Want to get out of UPS.... Torn

[rod]

I think many of the old timers use to game the system.....now with the technology that's not going to happen as much.. which is ok.

Not me. I never made up a few stops or packed on a few miles in my career.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I think many of the old timers use to game the system.....now with the technology that's not going to happen as much.. which is ok.

Management was twice as guilty

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

What the hell---do I have to tell you my hard luck stories too?

Maybe some other decade

 

[Coldworld]

Management was twice as guilty

Yes.... that's part of the reason why these numbers are so inflated.... they have been gamed for so many years and now we all have to deal with it....and we are all part of the problem

 

[rod]

Have heard they use to kick the back of drivers heels and calves, that's come from a couple old extra ups drivers... that s wouldn't happen today.. guaranteed...

They did "try" this trick but I know the one and only time it happened to me I just stopped and told my center manager she was welcome to go around me if she was in that much of a hurry. It wasn't a 'KICK" it was more of an "accidentialy" stepped on the back of your shoe thing.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yes.... that's part of the reason why these numbers are so inflated.... they have been gamed for so many years and now we all have to deal with it....and we are all part of the problem

Delivering the packages are my problem. The numbers are Management's problem.

 

[Box Ox]

What the hell---do I have to tell you my hard luck stories too?

Yeah, yeah. You delivered at the Battle of Bull Run and Antietam. Blah blah blahhhh

 

[burrheadd]

I think many of the old timers use to game the system.....now with the technology that's not going to happen as much.. which is ok.

Nope never happened

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yeah, yeah. You delivered at the Battle of Bull Run and Antietam. Blah blah blahhhh

He had to feed those horses every morning

 

[rod]

Yes.... that's part of the reason why these numbers are so inflated.... they have been gamed for so many years and now we all have to deal with it....and we are all part of the problem

They weren't "gamed". Hell----they made up the game. On many occasions I had a sup or center manager tell me that a certain stop should be counted as more than one. They were the "game masters". It seemed like every time a new center manager would show up he would give orders that things were going to be different. After a few weeks he would always give the "just do it the way you used to do it" speech because since he had taken over the centers numbers had gone in the crapper.

 

[Over 70]

Yeah, yeah. You delivered at the Battle of Bull Run and Antietam. Blah blah blahhhh

 

[The Natural]

He had to feed those horses every morning

Its definitely not the same UPS as years gone by.... its all about the numbers and stock prices. After doing feeder for 10yrs . When they put me on route with 180 stops and at 1pm i have 35 done. Guess what? They get what they get. And what they dont get comes back.

 

[rod]

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this is more like me

 

[Wally]

As time goes on, you will bid routes you like. Hang in there.

 

[The Natural]

Its definitely not the same UPS as years gone by.... its all about the numbers and stock prices. After doing feeder for 10yrs . When they put me on route with 180 stops and at 1pm i have 35 done. Guess what? They get what they get. And what they dont get comes back.

At this point. I'd rather stay home and not get paid then to kill myself and drive their package car.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Its definitely not the same UPS as years gone by.... its all about the numbers and stock prices. After doing feeder for 10yrs . When they put me on route with 180 stops and at 1pm i have 35 done. Guess what? They get what they get. And what they dont get comes back.

I would have to walk backwards blindfolded to only have 35 off by 1.

 

[The Natural]

I would have to walk backwards blindfolded to only have 35 off by 1.

Sometimes its about making a point.

 

[cosmo1]

I'm just throwing gas on the fire. I realize it isn't what it used to be and I would have a hard time working at the "new" UPS now. That being said it wasn't all sunshine and lollypops when I worked either.

Wasn't wonderful in 1978 either.

That said, I got out a little over four years ago, and I wouldn't want to have lasted any longer.

 

[john chesney]

And find another job and start over?
Mess up your pension, benefits and multiple weeks vacation?

Yes I would have to. Everyone is different but that’s the way I’m feeling now. I’m just burned out

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Yes I would have to. Everyone is different but that’s the way I’m feeling now. I’m just burned out

I get burned out myself. But I'm not letting them beat me down. It's 4th and goal. I'm punching it in.