Don't worry about getting fired. I know a couple guys in my building who get a lot of grievance money and have been for a while their still here. Just do your job you'll be fine. Sometimes I think it's cheaper for them to pay the grievance and have a sup work than to hire someone else. Just my thought.
I actually talked to the preload manager in my building about my grievances (he requested to talk to me, in fact). He said that it is not actually profitable for them to have supervisors work. I do not know if he is speaking the truth, but so far I have no reason to distrust him. As far as I can tell, however, it is cheaper for them to just have supervisors work than to have someone hired, kept for 30 days, and then be stuck with them. If my preload manager is telling the truth about profitability, then I believe that even if it is not profitable to have supervisors work rather than bargaining unit employees, then it is still not profitable to be paying part-time supervisors about $15 an hour to do the same old paperwork over and over and "supervise". Instead, they make them more useful and get some work out of them so that they are losing less money to paying part-time supervisors.
I actually am not planning on making UPS a career. I am working there while I am going to school. Again, I knew this was a dangerous game. I will see for myself what happens.
Sometimes those big,ugly hose reels should be delayed in transit. Saved the neighbors a few extra days of lower property values!
It is funny, since one of the full-time supervisors that absolutely hated me before is now acting like my friend and giving me "advice" on how I should not continue filing grievances if I want to keep my job. It makes me feel like the supervisors have been told that whoever convinces me to stop filing will get a bonus for it. Supervisors are always stopping me when they see my grievances in hand while I am walking to the steward's office, and telling me how it is not a good idea to keep filing grievances. I just nod and keep walking.
It's a shame you don't plan on staying with ups, we need more stand up people like you on the hourly side.
What we really need at UPS is stand-up people on the management side. But I figure that stand-up people would not last long in management.
I am trying to file on any supervisors I see working, but I feel that it will become harder from now on. The problem is that on the belt that I work, the part-time supervisor actually pulled a new hire in front of me to help me clean up while the part-time supervisor also worked. He was sarcastically saying that he was "training" the new hire, while telling the new hire about how to make stacks and sort packages (as if these things need training). This occurred for about the last hour of the sort. I do not know if I will be able to win that particular supervisors working grievance. I feel that they will just make sure to have a new hire wherever they are working so that they can claim that it is "training". Should I just file on it anyways and tell the steward about the situation?
i know this man and can vouch for his statement. He is a bad motherfuc**r. I've only seen one man like him. This man was crazier but Bubblehead is smarter. The man has filed easily a thousand grievences.
This guy is my kind of ass*ole.
Failure to follow instructions? That is why I am following their instructions, no matter how ridiculous they are. For example, how useless do you figure writing "RDR" on every RDR package in an obvious bulk stop is? How much of a waste of time is it to write "RDR" on all 50 or so packages of a bulk stop when they are going in at the end of the day? How about circling every one of those route IDs, knowing they are all going to the same place? How ridiculous is it to write the HIN number on envelopes when it is not possible to face envelopes with their HIN numbers facing out? How stupid does it look when I am writing the HIN number on tubes that are probably going to roll over to where the driver cannot see the HIN number I wrote anyways? Most importantly, how useful is it for production to enforce methods to reduce misloads on a loader who has a reputation for not ever having misloads? I am following all of their methods, like I said, to a "T". The only "instruction" that I am failing to follow is to load 240 packages per hour. And that is not due to insubordination, it is due to the fact that I simply cannot, even though I am working at a fairly fast pace.
With a name like turd burglar you have to be badass. I made this post using my voice on the iPhone five yeah
I posted this using my voice on my new Samsung Galaxy s3
