Don't tell me I have a selfish attitude pal !!
Why the hell not? If you can tell me my opinion stinks then you've opened the door for personal shots.
Your worried about being cost effective ?, how about upper management giving back some of their "year ends' fat sloppy bonuses they all recieve for all that "fraudulent" paperwork they turn in to Atlanta??
If there is no profit there is nothing for management to give back. You get your highest paid in the industry bonus wages regardless of profits. Do you have any proof of your fraudulent charges? If you do, put up or shut up and the fraudulent manager well be gone. It is not a bonus. It is an incentive, not akin to milking a run for more overtime, for people to produce honest results that turn into company profits. No one has been asked for give backs. How many fat, fraudulent time cards do you turn in?
You say you are stuck in the middle. Stuck in the middle my a@#. There is no anchor on your $100,000 a year job fanny. You are only stuck where you want to be. You have your chauffers license or equivalent that allows you to unstick yourself and go drive somewhere where you are not "stuck". I know you don't like being told to go elsewhere, so if you want to avoid being told this don't set your self up with a woe is me statement like "I am stuck in the middle. You could take a promotion and do something constructive but you don't think managers are paid enough even with their managers incentive. Just think, you could be the first one to give back your incentive and set an example for all the fraudulent managers.
Is it cost effective or just more "bonus addiction?
Is bonus addiction any thing like "milking cash cow addiction" I would like to see "grays" like you put 10% of their yearly earnings on the line based on company profits rather than milking the cash cow with unnecessary overtime. Many supervisors wages would not be as much as yours if it weren't for incentive and even then with your fraudulent overtime you probably outearn them in the short run. Why aren't you a business agent or union official if you see so much wrong. Why not GOYA and become part of the solution instead of whining about how you are stuck in the middle. I know many hard working teamster officials that would love for you to come on board and do some leading instead of whining about those who do.
"Whatever it is, it sucks and it hurts the American working families. But I guess the "selfish people" in this game really don't give a crap about that.
There are very few if any ups working families that have been hurt like many other working families have been hurt in this country recently. Your linking American working families with ups working families leaves me in tears. Your working family cries regarding ups families is a stretch. If you are amoung the highest paid and benefited workers in the country then you had better believe other "working families" are going to do whatever it takes to find a way to get a piece of the "highest paid" action. Take a look around you at who is taking our business. Are these people the highest paid in the industry? Is it possible that they may be part of the reason some people are still laid off. Are they wanting to milk their employer or are they taking volume because they have better costs and service. There is nothing I want more than UPS working families to continue to be the best paid workers in the industry and don't want any to lose their jobs. When this happens we will all be in trouble.
I guess I have to give all the credit to the guys in the "gray area" like me, that made it possible for both sides to profit for so long.
Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back. UPS's success and profits are made possible by all of the hard working employees both management and hourly not just poor stuck in the middle grays like you and your buddies.
Making money and building a succesful business like ups is a team effort including hard working teamsters and managers. No one group of people is responsible for this especially poor gray stuck in the middle folks like you.
Many of the hard working managers that work with you would like to tell you the things I just posted, but would be in deep trouble for doing so. You would run to your steward and cry foul. Your unfounded allegations regarding fraudulent managers and your ignorance regarding what you call "bonus" is a discredit to the other hard working teamster ups workers. I certainly am glad you are a small minority of ups employees.
AMF
