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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 472609" data-attributes="member: 14668">And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the current enviornment at UPS.&nbsp;The fear among management people in my building is palpable. You can feel it in the air. We have had significant layoffs of drivers, and at some point very soon Corporate is going to start trimming the fat off of the supervisory ranks. And, unlike us, there is no seniority or contract for the sups to fall back on when the knife comes out. So its basically a game of musical chairs for them, with the loser being unemployed every time Corporate shuts the music off.&nbsp;Fearful management is like a dog that pees on your carpet. They will always revert back to their instinctive behavior, which in this case is to try and justify their own continued employment by generating reams of paperwork and issuing vast numbers of warning letters to their people. They will seek out trivial statistics and then micromanage them in order to be able to document some sort of &quot;improvement&quot; in their small piece of the operation. They are basically running around and rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic in the hopes of guranteeing themselves a seat in the lifeboat.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 472609, member: 14668"] And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the current enviornment at UPS. The fear among management people in my building is palpable. You can feel it in the air. We have had significant layoffs of drivers, and at some point very soon Corporate is going to start trimming the fat off of the supervisory ranks. And, unlike us, there is no seniority or contract for the sups to fall back on when the knife comes out. So its basically a game of musical chairs for them, with the loser being unemployed every time Corporate shuts the music off. Fearful management is like a dog that pees on your carpet. They will always revert back to their instinctive behavior, which in this case is to try and justify their own continued employment by generating reams of paperwork and issuing vast numbers of warning letters to their people. They will seek out trivial statistics and then micromanage them in order to be able to document some sort of "improvement" in their small piece of the operation. They are basically running around and rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic in the hopes of guranteeing themselves a seat in the lifeboat. [/QUOTE]

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