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<blockquote data-quote="air_upser" data-source="post: 57723"><p>It's all personal choices. I think I lost 5 years of my life because I put UPS first. I moved up the ranks, but when my friends were getting married and having kids, I was working. While I still work hard and strive for promotions, I no longer put my personal life on the backburner. Life's too short. </p><p> </p><p>As far as flexibility in scheduling goes, I have a team of non-union employees, so it's a little different. But, I'm sure there are similarities. I always tried to accomadate employee wishes....taking lunch at the end of the shift to leave early, combining breaks to run an errand, making up hours because their child was sick, etc. Unfortunately, when you try and do the right thing (in my opinion it was), you can create problems. People abuse the flexibility. You can let everyone take their lunch late. Other managers don't allow their employees to make up hours. etc, etc. In the long run, it would have been easier to be the "jerk" supervisor versus the one that stands up for his employees. </p><p>So there are managers that care about their employees. Asking an employee to work late knowing they would miss thier kid's ballgame was the hardest thing to do. In my area, I was able to work for them so they didn't have to miss a birthday or something like that. Unfortunately, that's not the case in the operation. But that's the drawback from having a contract, isn't it? </p><p>With everything I hear on this board, UPS will hire more drivers. They have to. When??? Well, that's another story!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="air_upser, post: 57723"] It's all personal choices. I think I lost 5 years of my life because I put UPS first. I moved up the ranks, but when my friends were getting married and having kids, I was working. While I still work hard and strive for promotions, I no longer put my personal life on the backburner. Life's too short. As far as flexibility in scheduling goes, I have a team of non-union employees, so it's a little different. But, I'm sure there are similarities. I always tried to accomadate employee wishes....taking lunch at the end of the shift to leave early, combining breaks to run an errand, making up hours because their child was sick, etc. Unfortunately, when you try and do the right thing (in my opinion it was), you can create problems. People abuse the flexibility. You can let everyone take their lunch late. Other managers don't allow their employees to make up hours. etc, etc. In the long run, it would have been easier to be the "jerk" supervisor versus the one that stands up for his employees. So there are managers that care about their employees. Asking an employee to work late knowing they would miss thier kid's ballgame was the hardest thing to do. In my area, I was able to work for them so they didn't have to miss a birthday or something like that. Unfortunately, that's not the case in the operation. But that's the drawback from having a contract, isn't it? With everything I hear on this board, UPS will hire more drivers. They have to. When??? Well, that's another story! [/QUOTE]
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