Overpaid Union Thug
Well-Known Member
No, it's a product of a low-paying, demanding job with an obscene amount of turn over and the company's unwillingness to enforce discipline.
The company doesn't enforce discipline for two reasons. One being that most buildings desperately need the manning due to the turnover you mentioned and are willing to overlook some of the infractions as long as those that NCNS will show up the other days of the week. The second reason is that many management teams just don't want to waste time on a disciplinary action that in the end will only lead to those that are being disciplined going back to their old ways once the union gets their job back. If they are even fired at all.
Piedmont steward has it right. NCNS and attendance issues are bi-products of poor management follow through. The problem becomes that the jobs are so undesirable now for the rate of pay- given working graveyard shifts, poor working conditions and of course said poor management...that there are just too many cases and UPS can't discipline and/or fire half of the shift.
Even some of the extreme examples of NCNS I have seen, UPS doesn't follow through with (one employee was late 150 times and NCNS 70 times in a single year, still had a job!)
NCNSs are the result of individual lack of work ethic. Nothing more. Nothing less. Other than death or unconsciousness there is absolutely no reason on this Earth why someone shouldn't at least let someone on their management team know that they won't be coming to work. NONE. It's actually pathetic if you really think about it.