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History of OMS's (and/or part-time supervisors in general)?
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<blockquote data-quote="yellowjacket" data-source="post: 1102107" data-attributes="member: 46062"><p>I dunno, I just always wondered and never got around to really looking into it while I was there. I ran into another UPSer a while ago and was thinking about old times and it just *clicked* that people here would probably know the answer to my old question <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p></p><p>for what it's worth, I was one of the "good ones".... lots of horse trading and begging and cajoling (INSTRUCTING worked, but more often than not it would get the response of "well I'll just file a grievance if you don't get X to do this", and a dozen people fighting to pass the buck to someone with less seniority, regardless if they actually could do the job), but it got results and didn't step on anyone's toes. </p><p></p><p>But you'll have to take my word for that <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>I had a good center manager for most of my time, but we ended up with a guy my last year or so who was basically just holding on until retirement. He had to be showed how to check his own email because he had someone at his last center do all that for him. Refused to put the effort in to learn supervisors' names so he would have random nicknames for everyone instead. I called him "the cannon"... he would just blow up when you presented him with a problem, so if you didn't present it to him juuuuust right and point him in the direction of the right solution, he'd blow up and issue some ridiculous directive that would just make the problem worse (once told me that I couldn't let the customer counter sign a left in building package out to a customer who came to the center to pick it up... no idea why, he just got frustrated and shouted and slammed his door. but I learned my lesson about handling him with kid gloves. Also learned my lesson about how to disobey orders without him realizing it lol).</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the responses everyone (sorry I wasn't more active here for a few days, life got busy!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yellowjacket, post: 1102107, member: 46062"] I dunno, I just always wondered and never got around to really looking into it while I was there. I ran into another UPSer a while ago and was thinking about old times and it just *clicked* that people here would probably know the answer to my old question :) for what it's worth, I was one of the "good ones".... lots of horse trading and begging and cajoling (INSTRUCTING worked, but more often than not it would get the response of "well I'll just file a grievance if you don't get X to do this", and a dozen people fighting to pass the buck to someone with less seniority, regardless if they actually could do the job), but it got results and didn't step on anyone's toes. But you'll have to take my word for that :) I had a good center manager for most of my time, but we ended up with a guy my last year or so who was basically just holding on until retirement. He had to be showed how to check his own email because he had someone at his last center do all that for him. Refused to put the effort in to learn supervisors' names so he would have random nicknames for everyone instead. I called him "the cannon"... he would just blow up when you presented him with a problem, so if you didn't present it to him juuuuust right and point him in the direction of the right solution, he'd blow up and issue some ridiculous directive that would just make the problem worse (once told me that I couldn't let the customer counter sign a left in building package out to a customer who came to the center to pick it up... no idea why, he just got frustrated and shouted and slammed his door. but I learned my lesson about handling him with kid gloves. Also learned my lesson about how to disobey orders without him realizing it lol). Thanks for the responses everyone (sorry I wasn't more active here for a few days, life got busy!) [/QUOTE]
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