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Well....I had my local level hearing.
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<blockquote data-quote="Sick of Intimidation" data-source="post: 723901" data-attributes="member: 29041"><p>Okay. back to the story. So I get my job back and the company and I agree that it is time to maybe get some counseling to deal with everything i've been through. So, I start seeing a counselor and feel it's best to not return to work for awhile to get some things figured out. I've learned a lot throughout my visits and appreciate the 6 free visits the company provides for us. So I go back to work at the beginning of February. Most of my coworkers came up to me and shook my hand and welcomed me back and told me that they felt I was treated unfairly, but they're glad I was back. I wasn't back a week til I found out that the center manager's little pet had went off the road and went into the ditch with her package car and bent the bumper in all the way in almost to the tire. She didn't report it, but instead had called the bid driver she was covering for and asked if there was any farmer in the area that could come pull her out of the ditch with a tractor. The bid driver provided her with a farmer in the area that would come to pull her out. I guess she finally reported it to our center manager on her way in to punch out and he immediately told her to pull the truck into the shop and called the mechanic in early to fix the bumper. There was nothing written up on the DVIR. I guess our center manager wrote it up as a stuck and not an accident and that the damage to the package car was a result from the farmer pulling the vehicle out of the ditch. The bid driver on the route caught wind of this and followed up with the farmer to get the right story. The farmer told the bid driver that she hadn't gotten stuck, and that she had actually lossed control and went off into the ditch and hit a telephone pole with the front, drivers side bumper, bending it in almost to the tire. It only makes sense since how would you bend a front bumper in pulling the vehicle out. But somehow, our center manager wrote it up that somehow the farmer had defied the laws of physics and the bumper was bent in when he pulled the car out of the ditch with his tractor, thus eliminating an accident from our center, thus making our center look better. Another driver had backed over a mailbox while I was off and nothing ever was written up about that either. Rumor had it that our center manager paid for the mailbox out of his own pocket, thus eliminating another accident charge to our center. It only makes sense since the driver that backed over the mailbox received a safe driving award a couple months later. All of us were like, huh? How does a driver receive such an award when he just took out a mailbox a few months ago????? Anyway, I was back on my route and everything was going great. It felt good to be back in the saddle again, even though the hours suck!! The only crap my center manager gave me at first was that while I was off, the cover drivers doing my route didn't have any problem running a 1/2 hour over or better so why was I repeatedly a 1/2 hour to an hour over consistently. My answer was that at least i'm consistent and that my customers had told me that the young guys filling in for me were runners and gunners and didn't provide the service that i'm accustomed to. I worked my route for a few more weeks until a bid coverage spot opened up. My older coworkers in my bld'g advised me that I should bid on this position. I was like I don't know, since the center manager's little pet is the senior employee in that group and if I bid on it, I would be the senior employee in that group and that might look bad if I do this to her, like i'm getting back at her for lying about me before. I thought about it for a few days and after much persuasion, I chose to bid on the job. I had decided it was time for a new beginning and since I had performed the Porter and Am clerk positions before, it would be nice to be able to do these gravy jobs for 14 weeks a year while the bid guys were on vacation. That wasn't gonna be the case. I tried to bid on the clerk job and my center manager wouldn't let me do it even though I had done the job many many times previously. He told me that a lot had changed since the last time i'd done it and that his pet would be the one covering the job. I told him that i'd already talked with the clerk and this person had told me that hardly anything had changed since the last time i'd done the job and that it would only take a few minutes to refresh me with the system and show me the few changes that had taken place. The center manager didn't wanna hear it and his answer was why should I spend extra money on training you when I already have other people trained. My answer was that I understand that he was looking at it from a business standpoint, but it is what it is and that since i'm the senior employee in the work group, I wouldappreciate it if he would let me do it. Nope, go ahead and grieve it, by the time we hear the greivance you won't be able to do it this year anyway, maybe next year and he just snickered. I then brought my steward into it and he started confronting the center manager weekly on getting me trained. The last time we met with him, he had denied saying he would use the grievance process to delay me doing the job which pissed me off quite a bit and I ended up telling him, whatever, this is BS and walked away. </p><p> </p><p>A couple of days later I was covering a route and i'll be damned if I wasn't carrying a couple of packages up to the garage when a beagle jumped out from underneath a truck and nailed me twice, biting my calf and scratching my knee. I wasn't aware that these people had a dog and I was actually correct. The old man told me he was dog-sitting for his daughters dog while she was honeymooning. The dog had been inside when I pulled in, but while I was parked and getting his packages from the back, the dog had gotten passed him when he opened the door and ran out and hid underneath the truck. The old man went on to say that the dog was dumb as a rock and hates UPS drivers. The dog doesn't have a problem with the Fed Ex guy or the propane guy, but hates UPS drivers. I asked him what the dogs name was and he told me it's name was Paully. I reported the incident immediately to the office. The center manager didn't ask me if I was ok or anything. All he asked me was if it punctured my skin and would I have to miss time. That reinforced my idea that all he is concerned about is himself and the centers numbers and whether or not it would be a lossed time injury. I ended up taking my break and cleaning the wound and then I finished my deliveries. Returned to the center and my sup asked me if I would consider waiting to have the wound checked out until the next morning and that if I went to the emergency room that night, I would more than likely have to wait 2-3 hours before I was treated. I agreed and that I would come in early the next morning and report it to UPS's insurance company online and then do a UPS prevention report before going to the company doctor. The next morning I show up and all we did was a UPS injury prevention report online. When I asked if we were gonna report the dog bite to Liberty Mutual, my sup. told me we just did. I'm like, well where is my claim number. He said we'll get you that later. We then went to the clinic to see the co. dr. We didn't get there until 8:15 so I knew there was no way I was gonna get treated and back to the center in time to do my route, so my sup who met me at the clinic called our center manager telling him the news. I heard our center manager tell my sup that I had to get back to do my route or if I didn't do my route we had to have me do something at the center to get some time in so it wouldn't be a lossed time injury. My sup then mysteriously asked if he could talk with the co. dr. even though we weren't gonna be seen for probably another 1/2 hour. Next thing I know, my sup is called in. When he returned 5 minutes later, I asked him why he needed to talk with the doctor so bad and he answers that he needed to ask her a few questions about adjusting his medicine he was taking. Sounded fishy. When I eventually got in to see the dr. I asked her what the sup had asked her. She told me that he was telling her what had happened to me and that they needed me to be released for full duty asap if at all possible. I asked her if he'd asked her anything about his personal health or medicine and she said no, he just wanted to be proactive with your treatment and release. Later I confronted him about this and explained to him that he needn't lie to me anymore and that at UPS we are supposed to be honest with one another and create an enviroment of openess and trust. It pissed him off that i'd caught him in a lie. Kind of funny that just a few days later i'm receiving a performance ride with this same OJS. He initially had told me that he was riding with another driver, so I left and started my route. When I arrived at my first big dump stop, I get a text from the center that I needed to wait for him. I replied that I was confused and that he'd told me he was riding with another driver, but I would wait for him. The next thing I know he's running into Meijers store, all red in the face, and confronted me while I was obtaining a signature at the Pharmacy. Why did you leave me? I replied that "you told me you were riding with Stu" He says, no, I told you I was riding with you, but we were standing next to a loud truck when I told you this so no, honest mistake, no big deal. Well this OJS who i'd just caught in the lie a few days earlier is a real stickler on the car with ya. He's always talking about how afraid he is that he's gonna be one the positions eliminated so we need to fly and hurry up and get done and make scratch. I told him that this was the biggest dispatch i'd seen on this route and that not only did we have a lot of stops, but we had a lot of miles with some ripper air. He was like well...i've gotta be done by 6pm, i've got stuff to do......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sick of Intimidation, post: 723901, member: 29041"] Okay. back to the story. So I get my job back and the company and I agree that it is time to maybe get some counseling to deal with everything i've been through. So, I start seeing a counselor and feel it's best to not return to work for awhile to get some things figured out. I've learned a lot throughout my visits and appreciate the 6 free visits the company provides for us. So I go back to work at the beginning of February. Most of my coworkers came up to me and shook my hand and welcomed me back and told me that they felt I was treated unfairly, but they're glad I was back. I wasn't back a week til I found out that the center manager's little pet had went off the road and went into the ditch with her package car and bent the bumper in all the way in almost to the tire. She didn't report it, but instead had called the bid driver she was covering for and asked if there was any farmer in the area that could come pull her out of the ditch with a tractor. The bid driver provided her with a farmer in the area that would come to pull her out. I guess she finally reported it to our center manager on her way in to punch out and he immediately told her to pull the truck into the shop and called the mechanic in early to fix the bumper. There was nothing written up on the DVIR. I guess our center manager wrote it up as a stuck and not an accident and that the damage to the package car was a result from the farmer pulling the vehicle out of the ditch. The bid driver on the route caught wind of this and followed up with the farmer to get the right story. The farmer told the bid driver that she hadn't gotten stuck, and that she had actually lossed control and went off into the ditch and hit a telephone pole with the front, drivers side bumper, bending it in almost to the tire. It only makes sense since how would you bend a front bumper in pulling the vehicle out. But somehow, our center manager wrote it up that somehow the farmer had defied the laws of physics and the bumper was bent in when he pulled the car out of the ditch with his tractor, thus eliminating an accident from our center, thus making our center look better. Another driver had backed over a mailbox while I was off and nothing ever was written up about that either. Rumor had it that our center manager paid for the mailbox out of his own pocket, thus eliminating another accident charge to our center. It only makes sense since the driver that backed over the mailbox received a safe driving award a couple months later. All of us were like, huh? How does a driver receive such an award when he just took out a mailbox a few months ago????? Anyway, I was back on my route and everything was going great. It felt good to be back in the saddle again, even though the hours suck!! The only crap my center manager gave me at first was that while I was off, the cover drivers doing my route didn't have any problem running a 1/2 hour over or better so why was I repeatedly a 1/2 hour to an hour over consistently. My answer was that at least i'm consistent and that my customers had told me that the young guys filling in for me were runners and gunners and didn't provide the service that i'm accustomed to. I worked my route for a few more weeks until a bid coverage spot opened up. My older coworkers in my bld'g advised me that I should bid on this position. I was like I don't know, since the center manager's little pet is the senior employee in that group and if I bid on it, I would be the senior employee in that group and that might look bad if I do this to her, like i'm getting back at her for lying about me before. I thought about it for a few days and after much persuasion, I chose to bid on the job. I had decided it was time for a new beginning and since I had performed the Porter and Am clerk positions before, it would be nice to be able to do these gravy jobs for 14 weeks a year while the bid guys were on vacation. That wasn't gonna be the case. I tried to bid on the clerk job and my center manager wouldn't let me do it even though I had done the job many many times previously. He told me that a lot had changed since the last time i'd done it and that his pet would be the one covering the job. I told him that i'd already talked with the clerk and this person had told me that hardly anything had changed since the last time i'd done the job and that it would only take a few minutes to refresh me with the system and show me the few changes that had taken place. The center manager didn't wanna hear it and his answer was why should I spend extra money on training you when I already have other people trained. My answer was that I understand that he was looking at it from a business standpoint, but it is what it is and that since i'm the senior employee in the work group, I wouldappreciate it if he would let me do it. Nope, go ahead and grieve it, by the time we hear the greivance you won't be able to do it this year anyway, maybe next year and he just snickered. I then brought my steward into it and he started confronting the center manager weekly on getting me trained. The last time we met with him, he had denied saying he would use the grievance process to delay me doing the job which pissed me off quite a bit and I ended up telling him, whatever, this is BS and walked away. A couple of days later I was covering a route and i'll be damned if I wasn't carrying a couple of packages up to the garage when a beagle jumped out from underneath a truck and nailed me twice, biting my calf and scratching my knee. I wasn't aware that these people had a dog and I was actually correct. The old man told me he was dog-sitting for his daughters dog while she was honeymooning. The dog had been inside when I pulled in, but while I was parked and getting his packages from the back, the dog had gotten passed him when he opened the door and ran out and hid underneath the truck. The old man went on to say that the dog was dumb as a rock and hates UPS drivers. The dog doesn't have a problem with the Fed Ex guy or the propane guy, but hates UPS drivers. I asked him what the dogs name was and he told me it's name was Paully. I reported the incident immediately to the office. The center manager didn't ask me if I was ok or anything. All he asked me was if it punctured my skin and would I have to miss time. That reinforced my idea that all he is concerned about is himself and the centers numbers and whether or not it would be a lossed time injury. I ended up taking my break and cleaning the wound and then I finished my deliveries. Returned to the center and my sup asked me if I would consider waiting to have the wound checked out until the next morning and that if I went to the emergency room that night, I would more than likely have to wait 2-3 hours before I was treated. I agreed and that I would come in early the next morning and report it to UPS's insurance company online and then do a UPS prevention report before going to the company doctor. The next morning I show up and all we did was a UPS injury prevention report online. When I asked if we were gonna report the dog bite to Liberty Mutual, my sup. told me we just did. I'm like, well where is my claim number. He said we'll get you that later. We then went to the clinic to see the co. dr. We didn't get there until 8:15 so I knew there was no way I was gonna get treated and back to the center in time to do my route, so my sup who met me at the clinic called our center manager telling him the news. I heard our center manager tell my sup that I had to get back to do my route or if I didn't do my route we had to have me do something at the center to get some time in so it wouldn't be a lossed time injury. My sup then mysteriously asked if he could talk with the co. dr. even though we weren't gonna be seen for probably another 1/2 hour. Next thing I know, my sup is called in. When he returned 5 minutes later, I asked him why he needed to talk with the doctor so bad and he answers that he needed to ask her a few questions about adjusting his medicine he was taking. Sounded fishy. When I eventually got in to see the dr. I asked her what the sup had asked her. She told me that he was telling her what had happened to me and that they needed me to be released for full duty asap if at all possible. I asked her if he'd asked her anything about his personal health or medicine and she said no, he just wanted to be proactive with your treatment and release. Later I confronted him about this and explained to him that he needn't lie to me anymore and that at UPS we are supposed to be honest with one another and create an enviroment of openess and trust. It pissed him off that i'd caught him in a lie. Kind of funny that just a few days later i'm receiving a performance ride with this same OJS. He initially had told me that he was riding with another driver, so I left and started my route. When I arrived at my first big dump stop, I get a text from the center that I needed to wait for him. I replied that I was confused and that he'd told me he was riding with another driver, but I would wait for him. The next thing I know he's running into Meijers store, all red in the face, and confronted me while I was obtaining a signature at the Pharmacy. Why did you leave me? I replied that "you told me you were riding with Stu" He says, no, I told you I was riding with you, but we were standing next to a loud truck when I told you this so no, honest mistake, no big deal. Well this OJS who i'd just caught in the lie a few days earlier is a real stickler on the car with ya. He's always talking about how afraid he is that he's gonna be one the positions eliminated so we need to fly and hurry up and get done and make scratch. I told him that this was the biggest dispatch i'd seen on this route and that not only did we have a lot of stops, but we had a lot of miles with some ripper air. He was like well...i've gotta be done by 6pm, i've got stuff to do...... [/QUOTE]
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