Dealing with retirement dept for answers. No one there cares

[trickpony1]

Mine was a pleasant experience.
I got hand-held through the process.

I imagine it was.

When a union member retires the company and the union has one last chance to take a jab at the person.

They're gonna take it.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I imagine it was.

When a union member retires the company and the union has one last chance to take a jab at the person.

They're gonna take it.

Ours is a Teamster plan and as long as the member does not wait until the last minute and submits paperwork as required in a timely manner the process is seamless.

We are required to drive down to the Fund office (Syracuse) a year or so before our projected retirement date to begin the process. The rest is done through e-mail, US Mail and telephone calls.

 

[oldngray]

In the real world UPS would not let you start you paperwork more than 90 days ahead of your projected retirement date and world sit on the paperwork until the last 30 days making it impossible to have any mistakes corrected early. Which is why there is a 5 month period after you retire to correct errors.

If you send in your paperwork earlier they would just sit on them or refuse to accept them that early.

One possible work around is to set a tentative date sooner than you really plan to retire so the paperwork will get started, then move the actual retirement date to later (which you are allowed to do).

 

[clean hairy]

In the real world UPS would not let you start you paperwork more than 90 days ahead of your projected retirement date and world sit on the paperwork until the last 30 days making it impossible to have any mistakes corrected early. Which is why there is a 5 month period after you retire to correct errors.

If you send in your paperwork earlier they would just sit on them or refuse to accept them that early.

One possible work around is to set a tentative date sooner than you really plan to retire so the paperwork will get started, then move the actual retirement date to later (which you are allowed to do).

So, you could just keep changing your retirement date and really have them wondering just WHEN you will retire?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

In the real world UPS would not let you start you paperwork more than 90 days ahead of your projected retirement date and world sit on the paperwork until the last 30 days making it impossible to have any mistakes corrected early. Which is why there is a 5 month period after you retire to correct errors.

If you send in your paperwork earlier they would just sit on them or refuse to accept them that early.

One possible work around is to set a tentative date sooner than you really plan to retire so the paperwork will get started, then move the actual retirement date to later (which you are allowed to do).

Did I say anything about starting any paperwork?

The process starts by us going to the Fund office a year before our expected retirement date.

The actual paperwork is not started until we are within the 90 days that you mentioned.

 

[oldngray]

So, you could just keep changing your retirement date and really have them wondering just WHEN you will retire?

Yep.

All done through Atlanta. Your local Center gets basically no warning about when people are about to retire until the last minute.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Yep.

All done through Atlanta. Your local Center gets basically no warning about when people are about to retire until the last minute.

Bull.

Retirees here are only too happy to let everyone know when they are leaving.

 

[oldngray]

Bull.

Retirees here are only too happy to let everyone know when they are leaving.

All up to them whether they tell coworkers. But they don't have to.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

All up to them whether they tell coworkers. But they don't have to.

Of course they don't have to but most are so happy that they are leaving that they tell everyone.

 

[Catatonic]

I told them 6 months in advance and warned them not to give me anything that would get them in trouble.