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<blockquote data-quote="trplnkl" data-source="post: 303363" data-attributes="member: 13254"><p>Lifer, you usually have some pretty good posts that ring true to life. Your standard has slipped on this one a little, IMO.</p><p> Your assessment that people should "<strong>Go out there and make a positive difference." </strong>is filled with holes. The only difference a driver can make is to stretch the limits of their personal efforts to encourage UP$ to keep piling more and more on them. Just how is a driver, in your opinion, supposed to make a positive difference? </p><p> In my observations over the years I have seen many good, intelligent and hardworking people go into UP$ management with the attitude that they were going to make a positive difference, only to be hit with the reality. They could not, would not be allowed to make a difference. Their life became that of yes men/women that were only allowed to walk in goosestep with the powers that be and only make decisions that came from the ventriloquist's none moving lips. The only way a person can make a difference is to make changes. Changes in the way things are rationalized and instituted. Those of us that "set back and piss and moan" are doing the only thing we are allowed to do outside of delivering more packages in a shorter period of time. Even the supervisors that have been around for quite awhile are wondering what the hell is upper mgnmt is thinking. They see the company going to hell in a hand basket and are powerless to stop it. If they try to logically solve a long term problem they are ostracized by their boss, their boss's boss and even their boss's boss's boss. Sometimes even in earshot hourlies. So tell me where's the incentive is for this?</p><p> You said Of course you are correct in this statement. We do earn a very good wage, we can earn a lot of time off due to vacations (which are not giving to us by the grace of UP$, but through negotiation) and over 40 bucks an hour for over 8 hours a day sure makes for larger pay checks. The most important BENEFIT is the burial insurance because most of us will be needing it long before we should if we keep going it the direction and at the pace we are going now.</p><p> All in all your post is a very good post lifer, especially considering that you can go golfing, boating or to the Bahamas anytime you please, while the rest of us just want to live long enough to retire.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trplnkl, post: 303363, member: 13254"] Lifer, you usually have some pretty good posts that ring true to life. Your standard has slipped on this one a little, IMO. Your assessment that people should "[B]Go out there and make a positive difference." [/B]is filled with holes. The only difference a driver can make is to stretch the limits of their personal efforts to encourage UP$ to keep piling more and more on them. Just how is a driver, in your opinion, supposed to make a positive difference? In my observations over the years I have seen many good, intelligent and hardworking people go into UP$ management with the attitude that they were going to make a positive difference, only to be hit with the reality. They could not, would not be allowed to make a difference. Their life became that of yes men/women that were only allowed to walk in goosestep with the powers that be and only make decisions that came from the ventriloquist's none moving lips. The only way a person can make a difference is to make changes. Changes in the way things are rationalized and instituted. Those of us that "set back and piss and moan" are doing the only thing we are allowed to do outside of delivering more packages in a shorter period of time. Even the supervisors that have been around for quite awhile are wondering what the hell is upper mgnmt is thinking. They see the company going to hell in a hand basket and are powerless to stop it. If they try to logically solve a long term problem they are ostracized by their boss, their boss's boss and even their boss's boss's boss. Sometimes even in earshot hourlies. So tell me where's the incentive is for this? You said Of course you are correct in this statement. We do earn a very good wage, we can earn a lot of time off due to vacations (which are not giving to us by the grace of UP$, but through negotiation) and over 40 bucks an hour for over 8 hours a day sure makes for larger pay checks. The most important BENEFIT is the burial insurance because most of us will be needing it long before we should if we keep going it the direction and at the pace we are going now. All in all your post is a very good post lifer, especially considering that you can go golfing, boating or to the Bahamas anytime you please, while the rest of us just want to live long enough to retire. [/QUOTE]
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