What traits/characteristics do you admire/hate in supervisors if any? What makes a supervisor good and bad? What makes a supervisor someone you want to work for and someone you want to drag your feet on?
Honest to god, I had one supervisor who wasn't just the best sup. i've had at UPS. He's the best bosses/supervisor I've had at any of my jobs. He just knew how to run everything. I mean, he didn't play favorites, he was fair. He didn't stick anyone in solid irregs ALL DAMNED NIGHT, like some sups. As a team, we came down fast and clean every night. We're aloud to run 8 people on Unload A in my hub (we had like 12 people though), and there was a time that everyone on unload's A's average ran at 1800 PPH or better. Some of us averaging over 3000 PPH. I look at the PPH numbers now, and there isn't a single person running higher than 1500 PPH, and that's out of like 15 guys. It just goes to show ya how good of a sup he was.
He motivated us, talked to us, let us have fun! The fun part was a biggie. We used to sing, and dance, and holler out. Now none of us do it. Either because we're too pissed off, hot, or bored to have any fun. Or we lack motivation. Also, he seemed to sincerely care, ya know? He would talk to us about stuff if we looked like we were feeling down. He wouldn't get mad if one of us asked to go home a little early cuz we weren't feeling good. He'd joke with us, come into the trailers and talk with us. He acted more like a friend than a boss. Which i think made all the difference.
As for qualities I don't like. Take that sup, and turn everything around. My current sup. plays EXTREME favorites with 3 unloaders on my side. He Gives them nothing but good doors, and that leaves the rest of us with irreg and hub loads. The worst part about it, is those 3 aren't even that fast. Sure, there numbers on the PPH list are high, but so would yours if you were in a high-vollume trailer all week long. The fastest i've seen one of them go in any trailer is 2500, and i've gone over 5000 in some trailers, and i'm not even one of the faster guys.
I realize i'm a big guy, 6'4-5" and 210, but that doesn't mean I should get all the irreg doors does it? In the past month, i've been in 3 non-irreg doors. I just don't think that's fair. He'll put guys that can't even reach the tops of trailers on a load stand in barn-doors, and expect them not to stretch. He'll write you up for not using a load stand even if you're in a trailer where every wall is falling on you. He bitches about load stands and being 1-2 minutes late, but doesn't give a damn about igress.
We had a guy whose parents got divorced, and was, well, pissed off that day. The sup got in his face and started yelling at him for dropping a box, and screaming out the "friend bomb." I mean, yeah he's mormon, but hell dude, have you been to the hub recently? Everyone gets p.o.ed!
He's almost the exact oposite of the first guy. So i can pretty much say i've had one of the best and worst sups. at UPS. And i've only been there a year.