The rumors are flying

[clean hairy]

Another real pain. would get ripped for not doing it soon enough after a nda delivery. And seems like a time when we still on paper, was a number we called to give tracking number to a real person. Standing at a freezing pay phone doing that kinda stuff

With Rod they used carrier pidgeons to get messages to the drivers.
Was an upgrade from smoke signals!

 

[Coldworld]

And the old hand written card file boxes with address directions? seen drivers come to blows accusing each other of taking or losing them.

Pretty sad that many of the drivers never had to collect a COD, let alone a cash one. A year or so ago 40% of the drivers had 5 years or less seniority.

 

[cynz]

This CEO is all about cutting our volume, first it was Best not Bigger, she wants to focus on Medical packages, and doesn't want small business, business. Do you see how they basically got rid of customer service reps, to bring in business. Now she is saying Boulder, she and her executives only care about the stock price.
By cutting our volume she can cut employees, close buildings and add automation.
Our contract has nothing to do with this, if you don't think her and her goons already had all this planned before our contract. We always go down volume during a contract year, so this is perfect for them to downsize workforce and add automation, especially when there not even trying to get business.
Look what she did to Home Depot, and someone told me she just gave herself a 4 million dollar raise, not sure if thats true havent read it anywhere. Before that she was making 29 million plus bonuses, like 100,000 an hour.

 

[cynz]

OMG it has nothing to do being a Women... Shes just a Corporate Raider,they all are sitting on each of their boards. Paying themselves millions.

 

[Coldworld]

We did get an historic raise, And a lot of low seniority people who complained that it wasn’t enough will be on the chopping block

But in actuality would these people just be the yearly churn that go from job to job anyway??? I know brown burns through people...not as fast as Amazon but there still is a high turnover rate here.

 

[Coldworld]

Honestly, I think what is meant by automation is that a lot of older, smaller centers will close because they can’t be automated. Whether or not those people can travel to the hub, the work goes to is another question some of them will have to go quite far. we’ve had an automated hub for over six years. Tons and tons of employees. Most of them stand around and do nothing lol.

You ever see their "flow monitoring" room...there's like 10 pt'ers in there doing absolutely nothing. Feet up on the tables watching a monitor.

 

[KearsargeCoop]

You ever see their "flow monitoring" room...there's like 10 pt'ers in there doing absolutely nothing. Feet up on the tables watching a monitor.

I have one of those rooms for my wife's week of the month.

 

[Thebrownblob]

You ever see their "flow monitoring" room...there's like 10 pt'ers in there doing absolutely nothing. Feet up on the tables watching a monitor.

We have one it has about 100 TV screens on a huge wall. It looks like NASA.

 

[Anthropomorphic Cow]

We have one it has about 100 TV screens on a huge wall. It looks like NASA.

Man when those guys win a driver bid they are going to be so physically unprepared.

 

[Thebrownblob]

Man when those guys win a driver bid they are going to be so physically unprepared.

Don’t worry they’re never going driving lol

 

[badpal]

I held onto mine like it contained state secrets

Guys get back from vacation and their phonebook's. card file boxes and their county rural directory's missing, it was panic time.

 

[badpal]

Every package car had a 5 year old phone book sliding around in the shelves

i was fancy built me a homemade pouch for supplies in the ole 600 just below my Farah Fawcett poster. Glancing up at Farah 100 times a day got me thru many tough ones. Dang got me feeling nostalgic now. Wonder where i could get new one?

 

[Jkloc420]

i was fancy built me a homemade pouch for supplies in the ole 600 just below my Farah Fawcett poster. Glancing up at Farah 100 times a day got me thru many tough ones. Dang got me feeling nostalgic now. Wonder where i could get new one?

@IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U has posters from Chippendales nude males

 

[728ups]

I had my customers trained if they wanted me to call in I would have them conveniently forget to tell me
Oh that would piss them off

Same here!!!

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I had my customers trained if they wanted me to call in I would have them conveniently forget to tell me
Oh that would piss them off

The driver just left.....

 

[Thebrownblob]

The driver just left.....

They used to give some of us pagers

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

They used to give some of us pagers

It's absolutely amazing how the battery always died...

 

[Non liberal]

Today the video came out with Carol saying the goal is for all inside jobs to automated. Their goal is obviously to have no employees since that means more profit.

I go into work and everyone is saying the Pleasantdale hub is being shut down temporarily for automation. I'm unsure how true this is. It's a pretty big hub in Doraville (basically Atlanta), GA.

I work in a different building nearby and we had 6 part time supervisors and 20 of the lowest seniority part timers let go. We already have half our people temporarily laid off or coming in one day a week to keep benefits. Supposedly the part timers getting let go is so that driver's being laid off can come inside and work. I'm surprised the supervisors lasted this long, we have way too many.

I know stuff like this happens, but I've been with the company for a long time and haven't seen anything like it.

Yeah, it’s no surprise, the world is moving toward automation. We as a people need to start putting our foot down or we’ll all be out of jobs in the future. If your ok with starting your own business in order to make money then that’s fine, otherwise start spending your money wisely with companies or people who aren’t doing this if possible.

 

[Non liberal]

UPS to close 200 sort centers in modernization push

UPS told investors it is leaning into automation and robotics to increase parcel capacity, which in turn will allow the company to operate fewer physical facilities.

www.freightwaves.com

Which is EXACTLY why we should have pushed for more money in this past contract. We had the leverage, a new regime, we could have set a precedent in favor of the workers. But with the help of all the union homers we have in our midst we got nowhere near what we could have. Now we’re all going to pay with having our seniority taken from us and the company will have an absolute windfall once again. Nice job SOB! Putz!

 

[Thebrownblob]

Which is EXACTLY why we should have pushed for more money in this past contract. We had the leverage, a new regime, we could have set a precedent in favor of the workers. But with the help of all the union homers we have in our midst we got nowhere near what we could have. Now we’re all going to pay with having our seniority taken from us and the company will have an absolute windfall once again. Nice job SOB! Putz!