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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1850638" data-attributes="member: 14668">There are a whole bunch of separate issues here.#1 hitting an animal that is running loose in a public road should never be deemed &quot;avoidable.&quot; Our first responsibility is to maintain control of the package car at all times. The last thing we want to do is to hit another car, or a person, or to wrap the car around a tree because we were trying to avoid a loose animal.#2 Calling a driver out in front of his/her coworkers at a PCM is cowardly and blatantly unprofessional. It is also harassment. Accusing a 23 year safe driver of dishonesty is even worse.#3 UPS has never had a consistent, clear or rational definition of what constitutes an &quot;accident&quot;. UPS has never had a consistent, clear or rational definition of what constitutes &quot;avoidable&quot;. They make up the rules as they go and change them whenever they want to. The driver is always wrong. Warning letter are issued in order to meet quotas, not to change behavior. As a driver, it is pointless to care about safe driving years or awards because they have no correlation to actual safe driving ability.#4 If you are young and healthy and productive and you get along well with your management team....pay close attention to this thread. Some day you wont be so young or healthy, and the management team you have now will be long gone. The sacrifices and extra effort you make today will mean nothing in 15 or 20 years. At UPS, you are only as good as your previous day&#039;s production. The moment that you are no longer able to make your immediate superior look good on paper, you become a liability rather than as asset and you will be treated accordingly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1850638, member: 14668"] There are a whole bunch of separate issues here. #1 hitting an animal that is running loose in a public road should never be deemed "avoidable." Our first responsibility is to maintain control of the package car at all times. The last thing we want to do is to hit another car, or a person, or to wrap the car around a tree because we were trying to avoid a loose animal. #2 Calling a driver out in front of his/her coworkers at a PCM is cowardly and blatantly unprofessional. It is also harassment. Accusing a 23 year safe driver of dishonesty is even worse. #3 UPS has never had a consistent, clear or rational definition of what constitutes an "accident". UPS has never had a consistent, clear or rational definition of what constitutes "avoidable". They make up the rules as they go and change them whenever they want to. The driver is always wrong. Warning letter are issued in order to meet quotas, not to change behavior. As a driver, it is pointless to care about safe driving years or awards because they have [I]no[/I] correlation to actual safe driving ability. #4 If you are young and healthy and productive and you get along well with your management team....pay close attention to this thread. Some day you [I]wont[/I] be so young or healthy, and the management team you have now will be long gone. The sacrifices and extra effort you make today will mean nothing in 15 or 20 years. At UPS, you are only as good as your previous day's production. The moment that you are no longer able to make your immediate superior look good on paper, you become a liability rather than as asset and you will be treated accordingly. [/QUOTE]

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