Can We Be Fired For Not Coming In From Vacation?

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Im on vacation this week and I don't turn my phone on til noon because I don't feel like being bothered by anybody especially not the retarded idiots at work. If they called and called while I was on vacation( I wouldn't answer anyway) and I was dumb enough to answer the phone, id tell em to kiss my balls and quit calling me harassing me before you get sued jackazzloseridiothead lmfao.

How can I call you? If your phone is off?...WTF?...lmao

 

[Packmule]

Company has been calling me everyday to come in from vacation. made the mistake of answering phone on Monday and volunteering info that I wasn't going out of town. ( didn't go in. dispatch begged me. )

messages have been getting nastier everyday. sometimes they call 2-3 times a day. no longer answering phone.

called a reliable co worker and they said that they have threatened other drivers for not coming in off vacation if they are in town.

I work 55-60 hrs every week and look forward to my vacations. I usually stay home and take the dogs for long walks in the woods and work on my yard. I just stay home. watch Netflix and take naps.

do I have anything to worry about? dreading going back to work Monday. maybe I will call in sick, ha ha.

Last I knew, it was a violation of contract for them to even ask. Especially true under new contract, provided your fellow drivers who get blown out file on it.
Used to get that grief all the time, thirty years ago. Not since.

 

[HEFFERNAN]

 

[Brownslave688]

This thread worries me. On what planet could UPS do anything because they knew months ahead of time you would be off, they pay to be off, and threaten you with anything. Bullies can only bully you if you allow it. Next time they call tell them to friend off, and no I'm not kidding. I bet dimes to dollar it will stop.

I didn't want to be an ass but I was wondering how long the op has been employed here.

The fact that someone thinks there's even a chance they could make them come in is sad.

 

[Brownslave688]

If they are posting a signup sheet for this, then they proved they do not have a sufficient workforce.
The union hall should be buzzing like a beehive !!!!!!

In not sure what the situation is at cach but we can't find workers.

We have hired every eligible part timer that wants to drive. Still have at least 7-8 off the street positions to fill. That's assuming the 8 we have in training make it but a sup said today he was thinking half might make it if they are lucky.

 

[jumpman23]

How can I call you? If your phone is off?...WTF?...lmao

Your old lady has the 411 on my undercover brother telly shell hook you up lmfao.

 

[Brownslave688]

Short of terminal illness there's not a rats chance in hell I'm sending my 18 year old son to a Caribbean island to party on my dime.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Your old lady has the 411 undercover brother telly shell hook you up lmfao.

I think she replaced you. She said you are on the..DL..too often!...Think she Is going for a Fedex driver......must be hung well, I know its not for the money!...lmfao

 

[jumpman23]

I think she replaced you. She said you are on the..DL..too often!...Think she Is going for a Fedex driver......must be hung well, I know its not for the money!...lmfao

lmfao hysterically

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

lmfao hysterically

Btw!...she said.....you need more pimp juice...just saying!

 

[jumpman23]

Btw!...she said.....you need more pimp juice...just saying!

Pimp Juice is always full, just like always got enough corn on the cob. And I love corn, on of my favorite veggies lmfao.

 

[TheFigurehead]

In not sure what the situation is at cach but we can't find workers.
We have hired every eligible part timer that wants to drive. Still have at least 7-8 off the street positions to fill.

Yeah, they even mailed us invitations to apply here...

but, honestly, five minutes on Brown Cafe was all I needed to know that it wasn't for me. Sure, the pay and benefits are good... maybe even great... but at what cost? I like money, but I'm not giving these fu(kers 12 hours a day of my life, no matter how much they pay me. If it were a job that consisted of a "normal" 8-9 hours a day, a lot more people would consider it... but the problem is, it's not just a job, it's a lifestyle... and to a lot of folks aren't willing to give up their families or watching their kids grow up, just because UPS are a bunch of cheap bastards who are unwilling to staff appropriately.

 

[jumpman23]

Yeah, they even mailed us invitations to apply here...

but, honestly, five minutes on Brown Cafe was all I needed to know that it wasn't for me. Sure, the pay and benefits are good... maybe even great... but at what cost? I like money, but I'm not giving these fu(kers 12 hours a day of my life, no matter how much they pay me. If it were a job that consisted of a "normal" 8-9 hours a day, a lot more people would consider it... but the problem is, it's not just a job, it's a lifestyle... and to a lot of folks aren't willing to give up their families or watching their kids grow up, just because UPS are a bunch of cheap bastards who are unwilling to staff appropriately.

Exactly totally agree with ya on the driving thing. Combo job or temp driving is the way to go. Fulltime driving aint worth it unless your single and have no plans on ever having kids, totally not worth it.

 

[brownmonster]

You don't work when you are on vacation. Period.

 

[jumpman23]

Work at home that's bout it while on vacation.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

You don't work when you are on vacation. Period.

Until your wife give you, that big Honey
Do list!

It may just be easier to go to work!

 

[jumpman23]

The one week I take at beginning of summer is always the landscape-beer drinking vacation, every year. Got to get er done, so she looks perty at the Jumpmeisters estate lmfao.

 

[bottomups]

Vacationing in Colorado. If they called me I would tell them to call back when I'm finished smoking my blunt.

 

[jumpman23]

Vacationing in Colorado. If they called me I would tell them to call back when I'm finished smoking my blunt.

RIGHT ON DUDE, that's what im talking about lmfao.

 

[overflowed]

Tell them sorry, ive been drinking!.....click...lol

That will stop the calls!

Same here. " can't, just had a beer."