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A supervisor stands up to the IE manager...and pays the price
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<blockquote data-quote="UPS Lifer" data-source="post: 606245" data-attributes="member: 9789"><p><span style="color: Red"><strong>Here is where I have to disagree with you. You can never back up your remarks above... You may have seen this in your world up in Oregon but it is not part of the UPS culture to rig standards or coerce drivers and others into not taking a lunch or break. </strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Red">We have no one to blame but ourselves if we allowed UPS to get into our heads that way. </span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">Has UPS tightened the allowances up. Absolutely. Especially with all the technology enhancements over the last several years. </span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">Back in the mid 1900's, the wages and benefits were a lot cheaper and more affordable for the company to absorb. We were growing by leaps and bounds. If a recession hit, the company absorbed it. Now, each route added or every tenth of a stop in performance decrease, costs the company millions and millions of dollars. The company has determined the best operating ratio and is applying that formula during this economic depression. <strong>(Granted - you may not like it but you have a job! Don't forget, it is affecting mgmt also!!!)</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">But screwing people out of their lunches is not part of the plan!!! I know you know this is not true on a district - region or corporate level. </span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">You have only to look at your southern border (CA) to see it is not true. Before I retired we actually had a manager who pulled the lunch report for every driver in the district. There were managers disciplining drivers for not taking their lunch and breaks. </span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red">The lunch and break thing was more of a culture that was born from bonus. Drivers wanted to make that bonus and did what they had to. These drivers became supervisors who proliferated the same process. You didn't see this sort of thing in areas of the country that were not on bonus. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UPS Lifer, post: 606245, member: 9789"] [COLOR=Red][B]Here is where I have to disagree with you. You can never back up your remarks above... You may have seen this in your world up in Oregon but it is not part of the UPS culture to rig standards or coerce drivers and others into not taking a lunch or break. [/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]We have no one to blame but ourselves if we allowed UPS to get into our heads that way. Has UPS tightened the allowances up. Absolutely. Especially with all the technology enhancements over the last several years. Back in the mid 1900's, the wages and benefits were a lot cheaper and more affordable for the company to absorb. We were growing by leaps and bounds. If a recession hit, the company absorbed it. Now, each route added or every tenth of a stop in performance decrease, costs the company millions and millions of dollars. The company has determined the best operating ratio and is applying that formula during this economic depression. [B](Granted - you may not like it but you have a job! Don't forget, it is affecting mgmt also!!!)[/B] But screwing people out of their lunches is not part of the plan!!! I know you know this is not true on a district - region or corporate level. You have only to look at your southern border (CA) to see it is not true. Before I retired we actually had a manager who pulled the lunch report for every driver in the district. There were managers disciplining drivers for not taking their lunch and breaks. The lunch and break thing was more of a culture that was born from bonus. Drivers wanted to make that bonus and did what they had to. These drivers became supervisors who proliferated the same process. You didn't see this sort of thing in areas of the country that were not on bonus. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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