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<blockquote data-quote="air_dr" data-source="post: 954695" data-attributes="member: 29929"><p>It's going to always be more than what you are doing.</p><p></p><p>That may sound like a flippant answer but here's my point and it's something I didn't grasp until a good few years after I was out of school: Unlike my teachers and coaches who I truly believe basically had my best interests at heart and were on the same "side" I was on, so their efforts to "push" me were ultimately intended for my own good, in most work places, certainly UPS, that is not at all the case. The goal is to have you making money for the brown machine. They'll tell you how to work safe, then push you to go faster and faster, and if you compromise on safety to gain some speed and get hurt as a result, they'll blame you for not following the methods you were shown. Kind of like the cop who reads someone his Miranda rights, then starts asking questions and the person doesn't have the good sense to be keeping his mouth shut.</p><p></p><p>I don't think of UPS as an evil company or the supevisors as evil people. Rather each person on the totem pole is under pressure from the person above them to reach certain performance metrics, and the set up is a very impersonal one where you are numbers to people and very different from Mrs Jones who wanted to broaden NI3's horizons by sharing with you her love of chemistry or Coach Smith who wanted NI3 to suprise himself by running the mile faster than you ever thought you would be able.</p><p></p><p>As far as looking for a promotion, I don't know what you had in mind, and perhaps you don't either. In short, I think it would be fair to think of various promotions as forks in a road, and once you go down one particular fork it maybe impossible or at least very difficult to get yourself on the other fork if you later decide that is where you would really prefer to be. May I encourage you to just be content being a preloader and observe for a while - at least six months.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="air_dr, post: 954695, member: 29929"] It's going to always be more than what you are doing. That may sound like a flippant answer but here's my point and it's something I didn't grasp until a good few years after I was out of school: Unlike my teachers and coaches who I truly believe basically had my best interests at heart and were on the same "side" I was on, so their efforts to "push" me were ultimately intended for my own good, in most work places, certainly UPS, that is not at all the case. The goal is to have you making money for the brown machine. They'll tell you how to work safe, then push you to go faster and faster, and if you compromise on safety to gain some speed and get hurt as a result, they'll blame you for not following the methods you were shown. Kind of like the cop who reads someone his Miranda rights, then starts asking questions and the person doesn't have the good sense to be keeping his mouth shut. I don't think of UPS as an evil company or the supevisors as evil people. Rather each person on the totem pole is under pressure from the person above them to reach certain performance metrics, and the set up is a very impersonal one where you are numbers to people and very different from Mrs Jones who wanted to broaden NI3's horizons by sharing with you her love of chemistry or Coach Smith who wanted NI3 to suprise himself by running the mile faster than you ever thought you would be able. As far as looking for a promotion, I don't know what you had in mind, and perhaps you don't either. In short, I think it would be fair to think of various promotions as forks in a road, and once you go down one particular fork it maybe impossible or at least very difficult to get yourself on the other fork if you later decide that is where you would really prefer to be. May I encourage you to just be content being a preloader and observe for a while - at least six months. [/QUOTE]
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