GiraffeAE86
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So I've been lurking around the forum since December and I finally have something to post about.
I've been an RCA for about a month now and my coworkers tell me I've been catching on pretty good up until this happened to me..
I wake up to a phone call to come in early to do a different route, no biggie (originally was scheduled later in the day to do a route because the regular can't deliver it but can case it all). By the time I got up there I was essentially 2 hours behind everyone else. The workload was massive, literally double what it normally has. I only had enough time to pull down the flats that were cased the night before and set up my SPRs and parcels, I barely had enough room in the truck and ended up taking 8 trays of DPS and 5 trays of flats to the street. Before I left I told management I was going to need some help, seeing as I had probably one of the fattest routes that day and it was my first attempt on it. I was 2nd to last to get out of the office.
5 o'clock rolls around and I call the office to see if they're going to send me some help. 45 minutes later 2 people show up, one guy takes my parcels and the other guy takes about half of my DPS and flats and tells me hes going to meet up with another carrier who will also help me by helping him. That leaves me with all the SPRs and half of the DPS and flats. Ok, cool.
7:30 - I get a phone call from the 204B and was told to deliver for 10 more minutes and then bring all the mail back, I told him exactly what the other carriers took from me and what I had left in my truck and they said to bring it all back. ALL. Ok, cool.
7:50 - I walk in through the doors and the PM immediately tells me to leave everything at the case and just take off, to which I say.. I'll just put on my greencard 7:50 because there's things I need to do at the case before I leave. Their response: Ok, cool. So I cart in whatever mail I had left and put everything at the case along with ~60 SPRs and I ask what do I need to do with these? Both 204B and PM tell me to scan them up as Customer Hold, so I do just that.
I had the next 2 days off because of Jury Duty and fast forward to today I had a PDI involving hiding mail and not doing the duties the job asked me to. I'm basically in boiling water because of doing what I was told. I also found out today that apparently if you know you're out on a route and you can't get any help for whatever reason that standard protocol is to just stop delivering mail and deliver packages (SPRs are considered packages too which I guess is on me but that is besides the point). Neither myself or the other people who started the same time I did knew about that at any point.
tl;dr I followed direct orders and I'm not past my 90 days, It's my word against management and our union rep says we can't make it seem like we are going after management, how screwed am I?
I've been an RCA for about a month now and my coworkers tell me I've been catching on pretty good up until this happened to me..
I wake up to a phone call to come in early to do a different route, no biggie (originally was scheduled later in the day to do a route because the regular can't deliver it but can case it all). By the time I got up there I was essentially 2 hours behind everyone else. The workload was massive, literally double what it normally has. I only had enough time to pull down the flats that were cased the night before and set up my SPRs and parcels, I barely had enough room in the truck and ended up taking 8 trays of DPS and 5 trays of flats to the street. Before I left I told management I was going to need some help, seeing as I had probably one of the fattest routes that day and it was my first attempt on it. I was 2nd to last to get out of the office.
5 o'clock rolls around and I call the office to see if they're going to send me some help. 45 minutes later 2 people show up, one guy takes my parcels and the other guy takes about half of my DPS and flats and tells me hes going to meet up with another carrier who will also help me by helping him. That leaves me with all the SPRs and half of the DPS and flats. Ok, cool.
7:30 - I get a phone call from the 204B and was told to deliver for 10 more minutes and then bring all the mail back, I told him exactly what the other carriers took from me and what I had left in my truck and they said to bring it all back. ALL. Ok, cool.
7:50 - I walk in through the doors and the PM immediately tells me to leave everything at the case and just take off, to which I say.. I'll just put on my greencard 7:50 because there's things I need to do at the case before I leave. Their response: Ok, cool. So I cart in whatever mail I had left and put everything at the case along with ~60 SPRs and I ask what do I need to do with these? Both 204B and PM tell me to scan them up as Customer Hold, so I do just that.
I had the next 2 days off because of Jury Duty and fast forward to today I had a PDI involving hiding mail and not doing the duties the job asked me to. I'm basically in boiling water because of doing what I was told. I also found out today that apparently if you know you're out on a route and you can't get any help for whatever reason that standard protocol is to just stop delivering mail and deliver packages (SPRs are considered packages too which I guess is on me but that is besides the point). Neither myself or the other people who started the same time I did knew about that at any point.
tl;dr I followed direct orders and I'm not past my 90 days, It's my word against management and our union rep says we can't make it seem like we are going after management, how screwed am I?