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<blockquote data-quote="freeloader" data-source="post: 291257" data-attributes="member: 12163"><p>Your wage is pretty good. I was making a little more than you but I was in TSG for a couple years longer.</p><p></p><p>If you choose to go into management, your 8 hour workdays are over. If you become a TSG supervisor, you will work 10 hour days, be on call 24/7 and drive all over your district. All your technical skills will be out the door. Chances are, you would get rotated to other departments as well. You become salaried and the increase is nice, but you are no longer entitled to OT. So with all the additional hours you work, the actual hourly rate isn't much more than what you're making now.</p><p></p><p>If you choose to stay a tech, you should self-develop as much as you can. Because of your high pay rate and not wanting to go into management, they may target you. Remember, there was a couple rounds of "workforce balance initiatives", so there may still be more coming. Even if there isn't any, they may still target you since you make so much and don't want to go into management. They would prefer to have the people at the high end of the pay scale gone and replace them with fresh meat back at the bottom.</p><p></p><p>I was in TSG and left a couple years ago. I thought about going into management but I saw what it did to friends of mine who got promoted. You have to make a lot of sacrifices at home when you go into management. Right now I am in the software field and my TSG skills from UPS didn't get me very far at all in the real world. That's why I made the suggestion to self-develop as much as you can. Try to learn some real-world stuff so you can have some marketable skills in case you leave UPS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="freeloader, post: 291257, member: 12163"] Your wage is pretty good. I was making a little more than you but I was in TSG for a couple years longer. If you choose to go into management, your 8 hour workdays are over. If you become a TSG supervisor, you will work 10 hour days, be on call 24/7 and drive all over your district. All your technical skills will be out the door. Chances are, you would get rotated to other departments as well. You become salaried and the increase is nice, but you are no longer entitled to OT. So with all the additional hours you work, the actual hourly rate isn't much more than what you're making now. If you choose to stay a tech, you should self-develop as much as you can. Because of your high pay rate and not wanting to go into management, they may target you. Remember, there was a couple rounds of "workforce balance initiatives", so there may still be more coming. Even if there isn't any, they may still target you since you make so much and don't want to go into management. They would prefer to have the people at the high end of the pay scale gone and replace them with fresh meat back at the bottom. I was in TSG and left a couple years ago. I thought about going into management but I saw what it did to friends of mine who got promoted. You have to make a lot of sacrifices at home when you go into management. Right now I am in the software field and my TSG skills from UPS didn't get me very far at all in the real world. That's why I made the suggestion to self-develop as much as you can. Try to learn some real-world stuff so you can have some marketable skills in case you leave UPS. [/QUOTE]
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