At least you have the safety guys on your side. I do not have anyone on my side. I work in an office and it is the same way. You can do everything the exact way they tell you and you are still wrong. They will never leave us alone.
There is no such thing as having pride in the job I do because there will be someone there to tell me how bad I completed the job I thought was handled very well. I believe it is the economy. As things start to get better and we are too busy working and the ones monitoring us are too busy monitoring the work coming in I think it will be easier if not I am out of here.
I know I hard I work andI know what pride I take in my job. My customers like me. I feel like when I do something for my accounts it is appreciated by them but not by UPS. I also feel like the work I do keeps those pacakges coming in and therefore keeps the jobs in the field going.
Something is always wrong according to the management or the man as well like to call them. I am tired of being put down by the man who think they can always do it better. If they can do it better why are they not doing. Because they cannot do it. They can only put down what you do.
In my office we collective spend more time writing letters of how we are going to improve than we do working. Why can they not see what they are doing. They make us unproductive. They will interept a perfectly good production day to tell us how bad we are and what area we need to improve in if we want to continue to work for UPS. Well, I am questioning whether I want to work for UPS.
There are other companys out there that pay just as well and treat you with respect to being a human being instead of a sub par person. It is terrible to leave work everyday feeling like you cannot accomplish a simple task and that your best effort that pleased your account was seen as below standard work for UPS.
I'm a unloader for the preload shift. My supervisor told me that I had the lowest numbers when I was timed the day before. I finished a 53 foot trailer in about 2 hours. I pulled about 2 very heavy trains of irregulars out of it by myself. I'm not sure how other buildings are set up but our belts don't reach the end. You have to carry the boxes back to the belt when your at the end which is when I think I was being timed. Why can't they time me on a day that I finish a regular feeder in 45 minutes or less?
I just want to do my job and be left alone. I'm neither the fastest or slowest unloader but for them to throw these times in my face that mean nothing is very frustrating. If they really want a accurate timing on someone it should be averaged over a month and go by weight and how many irregulars you have to pull.
They are no longer making their numbers because we have a new center manager thats going crazy about load stands and made everyone sign a paper. I'm wore out wrestling with the thing every day. The people that are still getting good unload times aren't using them.
They announced today that to make their numbers they want to lay off more people. How does this make sense? We have 4 supervisors from another shift following us around with clipboards telling us were not drinking enough water or whatever crazy bs they can think of.