I agree being a truck driver is not the same as an Infantryman but leadership either on the battlefield or the boardroom is the same. I don't agree with all of managements decisions but if I don't like it I can either quit (retire) or join management and fix the problems. Thinking more towards retirement, after it stops being fun.
99 % of this statement I agree with. However I've had a couple of sups over the years that were really good at driving. They were also very good at standing behind the drivers when a situation called for it. Any wonder they no longer work here? They had too much of a conscience to stay.
Sounds like my current management team. I know I will get flamed for saying this but they do a really good job considering the situation they are given everyday.
Don't you just love how since we wear uniforms, have short hair & little facial hair, & our DIAD clocks are military time some think UPS is all military.? Not even close!
They still make us touch our toes. Just get a little nervous when they stand behind me!
My first on-car was amazing. He kept a fast pace walking off long driveways up big hills and would walk off dead end streets faster than driving down them. He was really quick locating packages in an unsorted truck and his area knowledge after just training a route a few times was crazy. Had street breaks down cold on every street. He worked by all the methods while training me and didn't cut any corners like every other on-car since has. He honked, rang all the doorbells, knocked and called out UPS at every stop. During my cover days I rode with 6 different sups across 3 centers and he is the only one who never cabbed a package with me in the truck, released a business or released a resi package where it shouldn't have been. Every sup since has done a combination of those things they shouldn't have, but he didn't. So, he would have made a good driver and he was a good sup.
Nah, I work alot, but I don't have to wait months to see my family like they do. I drive through rough neighborhoods, but don't have to worry about a roadside IED taking my arms and legs off like they do. I serve my customers but don't have to serve my country being ready to take someone's life and suffer the PTSD fallout afterward like they do.
i remember that! and if one failed inspection he was sent home
If they pulled that crap now, everyone would fail, on purpose!
I'm not sure management knows it has "problems" or wants them fixed.
Down is the new up?
They run scratch because they code "02" in their board instead of "06".
Drivers like me are why supervisors are going the way if the dodo. We handle our business, make the company profit, and require little more than a flunky to manage and clickity click a mouse, to make sure my pay is accurate. We are UPS.
So your belief is that because he knew and applied the methods, he was a good sup?
Don't take this the wrong or anything because I know your a smart dude and have no reason to disrespect you in any way at all, but that sentence clearly depicts in my opinion the brainwashing the company does with their management team. That would be a sentence of someone who is brainwashed would say. Its not a jab at you at all just my opinion of how that sentence sounded.
I could be brainwashed.
Nah not brainwashed I wouldn't say that, id say smart and knew how to master the game. I think that's a fair assessment lol. By the way I cant upload any pix at all so if you look into that it would be much obliged partner lol.
