NathanielThomas@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think the weirdest thing is that UPS is still in business. The company has a zero percent success rate delivering to my building. Zero.
My theory is the driver parks, gets out, slaps the “nobody home” sticker on the door and drops it off at the depot. That’s not delivery.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s a symptom of managers using bullshit metrics and processes to squeeze every possible cent of value they can from a worker.
The worker is neither lazy nor stupid, he is trying to hit a quota. If something about your building is a time sink, they’re going to skip it.
The metric is quantity, not quality, because quantity is easy to measure and easy to convert to a number that starts with a dollar sign.
If the insatiable thirst for better metrics forces employees to cut corners, they’ll cut corners. It’s extremely unlikely they have the luxury of spending a month unemployed.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We have 12 seconds to do a delivery.
That’s: Stop truck. Open bulkhead door. Find package. Go to door, ring bell, knock, yell “UPS!” Go back to truck. Fasten seatbelt. Start truck and drive to next stop. 12 seconds. If you are not home, we have to fill out the DR notice on top of all that.
You get two hard knocks and a ring before I have that slip filled out because I got to move on to the other 150-200 stops and pickups I have to do.
twack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In this case it’s probably a case of repeated porch pirates. Or one of their neighbors ordering a bunch of stuff and reporting it stolen even if it wasn’t.
The scenario they are describing is more work for the driver, not less.