First quarter profit down over 17% — Now what?

[1989]

Apparently you think Mn. roads are plowed the second it starts to snow--wrong. The last set of chains in a package car I saw was in about 1985. Around here they use RE-capped tires with a semi aggressive thread. I'm sure UPS gets them for a little of nothing because they only last about one winter if you are lucky. They do work good when new though for the first couple of months anyway..

The retreads are better in states that get snow.

 

[1989]

Hey, hey, don't be so full of yourself. I'm pretty sure we can directly correlate the beginning of UPS's downslide with the day that UpstateNYUPSer retired.

I’ve been called upstate many times.

 

[iowa boy]

 

[Cardb0ard.]

Ups is going broke

 

[tourists24]

Hiring freeze, routes being cut, late airs, massive OT and 12-hour dispatches.

 

[Brownslave688]

Apparently you think Mn. roads are plowed the second it starts to snow--wrong. The last set of chains in a package car I saw was in about 1985. Around here they use RE-capped tires with a semi aggressive thread. I'm sure UPS gets them for a little of nothing because they only last about one winter if you are lucky. They do work good when new though for the first couple of months anyway..

I always write my tires up in November.

 

[tourists24]

Winter is here ...

 

[cosis]

the weather? really?

 

[wornoutupser]

Our mechanics had a conference call tonight.
any repair over $500 has to have sup approval
any part over $1000 has to have his bosses approval
no overtime at all for mechanics
mechanic says no problem the have to pay him for showing up if there are no parts to install!

 

[purehavanne]

The jig is up for management and their stupidity. You can only shuck and jive for so long. Went to wash my hands today. No soap! So u mean to tell me we had this terrible quarter AND no soap. Oh hell no!

 

[rod]

When I started In 1971 there was a big story about UPS in a national magazine called US Business News. The name of the article was "What Makes UPS Run". At that time UPS was starting their bid to become a nation wide delivery service. Up until then UPS didn't deliver west of the Mississippi except the 3 coastal states so there were a lot of states left to open up. The news article told about how great a company UPS was and its future look guaranteed bright. It talked about the great service, the shinny trucks and the hustling employees. I still remember how the article ended. It said the ONLY way UPS could fail was by bad management. Looks like whoever wrote that story missed their calling as a fortune teller.

 

[Redtag]

Our mechanics had a conference call tonight.
any repair over $500 has to have sup approval
any part over $1000 has to have his bosses approval
no overtime at all for mechanics
mechanic says no problem the have to pay him for showing up if there are no parts to install!

We have not been put on cost restrictions at my hub yet, but I am sure it’s coming. I can’t order pink tag supplies or any parts right now. our red tag list and non compliance ( oil changes and pmi’s) is out of control.. they are now short several trucks a night and it’s only going to get worse.

We had some supervisor come flipping out in a panic the other night looking for trucks, nothing I can do about it. We are 8 then the gate and I am not working for free and I am not putting unsafe trucks on the road.

Our management started putting some trucks in B status to get the red tags off the books. Lol like that’s going to help anything.

The company is making money... this insanity of chasing unrealistic profit goals needs to stop.

 

[eats packages]

Our mechanics had a conference call tonight.
any repair over $500 has to have sup approval
any part over $1000 has to have his bosses approval
no overtime at all for mechanics
mechanic says no problem the have to pay him for showing up if there are no parts to install!

Going to run out of cars if people keep stealing the ones from fedex and ramming them into ours.

 

[Re-Raise]

When I started In 1971 there was a big story about UPS in a national magazine called US Business News. The name of the article was "What Makes UPS Run". At that time UPS was starting their bid to become a nation wide delivery service. Up until then UPS didn't deliver west of the Mississippi except the 3 coastal states so there were a lot of states left to open up. The news article told about how great a company UPS was and its future look guaranteed bright. It talked about the great service, the shinny trucks and the hustling employees. I still remember how the article ended. It said the ONLY way UPS could fail was by bad management. Looks like whoever wrote that story missed their calling as a fortune teller.

Damn you’re old!

 

[Karma...]

you are confusing United Parcel Service with ups.........Tied Parcel emblem with whatever that thing is now.....many things died in late 1999

 

[rod]

Damn you’re old!

This is not new news

 

[1989]

This is not new news

I thought it might be fake news.

 

[rod]

I thought it might be fake news.

No way--I am old. Not as old as some but older than most on here.

 

[BrokenWrench]

Our mechanics had a conference call tonight.
any repair over $500 has to have sup approval
any part over $1000 has to have his bosses approval
no overtime at all for mechanics
mechanic says no problem the have to pay him for showing up if there are no parts to install!

I’ve been on vacation all week but two weeks ago they told us,

Nothing over $300, period. No overtime, no outside parts. Last week they looked us out of ordering parts. Nothing but PMIs and LOFs. Any repair that takes more then in stock parts parks the car while waiting for approval.

 

[clean hairy]

I took a vacation week in March so production went down for the quarter.

I am not 100% , but I might have mentioned previously
when bestsorteralive left, it would hurt profits.
We better entice him to come back!