Originally Posted by
Meme In Command
Serious question from a noob: ever since the the agreement with the company I went from exclusively getting dozens of IA calls to no longer getting them and only getting GS calls consistently around 2 hours put with the occasional next day early morning call. Yes the batch sizes look bigger but I seem to always get what I ask for and I'm not senior. So how was this a bad thing for us? To my inexperienced eye, things appear more organized now.
Is the effect of the large batch sizes now the same as it was before when it was a bad thing and you guys negotiated smaller batches?
I get this may not be your viewpoint, but to me, batch sizes were a bad deal because I didn't really get much for the trade. In fact, it's had more of a negative impact than anything positive. I have to spend more time in our archaic iCrew to layer preferences, but it's still hard to account for how they'll break stuff up. I have less control of gs selection should multiple GS be sent out in the middle of night, at least not without continuously waking up my gf. Based on a personal experience and posts in this thread, they're clearly still abusing 23m7, so it hasn't fixed that. This agreement helped the company way more than it help us. Although, my 999 batch callout the other day was funny, so I guess one positive is it gave me a laugh.
I'm really not that upset by it, but I see it as a huge lost opportunity by us. What we had before worked better from my viewpoint. If we'd have simply gotten a better system to input slip prefernces and a better ability to turn on and off preferences, that would have been a win-win.
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