As mentioned in other posts, the highly skilled people who are not laid off are not going to trust UPS anymore. When I was hired more than 20 years ago in I.S., I was told that "We want this to be the last job you ever have." Well, so much for UPS being loyal to employees. I agree that there is a lot of "dead wood" in I.S. I blame management for not handling this. If one really looks around, a lot of the problems in I.S. are directly related to poor management. Poor performing employees have routinely been given adequate reviews (now QPR....remember CDA and MDPA?) instead of a manager taking the proper, although sometimes difficult, line of addressing an employee's deficiencies...partly because UPS policy requires management to assist an employee improve themselves....at least that is what I learned in SLS. The other problem is that managers need to document performance issues and review them with the employee....something that is rarely done, although the practice has been stepped up over the past year or so. I too heard, from a PL, that the "LEs" will be targeted for lay offs first. Except I don't know if some of the people laid off in CRA this past week were LEs. I guess it depends on what their QPR score was.
What is really discouraging is that some good people have been let go and some really poor performers are remaining. Don't be surprised when the top performers start to leave as they have to pick up the slack, plus carry the dead wood. And that doesn't include what will happen when problems come up from the outsourcing. If a person has skills, they are marketable and jobs are available. Even more jobs are available if one is willing to relocate out of NJ, which might not be a bad move given our high taxes. I'm going to stick it out for as long as I can. I would like to work for UPS until retirement, but I also have to think of my family and do what is best for them.
