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<blockquote data-quote="bamboonga" data-source="post: 57912"><p>"Managements roll at ups is to allow us to do our jobs to the best of our ability. It is also their jobs to remove barriers that interfere with our rapid completion of that job. </p><p> </p><p>unfortunatly, instead of removing barriers, they have placed them in our way. Some new technologies are great and do much to help out the driver and the customer. Others are done just to please the management structure and have no benifit to the customer or the driver." </p><p> </p><p>If that's their established role then I'm not surprised they've lost their way. Their role SHOULD be to direct all the workers to maintain and improve the system by which they work and constantly be on the lookout for safety hazards, as well as productivity hazards...I think their main fallacy is that the only way they seem to think of to improve production is to make us work harder - they never think of greasing that belt that keeps jamming up and causing everything to stop, or moving that slide a little to the left so packages don't jam up at the top...as far as they see it, the only way to improve productivity seems to lie with the workers. </p><p> </p><p>I don't know how this would apply to drivers, which most folks here seem to be...what I do know is that they're always after the cheap fix, and it tends to cost very little (even in opportunity cost) to yell at Joe that he's not working fast enough/taking too many bathroom breaks/not following methods than it does to fix a mechanical problem that is slowing down an entire sort. </p><p> </p><p>People at the bottom know this - I think if UPS implemented a 360 degree ratings system for all management personnel, you'd have a much easier time weeding out the <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />ty supes from the good ones and you'd find out who at the bottom has their eye on the ball most of the time...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bamboonga, post: 57912"] "Managements roll at ups is to allow us to do our jobs to the best of our ability. It is also their jobs to remove barriers that interfere with our rapid completion of that job. unfortunatly, instead of removing barriers, they have placed them in our way. Some new technologies are great and do much to help out the driver and the customer. Others are done just to please the management structure and have no benifit to the customer or the driver." If that's their established role then I'm not surprised they've lost their way. Their role SHOULD be to direct all the workers to maintain and improve the system by which they work and constantly be on the lookout for safety hazards, as well as productivity hazards...I think their main fallacy is that the only way they seem to think of to improve production is to make us work harder - they never think of greasing that belt that keeps jamming up and causing everything to stop, or moving that slide a little to the left so packages don't jam up at the top...as far as they see it, the only way to improve productivity seems to lie with the workers. I don't know how this would apply to drivers, which most folks here seem to be...what I do know is that they're always after the cheap fix, and it tends to cost very little (even in opportunity cost) to yell at Joe that he's not working fast enough/taking too many bathroom breaks/not following methods than it does to fix a mechanical problem that is slowing down an entire sort. People at the bottom know this - I think if UPS implemented a 360 degree ratings system for all management personnel, you'd have a much easier time weeding out the :censored:ty supes from the good ones and you'd find out who at the bottom has their eye on the ball most of the time... [/QUOTE]
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