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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 563617" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>No to both questions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In my 22 years with UPS, I can point to particular decisions made by upper-level management people that have cost the company many <em>millions</em> of dollars in wasted time and overall inefficiency.</p><p> </p><p>There is a <em>huge</em> amount of fat that could be trimmed from the ranks of management if only someone with enough cojones would step forward to do it.</p><p> </p><p>In my building alone we are wasting tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars on activities that serve no purpose other than to keep our management looking busy.</p><p> </p><p>We have sups who spend <em>hours</em> parked at intersections in their personal vehicles doing "posture audits" of drivers to make sure they are sitting fully upright in their package cars.</p><p> </p><p>We have sups doing constant, never-ending on-area-observations and OJS rides with good drivers whose only crime was to get screwed over on a timestudy.</p><p> </p><p>We pay management people to write bogus, contractually irrelevant warning letters and we pay the driver plus his shop steward to sit in pointless meetings to discuss these meaningless letters. We pay management people to spend hours trying to micromanage away minutes worth of supposedly overllowed time.</p><p> </p><p>We waste thousands of hours per year in the preload and hub operations due to overcrowded facilities and poorly designed equipment.</p><p> </p><p>We have safety committees that accomplish nothing other than to distribute muffins and create an ever-expanding list of slogans, acronyms and commentaries for the drivers to recite on cue like trained parrots.</p><p> </p><p>I cant fix these problems.They were caused by people I will never meet, who are too high up to be accountable. They will not be solved by me turning in a sales lead, participating in yet another "campaign" or anxiously awaiting the next earnings report.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 563617, member: 14668"] No to both questions. In my 22 years with UPS, I can point to particular decisions made by upper-level management people that have cost the company many [I]millions[/I] of dollars in wasted time and overall inefficiency. There is a [I]huge[/I] amount of fat that could be trimmed from the ranks of management if only someone with enough cojones would step forward to do it. In my building alone we are wasting tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars on activities that serve no purpose other than to keep our management looking busy. We have sups who spend [I]hours[/I] parked at intersections in their personal vehicles doing "posture audits" of drivers to make sure they are sitting fully upright in their package cars. We have sups doing constant, never-ending on-area-observations and OJS rides with good drivers whose only crime was to get screwed over on a timestudy. We pay management people to write bogus, contractually irrelevant warning letters and we pay the driver plus his shop steward to sit in pointless meetings to discuss these meaningless letters. We pay management people to spend hours trying to micromanage away minutes worth of supposedly overllowed time. We waste thousands of hours per year in the preload and hub operations due to overcrowded facilities and poorly designed equipment. We have safety committees that accomplish nothing other than to distribute muffins and create an ever-expanding list of slogans, acronyms and commentaries for the drivers to recite on cue like trained parrots. I cant fix these problems.They were caused by people I will never meet, who are too high up to be accountable. They will not be solved by me turning in a sales lead, participating in yet another "campaign" or anxiously awaiting the next earnings report. [/QUOTE]
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