To sucessfully climb the corporate ladder at UPS, you must keep your feet on the fingers of the man below you and your nose buried firmly up the ass of the man above you. And if you cannot make yourself look better on paper, you must make your rivals for promotion look worse.
The decent guys you describe have no hope of advancement. The best they can hope for is to simply survive long enough to make it to retirement as an on-car sup...but once they hit 53 or 54 years old they stand a good chance of getting whacked anyway, if they make it to 55 the company picks up the tab for their medical insurance until they become eligible for Medicare. Therefore, there is a huge financial incentive for the company to get rid of them earlier by any means necessary.
Your cynicism is amazing. You cannot come up with this if you were not intelligent, but that does not make you correct.
How did I make it up the ladder for 34 years? I never gave up even a speck of my integrity. Never buried my nose looking up the ladder.
I have had some poor bosses, but not many. Today, all of them are at a lower grade level than me.
I have seen some people spend their time kissing butt. I have seen some managers who loved that. Again, I have not seen this as the norm.
Also, I have seen some Teamsters who spend their time trying to get out of doing work in an unethical way. Again, that is not the norm either.
Today, I work with a lot of great people. The vast, vast majority have moved up the ladder by working hard and doing the right thing. They have "improved numbers" the right way. I also know lots of great drivers who have excellent performance by following methods and trying to reduce miles.
Now, here is what I have seen.... If a supervisor does not know how to properly improve an operation by planning, and holding people accountable that person will struggle. That person should have not gone into supervision to begin with.
While your satire is entertaining, it demeans the thousands of great UPSers that continue to do the right thing and improve UPS every day.
P-Man