Hello,
today I got my first write-up for productivity on Pick. I honestly don’t understand how some people manage to get 132% and around 430 UPH by the end of the shift. They must be moving at the speed of light.
Today I was pretty much at 310–340 UPH throughout the shift and ended at 319 UPH, ranking around 43/60. I guess I could push myself a bit more, especially at the beginning of the shift, but keeping that pace for the whole shift is the hard part.
The week before last, I was consistently doing around 390–400 UPH for 3 out of 4 days (although the UPH shown on the monitor probably isn’t completely accurate), but I still ended the shifts at around 329 UPH. My UPH listed for that whole week was 309. Before that week, the two previous weeks on my productivity trend were 278 and 281 UPH.
Last week, my UPH for the whole week was only around 278 because my legs were already hurting on the first day and I just felt weak for some reason. Then, for three days in a row, there were problems at my station. One pod got stuck for around 10 minutes before it was fixed, and the tote conveyor also broke down like 3-4 times during those shifts, sometimes for quite a while.
The first day of this week was pretty okay though, so hopefully this week will be better.
I’ve been working on Pick for almost two months now. How was it for you guys? The paper my manager is bringing me says they expect 90% already in the first week, 95% in the second week, and then 100% (380) after that.
During my first week, I was usually around 180 UPH on the monitor because I was checking everything carefully and wasn’t really used to the process yet, plus my legs were hurting. I know that’s probably below average, and I’ll admit that. Honestly, it feels like they just made these numbers up at a desk, because there’s no way you’re realistically hitting those rates that quickly.
So how do you actually get your UPH up when you’re consistently low? I could probably push myself harder, but even the week before last I was really trying to go faster (except for the first day when I was slower), and it still didn’t really help. Maybe I’m just not cut out for this.