithapipboy
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Biggest problem is the load lines when they staff it for someone to do two jobs, then order that belt sup to send off people to help another belt while the flow continues to increase. Not to mention giving the ROs to strong loaders, which inevitably creates a situation where my FT was "demonstrating" to help reduce the backlog since that loaders couldn't keep up.
Analbumcover
ControlPkgs
Overstaffed? That's not a word I hear at our center.
As someone else said...stop working until they're finished "training" you.
There's a delicate balance, to be sure, but as long as supervisors are working, there is no "over-staffing."
I hear it all the time right now. Flavor of the month. By the time May swings around, they're gonna be desperate for people and claim that we're ridiculously understaffed, though.
Duckwithapipboy
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Eh, I kept working. Another union employee allowed it who doesn't give a 
so the "demonstration" was for them. I mostly take solace in the fact that this new FT used to be on the load lines like us and not some HR flunkie that would come onto the primary line shouting "10-tiers guys! Load faster!"
But it seems kinda trivial now. We just had an older guy on the load lines have a heart attack or a seizure and die in his trailer.
so the "demonstration" was for them. I mostly take solace in the fact that this new FT used to be on the load lines like us and not some HR flunkie that would come onto the primary line shouting "10-tiers guys! Load faster!" But it seems kinda trivial now. We just had an older guy on the load lines have a heart attack or a seizure and die in his trailer.
Wally
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Really, what are we, a government facility?
working up a sweat
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We used to have layoffs just about every Monday because of low volume. Volume was starting to pick up at the time.
The contract required 24 hours notice if you are laid off.
So on Sunday night we were working the verti lift rolling the cans into the feeders. One guy asked the night shift manager if there was going to be any lay offs for Monday.
The boss replied in the classic Jim Mora playoffs rant impersonation. He had to see that Coors commercial.
"Layoffs! Don't talk about layoffs! You kidding me! Layoffs! Volume is picking up! You show up tommorrow night at midnight!"
Most of us were in stitches laughing our tails off. It was classic.
The contract required 24 hours notice if you are laid off.
So on Sunday night we were working the verti lift rolling the cans into the feeders. One guy asked the night shift manager if there was going to be any lay offs for Monday.
The boss replied in the classic Jim Mora playoffs rant impersonation. He had to see that Coors commercial.
"Layoffs! Don't talk about layoffs! You kidding me! Layoffs! Volume is picking up! You show up tommorrow night at midnight!"
Most of us were in stitches laughing our tails off. It was classic.
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