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<blockquote data-quote="AKCoverMan" data-source="post: 901027" data-attributes="member: 17867"><p>First let me just say that I agree with you on one thing, we do make great money in this job, we should give it our all as you put it. I believe I do every day.</p><p></p><p>However, I must disagree with you when you say the company is losing money now or that it lost money during the recent recession. That is simply not true.. fact is in spite of all the problems we as a driver group see every day the UPS system is really a pretty darn good cash producing machine! Proof is only a few keystrokes away; all of our financials are public record.</p><p></p><p>Truth is, volume dropped off a bit, as one might expect during a recession. We went from entering 15 million new packages per day into the system to 14 million and change. During the worst quarter we only made a half a billion dollars profit after taxes vs. the same quarter the prior year where we made a whole billion. BUT WE STILL MADE A HALF BILLION. We did not ever LOSE money.</p><p></p><p>I do complain about stop counts, load quality, and bulk when these things are causing my over allowed and forcing me to work 11 plus hour days. But I am not complaing to be "a problem employee". UPS is my company too. I complain to get these problems fixed. Sometimes things get fixed, sometimes they don't.. but nothing will get fixed if I don't complain and these things cost my company money. </p><p></p><p>Believe me, I want a profitable UPS. And we have one. Now could I just get down to under 50 hours a week?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AKCoverMan, post: 901027, member: 17867"] First let me just say that I agree with you on one thing, we do make great money in this job, we should give it our all as you put it. I believe I do every day. However, I must disagree with you when you say the company is losing money now or that it lost money during the recent recession. That is simply not true.. fact is in spite of all the problems we as a driver group see every day the UPS system is really a pretty darn good cash producing machine! Proof is only a few keystrokes away; all of our financials are public record. Truth is, volume dropped off a bit, as one might expect during a recession. We went from entering 15 million new packages per day into the system to 14 million and change. During the worst quarter we only made a half a billion dollars profit after taxes vs. the same quarter the prior year where we made a whole billion. BUT WE STILL MADE A HALF BILLION. We did not ever LOSE money. I do complain about stop counts, load quality, and bulk when these things are causing my over allowed and forcing me to work 11 plus hour days. But I am not complaing to be "a problem employee". UPS is my company too. I complain to get these problems fixed. Sometimes things get fixed, sometimes they don't.. but nothing will get fixed if I don't complain and these things cost my company money. Believe me, I want a profitable UPS. And we have one. Now could I just get down to under 50 hours a week? [/QUOTE]
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