GettingBrown
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New poster here. Read all of the posts in this thread to see very similar issues, as what's going on in our hub. I am very disgusted these last couple of years here at UPS. Last year we barely made it, as far as getting enough staffing in before peak slammed us, and this year it's a disaster. I can't even remember off hand, exactly how many new hires we had the past couple of months, but I think all but a few quit. The problem started within the past 2 years, with the company slowly not keeping just about every department fully staffed. I worked as a loader for years, and sorted for a couple. Later in the spring of this year, we had full staff, minus one. A few transferred to other bids, a few others quit. Everytime one left, the company either A: never replaced the employee or B: would only replace the employee, if that employee was a very very productive worker. We worked most of the year 30% understaffed. Then the summer months come, everyone wants to go on vacation, so when one goes, we almost never got any temporary fill ins from another department. So those months were brutal, working with a half a crew! This isn't all of it either.....as when our area had a few open bids, real high part time seniority workers would get the bids. One of the workers came back to my area from a nice box sort position, because he was on the bottom of the seniority last, even with more than 11 years of seniority. They would send him down to preload to load trailers all the time. This just wasn't an isolated thing either.....as many very high part time seniority employees who were on the bottom of the list in each of their departments, always got sent down to do crummy jobs like loading trailers, forced to work longer, thanks to all this grosely understaffing. So now in my area, the bottom part time seniority is almost 5 years, yikes. Moral totally sucks, and I hate that the most. You can cut through the tension with a piece of string. Sorry I don't think I'm whining here, and it's not like I'm complaining because of the remaining employees shifting to other departments, to either regain higher seniority or an easier position. Injuries have been way up, says so the District Manager, and ever since moving and promoting some of the better department managers to other hubs, and new ones taking place, it's been a complete nightmare. Sorry for the long rant, and feedback is most welcome.