The probation process has no teeth. Supervisors just let people coast to 480 then they're stuck with then because its easier than do the paperwork to fire them.
Now that the timeframe for FT is 6 months to a year, we're now getting perm RLCs who have never sorted a walk. Backfills only capable of doing 3/4 routes after 2 weeks on the walk. These are the baddies that just squeaked through and weren't fired when they should've been. Now we're stuck with them. Forever. We can only do so much to try and show them that their work ethic is garbage - for one guy we will not do his parcels or spare section on OT. Management's attitude is "he's a backfill, he won't be here forever, let his new station deal with him". Yes, but he was a term here for 4 months prior, this is their own doing.
Now that the timeframe for FT is 6 months to a year, we're now getting perm RLCs who have never sorted a walk. Backfills only capable of doing 3/4 routes after 2 weeks on the walk. These are the baddies that just squeaked through and weren't fired when they should've been. Now we're stuck with them. Forever. We can only do so much to try and show them that their work ethic is garbage - for one guy we will not do his parcels or spare section on OT. Management's attitude is "he's a backfill, he won't be here forever, let his new station deal with him". Yes, but he was a term here for 4 months prior, this is their own doing.