What are things that irritate you at work?

[quad decade guy]

Condescending people that overuse parentheses, don't properly space before them, and don't put the punctuation inside quotation marks.

Really?

Say, are you condescending now?

Hypocrite.

 

[MyTripisCut]

these are taken word for word from the NMA. I’m not trolling, I just learned the need and ability to be able to defend myself from UPS management tactics.

Section 1. Employeesʼ Rights—
Equipment, Vehicles and Conditions
The Employer shall not require employees to take out on the streets or highways any vehicle, or use any type of equipment, that is not in a safe operating condition or equipped with the safety appliances prescribed by law. First line trailers will be swept on a daily basis. All package cars and tractors will be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition including mirrors and windows.



and another

A package car will be equipped with a hand cart at the driver’s request.

Yeah....just like buying your own cleaning supplies......Windex, 409, anti-bacterial supplies.....gloves.

What company do work at? You'll wait the rest of your career for any of that stuff around here.

I realize your response is about hate and abuse.....

Our car wash has been broken for weeks......you have to find some way to clean your windshield and windows just to see out.....find something to carry water in and take 50 sheets of paper towels from the bathroom.....no? Yeah just like that. And try it on a tractor....especially on the front windshield.

You are going to have to buy some sort of broom to sweep the mud and rocks and whatever food some co-driver/tractor user leaves in the cab.....don't act like this stuff doesn't happen....no? Then you are a troll.

 

[quad decade guy]

these are taken word for word from the NMA. I’m not trolling, I just learned the need and ability to be able to defend myself from UPS management tactics.

Section 1. Employeesʼ Rights—
Equipment, Vehicles and Conditions
The Employer shall not require employees to take out on the streets or highways any vehicle, or use any type of equipment, that is not in a safe operating condition or equipped with the safety appliances prescribed by law. First line trailers will be swept on a daily basis. All package cars and tractors will be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition including mirrors and windows.



and another

A package car will be equipped with a hand cart at the driver’s request.

Ok. Fair enough.

However.....those conditions have NEVER been the case in all my 40 years at UPS.

NEVER.

Not in California or New York or in between....

Ankle snakes to piss bottles.....nails to live ammo.....

Hell, we couldn't even wash our own tractor in Cali. No? I know better.

And to be clear: the Company's idea of sanitary and just about anyone's is pretty different. No? Look at any bathroom/pkg car/tractor.....if it's clean, that's usually the regular driver's efforts. And that effort is going to be on his/her own time.....we don't have time built in for cleaning interiors or exteriors for that matter.....we are regularly told "No washing/fueling."

Ever do CPU? It is NORMAL to have to sweep a trailer and empty pallets around here. Just try and bring a nasty trailer to a customer....you'll get an earfull. And questioned why it took so long and why are you late/behind and on and on. Try finding a load retainer.....

Try starting your day out....every day.....hunting down a handcart, finding wet weather bags(someone stole), a smalls tote......no? Yeah.

All the while getting beat up about delays and departure times.

This thread is about what irritates you at work.....well, see above.

 

[Yeet]

When someone parks their tractor outside of dispatch when they are leaving instead of dropping it off at the pumps so the next guy has to fuel it.

 

[Integrity]

Hand cart theft was such a problem in our building that maintenance created(welded chains to huge beams) a hand cart lock up.

That lasted a few weeks as our center team started cutting locks to redistribute hand carts......don't have a hand cart? Here take this one......cut.....see the drivers started complaining and refused to leave without a hand cart or as bulk stops started taking half a day because of the one or two box walk. Injuries started creeping up also.

I bought my own cart and chains and lock and dared them to destroy my private property. It never happened.

I went to upper mgt. and suggested "how about mounting the dolly(hand cart) to the front bumper?" A bracket of some sort that the hand cart slides in and a safety chain......"Oh no......we can't do that.....they'll(handcart) fall off in traffic....and besides we can't alter the appearance of the pkg. car....." Swear to God.....

My P1000 was so bulked out most days that the loader would either pull the hand cart and set in front of the pkg car(to get out of the way) and then was promptly stolen....or would leave in the cab with no place to put it in the back......and pkg. cars being parked so close together......you couldn't deal with it until pulling away from your bay.....on and on.

Going to feeders solved all this.....

,What year did you buy your hand truck?

Arguably it may have been a possible solution in the past, I would discourage this as solution to this problem now.

 

[Integrity]

Really?

Say, are you condescending now?

Hypocrite.

Interesting.

 

[Integrity]

Working along individuals who refuse to take responsibility for enforcing clear language of the CBA.

It can be irritating at times but I become so used to it that it doesn’t irritate me very much or very often.

 

[quad decade guy]

Working along individuals who refuse to take responsibility for enforcing clear language of the CBA.

It can be irritating at times but I become so used to it that it doesn’t irritate me very much or very often.

Without trying to be unkind.....no really-

Sometimes your grasp of reality....I mean what's actually happening.....seems to be on another plane.

As in day to day life, we find solutions to our challenges and problems whether they are written words or not.

You do, I do.

In other words......you do what you have to do to get through.

I could list a long series of obstacles that we overcome such as lack of support from mgt., the union or co-workers or even our customers.

We "ad lib".

If I(we) waited around from support of mgt. for just about anything....the company would quickly cease.

If you've ever worked at UPS, you would surely know this. Like being 300 miles away from any help...you make repairs or improvise.

Pretending otherwise......just isn't reality.

 

[No1 Special]

I am starting to miss Dave.

 

[Just A UPS Guy]

Really?

Say, are you condescending now?

Hypocrite.

Not condescending, humorously passive-aggressive.

 

[Integrity]

Without trying to be unkind.....no really-

Sometimes your grasp of reality....I mean what's actually happening.....seems to be on another plane.

As in day to day life, we find solutions to our challenges and problems whether they are written words or not.

You do, I do.

In other words......you do what you have to do to get through.

I could list a long series of obstacles that we overcome such as lack of support from mgt., the union or co-workers or even our customers.

We "ad lib".

If I(we) waited around from support of mgt. for just about anything....the company would quickly cease.

If you've ever worked at UPS, you would surely know this. Like being 300 miles away from any help...you make repairs or improvise.

Pretending otherwise......just isn't reality.

I agree 100% that after all the processes in place to handle grievances are given a fair effort an ad lib may be a temporary solution. (I would never buy a hand cart for UPS, however.

How many failure to provide hand cart grievances did you file and not receive satisfaction from before you ad libbed in such a IMO peculiar way?

Do you suggest that if everyone enforced the contract that the company would cease to exist?

Do you believe in enforcing the contract?


What year did you buy your hand truck?

Arguably it may have been a possible solution in the past, I would discourage this as solution to this problem now.

 

[Integrity]

Not condescending, humorously passive-aggressive.

I fail to see the humor.

 

[Just A UPS Guy]

I fail to see the humor.

I believe you.

 

[Integrity]

I believe you.

I am not a fun guy. I know.

 

[Maple Grove MN Driver]

I have to lock up my handtruck every night because drivers that deliver in the hood steal handtrucks. Then they leave them somewhere on their route. My building is a slum.

Why bother locking up company equipment?

If you don't have one in your package car in the morning make management find you one.

Don't leave the building until you have one.

 

[35years]

There is a spiritual axiom that says whenever you are irritated by someone or something there is something fundamentally wrong with you.

What is troubling you my friend?

Wilson's axiom is flawed as easily demonstrated by Jesus's irritation by the Pharisees and his righteous anger at the money changers. Righteous anger is not a flaw.

 

[Shift Inhibit]

Bought your own Handcart....


Smfh

Are you surprised?! Lol

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

I am not a fun guy. I know.

Liar

 

[burrheadd]

Bought your own Handcart....


Smfh

definition of a true bootlicker

 

[quad decade guy]

Not condescending, humorously passive-aggressive.

Yes, condescending jerk. Don't seem to be passive....matter of fact-quite overt.