Rant/questions about interactions with supervisors. I work in small sorts, and because of that I thankfully don't run into my FT supervisor all that often. Despite this fact, I don't really have a great impression of him.
There was a point in the past year where I lost my car, and experienced difficulty in getting to work. I was chaffeured around by my parents, and I was forced to miss a few shifts that week. One day I told my PT supervisor that I would be late that day to check and make sure it was fine for me to go in. They told me that it was fine, and so I was walking to my department 15 minutes late when my PT sup texts me telling me not to come in.
What the...? I try to reason with them because I wasted all that time and effort in getting to work just to be told to go home? After a couple of texts exchanged the PT sup eventually says, "(Insert FT supervisor name here) is really
off. Just go." Fine, whatever. I figured it was because of my poor attendance up to that point. I chose to forget about it even though it was a pretty crappy thing of them to do when they knew I was having a tough time getting to work.
My attendance improved tremendously, and I turned into one of the most hardworking employees. Peak season rolls around, and I'm showing up hours before everyone else. I'm doing multiple different tasks that are not even part of my job, basically subbing for everyone until all the regulars show up. Today I had worked 6 hours until I finally decided to sit down in this nook (my PT supervisor already told me it was fine to do this the day before), and I started to feel a little better.
Not even 10 seconds pass before my PT supervisor approaches me, says "You need to get up because you're pissing off the FT supervisor." My PT supervisor and I had engaged in some snarky correspondence earlier that day, so I just blew up (by my standards). I straight up disagreed with her, and I told her that I had only been sitting for 10 seconds, and I needed a break. They say to me, "Do you see anyone else sitting?" and completely set me off. "Well, was anyone else here when I showed up hours before everyone else? Is anyone else working in the busiest booth in this department?
I'm slinging at least 1,000 more packages than almost everyone here." I basically said. She finally cut off the conversation by saying "The point is that you need to not just sit down. You're permitted a break after 5 hours." Gee, thanks a lot. That would have been useful information over a week ago after pulling insane shifts every day. Would have been especially useful during that conversation where you told me it was OK to sit there. Anyway, I've heard that it's very difficult to get fired from UPS, but I just want to check and make sure I'm not pushing it by arguing with my PT supervisor like that.
I'm just tired of always coming in before everyone else, doing more work than anyone there, jumping back and forth in multiple positions, and then being treated by the PT supervisor like that. After the PT supervisor said "Do you see anyone else sitting?" I was tempted to say, "Well, gee, you're right. Maybe I should start showing up at the scheduled time instead of hours earlier as usual!" but I would never do that because I need the money. I'm just really starting to get irritated with my FT and PT sups.
I just want to make sure it's not a fireable offense to NOT be a doormat for everyone to walk all over. It was my PT supervisor's fault I was sitting there, and they should have accepted the blame for it instead of pining all of it on me. I've never actually argued with a supervisor before PT or FT so I just need to make sure I won't get in trouble for this. What is the parameters of this "impossibility" of getting fired?
