Bring your own TP (again)

[Old Man Jingles]

The company lost a little bit of it's soul when it started submitting to quarterly rectal exams from Wall Street analysts. UPS "says" it wants to invest in long-term infrastructure, but it still goes short-term crazy around the quarterly earnings announcement. This is a death spiral...

Definitely a change.

 

[TearsInRain]

my amex is still wide open

sucks to suck i guess

 

[HEFFERNAN]

You make a very good point regarding part time supervisors. The value they provide, as well as the things they're actually responsible for, is all over the place. Some provide negative net value. Some provide tremendous value. Some can barely perform the most simple tasks with a LOT of hand-holding. Some are on the same level as FT supervisors (using "FT supervisors" as an average...since there are definitely some iffy FT supervisors in the competence department).

The company could gain considerably, IMO, if we eliminated and replaced (as necessary) PT supervisors providing low (and especially negative) net values. Realistically, the company might also want to look into different pay grades for PT supervisors (and realistically, that probably includes a grade below out new minimum, as well as one or two above), and/or have the highly competent PT supervisors as "part time specialists".

Maybe how the company uses part time supervisors is something that the transformation team can address and actually improve? LOL.

If you ask nicely, we'll help out your PT supervisor problem.
We'll call it 22.5 in the contract, you can hire new PT supervisors to do the same job for less pay.
J/K

 

[Superteeth2478]

If you ask nicely, we'll help out your PT supervisor problem.
We'll call it 22.5 in the contract, you can hire new PT supervisors to do the same job for less pay.
J/K

If Hawfa and Traitor were still in office at the next contract negotiation, I wouldn't be surprised if they allowed the company to create a patently ridiculous position called "22.5 Combination Part-time Supervisor" which was allowed to do supervisory duties AND hourly work at a lower rate of pay...and was still considered a non-bargaining unit employee.

 

[Non sequitur]

Making cross continent executemp services part of the new China trade deal.

 

[TearsInRain]

If you ask nicely, we'll help out your PT supervisor problem.
We'll call it 22.5 in the contract, you can hire new PT supervisors to do the same job for less pay.
J/K

i would absolutely trade all our PT sups away for maybe 1/3-1/4 the number of FT's, and replace the rest with additional hourlies

 

[clean hairy]

You have a left hand.

What else do you need?

A right hand?
After all, it takes 2 hands to handle a whopper!

 

[clean hairy]

As always , to many Chiefs never enough Indians

The rules for 11 chiefs on the field, but only 9 indians on the field is why.

 

[soberups]

Tonight we had a customer crying outside of the main gate.
Without any warning or reason, our idiot bean-counting superiors arbitrarily decided to close our Customer Counter 5 hours early, at 2:00PM. This customer had driven 45 minutes to pick up her medication that was sitting in Will Call and she had no way to get to it.
On the gate was a sign, “apologizing for any inconvenience.” Sorry, but this was an intentional and malicious act driven purely by the forced stupidity of corporate greed. You cant “apologize” for a deliberate and premeditated action.
I used to take pride in being a UPS employee. Now its a joke.

 

[Coldworld]

Tonight we had a customer crying outside of the main gate.
Without any warning or reason, our idiot bean-counting superiors arbitrarily decided to close our Customer Counter 5 hours early, at 2:00PM. This customer had driven 45 minutes to pick up her medication that was sitting in Will Call and she had no way to get to it.
On the gate was a sign, “apologizing for any inconvenience.” Sorry, but this was an intentional and malicious act driven purely by the forced stupidity of corporate greed. You cant “apologize” for a deliberate and premeditated action.
I used to take pride in being a UPS employee. Now its a joke.

And trying to pick up medication of all things.....sad

 

[PASinterference]

And trying to pick up medication of all things.....sad

Just part of being a Wall St. leg licker.

 

[Lineandinitial]

Tonight we had a customer crying outside of the main gate.
Without any warning or reason, our idiot bean-counting superiors arbitrarily decided to close our Customer Counter 5 hours early, at 2:00PM. This customer had driven 45 minutes to pick up her medication that was sitting in Will Call and she had no way to get to it.
On the gate was a sign, “apologizing for any inconvenience.” Sorry, but this was an intentional and malicious act driven purely by the forced stupidity of corporate greed. You cant “apologize” for a deliberate and premeditated action.
I used to take pride in being a UPS employee. Now its a joke.

Then get out whiner!
It's pretty stupid to think you can close the door without being "deliberate and premeditated"...

 

[soberups]

Then get out whiner!
It's pretty stupid to think you can close the door without being "deliberate and premeditated"...

Can you even read?
The problem was not that customer counter was closed.
The problem was that we closed it 5 hours early, with no announcement or forewarning to the customers who have relied for years upon it being open at its regularly scheduled time.
Hell, I just Googled it and it says it is open right now, even though it is actually closed today. We didnt even have the decency to announce the closure online. So a customer that goes online to find out scheduled hours will be fooled into thinking we are open and drive all the way down there to a locked gate and a sign with a BS “apology”. All in the nameof corporate greed.

 

[rod]

And trying to pick up medication of all things.....sad

Call the local news station-- the public needs to know what D's UPS can be.

 

[bumped]

Everyone should go online and sink the 2.8 review rating even lower.

 

[soberups]

Everyone should go online and sink the 2.8 review rating even lower.

The people who make the actual decisions dont read reviews and dont care about our customers.
There was a time when a phone call to Customer Service was answered locally, by a UPS employee who could actually provide a coherent answer or connect you to someone who would help you.
Now we have outsourced that function to a call center... in Guatemala.