burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
might be awhile they’re all still out delivering
Considering making the swap from driver to management
- Thread starter DRporch
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might be awhile they’re all still out delivering
542thruNthru
Well-Known Member
Poop Head
Judge me.
We're the same generation and this has NOT been my experience.
Please stay a driver. Not because management is bad, as so many of others have told you, but because it is difficult and you need to have a goal of moving up to sustain yourself. I've know a few drivers who went into management because they thought it was easier. They ended up disappointed and dissatisfied. An on-road supervisor works many hours, but if your goal is to advance, then the hours are worth the effort. From your post, it appears that you're just looking for an easier job.
Another factor is re-location. You may think you have the best job, that you're doing well and then someone will come to you and ask you to move to another city to add to your experience and build your chances for promotion. Do you want that? If you're married, does your spouse want that?
If you go into management, do it because you want the opportunity to advance in the company and have increasing levels of responsibility; that will be personally rewarding and also financially rewarding.
Finally, don't think the Teamsters union is going away. UPS and the Teamsters are bound together for all time. UPS is the largest employer of Teamsters in the country. The entire "dance" of contract negotiations is based on the concept that the Teamsters need UPS and UPS needs the Teamsters to cooperate so it can run the business. Unions are not bad. But they have to make sure they don't "kill the goose that laid the golden egg". Then everyone loses.
Hope you make a good decision.
clean hairy
Well-Known Member
Also, you will have to pay for your own health insurance.
They can have you pack up your stuff, and send you off to a different hub as often as they want as well.
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
Anyone notice how almost all of the long term management posters on BC are MIA? We're stuck with all the dip
s posing as union members. Wonder what that means? Did corona get them while huddled in their offices? Or have they all moved on to much better jobs at much better companies? Something to think about...
s posing as union members. Wonder what that means? Did corona get them while huddled in their offices? Or have they all moved on to much better jobs at much better companies? Something to think about...
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
Labor improvises a plan from the pile of absolute offal handed to us by mostly checked-out or incompetent management.
MisplacedRailWorker
an absolute *ing disgrace of a human being.
Well if you'd like my advice, and followed my suggestion re LinkedIn, you would realize what the hell you were thinking when you thought that you might convert to management instead of feeders? Please give me your bid you could be my manager and fire me every day! Remember when you go management, you forbid yourself ever going back…
My OC was gone for over 2 months traveling the country bailing out centers that was buried because of COVID-19
silenze
Lunch is the best part of the day
That is the norm every year. Training drivers in different states. Hurricane relief. Bad snow storm.
Then you're just underpaid driver. Especially if your oil on a totem pole you are definitely going out of town
NAHimGOOD
Nothing to see here.... Move along.
I see what you did there...
The oil is a metaphor for the man making the slope slippery limiting your elevation.
Hence, supervisors are all in place to keep your spinning in your tracks.
Or just stop typing so fast lol
I have been lurking
Tired hubrat
I posted a photo of some stup that posted this site's link in the UPSers chat. They're spooked. (it was deleted for doxxing)
zubenelgenubi
I'm a star
Can you pm it to me? Curious to see what they said.
I have been lurking
Tired hubrat
It only shows the 8 most recent alerts and this was a few months ago. But the guy posted www.browncafe.com
I have been lurking
Tired hubrat
It's easier to ruin a manager's career than a Teamster's. Stay with us and enjoy their suffering, cause NAAAAAAAAAAAANCYYYYYYYYYY is making them more miserable than before.
