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<blockquote data-quote="ups_vette" data-source="post: 200770" data-attributes="member: 2125"><p>I know that some of you (trickpony in particular) think of me as one of the "strickly by the rules" managers. In most cases you're right. However, even I have shown compassion to one of my drivers when the circumstances were truly unique and urgent.</p><p></p><p>As an example, during the work stoppage of 1976,,, that's right, 1976, not 1997. Most of you have no knowledge of that work stoppage. It effected the East Coast, from New England to Virginia. The rest of the country was not effected. At that time I was the Center Manager of a 50 car Center in NE Pa. The drivers were picketting the building and I was alone inside. One of the top senior drivers called and said his mothers house was on fire. He said he and the neighbors had moved most of his mother's posesions out of the burning home and asked if he could use a package car to temporarly store her items till they decided where to take them.</p><p></p><p>Without hesitation, or checking with my Division Manager, I told him I'd be there as fast as I could. I changed into my browns ("stricly by the rules manager"), told the drivers outside who were picketting where I was going and drove to the mother's house. Her items were stacked in a vacent lot next to her home and we loaded them into the p600. I still have the picture of me loading her furnishings into the p600 that appeared in the local newspaper the following day.</p><p></p><p>Why did I do it? I did it because someone needed help and I had the ability to help.</p><p>After the work stoppage ended, I went back to business as usual, as did the driver I was abel to help. As a matter of fact a few months later I suspended that driver for signing for a package.</p><p></p><p>We all have our individual jobs to do, and as long as all of us perform our jobs as required, the job gets done. It's only when someone (management or hourly) doesn't live up to their responsiblity that the job doesn't get done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ups_vette, post: 200770, member: 2125"] I know that some of you (trickpony in particular) think of me as one of the "strickly by the rules" managers. In most cases you're right. However, even I have shown compassion to one of my drivers when the circumstances were truly unique and urgent. As an example, during the work stoppage of 1976,,, that's right, 1976, not 1997. Most of you have no knowledge of that work stoppage. It effected the East Coast, from New England to Virginia. The rest of the country was not effected. At that time I was the Center Manager of a 50 car Center in NE Pa. The drivers were picketting the building and I was alone inside. One of the top senior drivers called and said his mothers house was on fire. He said he and the neighbors had moved most of his mother's posesions out of the burning home and asked if he could use a package car to temporarly store her items till they decided where to take them. Without hesitation, or checking with my Division Manager, I told him I'd be there as fast as I could. I changed into my browns ("stricly by the rules manager"), told the drivers outside who were picketting where I was going and drove to the mother's house. Her items were stacked in a vacent lot next to her home and we loaded them into the p600. I still have the picture of me loading her furnishings into the p600 that appeared in the local newspaper the following day. Why did I do it? I did it because someone needed help and I had the ability to help. After the work stoppage ended, I went back to business as usual, as did the driver I was abel to help. As a matter of fact a few months later I suspended that driver for signing for a package. We all have our individual jobs to do, and as long as all of us perform our jobs as required, the job gets done. It's only when someone (management or hourly) doesn't live up to their responsiblity that the job doesn't get done. [/QUOTE]
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