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<blockquote data-quote="big_arrow_up" data-source="post: 52823"><p><font color="000000">I've only been at UPS just over 6 years but it took about 2 weeks to figure out that there are plenty of "bad apples" walking around. Typically it is the higher seniority guys. They spend excessive amounts of time socializing when they should be working. When they actually work it's usually at half ass speed, or "UNION SPEED" (one of my sups at a former employer that was a non-union shop used that title to describe slow workers). What gets me is the attitude many of them carry with them. The "I don't give a crap because I'm in the union" attitide. I mean why should they care? It's not like management can really do anything about them. They will actually tell newer people not to work to hard and things like that and actually think they are giving good advice. People want to blame management or the union? I say both are responsible but to say the Teamsters don't deserve the majority of the blame is plaine dismissive. The only way to fight these guys is to add articles to the contract that would actually make people think twice about behaving this way. It's one thing to not be capable of performing your job as hard and as well as another person. But to not try because you have "X" number of years in with the company is just a lack of a work ethic and an obvious abuse of union rights. What freaks me out even more is that people take up for these guys. Here and elsewhere. What is their to argue about. They are dead beats. And I'm talking about the inside employees. I'd hate to see what a bad apple delivering packages does. </font></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="big_arrow_up, post: 52823"] <font color="000000">I've only been at UPS just over 6 years but it took about 2 weeks to figure out that there are plenty of "bad apples" walking around. Typically it is the higher seniority guys. They spend excessive amounts of time socializing when they should be working. When they actually work it's usually at half ass speed, or "UNION SPEED" (one of my sups at a former employer that was a non-union shop used that title to describe slow workers). What gets me is the attitude many of them carry with them. The "I don't give a crap because I'm in the union" attitide. I mean why should they care? It's not like management can really do anything about them. They will actually tell newer people not to work to hard and things like that and actually think they are giving good advice. People want to blame management or the union? I say both are responsible but to say the Teamsters don't deserve the majority of the blame is plaine dismissive. The only way to fight these guys is to add articles to the contract that would actually make people think twice about behaving this way. It's one thing to not be capable of performing your job as hard and as well as another person. But to not try because you have "X" number of years in with the company is just a lack of a work ethic and an obvious abuse of union rights. What freaks me out even more is that people take up for these guys. Here and elsewhere. What is their to argue about. They are dead beats. And I'm talking about the inside employees. I'd hate to see what a bad apple delivering packages does. </font> [/QUOTE]
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