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Advice: Thinking of becoming a P/T supervisor. P/t socal worker here
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<blockquote data-quote="joerule65" data-source="post: 694087" data-attributes="member: 25759"><p>I think you should go for it. I was in the Teamsters since I was 23, I am now 30. I was with roadway for several years and when I got laid off last year I drove Feeders as a casual for a few months until being asked if I wanted to be a PT preload sup. I jumped at the chance. I want to move up in the company. I did take a pay cut, but I am looking at my long term career goals. I'm not saying the transition was easy. A few people on the shift resent me, in my opinion, just for being a supervisor and nothing more. However, what I have found, is that, even though I have a job to do, goals to meet, and a FT preload manager to keep happy, I enjoy my job. It seems I am slowly gaining the respect of most of the preload shift because I was once a member of the union and understand how management can sometimes do stupid things for no good reason. When I have to ask them to do something, I take the extra step and tell them why I am asking them to do it, and how it affects the overall operation. Most of the time I feel that they appreciate being in the loop. Everyone likes knowing what they are doing makes an impact, no matter how insignificant it may seem to them at the time. I try to put myself in their shoes and remember back to all those times when I was a union member and how certain things that management did to me pissed me off, and not do to them. I treat them how I wanted to be treated when I was a union member. To me, that seems to be the biggest obstacle, breaking the cycle of lack of respect for management from the union. I'm not trying to be their friends, I am trying to do my job the best way I can, and make their work experience as positive as it can be. We all get asked to do things at work we would rather not do, but if you ask it the right way, and treat everyone how you would want to be treated no matter if they are union, management or other, we would all like going to work a lot more. I just try to keep things in perspective. I need to keep my FT sup happy and make him look good to his supervisors, and keep the hourly content, show them respect for the job they do, follow through with things they ask of me and I say I can do, and make them as productive and safe as I can on a daily basis. If you keep all of this in mind, tough it out till you can go to full time, you should be successful at UPS. I hope I can do the same. Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joerule65, post: 694087, member: 25759"] I think you should go for it. I was in the Teamsters since I was 23, I am now 30. I was with roadway for several years and when I got laid off last year I drove Feeders as a casual for a few months until being asked if I wanted to be a PT preload sup. I jumped at the chance. I want to move up in the company. I did take a pay cut, but I am looking at my long term career goals. I'm not saying the transition was easy. A few people on the shift resent me, in my opinion, just for being a supervisor and nothing more. However, what I have found, is that, even though I have a job to do, goals to meet, and a FT preload manager to keep happy, I enjoy my job. It seems I am slowly gaining the respect of most of the preload shift because I was once a member of the union and understand how management can sometimes do stupid things for no good reason. When I have to ask them to do something, I take the extra step and tell them why I am asking them to do it, and how it affects the overall operation. Most of the time I feel that they appreciate being in the loop. Everyone likes knowing what they are doing makes an impact, no matter how insignificant it may seem to them at the time. I try to put myself in their shoes and remember back to all those times when I was a union member and how certain things that management did to me pissed me off, and not do to them. I treat them how I wanted to be treated when I was a union member. To me, that seems to be the biggest obstacle, breaking the cycle of lack of respect for management from the union. I'm not trying to be their friends, I am trying to do my job the best way I can, and make their work experience as positive as it can be. We all get asked to do things at work we would rather not do, but if you ask it the right way, and treat everyone how you would want to be treated no matter if they are union, management or other, we would all like going to work a lot more. I just try to keep things in perspective. I need to keep my FT sup happy and make him look good to his supervisors, and keep the hourly content, show them respect for the job they do, follow through with things they ask of me and I say I can do, and make them as productive and safe as I can on a daily basis. If you keep all of this in mind, tough it out till you can go to full time, you should be successful at UPS. I hope I can do the same. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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