dudebro
Well-Known Member
For most people, if you're actually DOING your best and not stealing, you won't be a target anyway.
Do they really want to fire all of us?
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rod
Retired 23 years
Rack em
Made the Podium
It also sounds like you have a strong local. I wish all locals were that strong!
TooTechie
Geek in Brown
If your local isn't as strong as you'd like, get involved and help to make it stronger.
We have a very strong local and we're not afraid to show it. We used to have a real
for a center manager who constantly would mess with the Union. On one occasion our BA was so sick of his nonsense and treatment of our guys that he actually screamed in the center manager's face with every other word being the friend bomb right in front of the whole center 5 minutes before PCM. The center manager tried to tell him to leave the property at which time he told him to friend off and laughed at him. It helped morale and the center manager scaled back his nonsense. .
You have no idea what constitutes the best. I could run every stop and burn myself out or I could work at a reasonable pace and retire with maximum amounts of cartilage left in my knees. You only exist to push people beyond reasonable limits.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
I agree with the above with the qualification that one should always look for ways to work smarter and more efficiently and not fall into the rut of "going through the motions".
It's not an easy thing to do as a driver of 20 -40 years but it makes the job so much more interesting.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
If your local isn't as strong as you'd like, get involved and help to make it stronger.
We have a very strong local and we're not afraid to show it. We used to have a real
.
Your BA acted in a very unprofessional manner when he chose to "chew out" the center manager in front of the members. Our BA would be justifiably banned from our building if he chose to do this.
bottomups
Bad Moon Risen'
I must be your older brother. 34 years in with no firing or warning letters. Guess I'm in a rut.
Overpaid Union Thug
Well-Known Member
If the conversation got heated during a grievance hearing then the BA would have been allowed, by law, to have a short "cooling off period" and then come back. UPS can't simply ban a union official from their property for dropping friend Bombs while conducting union business. And definitely not for being unprofessional. Many supervisors would have to ban themselves on a daily basis.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Such behavior would be acceptable behind closed doors--not in public and certainly not during a PCM where the intent is to embarrass.
Overpaid Union Thug
Well-Known Member
There is nothing in the law about having to be behind closed doors. And in this case the incident took place before the PCM. Not during.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
dudebro
Well-Known Member
Telling a driver to curtail the 20 minutes of chit chat time on the clock with that cute receptionist is not going to tear up knee cartilage.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
One on one or in front of a group of hourlies?
olroadbeech
Happy Verified UPSer
if you want street gred at my hub you have to be fired or have a whole bunch of warning letters. no one will respect you otherwise, ha ha.
in my book room I framed all my warning letters and they are on the wall. it makes me laugh to look at them, family thinks I am nuts to keep them.
and anyway, why would you quit after 21 years? You are in the backstretch man. before you know it you will be collecting 4 grand a month ( or whatever it is ) for the REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!!
keep going.
in my book room I framed all my warning letters and they are on the wall. it makes me laugh to look at them, family thinks I am nuts to keep them.
and anyway, why would you quit after 21 years? You are in the backstretch man. before you know it you will be collecting 4 grand a month ( or whatever it is ) for the REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!!
keep going.
Faceplanted
Well-Known Member
They don't want to really fire u all. They want to temporarily fire us to show us they own us. For a majority of workers, even the threat of them getting fired lights a fire under their ass to stop filing greviences, come in early to sort their truck, and do anything management asks for them all to keep a good name and stay under the radar
They already tried with me a few times and didn't get the results they were looking for.
As was said in office space:
"But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. ”.
They already tried with me a few times and didn't get the results they were looking for.
As was said in office space:
"But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. ”.
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