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<blockquote data-quote="Dirty Savage" data-source="post: 282549" data-attributes="member: 10384"><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Gotta love UPS Alberta!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">For my own experience, this being my fourth peak season, well, it really was the worst, Jerry, THE WORST! Thinking about it in terms of the shenanigans at my own centre, I think peak was a disaster for us because:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">1. The Canadian dollar trading at parity since the beginning of November. Winters are brutal here on the Canadian prairie and people like to stay at home and surf the internet looking for deals. And boy, did they find them. I mean, I can literally count on one hand the number of packages I delivered this peak that were obviously Xmas gifts. The rest was just the same old crap, computer and automobile parts, health-food junk, etc.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">2. As always, there was an issue with staff shortage. We hired two guys in October and one quit after a couple of weeks. Ok, that's fine. This month, though, we had one veteran driver leave to explore better career opportunities, one guy's wife passed away from a long fight with cancer, and another guy got sent to another city desperate for help. So three vets off the road during peak.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">I mean, morale was the lowest I've seen it in four years. All of us stopped caring about what happened during the day. Delivering EAM's at 4:30 in the afternoon? Gee, sir, you're lucky you're getting it AT ALL! I mean, today, Xmas eve, was the first day in the entire month that I didn't have any late air. I worked three Saturdays in a row and, here's the best statistic . . . for the week ending December 14th, I was paid for a total of 67 hours! I know damned well that we violated Canadian labour laws with these insane hours. Last year our sup sent us the message every day that no one was to work over 12 hours. Not so this year. I just made it my own personal choice to refuse to work past 13 hours a day, and at 6:45 every night I would just stop what I was doing and go home. Last year I had three missed packages for the entire duration of peak. This year I had hundreds! I really found it hard to believe that UPS even made any money this year, with the wages running rampant and all the service failures and such. Poor planning on their part?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">You betcha!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dirty Savage, post: 282549, member: 10384"] [FONT=Palatino Linotype]Gotta love UPS Alberta! For my own experience, this being my fourth peak season, well, it really was the worst, Jerry, THE WORST! Thinking about it in terms of the shenanigans at my own centre, I think peak was a disaster for us because: 1. The Canadian dollar trading at parity since the beginning of November. Winters are brutal here on the Canadian prairie and people like to stay at home and surf the internet looking for deals. And boy, did they find them. I mean, I can literally count on one hand the number of packages I delivered this peak that were obviously Xmas gifts. The rest was just the same old crap, computer and automobile parts, health-food junk, etc. 2. As always, there was an issue with staff shortage. We hired two guys in October and one quit after a couple of weeks. Ok, that's fine. This month, though, we had one veteran driver leave to explore better career opportunities, one guy's wife passed away from a long fight with cancer, and another guy got sent to another city desperate for help. So three vets off the road during peak. I mean, morale was the lowest I've seen it in four years. All of us stopped caring about what happened during the day. Delivering EAM's at 4:30 in the afternoon? Gee, sir, you're lucky you're getting it AT ALL! I mean, today, Xmas eve, was the first day in the entire month that I didn't have any late air. I worked three Saturdays in a row and, here's the best statistic . . . for the week ending December 14th, I was paid for a total of 67 hours! I know damned well that we violated Canadian labour laws with these insane hours. Last year our sup sent us the message every day that no one was to work over 12 hours. Not so this year. I just made it my own personal choice to refuse to work past 13 hours a day, and at 6:45 every night I would just stop what I was doing and go home. Last year I had three missed packages for the entire duration of peak. This year I had hundreds! I really found it hard to believe that UPS even made any money this year, with the wages running rampant and all the service failures and such. Poor planning on their part? You betcha! [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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