If you are driving a golf cart and they are paying you helper wages, file a grievance for top driver pay. If you are a steward in the areas where this is happening you better be filing on this as well. Hell I'm a steward in Kansas and I want to file on this crap in Florida!! We cannot let this continue, or we will all be replaced with half cost golf cart drivers!!
With all that said, since I am doing this seasonal gig to simply get hired on and begin a career with UPS, I would bet that if I did something as radical as file a grievance for driver/TCD pay - I would NEVER get a call back for January. Please correct me if I am wrong.
By the way, I am responding to this issue light heartedly. I am far too new to understand the intricacies of Union rules in affiliation with UPS standard operating procedure. Your post was simply interesting to me.
If you are driving a golf cart and they are paying you helper wages, file a grievance for top driver pay. If you are a steward in the areas where this is happening you better be filing on this as well. Hell I'm a steward in Kansas and I want to file on this crap in Florida!! We cannot let this continue, or we will all be replaced with half cost golf cart drivers!!
Mata, just keep doing what you're doing. Don't let anyone on here, in person or in shouting distance to you tell you otherwise. You're in a precarious position right now, no, not with just trying to keep up. You're trying to do good so you get hired after peak. Totally understandable.
I did the same thing. Was first peak hire that year. Sep 20. Was told that would probably get laid off after peak but if they needed anybody AND I did a good job, they MIGHT call me back. Hell, I was a heavy equipment operator for ten years, getting laid off every winter anyways, so I was used to it. I said, "Let's go for it".
Long story short, was laid off one day. Came back to work everyday I wanted to (and most I didn't want to). Now laid off permanent. 32 years later. Retired.
The part I wonder about now, everyone is getting warning letters for leaving the bulkhead door open from what I hear. These golf carts run around with an open back, and will never know if they lose a box.
Sorry, I missed that.
I have first hand knowledge of this, as both the homeowner, and a driver at the same time. This was back in 98-99. I had a nice house in a nice tight neighborhood, that my manager begged me to use for a drop-off point in the AM. I gave the drop off driver the garage code, and he would drop off the packages in the AM and the golf cart was already there. A girl would show up and deliver the neighborhood all day long from my garage. I thought it might be a benefit to my neighborhood since it was the tail end of the day. With her doing it on a golf cart the whole place would be done before dark. Well the problems started right away, I would come home after 12 hours, could not put MY car in the garage the whole month of December, and was expected to bring bad adds, not ins and everything else back the next morning to the building. Well about 6 days before Christmas the golf cart girl quit. So, for the next week there is package cars in my driveway busting out the 200 stops per day to whoever got done first. One day I was done about 8 PM and they tried to send ME to MY HOUSE to get stops to bust it out....No thanks. Then I got a letter from the Homeowners Assoc. that I was conducting an unapproved business from my house. After peak I went to cut my grass (I live in S Florida) and my 5 gallon gas can was empty thanks to my local 79 buddies who forgot to bring gas from the center. Thanks again Teamsters. The part I wonder about now, everyone is getting warning letters for leaving the bulkhead door open from what I hear. These golf carts run around with an open back, and will never know if they lose a box.
Originally Posted by ExupserNaples
I have first hand knowledge of this, as both the homeowner, and a driver at the same time. This was back in 98-99. I had a nice house in a nice tight neighborhood, that my manager begged me to use for a drop-off point in the AM. I gave the drop off driver the garage code, and he would drop off the packages in the AM and the golf cart was already there. A girl would show up and deliver the neighborhood all day long from my garage. I thought it might be a benefit to my neighborhood since it was the tail end of the day. With her doing it on a golf cart the whole place would be done before dark. Well the problems started right away, I would come home after 12 hours, could not put MY car in the garage the whole month of December, and was expected to bring bad adds, not ins and everything else back the next morning to the building. Well about 6 days before Christmas the golf cart girl quit. So, for the next week there is package cars in my driveway busting out the 200 stops per day to whoever got done first. One day I was done about 8 PM and they tried to send ME to MY HOUSE to get stops to bust it out....No thanks. Then I got a letter from the Homeowners Assoc. that I was conducting an unapproved business from my house. After peak I went to cut my grass (I live in S Florida) and my 5 gallon gas can was empty thanks to my local 79 buddies who forgot to bring gas from the center. Thanks again Teamsters. The part I wonder about now, everyone is getting warning letters for leaving the bulkhead door open from what I hear. These golf carts run around with an open back, and will never know if they lose a box.
I would like to know if UPS put you on the clock to bring in those send agains and refused, etc. I would have changed my garage code and told the center manager not to drop off even one more package unless it was addressed to me and to send someone out to get what was left.Just curious, how much did UPS pay you to rent your garage?