More work, less pay
Wow, I completely skipped August in updating this. But who cares, no one reads it, right? But I find this easier to post longer stuff than FB.
I work at a newspaper delivery company. Before, we only delivered the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and a handful of small publications with few customers, like the left British business paper Financial Times or the extreme right paper IBD (which is so right it dedicates it's editorial pages to bashing Obama daily, or delivers such gems as "Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates White House" or "Islamists employed by CIA").
Back in May we moved our department into an empty storage area of the warehouse so we could rent our old place to a silk-screening company. Hence the argument with that manager over me cleaning up a bit.
Then in June we picked up the local Detroit Free Press, and Detroit News, for home delivery. Originally, our company had two departments, one for home delivery, one for store delivery. They ended up combining them together, so now almost everyone does both store and home delivery. Plus they shrunk our routes (at least they did mine, others have complained that their routes are bigger now) to accommodate the additional papers. My route shrunk by two large apartment complexes.
The News and Free Press only home deliver on Thurs, Fri, and Sunday. So on every other day of the week I'm just fine. Easy work.
On those days the Free-Press/News comes out, I have 100 more papers, and I'm working an hour or more later each night. Used to get home around 6am, now it's 7-7:30am on those days. I spend an hour more, at least, preparing before I go out delivering on those days, because the Free Press & News need to be put together, like stuffing advertisements into the paper that are for some reason not already in the paper when they arrive. And I'm probably making less than $100 more a paycheck despite all the extra work I do on Detroit paper days.
Before we got the Detroit papers about half a dozen people quit because they didn't want to do the extra work. After we picked up the new publications, more people quit. Now managers are doing routes because not enough people can do them. People come in, and then quit a week later due to the stress. And the management's answer is that they quit because they're lazy or whiners, ignoring the insane changes that cause them to quit. I guess greed makes you blind and dumb.
I work at a newspaper delivery company. Before, we only delivered the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and a handful of small publications with few customers, like the left British business paper Financial Times or the extreme right paper IBD (which is so right it dedicates it's editorial pages to bashing Obama daily, or delivers such gems as "Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates White House" or "Islamists employed by CIA").
Back in May we moved our department into an empty storage area of the warehouse so we could rent our old place to a silk-screening company. Hence the argument with that manager over me cleaning up a bit.
Then in June we picked up the local Detroit Free Press, and Detroit News, for home delivery. Originally, our company had two departments, one for home delivery, one for store delivery. They ended up combining them together, so now almost everyone does both store and home delivery. Plus they shrunk our routes (at least they did mine, others have complained that their routes are bigger now) to accommodate the additional papers. My route shrunk by two large apartment complexes.
The News and Free Press only home deliver on Thurs, Fri, and Sunday. So on every other day of the week I'm just fine. Easy work.
On those days the Free-Press/News comes out, I have 100 more papers, and I'm working an hour or more later each night. Used to get home around 6am, now it's 7-7:30am on those days. I spend an hour more, at least, preparing before I go out delivering on those days, because the Free Press & News need to be put together, like stuffing advertisements into the paper that are for some reason not already in the paper when they arrive. And I'm probably making less than $100 more a paycheck despite all the extra work I do on Detroit paper days.
Before we got the Detroit papers about half a dozen people quit because they didn't want to do the extra work. After we picked up the new publications, more people quit. Now managers are doing routes because not enough people can do them. People come in, and then quit a week later due to the stress. And the management's answer is that they quit because they're lazy or whiners, ignoring the insane changes that cause them to quit. I guess greed makes you blind and dumb.