UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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The only behavior that you can directly control is your own.
What Makes You Miserable at Work?
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The only behavior that you can directly control is your own.
Amen.
TwoFingeredWillie
Active Member
We work Sundays and it sucks. Lots of people call in sick and there is never ever perfect attendance far from it actually. And now with football season upon us, forget about it, it is going to be a complete joke. We worked on Easter, mothers day, fathers day. we worked the day sunday before july 4th (july 3rd) which actually ran into the 4th. so in reality we didn't have the 4th off. it's a fractured weekend all the time. I was hired for Mon-Fri. Sunday is the biggest and most important family day. UPS sucks!
TwoFingeredWillie
Active Member
we start work on a Thursday between 10:45 pm and 11:15 pm and go back to work on Sunday at 6:30 pm (when sundays started it was 8:30 pm, more lies from UPS and they stated it as an extended weekend) so we get ripped off 4-5 hrs per weekend. Most people report to work on Friday at 9 AM and then it's back to work on Monday at 9 AM. Get it? 72 hours!
moreluck
golden ticket member
So, from your recent postings......UPS sucks! The Red Sox suck! And, it sucks that you don't have the 9-11 anniversary off work. You are one happy camper, aren't you?
TwoFingeredWillie
Active Member
I hope the person that decided that we work on Sundays drops dead!!
cachsux
Wah
I`ve always believed that every day is a important family day. Assigning a specific day is a weakness. The world of Mon - Fri, 9-5, is long gone.
All of the above makes me miserable, i am a UK worker and the company is a **** company to work for, many years ago it was great but now its all about profit and productivity and the speed that this company whats drivers to work is going to kill them or a colleague or even worse a member of the public.....now were is the SAFE WORK METHODS IN THAT THEN. The management that run this company in the UK are muppets and that's me being kind to them, i can think of a few stronger words than that to say but not on here. Why do the pen pushers in the company say a driver can do this, he has plenty of time........well pen pusher here is the keys to the over loaded and unsecure load that's on my p75 you go and take it out and lets see if you can do it!!!!!! How many will stand up and say ok then....the answer is none because if the damm computer says it then we can ......what a load of bull .
Why does the company buy out other companies that have been run into the ground and went bust by their management team, then stick these muppets into the positions the good ups managers where in for them to run it into the ground also and the people in the UK know which company i am talking about i.e. LYNX EXPRESS.
And how comes when a driver has an accident it is always their fault never the other driver's fault...come on we are only human not fickin robots oh sorry we are now just a number to UPS what happen to the UPS code of practise
Why does the company buy out other companies that have been run into the ground and went bust by their management team, then stick these muppets into the positions the good ups managers where in for them to run it into the ground also and the people in the UK know which company i am talking about i.e. LYNX EXPRESS.
And how comes when a driver has an accident it is always their fault never the other driver's fault...come on we are only human not fickin robots oh sorry we are now just a number to UPS what happen to the UPS code of practise
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Getting an ODS letting you know that you have a flat tire on your personal vehicle.
HA! I got one of those once, makes you just so look forward to getting in, knowing even when you finally do you cant leave. But I work with a great bunch of guys, and they did it for me. I could have but it would have took a whole lot longer. it was a bout 9 months ago, and I would still be trying to figure out how to get that truck tire, out from underneath the bed..........
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
I dropped the flat off at a tire repair shop on my area and picked it up later that day, putting it in the back of the PC. Saved 30 minutes of my lunch to swap tires when I got back to the center. It has been getting darker earlier and rather than sit and eat I chose to change the tires while it was still light out. I had my DIAD leaning against the front tire while I swapped out the rear.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Albany, NY?
tenandcounting
Member
All the cutbacks and sticking down your throat .and you take it or leave it. Also to charge a driver with an accident after hitting a dog on a state road. Hope you dont hit a bird.
WatersEdgeNPR
Member
This was @ my former job. A Co-worker who thinks he is working his butt off day after day & In reality he does a whole lot of nothing!
dilligaf
IN VINO VERITAS
I'm filing NLRB on lunch violations.
menotyou
bella amicizia
I know where the spares are.
cachsux
Wah
I wish. Funny, between the original assigned driver and then myself his partner who inherited that rig there was not so much as a scratch. Original motor and trans, running like a swiss watch for over ten years. Loan her out and she is driven less than 1/2 a mile away to the railyard next door and promptly hit head on by a Sante Fe shifter who was more concerned with what was on his radio than how to drive.
