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<blockquote data-quote="Dirty Savage" data-source="post: 215106" data-attributes="member: 10384"><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Any package that requires a signature, especially annoying when you could easily driver release it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Supervisors who get on you about your shoes not being shined. For the record, in my 3.5 years at UPS I have NEVER shined my shoes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Dogs. The bane of my existence. I have only been bitten once, thank god, and that was by a three-legged chihuaha (spelling?).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">P500's. Like, seriously, no power steering! I don't mind driving a standard transmission at all, but the no power steering thing just blows my mind. Such a pain in the ass to park. Especially annoying when you read the UPS magazine and see articles about the millions of dollars being spent to outfit UPS Brazil or someplace with hydrogen-cell green vehicles. Yeah, and we're driving these crapboxes that all the other couriers laugh at.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Bulk stops of any kind. If there's a nice loading dock that's fine, but dragging a pile of crap up to an 8th floor office is not fun. I see those pictures of UPSers in Hong Kong drivng around on their motorcycles delivering nothing but envelopes all day and I am green with envy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">People who do not hold the door open for you when you are carrying/wheeling a lot of stuff. Like, how rude! If I had a dollar for every time this has happened to me I would not be working for a living.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">Not being allowed to have a radio in the truck. We used to be able to have a radio, well, not really but management looked the other way on this, but a couple of summers ago some dude in Alberta went to lunch one day and his battery-powered radio short circuited and subsequently burned his truck down. Management is of the opinion that radios are a distraction to drivers. Yeah, well, it's better than talking to yourself all day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here if you want to wear shorts in the summer you have to wear official UPS socks, which cost $4 a pair! What a scam!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'">But my number 1 pet peeve is brokerage fees. God I hate them. I hate collecting money period for one thing, I hate getting screamed at 20 times a day, I hate trying to explain why these fees are what they are because I have never gotten a logical answer from any level of management. I find myself telling people that, if an out of country shipper uses UPS, just don't buy the product. How sad is that?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dirty Savage, post: 215106, member: 10384"] [FONT=Palatino Linotype]Any package that requires a signature, especially annoying when you could easily driver release it. Supervisors who get on you about your shoes not being shined. For the record, in my 3.5 years at UPS I have NEVER shined my shoes. Dogs. The bane of my existence. I have only been bitten once, thank god, and that was by a three-legged chihuaha (spelling?). P500's. Like, seriously, no power steering! I don't mind driving a standard transmission at all, but the no power steering thing just blows my mind. Such a pain in the ass to park. Especially annoying when you read the UPS magazine and see articles about the millions of dollars being spent to outfit UPS Brazil or someplace with hydrogen-cell green vehicles. Yeah, and we're driving these crapboxes that all the other couriers laugh at. Bulk stops of any kind. If there's a nice loading dock that's fine, but dragging a pile of crap up to an 8th floor office is not fun. I see those pictures of UPSers in Hong Kong drivng around on their motorcycles delivering nothing but envelopes all day and I am green with envy. People who do not hold the door open for you when you are carrying/wheeling a lot of stuff. Like, how rude! If I had a dollar for every time this has happened to me I would not be working for a living. Not being allowed to have a radio in the truck. We used to be able to have a radio, well, not really but management looked the other way on this, but a couple of summers ago some dude in Alberta went to lunch one day and his battery-powered radio short circuited and subsequently burned his truck down. Management is of the opinion that radios are a distraction to drivers. Yeah, well, it's better than talking to yourself all day. I don't know how it is elsewhere, but here if you want to wear shorts in the summer you have to wear official UPS socks, which cost $4 a pair! What a scam! But my number 1 pet peeve is brokerage fees. God I hate them. I hate collecting money period for one thing, I hate getting screamed at 20 times a day, I hate trying to explain why these fees are what they are because I have never gotten a logical answer from any level of management. I find myself telling people that, if an out of country shipper uses UPS, just don't buy the product. How sad is that? [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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