UPS, greatest company in the world to work for!

[DS]

I'm not sure if its the greatest company to work for.I agree that its great to be outside instead of cooped up all day,and I do like being my own boss,but man,a bad day at ups can outdo a bad day at any other job I ever had.And its a weird job too.I mean you see the weirdest things.You deliver the weirdest things,and meet new weird people every day.Every day is a new,adventure,battle,workout,game,test, challenge...add your own...I have a love hate relationship with it,it keeps me nimble,but every now and then I hate it with a passion...

 

[edd_tv]

They run this place like the church,always make you feel guilty like you didn't do enough,and when they screw up they get moved to another parish

in the long run they are running us into the ground like the Japs did at Battan except they don't shoot us ,just beat us down with threats and warning letters. I'd be happier making 3$ less and being left alone with an ocasional "thata boy'' good job yah right!!!​

i often thought that way as well. if they would treat me with respect or say good job every now and then i wouldnt mind making less.

but i know there is now way that will ever happen so PAY ME!!!!​

 

[local804]

2006-2007 ranked 100 best companies to work for
maybe when respect and dignity are restored, we too shall make the top 100
1 Genentech 20 Midsized 8,121
2 Wegmans Food Markets 7 Large 31,890
3 Valero Energy 5 Large 16,582
4 Griffin Hospital 2 Small 1,049
5 W.L. Gore & Associates 6 Midsized 4,537
6 Container Store 16 Midsized 2,857
7 Vision Service Plan -2 Small 1,915
8 J.M. Smucker -13 Midsized 2,930
9 Recreational Equipment (REI) 9 Midsized 7,443
10 S.C. Johnson 0 Midsized 3,404
11 Boston Consulting Group 17 Small 1,261
12 Plante & Moran 9 Small 1,356
13 Quicken Loans 60 Midsized 2,951
14 HomeBanc Mortgage 9 Small 1,342
15 Whole Foods Market 18 Large 33,248
16 Edward Jones 3 Large 29,197
17 Republic Bancorp -9 Small 1,190
18 Baptist Health Care 0 Midsized 4,003
19 Alston & Bird 3 Small 1,509
20 Kimley-Horn & Associates 24 Small 1,777
21 QuikTrip 6 Midsized 7,819
22 American Century Investments 0 Small 1,778
23 Qualcomm 23 Midsized 7,562
24 David Weekley Homes 18 Small 1,361
25 Cisco Systems 8 Large 26,644
26 Goldman Sachs 3 Large 11,836
27 Network Appliance 26 Midsized 2,712
28 Four Seasons -12 Large 10,625
29 Starbucks 26 Large 91,056
30 SAS Institute 1 Midsized 5,118
31 Robert W. Baird -1 Small 2,125
32 Alcon Laboratories 1 Midsized 6,227
33 Nugget Markets 10 Small 1,091
34 CDW 7 Midsized 3,948
35 American Fidelity Assurance 1 Small 1,385
36 TDIndustries -9 Small 1,297
37 American Express -3 Large 42,453
38 Milliken -3 Midsized 9,300
39 Amgen 6 Large 11,374
40 JM Family Enterprises 9 Midsized 4,114
41 Timberland -2 Small 1,978
42 Microsoft 1 Large 37,746
43 Intuit 6 Midsized 6,516
44 Pella 7 Midsized 8,758
45 SRA International 23 Midsized 3,986
46 Nordstrom 3 Large 45,112
47 AFLAC 5 Midsized 4,034
48 Perkins Coie -4 Small 1,553
49 Nixon Peabody 4 Small 1,563
50 Northwest Community Hospital 1 Midsized 3,089
51 Genzyme 9 Midsized 5,399
52 Eli Lilly -7 Large 21,898
53 Hot Topic 22 Midsized 8,314
54 Arnold & Porter -4 Small 1,383
55 Station Casinos 6 Large 10,967
56 Publix Super Markets 3 Large 129,412
57 Synovus 0 Large 11,860
58 Stew Leonard's -2 Small 1,819
59 Baptist Health South Florida 3 Large 10,706
60 Vanguard Group 8 Large 11,070
61 Sherwin-Williams 14 Large 27,938
62 Memorial Health 2 Midsized 4,301
63 Russell Investment Group 22 Small 1,092
64 FedEx 7 Large 212,241
65 PCL Construction 26 Midsized 2,543
66 MITRE 4 Midsized 5,575
67 Ernst & Young 5 Large 23,657
68 Bronson Healthcare Group 6 Midsized 3,396
69 Valassis 0 Small 1,803
70 A.G. Edwards 0 Large 15,708
71 PricewaterhouseCoopers 11 Large 26,392
72 Booz Allen Hamilton 9 Large 15,582
73 Yahoo 29 Midsized 5,444
74 Standard Pacific 22 Small 2,317
75 Quad/Graphics 1 Large 10,399
76 Children's Heathcare of Atlanta 4 Midsized 4,910
77 National Instruments 4 Small 2,148
78 Methodist Hospital System 6 Midsized 8,714
79 East Penn Manufacturing 2 Midsized 4,082
80 CH2M Hill 48 Large 17,770
81 Autodesk 5 Small 2,098
82 Bingham McCutchen 0 Small 1,542
83 Texas Instruments -6 Large 16,102
84 Worthington Industries -4 Midsized 6,233
85 First Horizon National 11 Large 13,228
86 Principal Financial Group 2 Large 12,723
87 Washington Mutual -7 Large 54,396
88 Morrison & Foerster 3 Small 2,145
89 Mayo Clinic 4 Large 38,085
90 John Wiley & Sons 1 Small 2,090
91 Granite Construction 6 Midsized 4,300
92 Men's Wearhouse 9 Large 10,757
93 CarMax 12 Large 11,400
94 Bright Horizons 8 Large 13,551
95 Wm. Wrigley Jr. -2 Midsized 3,372
96 IKEA (U.S.) 18 Midsized 9,499
97 Intel 1 Large 48,655
98 General Mills -5 Large 17,993
99 Marriott International 3 Large 126,704
100 Nike

 

[OldUPSDriver]

Do we know if UPS participated in that survey?? It is not mandatory is it?

 

[browniehound]

Here in Florida you can wear shorts every day of the year!

Hey Fnix,
I can't say what I want to say here to you because it would be censored, but you get my point! LOL, just joking. I envy you. I wish I could live in FLA!

I tell ya, i would rather deal mid 90's with 100% relative humidity any day over snowstorms, ice in driveways, high temps of 5 degrees with wind chills at -35 any day and every day.

 

[toonertoo]

Im with ya there browniehoud. I dont know how Mass is, but my hands are so dried out from the cold they hurt and are all wrinkly. My face feels Like a big chapped lip. It was zero when I shut off the alarm today, and I got that anal glaucoma thing. (cant see my butt going to work) stolen form someone one here. Tomorrow will be warmer, just an ice storm. Them Fla guys would die here.

 

[browniehound]

Toll workers in Mass get $23/hr with full benefits and pension.

...And they are starting to get rid of people and just use the automatic booths.

Over,
You forgot about the 6 weeks vacation they recieve also!! Problem with this job is you need to know a politiican or someone like that to get one

 

[upsdude]

2006-2007 ranked 100 best companies to work for
maybe when respect and dignity are restored, we too shall make the top 100

Agreed!

 

[browniehound]

Tooner,
Don't you wear gloves at all? I know they can make using the DIAD difficult, but I HAVE to wear them. I usually get the ones with rubber palms and fingers. They make grabbing the packages so much easier. My hands stay calous free also when I where them.

 

[toonertoo]

I never did till this year, I have to, at least morn and eve. Im paying the price for not doing it all these years. I fear arthur is moving in.

 

[Ms Spoken]

I never did till this year, I have to, at least morn and eve. Im paying the price for not doing it all these years. I fear arthur is moving in.

That is so funny that you said that. My grandmother would always say "watch that arm, thats Arthur's arm" Thanks for the smile because she is missed.

 

[Fnix]

Hey Fnix,
I can't say what I want to say here to you because it would be censored, but you get my point! LOL, just joking. I envy you. I wish I could live in FLA!

I tell ya, i would rather deal mid 90's with 100% relative humidity any day over snowstorms, ice in driveways, high temps of 5 degrees with wind chills at -35 any day and every day.

I see it as a safer place to work. No snow so less injuries. Less injuries the more likely you are to last at UPS.

 

[Brown Dog]

I think great is a little much for me. Good, yes. Good pay, benefits. The micro managing, the browbeating, the holier than thou attitude tends to knock some of the luster of the UPS shine. Good to work outside(most of the time), good coworkers, lots of good people on my route that I enjoy seeing regularly. Lack of concern with cleanliness of trucks, pkgs loaded damaged, wet, over 70lbs on top of fragile, just get trucks loaded as quick as possible and out of the building mentality with no regard to quality of load--Not so Great! Used to be proud to work for UPS, not so much anymore, just a good paying job with alot of mandatory overtime.

 

[JustTired]

I think great is a little much for me. Good, yes. Good pay, benefits. The micro managing, the browbeating, the holier than thou attitude tends to knock some of the luster of the UPS shine. Good to work outside(most of the time), good coworkers, lots of good people on my route that I enjoy seeing regularly. Lack of concern with cleanliness of trucks, pkgs loaded damaged, wet, over 70lbs on top of fragile, just get trucks loaded as quick as possible and out of the building mentality with no regard to quality of load--Not so Great! Used to be proud to work for UPS, not so much anymore, just a good paying job with alot of mandatory overtime.

What he (she?) said!!!

 

[over9five]

Over,
You forgot about the 6 weeks vacation they recieve also!! Problem with this job is you need to know a politiican or someone like that to get one

Were you listening to Dan Rea the other night??

 

[Whipped Dog]

UPS might be a great place to work if you are union - but that's the whole point of the union - you pay dues so that the company can't screw around with you as much as they'd like. Fact is, you come to work, do the job reasonably well, and don't make any obvious mistakes (stealing, violence), all of the threats and warning letters in the world won't take your job.

If you are management, UPS is like a business version of walking the trail of tears. Management folk have no steward to defend them. You come in every day, work ten plus hours (at salary), work weekends from home, do a good job, still get screamed at, are given unattainable goals, have positions in your department cut so that you have to do the same work with less people, are belittled constantly, never see your kids, never have a hobby, eat from a vending machine because your lunch hour doesn't exist, come in sick because you don't get sick days, and have your vacation weeks moved all the time because the controller wants to have a department meeting where he singles his sups out one at a time and tell them what a waste of space they are and how he could get better numbers from trained monkeys. For the priviledge of all this, you get stock at the end of the year, but the stock is VESTED for five years, so you only get a fifth of it initially. If you quit, you lose it.

Then you wake up one day and find yourself thirty pounds overweight, taking anti-anxiety pills to get through the day, waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, divorced, your kids don't remember what you look like, and fantasizing about running your car accidentally/on purpose into a bridge abuttment for the long-term disability. Then you do the math: salary divided by 70 hour work week equals a little less than $14 an hour, gross, plus you pay for part of your benefits. You could have done better in the union without paying out for a bachelor's and master's degree. You update your resume and send it out. You get calls for interviews but because you don't get sick days, you have to be stealthy. The company interviewing you ends up hiring you because they know that if you can survive even a year as UPS management, you have the staying power of a cockroach. UPS UNION jobs have great reps on the street with other companies, but UPS MANAGEMENT jobs have rotten reps. Deservedly so.

 

[browniehound]

Were you listening to Dan Rea the other night??

I wasn't, but I read that in one of Howie Carr's columns in the past year.

 

[browniehound]

Whipped Dog,
It can't as bad as you say. Is it?

If it is, I will tell you what I've heard being told to people who complain about their job at UPS. "Mcdonalds is always hiring".

But seriously, with your experience with UPS management you should be able to find a decent job outside of the company if you truly hate it.

Are you one of the people that majored in something that you totally hate and have no interest in pursuing a career in? So you come to UPS because they pay a competitive (or much better)salary and put up with the daily beatings because it beats making 45K as a social worker or math teacher?

Both are noble professions but I bet your lifestyle is a bit higher than what those salaries can afford.

 

[Fnix]

I still dont see why anyone would go into management. How can people last so long in it suprises me even more.

 

[IDoLessWorkThanMost]

Whipped Dog,
It can't as bad as you say. Is it?

If it is, I will tell you what I've heard being told to people who complain about their job at UPS. "Mcdonalds is always hiring".

But seriously, with your experience with UPS management you should be able to find a decent job outside of the company if you truly hate it.

Are you one of the people that majored in something that you totally hate and have no interest in pursuing a career in? So you come to UPS because they pay a competitive (or much better)salary and put up with the daily beatings because it beats making 45K as a social worker or math teacher?

Both are noble professions but I bet your lifestyle is a bit higher than what those salaries can afford.

The 2nd most difficult degree to attain aside from nuclear engineering, (my major back in the day) meteorology/atmospheric science, pays 17-22k out of college and 30k with a masters and works up to 40k-70k with a number of years experience and government classification scale wages (with a masters or at least 8-10 years exp, per NWS/NOAA)

UPS pays 40k in progression and 60-80k out of progression in 3 years with no college background.


If I had only known this when I was 18-20, I wouldn't have dropped out and wasted 3 years on a dead end job...and waited until 23 to start at UPS.