Let the Excuses Begin!

[hurricanegunner]

As long as the mechanic's bay is not visible to the general public, UPS won't put much effort into making sure the shop is pristine. The mechanics do a lot of hard dirty work, and it is bound to show. If your building ever featured on the evening news for a planned, human interest story, rest assured the mechanic's work area will have a freshly mopped floor and shiny tools.

 

[scratch]

My Hub might wash our package cars once a year, so I doubt the company is concerned much with how clean a busy working garage appears.

 

[cosmo1]

you need a vacation

Actually, I needs a life.

 

[Johney]

Actually, I needs a life.

No, just too much time on his hands.

 

[cosmo1]

No, just too much time on his hands.

Or something!

 

[Jackburton]

If my truck cleanliness on the outside was an indication of my service, you'd think I keep the thing parked under an interstate overpass for the entire day.

 

[gostillerz]

Our mechanic is a good guy.

 

[superballs63]

No, just too much time on his hands.

did the refrain from the classic styx song pop into anyone else's head after reading this?

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Maybe. Durning the past year I've had "Whatever" by Godsmack in my head drowning out everything else while on the clock.

 

[Johney]

did the refrain from the classic styx song pop into anyone else's head after reading this?

No, but now that you mentioned it I can't get it out of my head!

 

[Johney]

Our mechanic is a good guy.

One whole mechanic?

 

[rod]

I refused to buy another VW because not only was the last one I owned a money pit but the local dealership was a pig pen that hasn't been updated or remodeled in the last 40 years and their mechanics haven't kept up with the newer technology. As far as the mechanic at my old center went - he did the best he could with the crap he had to work with at the time.

 

[Anonymous 10]

Actually, I needs a life.

I wouldn't go that far. I is a zealot and a man I respect. He wants to make a difference. Some do it in the front line like me and some do it on an Internet forum. He is a man and he doesn't like what he sees and be talks about it. I respect it and will back him on this site to a fault. He's MY boy and be goes the way he feels like he has to.

 

[Integrity]

To All,

Thanks for your participation in this discussion. Due to prior committments I was unable to participate in it.

Some of the comments tell more about the responder than it does about the topic, but that is typical for online forums.

To any of you who think that cleanliness is irrelevant to UPS or to the UPS auto shops you are wrong.

There are posters in our facility that state A Clean Work Area Is A Safe Work Area.

The relation to clean work areas and clean floors is also presented in UPS Safe Work Methods.

UPS Auto shops that are not clean are not safe.

Those of you who support, justify or rationalize the non professional appearance and non cleanliness in any auto shop are supporting, justifying and rationalizing unsafe management practices.

Again, I thank all of you for your contribution to this thread.

Sincerely,
I

 

[happybob]

Now if we can just get management to care about the "clean work area is a safe work area" idea we will be getting somewhere.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Some cleaning supplies and some time to use them would be a good start.

Now if we can just get management to care about the "clean work area is a safe work area" idea we will be getting somewhere.

 

[Integrity]

Now if we can just get management to care about the "clean work area is a safe work area" idea we will be getting somewhere.

happybob,

What do you mean get management to care?

Management are the authors of the posters and the UPS Safe Work Methods Training.

Please explain what you mean by this?

Sincerely,
I

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

To All,

Thanks for your participation in this discussion. Due to prior committments I was unable to participate in it.

Some of the comments tell more about the responder than it does about the topic, but that is typical for online forums.

To any of you who think that cleanliness is irrelevant to UPS or to the UPS auto shops you are wrong.

There are posters in our facility that state A Clean Work Area Is A Safe Work Area.

The relation to clean work areas and clean floors is also presented in UPS Safe Work Methods.

UPS Auto shops that are not clean are not safe.

Those of you who support, justify or rationalize the non professional appearance and non cleanliness in any auto shop are supporting, justifying and rationalizing unsafe management practices.

Again, I thank all of you for your contribution to this thread.

Sincerely,
I

I have no problem with a clean shop and I prefer it to be that way. Unfortunately the reality I have is that management wants no Red Tags and we have no spare cars , and we are only allowed 8hrs a day to complete the things we need to do to meet these conditions. This is not a rationalization or an excuse, merely a fact.

 

[Johney]

I have no problem with a clean shop and I prefer it to be that way. Unfortunately the reality I have is that management wants no Red Tags and we have no spare cars , and we are only allowed 8hrs a day to complete the things we need to do to meet these conditions. This is not a rationalization or an excuse, merely a fact.

I rest my case.

 

[cino321]

Repair facilities in this company are a joke, much like the equipment we drive. I don't blame the mechanics, I blame UPS.