Sure managment will harass you for anything. The problem here is they deny people hours when some people need the money. If need be, they should be reminded that this is a job where people get money from, and not a job where numbers matter to regular employees. You where hired by them, obtained senority thusly granting one 3.5. I would say that whatever they offer to a person should be fine, aslong as they are on ther clock. I said before either it be scrubbing toliets or washing cars. Its all about the hours.
I disagree -- it's not management's job to care about an employee's financial well-being. That said, if the employee volunteers to do whatever's necessary to reach his 3.5, management should respect his request. Most often, there's plenty of work available... few people want the guarantee and most want to go home, so management can simply relieve them. And I always see p/t sups pulling add/cuts, re-boxing packages, processing damages & overgoods, walking the belts, etc.after they've chased the hourlys away. Bottom line is that there's no reason to harass anybody; management should be thankful there's people willing to work, because they'll encounter situation's when the opposite's true.
As for the other, safety committe. Perhaps in the past or in different buildings it varies. I was really going on my observations on what I see now and in my building. I see safety people getting anywheres 30 - 60 mintues extra on the clock... All of that and over all, the work load they get is dropped significantly.
We had a designated number of safety hours each month. ALL of our activities were done shortly before or after work--none were done on the clock, and it never effected the amount of work we did. There were only a couple of us on the Committee (on a sort of nearly 100) and that was because our co-chair made certain she got credit for every available minute. Seriously, I did most of the work -- I spent hours each week setting up the PCMs, making sure the books were caught-up, checking out the building (refilling first aid kits, writing up problems, etc.), writing up the plans, etc. -- and she took the credit for it. Like I said, I was young & stupid.
I really have a hard time gauging peoples perseption of what is hard and/ or difficult. Either at work or on this forum. For some, printing out a bunch of papers is a difficult job.
I don't think ANY job at UPS is difficult. Most people today simply can't handle manual labor.
