Most of the managers that rps had were ex UPS managers.
Lets see, first I am paid a salary, not by the hour. Then after working a 65 hour week I am told that I am to head to the divisional office for a "weekend retreat". So much for family plans.
I am held responsible for making production numbers, employee turn over, damages, service failures etc etc, and yet I am not allowed the autonomy to run my part of UPS, thereby wasting all my talent, knowledge and time........
I am micro managed, almost to the point I cant go to the bathroom without permission. I am micro managed by IE, a faceless endless bunch of number crunching individuals that make their living telling other people how to do things better. Yeah some of the things they come up with help, some not. But what they say is law. They are never wrong, even when they are wrong. If they say the volume is going to be 15000 for today, and we had 17694, then it must have been us, we need to count them again. We must be skewing the numbers.
And promotions? Hell, they are taking rookies right out of school. You know, the guys that have mastered the theory of business administration, where someone like me that has 15 years of hand on experience cant get even considered. Talk about a glass ceiling, try working your heart out for UPS being something that counts against you when it comes time, only to see someone that gets the promotion, and he only wore brown because he rode with someone a while.
And having to cover the sat air once a month because it is my turn, is it not enough that I have had to work 60 plus hours this week already?
Oh and lest I forget, lets not overlook the painful employee. I know that he is dragging his feet when it comes to delivery. Of the thousands of employees that I have come into contact with, he is a real winner. Cant get rid of him though, he is protected by the union. So therefor, the work that he refuses to do has to be split among other drivers, all of which are great guys and gals, all of whom have families and want to get in earlier. Its not fair, but what am I to do?
Why would I want to quit a job like that?
And before 9.5 or others try and make a big deal of my posting in first second, and third person formats, no, I have not been a sup. I was offered and encouraged, but for family and religious reasons I declined.
But I have had many good men and women pass through the brown door for the last time to go work for other companies. Their thoughts and reasons are melded above to give you an idea. I am sure there are others.
One of the biggest killers of careers is trying to treat your people well. That seems to have rotted more people on the vine than most anything else I have seen.
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