So corporate is pushing ORION. Thinking to save a half gallon of gas. Trying to make it work. Those HP and UPS alliance commercials make me my mind shut down. Hearing that happy happy commercial is annoying.
I'm working preload. Management goes on and on about load quality. If there is a fraction of space behind a box, that is improper method. Have the boxes up against the back of the shelf with nothing to secure them is improper method. Having boxes in the aisle when the section is blown out with 101 pieces is improper method. Even with PAL labels sticking out management insists you must write the number in big numbers. And everything must be perfectly sequenced as well.
Management people I have never seen before are lurking around now on Preload. Taking photos of the truck.
While loading my truck Thursday, a PT sup and I think an upper management where in my truck, pushing boxes around, trying to find faults. I guess a lip loaded box, (the way I was trained) had space behind it. I heard the Upper management said this is the stuff we have to address. This is the stuff that means me losing my job and you losing and your job.
Yeah peak will get busy and every inch will be filled up. Is UPS Corporate so demanding of its management to push some number agenda they would lose a job over a preloader lip loading a box and not having written a number when the PAL label is sticking out? Seen other preloaders getting really upset with management. The preloaders that have loaded the same truck for years, know what the drivers want and expect, are told by people that have never been there it must be done this way. **** your commonsense and experience preloader.
Two full time supervisors in my hub it quits last month. Why would management be voluntarily quitting? Something in the atmosphere scaring them.
Soon...... they should be evaluating your shoes also followed by asking you to repeat the 8 keys to lifting and lowering, 5 keys to avoiding slips and falls, etc..
The issues I never hear anything about at our centers is "EGRESS", proper handling of over 70's and irregs, boxes falling off the jammed belts, etc..
My feeling about micro-management is; "Management that is incapable of managing the more significant issues, tend to manage the least significant issues". Your immediate supervision is only responding to what is being imposed on them from above.
Believe me, what you are describing is not new to UPS. Many.... many years ago when I was a car washer, I had a center manager wipe his finger across a heater blower housing in the truck and bring the dust to my attention. Today, most of our package cars never washed at all.
The answer to your questions is; "Yes, management is concerned for their job.... just like most of us are." They have every right to be concerned, they do not have a union protecting them. By placing yourself in their position, you may get a better idea of what they are going through.