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<blockquote data-quote="35years" data-source="post: 4266240" data-attributes="member: 60822">Let&#039;s see...When did I realize management was the enemy?Was it in 2003 in the first week of the shock and awe campaign when we were suddenly in a full scale war with Iraq....One of our drivers was called up to active duty 3 days into the conflict.&nbsp; Heading to the combat zone, shipping out Friday at Midnight. 2 kids and a wife. The pricks made him do his own route rather than spend what could have been his last day on earth with his family. He left UPS in his military fatigues. 4 supervisors sat in the office sipping coffee that day....Or was it when a driver&#039;s wife had an accident, a traumatic brain injury which she would never recover from, functioning as a 7 year old. Driver was granted no time off ( before family leave law passed). He has 3 kids. In addition he was yelled at on a daily basis because his production was slipping. He would come out of the office crying.Or perhaps when countless supervisors lied and threw drivers under the bus for something they OKed....Or perhaps when my center manager had a &quot;talk&quot; with a naive, honest, kind but somewhat dumb driver. A 10 year driver. He convinced him to quit by making him feel he was letting all the other guys in the center down because he ran a half hour over each day and made mistakes....Oh and he had a wife and 3 kids relying on him.Hmmm, maybe if I think a bit more I can come up with a thousand other examples.Would you like to hear all the ways they screwed us?And yet you think we are not warranted in our disdain for management?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="35years, post: 4266240, member: 60822"] Let's see...When did I realize management was the enemy? Was it in 2003 in the first week of the shock and awe campaign when we were suddenly in a full scale war with Iraq....One of our drivers was called up to active duty 3 days into the conflict. Heading to the combat zone, shipping out Friday at Midnight. 2 kids and a wife. The pricks made him do his own route rather than spend what could have been his last day on earth with his family. He left UPS in his military fatigues. 4 supervisors sat in the office sipping coffee that day.... Or was it when a driver's wife had an accident, a traumatic brain injury which she would never recover from, functioning as a 7 year old. Driver was granted no time off ( before family leave law passed). He has 3 kids. In addition he was yelled at on a daily basis because his production was slipping. He would come out of the office crying. Or perhaps when countless supervisors lied and threw drivers under the bus for something they OKed.... Or perhaps when my center manager had a "talk" with a naive, honest, kind but somewhat dumb driver. A 10 year driver. He convinced him to quit by making him feel he was letting all the other guys in the center down because he ran a half hour over each day and made mistakes....Oh and he had a wife and 3 kids relying on him. Hmmm, maybe if I think a bit more I can come up with a thousand other examples. Would you like to hear all the ways they screwed us? And yet you think we are not warranted in our disdain for management? [/QUOTE]

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