Used Uniforms - Brown Cafe

Yonko · 09-23-2009, 04:22 PM

I ordered five pair of pants. They sent me 10. Most of them are used. One pair even has a different center # on the waist. They are full of balls from being washed and so wrinkled that washing them and ironing them won't take the wrinkles out.

Has anyone else ran in to this?

Hoaxster · 09-23-2009, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Yonko

I ordered five pair of pants. They sent me 10. Most of them are used. One pair even has a different center # on the waist. They are full of balls from being washed and so wrinkled that washing them and ironing them won't take the wrinkles out.

Has anyone else run in to this?

I asked my wife to get me some underwear and they were used and not mine. In fact, she did not even leave the house. Hmmm

I don't remember if they were full of balls ... a bit fuzzy on that.

klein · 09-23-2009, 04:31 PM

You may have gotten mine.

UpstateNYUPSer · 09-23-2009, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by klein

You may have gotten mine.

I doubt you and Hoax are the same size.

Hoaxster · 09-23-2009, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by UpstateNYUPSer

I doubt you and Hoax are the same size.

His underwear could be full of big balls.

klein · 09-23-2009, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Hoaxster

His underwear could be full of big balls.

Don't know the ball size, but did measure the other thing.

NHDRVR · 09-23-2009, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Yonko

I ordered five pair of pants. They sent me 10. Most of them are used. One pair even has a different center # on the waist. They are full of balls from being washed and so wrinkled that washing them and ironing them won't take the wrinkles out.

Has anyone else ran in to this?

Full of balls....

full.....of.......balls

way too easy, dude

helenofcalifornia · 09-23-2009, 06:16 PM

So they are sending out used uniforms now? The positive note on this is that you ARE getting uniforms, the negative being that we haven't been able to order for quite awhile now.

Big Babooba · 09-23-2009, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Yonko

I ordered five pair of pants. They sent me 10. Most of them are used. One pair even has a different center # on the waist. They are full of balls from being washed and so wrinkled that washing them and ironing them won't take the wrinkles out.

Has anyone else ran in to this?

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Originally Posted by helenofcalifornia

So they are sending out used uniforms now? The positive note on this is that you ARE getting uniforms, the negative being that we haven't been able to order for quite awhile now.

I must be special!!! I ordered 3 shirts and 3 pairs of pants last month. They came in 2 days later from Cintas. I received 3 BRAND NEW shirts and 3 Brand New pairs of pants. They seem to good quality and the pants were made in Egypt. Unfortunately they had no balls. I had to supply them myself.

Bubblehead · 09-23-2009, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Hoaxster

I asked my wife to get me some underwear and they were used and not mine. In fact, she did not even leave the house. Hmmm

I don't remember if they were full of balls ... a bit fuzzy on that.

Pretty cheesy Hoax.
Fromunda?

Hoaxster · 09-23-2009, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Bubblehead

Pretty cheesy Hoax.
Fromunda?

cheesy and easy.

Mike23 · 09-23-2009, 07:08 PM

I think I only have 2 uniforms that came in 'specifically' for me. The rest I raided from our 'quitters' closet! MUAHAHA! See if you got one, ask your HR guys, that's how I got dressed. Now my clothes are 2 sizes to big and falling off of me. I guess they should've gotten me the stuff I ordered that would fit instead of leaving me to my own devices

cachsux · 09-23-2009, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Big Babooba

Unfortunately they had no balls.

So they were once used by managment?

NEFARIOUS · 09-23-2009, 09:33 PM

They tried to do that to me once. Opened the pkg and all the pants had a name crossed out and mine written in. They looked used and worn. I took them into the office threw them on the counter and refused to wear someone elses uniforms...Never again have I gotten used uniforms.

Richie

Baba gounj · 09-23-2009, 09:51 PM

Thank goodness I still have several pairs of pants from Riverside that I haven't used yet. Also many shirts.

tarbar66 · 09-24-2009, 06:12 AM

I have a problem with people trying to get in my pants all the time. Usually it is the back of them. It is cause they think I good reeming out for something I did not do!

trplnkl · 09-24-2009, 06:49 AM

I talked to a sup the other day and he told me all their unifoem orders have been returned, unfilled, for a month or better. Their instructions were to raid the "quitters uniform" supply(thanks Mike). Then if there was not uniforms to fit the driver to call around to other centers in the division. No plans to resume ordering new unis anytime soon.

whiskey · 09-24-2009, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by klein

Don't know the ball size, but did measure the other thing.

I wear shorts twelve months out of the year. On rare occasions when I do where pants, my customers comment that they don't recognize me. But no, I haven't had any problem with uniform renewal.

pickup · 09-24-2009, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by trplnkl

I talked to a sup the other day and he told me all their unifoem orders have been returned, unfilled, for a month or better. Their instructions were to raid the "quitters uniform" supply(thanks Mike). Then if there was not uniforms to fit the driver to call around to other centers in the division. No plans to resume ordering new unis anytime soon.

That's what happened with my "order" . I got to choose from the prize closet last week and came away with pants that fit well and shirts that are tad larger than I need.

QKRSTKR · 09-25-2009, 07:16 PM

yup! this is pathetic. I noticed it when my new name/center tag came off and had some wierd slic on it. Totally ridiculous to have to wear hand medowns. I don't shop at thrift stores and neither should ups.

I really love the new shirt/jackets. It's long enough to be a dress. Just like hats, one size fits all.

Anyone in need of any used UPS socks? I have some I'm looking to get rid of. $1 dollar a pair instead of $6 dollars for brand new ones. Hard to beat a deal like that.

helenofcalifornia · 09-25-2009, 07:27 PM

Hey we got dollah, dollah, dollah here, do I hear dollah twenty five, dollah twenty five, sold to the person in the back for dollah twenty five!

soberups · 09-25-2009, 08:36 PM

There is a simple solution to this foolishness.

Submit a uniform order. If your management team is unwilling or unable to fill it...then once you are out of clean uniforms just show up at your scheduled start time without a uniform, clock on in your personal clothing, and start getting paid. If they try to send you home, file a grievance for your guranteed 8 hrs. If they try to make you wear a dirty, torn or improperly fitting uniform that they dug out of a closet someplace, file a grievance on that. Repeat daily as needed. The company has both the ability and the contractual obligation to provide you with an adequate supply of suitable uniforms....you just need to give them the motivation. Being forced to pay you 8 hrs to sit in the office and do nothing will provide them with that motivation.

tworavens · 09-25-2009, 10:54 PM

I've been trying to get replacement uniforms since March. Every month it's been the same story, "no money in the Center budget". Yesterday my OMS told he has was informed that there would be no new uniform orders for the rest of the year.

All my shorts have holes worn in them. The sleeves on my shirts are torn. No UPS logo on my jacket, also with holes. No one cares. I'm gonna slap some duct tape on there and see if that gets any result. I'm guessing not.

soberups · 09-25-2009, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by tworavens

I've been trying to get replacement uniforms since March. Every month it's been the same story, "no money in the Center budget". Yesterday my OMS told he has was informed that there would be no new uniform orders for the rest of the year.

All my shorts have holes worn in them. The sleeves on my shirts are torn. No UPS logo on my jacket, also with holes. No one cares. I'm gonna slap some duct tape on there and see if that gets any result. I'm guessing not.

Article 16, Western Region Supplement

Uniforms

The Employer agrees that if any employee is required to wear any kind of uniform as a condition of employment, such uniforms shall be furnished and maintained by the Employer, free of charge, at the standard required by the Employer. Such uniforms shall be adequate to protect against climactic conditions. The Employer shall provide shirts and shorts to those affected employees....
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Article 23, Western Region supplement

Maintainence of Standards

The Employer agrees that all conditions of employment in his individual operations relating to wages, guranteed hours of work, overtime differentials and general working conditions shall be maintained at not less than the highest standards in affect at the time of the signing of this Agreement.....

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I successfully filed a grievance over a year ago to force the company to comply with the contract and provide me with requested uniform items. I havent had any problems since then.

Check your region supplement if you arent in the West. I am sure the language is similar.

Complaining wont do any good. You will have to use the grievance procedure to force the issue. The language is clear, the company is required to provide uniforms and there is a past practice of providing a reasonable number of items in good repair. Uniforms with holes in them are not adequate to protect against climactic conditions as specified in the contract. File a grievance.

You also have an 8 hr gurantee that applies whether you have a uniform or not. If there is "no money in the center budget" to give you a uniform, that fine... they will still be required to pay you for your 8 hrs while you sit in the office without one. A few consecutive days of this and I gurantee you they will somehow find a way to "afford" a uniform for you. The money is there; you just have to give them the "incentive" to be willing to spend it.