Terminated before making union

[PT Car Washer]

A regular heavy duty one like you would see at a convenience store..

Ours isn't that nice but yeah it is free coffee.

 

[PT Car Washer]

In a right to work state the Union has to represent you if you are in a bargaining unit position. I have seen several probationary employees appeal their DQ and given another chance at qualifying or reversed the DQ.

 

[Ghost in the Darkness]

To be canned in this climate of peak-like volume, understaffing, underhiring, and lazy sups not wanting to train.... you must have been really bad.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

To be canned in this climate of peak-like volume, understaffing, underhiring, and lazy sups not wanting to train.... you must have been really bad.

We don't have any supervisors to train any people. They're all out of state trying to bail out the centers that are way behind.
The last new driver we had, the center manager had to go out and train him on the route

I would have paid money to see that.

 

[Yeet]

In a right to work state the Union has to represent you if you are in a bargaining unit position. I have seen several probationary employees appeal their DQ and given another chance at qualifying or reversed the DQ.

I live in a RTW state and you can be let go without any reason while you’re in your 30. All a RTW state does is requires the union to represent you whether you are paying dues or not AFTER you made seniority.

 

[Jkloc420]

We don't have any supervisors to train any people. They're all out of state trying to bail out the centers that are way behind.
The last new driver we had, the center manager had to go out and train him on the route

I would have paid money to see that.

because you only do 50 stops

 

[Ghost in the Darkness]

Our sups schedule days of for themselves but refuse anyone else's request. Center manager wouldn't even know what a package is let alone train someone to deliver one.

 

[PT Car Washer]

I live in a RTW state and you can be let go without any reason while you’re in your 30. All a RTW state does is requires the union to represent you whether you are paying dues or not AFTER you made seniority.

No the company must have a legitimate reason for not qualifying a person. Otherwise you could have a discrimination lawsuit and I have seen the Union help probationary drivers get another chance at qualifying.

 

[Box Ox]

Today the supervisor tells me I’m terminated because 1. this morning I went to make a cup of coffee in the terminal during company time

Hope it was good!

Never give 'em a reason!

 

[AwashBwashCwash]

They're probably just hiring a bunch of people to deal with the volume and then disqualifying them for bogus reasons before they have to commit to them.
Use them up for a couple weeks, then fire them, then bring the next batch in.
I'm sure management had a good laugh over this one.

"And then....I told him...*slaps knee* ...he was terminated for getting a cup of coffee!!"

It's probably like a power fantasy for these guys. You're like a Freudian substitution for all the drivers they fantasize about firing but can't.

 

[clean hairy]

On company time during your probationary period? Ouch. Especially being hired off the street to drive.

Unless his name is Dave, HE could get away with it!

 

[clean hairy]

Op in the first post was more interested in stealing time making coffee.
Instead, should have been more interested in making the 30 day seniority.
I doubt making coffee was in the job description....

 

[PT Car Washer]

Op in the first post was more interested in stealing time making coffee.
Instead, should have been more interested in making the 30 day seniority.
I doubt making coffee was in the job description....

And I really doubt if making coffee was the real reason they DQed him. More like he was marginal and would not get any better in someones opinion or a potential safety hazard sometime down the road.

 

[Bl0opbl0op]

Op in the first post was more interested in stealing time making coffee.
Instead, should have been more interested in making the 30 day seniority.
I doubt making coffee was in the job description....

Lol wow do you guys hear yourself? I’m trying to steal 2 minutes of company time by pouring myself a cup of coffee? It makes me less of an efficient worker because of a cup of coffee?

 

[Fuzzy Brown]

Am i the only one wondering why theres a coffee maker, free for the hourlies to use?!

Maybe they only have them at terminals.

 

[Poop Head]

It makes me less of an efficient worker because of a cup of coffee?

Yes. If ups wanted you to be drinking coffee, theyd put a coffee maker in the building so anyone could just go grab a cup whenever they pleased.

 

[NAHimGOOD]

Lol wow do you guys hear yourself? I’m trying to steal 2 minutes of company time by pouring myself a cup of coffee? It makes me less of an efficient worker because of a cup of coffee?

We can't hear each other on the interwebs

 

[PT Car Washer]

Lol wow do you guys hear yourself? I’m trying to steal 2 minutes of company time by pouring myself a cup of coffee? It makes me less of an efficient worker because of a cup of coffee?

Usually cut the new guys some slack just because they are new and we need bodies now. Must be more to the story then just grabbing a cup of coffee on the clock. UPS can always find a reason to get rid of you later after Peak is over.

 

[Poop Head]

Must be more to the story then just grabbing a cup of coffee on the clock.

I figured it out.


He took the last cup, and didnt make more

 

[PT Car Washer]

Yes. If ups wanted you to be drinking coffee, theyd put a coffee maker in the building so anyone could just go grab a cup whenever they pleased.

My building uses the company coffee machine to get drivers to show up early so management can adjust routes depending on who shows up that day.