Comments | iworkatborders: distribution side of the story

dcdummy in iworkatborders

distribution side of the story

Jul 31, 2011 13:09

Thought you all might like to hear what's going on in our world. We are working 10 hours a day plus another 8 Saturday. Next week we've been told to be prepared to work Sat & Sun. Keep in mind that the DC is not air conditioned. Outdoor temps are approaching 100 degrees and it's that hot or hotter inside. Oh yeah, we've got fans but that doesn't ( Read more... )

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anonymous July 31 2011, 18:19:36 UTC

But you deserve severance over anyone who works in the stores? How's that?

anonymous July 31 2011, 18:44:17 UTC

HEY...I don't see that dcdummy said anything about severance AND the post from before was:

"(Anonymous)"
"2011-07-30 09:49 pm UTC (link) My understanding is that AA and Distribution Centers will be getting severance. Retail employees will not be getting any severance from what I have heard."

WHICH does not sound like a true statement of fact, and is probably wrong. SO, I want to say to dcdummy:

Ignore the previous toll comments. Hang in there and take care of yourselves. I hope the heat takes a break this week. Our store is often hot as hell and the customers are meaner than snakes! We are in the same boat-Corporate Borders never cared about the employees (DC or retail), and best of luck to us all!

anonymous July 31 2011, 21:15:16 UTC

I never said I deserved anything and until the check has cleared the bank I've got nothing. If I do get severence, I expect to be screwed out of it in any way possible. Hey, it's the Borders way.

anonymous July 31 2011, 18:28:13 UTC

Holy shit! Our IPT area has no air conditioning, no windows and a weak-ass fan. It feels like death. I can't imagine how a 100+ degree wharehouse feels. Keep sane...

anonymous July 31 2011, 18:41:34 UTC

Thanks for sharing, dcdummy. It's unfair to blame the DC workers for getting a severance & the store employees for not. It's not like they were in on the deal & voted us out. And it's not like they're going to give theirs up to give to us. We wouldn't do the same for them. We are all going through something shitty. How about a little solidarity?

anonymous July 31 2011, 19:25:25 UTC

Thanks for sharing. Good luck to you and all your coworkers, take care of yourselves and hang in there.

anonymous July 31 2011, 19:48:56 UTC

just to add to dcdummmy, i work in a DC as well, probably the same one as you do. They are attempting to make certain departments work three times as hard as they were required before liquidation, and without spirit and incentive pay now, plus those departments are being told if they don't hit the numbers management wants that they will be written up. Also, premium pay positions, like forklift drivers, are being pushed into other departments because AA, or whomever, is dropping so much work that the staging areas are completely overfilled, so no more work can be picked from the racks, and the volume of product being processed is way more than the sorting and shipping departments can handle with their regular staff. Not to mention the antiquated equipment in the DC used to sort product is breaking down on a daily basis and being fixed with second hand replacement parts ( ... )

anonymous July 31 2011, 20:07:45 UTC

basic math time

according to a website is i saw, the TNDC has 283 employees. Say only 250 of these are paid hourly. 5 year plus employees should make $14/hr on average.

so $14/hr times 40 hours equals $560 a week.

18 hours of overtime at $21/hr equals $378 a week.

so the company is paying roughly $938 per employee per week.

times that by four weeks equals $3,752 per month, per employee, before taxes. The employees have taxes taken out after the company pays them, of course.

OK so $3,752 a month times 250 employees equals $938,000 a month on labor costs. Mind you, this is only accounting for hourly employees, add in the salary people and i'm sure it is probably closer to $1mil a month in labor only at this one DC!

I totally agree with the above statement about temps. It makes no sense to me either why they are pushing employees so hard in the heat. If it is to avoid paying another month's worth of rent on the building, is it really cheaper?

anonymous July 31 2011, 20:41:36 UTC

"I totally agree with the above statement about temps. It makes no sense to me either why they are pushing employees so hard in the heat."

Gotta remember, this is still Borders, land of the totally incompetent management. They aren't going to change, just because it's end days.

pushing anonymous July 31 2011, 22:25:53 UTC

At this point, it's the liquidators pushing, not Borders. There really isn't anyone left at corporate anymore. The stores and DCs are on their own.

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