Streaker69
The Influencer
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I get the best advice on how to handle this politics BS here, so here I am again.
Here's my issue:
I work inbound with a CDSA that has seniority over me. He's one of those guys that feels like he can do whatever he wants because he has some seniority (30 of 75) and he's buddies with the OM.
The inbound supervisor is one of those strictly by the books guy, but also a corporate yesman. About a month ago this CDSA got written up for texting while on a forklift and he hasn't come in to work the dock since. He has an FMLA, also known as an attendence pass so there are no attendence consequences.
I've been noticing that he shows up when a decent run pops up. He doesn't clock in or talk to anybody, he goes to straight to road dispatch. This morning, I called them out on it. I said this isn't a coincidence. How does he know to go straight to road dispatch and no other driver on the dock knows about these runs? The answer I got was "well the gate time is 545 as long as he's here by 515 he can take it". Didn't answer my question at all. So, I repeated the question and the gist I got was "prove it".
They're right. I can't prove it. I spoke to some senior CDSA's that I trust and they basically told me there was nothing I could do about it .They said they would be surprised if he lasted much longer. He's on the dock because he caught a critical (not sure for what) working the city and he played it safe and stuck to the dock . I'd have no issues if he were on the dock and the run popped it and he took it. That's how it works, but it's pretty clear somebody is calling him at home and offering him these runs when they're supposed to go down the list of the guys on the dock. If he's not on the dock because he's on leave, how is it ok for him to Pop up and take a run?
Not the first time this has happened. This same CDSA got caught in a storm for coming in 4 hours earlier for road runs. Naturally, the guys that were on that shift didn't take too kindly to this and made a big stink about it.
Is it worth it to go to ethics about this? I can't prove any of this is happening, but I'm smart enough to put 2 and 2 together.
Here's my issue:
I work inbound with a CDSA that has seniority over me. He's one of those guys that feels like he can do whatever he wants because he has some seniority (30 of 75) and he's buddies with the OM.
The inbound supervisor is one of those strictly by the books guy, but also a corporate yesman. About a month ago this CDSA got written up for texting while on a forklift and he hasn't come in to work the dock since. He has an FMLA, also known as an attendence pass so there are no attendence consequences.
I've been noticing that he shows up when a decent run pops up. He doesn't clock in or talk to anybody, he goes to straight to road dispatch. This morning, I called them out on it. I said this isn't a coincidence. How does he know to go straight to road dispatch and no other driver on the dock knows about these runs? The answer I got was "well the gate time is 545 as long as he's here by 515 he can take it". Didn't answer my question at all. So, I repeated the question and the gist I got was "prove it".
They're right. I can't prove it. I spoke to some senior CDSA's that I trust and they basically told me there was nothing I could do about it .They said they would be surprised if he lasted much longer. He's on the dock because he caught a critical (not sure for what) working the city and he played it safe and stuck to the dock . I'd have no issues if he were on the dock and the run popped it and he took it. That's how it works, but it's pretty clear somebody is calling him at home and offering him these runs when they're supposed to go down the list of the guys on the dock. If he's not on the dock because he's on leave, how is it ok for him to Pop up and take a run?
Not the first time this has happened. This same CDSA got caught in a storm for coming in 4 hours earlier for road runs. Naturally, the guys that were on that shift didn't take too kindly to this and made a big stink about it.
Is it worth it to go to ethics about this? I can't prove any of this is happening, but I'm smart enough to put 2 and 2 together.