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How green is this??

This is kind of a sub-category of Commuting, I hope:

We have an employer threatening 'progressive write-ups' for workers who fail to pick up their paychecks/direct-deposit stubs over at the ritzier main club. Three write-ups and you're automatically fired!
They had been delivering to this very popular sister club during routine business, and mailing whatever wasn't claimed within two weeks. No one from the sister club has reason to go to the main club,thus combining p/u of the envelopes, and our  gen.mngr is refusing this task (why??).

Owner's goal is saving gas and money on their gigantic company-SUV (and van) by not delivering the envelopes. It's the same vehicle that, wouldn't ya know, I witness each day miles from said club, driven by the owner's daughter picking up her child at the distant vehicle-clogged elementary school that is on my commute route.

Instead,they are requiring over 80 (downsizing is ongoing; was >100) mostly-part-time-college-busy employees to each show up 3 to 5 miles in surface (no by-passes here) traffic to get their envelopes!
Perhaps a few can carpool? Several already use bicycles exclusively. Our bus system is useless for large parts of town unless you have 2 hours to spare.

How hard should employees push back on this?
Will we soon live in a world where this kind of waste by employers is incentivized out of existence?
This is simply a twisted, unintended result of high gas prices.

The write-ups are legal, but the "green" issue is what bites...
perhaps we could start a better bicycle courier biz...thanks for letting us rant.On Umbra on commuting choices posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago 5 Responses