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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 762305" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The rift would go away if the company would simply allow the "managers" of its operations to <em>make decisions.</em></p><p> </p><p>95% of UPS management are good, honest, competent people and 95% of the time they would make good, honest, competent decisions ....<em>if only they were allowed to</em>.</p><p> </p><p>But they <em>arent</em> allowed to. They <em>cant </em>run the business the way it should be run, because in reality they are nothing but facilitators whose only responsbility is to spoon-feed the puppet masters in Atlanta whichever number (stops per car? SPORH? overallowed hours?) happens to be the current corporate flavor of the week.</p><p> </p><p>You cant manage a business if you have no authority to make business decisions. You cant manage a business if your survival depends solely upon managing a metric.</p><p> </p><p>Our operations-level "managers" have been reduced to puppets who hand out warning letters and read PCM's. </p><p> </p><p>Since the only remaining tool these "managers" have available to them is a hammer....all of their problems start looking like nails. And since those "nails" are, in reality, the human beings that provide the labor that allows UPS to succeed...it is only natural that those same human beings will turn to the only protection that they have (the union) in order to survive.</p><p> </p><p>True cooperation requires both sides to give and take. It requires compromise. Neither is possible on a <em>local</em> level when all of the important decisions are being made in Atlanta.</p><p> </p><p>Its impossible to engage in meaningful teamwork with a puppet. Its even harder when that puppet can do nothing but swing a hammer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 762305, member: 14668"] The rift would go away if the company would simply allow the "managers" of its operations to [I]make decisions.[/I] 95% of UPS management are good, honest, competent people and 95% of the time they would make good, honest, competent decisions ....[I]if only they were allowed to[/I]. But they [I]arent[/I] allowed to. They [I]cant [/I]run the business the way it should be run, because in reality they are nothing but facilitators whose only responsbility is to spoon-feed the puppet masters in Atlanta whichever number (stops per car? SPORH? overallowed hours?) happens to be the current corporate flavor of the week. You cant manage a business if you have no authority to make business decisions. You cant manage a business if your survival depends solely upon managing a metric. Our operations-level "managers" have been reduced to puppets who hand out warning letters and read PCM's. Since the only remaining tool these "managers" have available to them is a hammer....all of their problems start looking like nails. And since those "nails" are, in reality, the human beings that provide the labor that allows UPS to succeed...it is only natural that those same human beings will turn to the only protection that they have (the union) in order to survive. True cooperation requires both sides to give and take. It requires compromise. Neither is possible on a [I]local[/I] level when all of the important decisions are being made in Atlanta. Its impossible to engage in meaningful teamwork with a puppet. Its even harder when that puppet can do nothing but swing a hammer. [/QUOTE]
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