Does Your Management Team Have Your Cell #?

[TooTechie]

Not this thread...again...again...again...

ok here we go.

Do you get the UPS discount at your carrier?

Do you write it off on your taxes as a business expense?

Then answer your phone when we call just like I answer when you call me on my cell, simple concept

If we call you a ridicules amount of times then we need to work on some management skills prior to your departure from the building.

I call maybe 3 drivers a day, other wise they text or call the center.

It is not a discount ups is giving us or UPS in some way subsidizing our phone bill. It is simply a discount extended BY THE CARRIER to employees as a group to bring in more business. I got the same discount at my previous employer and the employer didn't see it as some type of entitlement to be able to call our personal phones.

UPS isn't paying a penny. If you want drivers to have use of a cell phone, GIVE THEM ONE.

 

[TooTechie]

Got a text Tuesday morning at 7 am, that start time changed to 9:45am, late air...

I would have been to work normal time. They cannot advise you same day that your start time is changing.

 

[kingOFchester]

My bill will be the same with or without using it to communicate with management. They have it. I do not have any other phone line. Still communicate 90% via DIAD.

Not interested in "sticking UPS/management" by not using my phone, when it would just make my life more difficult rather then screwing management.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Got a text Tuesday morning at 7 am, that start time changed to 9:45am, late air...

Hopefully you ignored that text and showed up at your regular start time.

 

[32F driver]

Answer to op: NOPE, those idiots don't even know I have a cell, & it's gonna stay that way. If you wanna get ahold of me, the diad seems to work fine.

 

[wayfair]

I would have been to work normal time. They cannot advise you same day that your start time is changing.

forget that, I got another hour sleep!!!!

 

[BigBrown3605]

Of course my management team have my number and I have there's. I don't have a home phone and they don't call unless its extremely urgent. GOD created caller ID for a reason. I mean, how are they supposed to know its me when I text them in the morning, "IM NOT COMING TO WORK".

 

[BigBrown3605]

forget that, I got another hour sleep!!!!

Our start time is 905a. Many times this past peak I would get a text, "START TIME 1030A". Hell yeah, crawled back in bed..........

 

[TooTechie]

What was the purpose of bumping this thread from 4 months ago?

 

[jumpman23]

They have my number and don't care if they call me. That's what caller id is for, to see whos calling. If they call me and im not in the mood to answer their call I wont, and if I do I will answer it, its that simple.

 

[AKupser]

Mostly my center manager texts me but I really get PO'd when my co-workers give out my # to customers!

I'll b*tch slap them from Alaska to Florida, & boy will they feel it! I tell my guys (co-workers), and their wives, that if they don't want their cell # to be on every bulletin board in this State, then they had better not EVER give mine out to anyone!

 

[ZQXC]

We put the stickers on our IDs. I refuse to put one on a $400 phone.

I refuse to buy a $400 phone..........

 

[cachsux]

I refuse to buy a $400 phone..........

It's only $400 if I had to replace it out of pocket.

 

[ZQXC]

It's only $400 if I had to replace it out of pocket.

Justify it any way you like......

 

[Tired Driver]

If anybody regrets giving out their number. All you have to do is block the numbers that you do not want to answer.

 

[JackStraw]

Our start time is 905a. Many times this past peak I would get a text, "START TIME 1030A". Hell yeah, crawled back in bed..........

Normally you're supposed to get a weeks notice on a changed start time. At least that's the way it's done in my neck of the woods.

 

[DougH]

My manager has my cell (not ups employee though) he complains all the time about not answering.... I just tell him when he has the bill paid for me than I'll answer whenever he'd like me too.

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[wayfair]

What was the purpose of bumping this thread from 4 months ago?

well instead of responding to "Ottawa", "Question about promoting", "interviewing on friday", thread, this one seemed more fun

 

[wayfair]

My manager has my cell (not ups employee though) he complains all the time about not answering.... I just tell him when he has the bill paid for me than I'll answer whenever he'd like me too.

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I simply state "it's an in cab distraction, you know, what you were talking about at the PCM"

 

[30yearstolife]

They have tried to get my cell number many times...never going to happen. They even tried calling my home phone and trying to get the number from my 11 year old kid. If they ever got my number I would immediately change it. I love the text "call the center" or "call this other driver". I tell them I am 10 miles away from the nearest phone, but if you want, I will break off...