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[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

cardboard?

Brown Luann.

 

[cosmo1]

My generation, we don't want what UPS provides. Was talking to a manager the other day about it. My district manager starts replying to emails at 3AM and doesn't unplug until 9PM. We don't want that. It's just too much.

Luckily so many of the higher ups are due for retirement in the next few years. That can create a culture shift which is needed.

Are you sure you aren't just hoping?

I was there long enough to see a culture shift, and it wasn't a good thing.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Are you sure you aren't just hoping?

I was there long enough to see a culture shift, and it wasn't a good thing.

I'm hopeful, but realistic. I think we need to get rid of some of the old blood. At least then there is a chance.

 

[cosmo1]

I'm hopeful, but realistic. I think we need to get rid of some of the old blood. At least then there is a chance.

I hope so, for your sake and every other newer person.

It was tough when I started in 1978, but at least we all had a common goal. That's been missing for a long time.

 

[el blanco]

What part of the country are you from?

who wants to no

 

[FrigidFTSup]

I hope so, for your sake and every other newer person.

It was tough when I started in 1978, but at least we all had a common goal. That's been missing for a long time.

You can see a difference between the older guys and the younger guys. Younger guys usually want to do the right thing, aren't so quick to rush to progressive discipline versus the younger guys run full speed into a warning letter and worry about the wrong metrics.

 

[cosmo1]

You can see a difference between the older guys and the younger guys. Younger guys usually want to do the right thing, aren't so quick to rush to progressive discipline versus the younger guys run full speed into a warning letter and worry about the wrong metrics.

I can understand that. But, the company still has to answer to the markets. That wasn't a priority back when I started.

As drivers, the only job we had was to provide service.

 

[Operational needs]

who wants to no

Umm, the person who asked the question. Just curious. We all know basically what part of the country each other lives.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

I can understand that. But, the company still has to answer to the markets. That wasn't a priority back when I started.

As drivers, the only job we had was to provide service.

There is a bigger focus on service with people around my age. The higher ups have been pushing "Perfect Service Monday" where you have 0 late or missed. But I've brought it up before, why are Mondays so special? It's something we should strive for everyday.

There still needs to be a balance though. We can't be paying drivers 36 bucks an hour to stand and flirt with the receptionist. We are milking every penny we can out of drivers right now, because we are paying guys so much more than the competition.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Umm, the person who asked the question. Just curious. We all know basically what part of the country each other lives.

1 Kremlin Way
Moscow, Russian Federation

My home

 

[Operational needs]

1 Kremlin Way
Moscow, Russian Federation

My home

Thank you, Comrade.

 

[cosmo1]

There is a bigger focus on service with people around my age. The higher ups have been pushing "Perfect Service Monday" where you have 0 late or missed. But I've brought it up before, why are Mondays so special? It's something we should strive for everyday.

There still needs to be a balance though. We can't be paying drivers 36 bucks an hour to stand and flirt with the receptionist. We are milking every penny we can out of drivers right now, because we are paying guys so much more than the competition.

Oh, I agree with you.

But, the balance has to come from the management side also.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

There is a bigger focus on service with people around my age. The higher ups have been pushing "Perfect Service Monday" where you have 0 late or missed. But I've brought it up before, why are Mondays so special? It's something we should strive for everyday.

There still needs to be a balance though. We can't be paying drivers 36 bucks an hour to stand and flirt with the receptionist. We are milking every penny we can out of drivers right now, because we are paying guys so much more than the competition.

We are told that we are not allowed to deliver any NDA to anywhere other than the address on the package on Monday. We all have customers that meet us on road for their packages and they are telling us that we can’t give them their air.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Thank you, Comrade.

Don't talk back to me. Off to the gulag!

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Oh, I agree with you.

But, the balance has to come from the management side also.

And I don't disagree with that. But hourlies also need to realize nothing is going to change when there is a certain group who day after day try to stick it up our asses

 

[FrigidFTSup]

We are told that we are not allowed to deliver any NDA to anywhere other than the address on the package on Monday. We all have customers that meet us on road for their packages and they are telling us that we can’t give them their air.

I've never heard that, but we have to print manifests and drivers have to verify air and run straight air. Everything needs to get delivered.

But that's the problem. We'll go over the top but then we can sit on our hands the rest of the week? It's silly.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I've never heard that, but we have to print manifests and drivers have to verify air and run straight air. Everything needs to get delivered.

But that's the problem. We'll go over the top but then we can sit on our hands the rest of the week? It's silly.

We are not told to run straight air.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

We are not told to run straight air.

If we have a guy who has late on Monday and didn't run straight air we have been told it is an automatic warning letter.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

If we have a guy who has late on Monday and didn't run straight air we have been told it is an automatic warning letter.

Duh.

That’s any day for us.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Duh.

That’s any day for us.

Not something we've ever done here. Unless it was excessive or occurred on a regular basis.