Hellobrown2000
Well-Known Member
center manager told everyone this morning a amazon hub opened up and we're loosing the post office drop offs and volume, he said today we had 79 routes out and 98 drivers.
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Jackburton
Gone Fish'n
Ask him if we are losing so much volume then why just last week did UPS earnings beat top and bottom lines. Ask him why guidance is positive growth. Ask him why we used Amazon as an excuse to cut routes and avoid the real reason they cut....greed
UnconTROLLed
perfection
Unfortunately, a lot of people believe that "volume drop" nonsense...especially the newbies.
Last night was a total disaster in our hub....way too much work and not enough people....dozens of sups, mostly new ones, all working. The most unsafe and idiotic mess I've seen in a while. Should be a fun peak.
Also OT -always worth a chuckle to watch new hires - mid shift- take their blue vests, throw them in the trash and walk out.
PT Car Washer
Well-Known Member
What does a blue vest mean?
Brownslave688
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Ask him why they didn't listen to drivers and charge Amazon full price 5 years ago and put them out of business
haller
Well-Known Member
We call them aisles in my hub, they're a nightmare, if i was a new hire right now, i'd quit for sure because my spine would be sticking out. I really like being on the belt compared to those trucks.
scrubs / new hires/ under 30 days
Browndriver5
Well-Known Member
Our area just had an Amazon distribution center built. I had a part time supervisor tell me UPS was putting supervisors in the Amazon building to help them coordinate peak season...why are we doing this
oldngray
nowhere special
Maybe UPS Logistics is charging them to set things up. They have done similar things in the past.
Browndriver5
Well-Known Member
Yeah difference is Amazon is an actual threat to us. Idiots
haller
Well-Known Member
Only because the benefits are in lesser time. I hear it on the radio everyday.
UnconTROLLed
perfection
In the hub, they give pre-seniority people blue vests to wear, to make them identifiable. Or single them out. Or whatever the reason.
I guess it's a local thing.
Knothead
Yep.
We have the blue vest thing here too. I had to ask what they were about.In the hub, they give pre-seniority people blue vests to wear, to make them identifiable. Or single them out. Or whatever the reason.
Overpaid Union Thug
Well-Known Member
UPS is solely focused on short term projections because they are only concerned about the dividends of the stock holders. And they are stock holders themselves so......yeah. They focus on making that quick buck (like they did when they sold out and went public) and could care less about the long term effects.
oldngray
nowhere special
Its all about making numbers for the quarter. Not long term profits.
The investors can always sell their stock if it starts to tank.
By The Book
Well-Known Member
I'm pretty sure making numbers equals long term profits. Using the rinse and repeat method which I learned here by the way.
oldngray
nowhere special
Not true. Short term thinking can doom a company in the long run.
By The Book
Well-Known Member
But doesn't meeting the numbers every quarter equal the long term profit that UPS is shooting for? We can go back and forth on this but they are intertwined.
oldngray
nowhere special
Completely different numbers and strategies.
If you don't plan for the future those short term profits can disappear.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Their not vested, but yet they are?In the hub, they give pre-seniority people blue vests to wear, to make them identifiable. Or single them out. Or whatever the reason.
