

why dont you tell us how you really feel DS...My worst sup ever was a center manager named Barry.If you are reading this Barry,I still hate you and would probobly go out of my way to ruin your day if we ever cross paths again![]()
He was a young guy that loved playing god.
After I got my job back when he fired me,one morning he says,
good morning bud...
I will not be at his funeral when he disregards the safe boating message.
Not the most incompetent (that would be a long list and they've all been demoted) but the one I hated with a vengeance was a preload supe who thought I needed to forever prove myself. He would have the preloader wrap up the truck except the overweights, then send him home and leave all the overweights behind the car for me to load. He would grin and taunt me that I couldn't lift them. He would do lots of things to mess with me.
I started burning him with under 8's every chance I got. I would do all sorts of creative things to get my stop count down and bring my miles way down doing a lot of unsafe things. I would hiss at him - are you sure you dispatched me enough work? The under 8's made him back off.
My honest point of view of the union vs. mgmt thing is that there is no such thing. To me it's just a guy thing. There is too much testosterone at UPS and everything is a pissing match.
We had this DM a few years back, I don't think she was a bad person, but she ran our building into the ground. Peak was the worst, understaffed, not enough trucks, preload going down so late that many mornings we didn't leave til 10:00. Total chaos. She got canned right after that fiasco, demoted back down to center manager and now no longer with the company. I've had a few center manager's and on-car's that I could have done without, but at the end of the day they can only do so much damage as long as you do your job. That experience brought home to me that if someone is screwing up at the division level, everybody suffers.
My worst sup ever was a center manager named Barry.If you are reading this Barry,I still hate you and would probobly go out of my way to ruin your day if we ever cross paths again![]()
He was a young guy that loved playing god.
After I got my job back when he fired me,one morning he says,
good morning bud...
I will not be at his funeral when he disregards the safe boating message.
Not even to pee on his grave?!![]()
The bad ones aren't worth my effort to remember. We currently have an on-road on Belt1 (I hope he reads this) in a Southern NH center who bleeds brown. The following story is absolutely true...
2 peaks ago, about 1 week before Xmas if I remember correctly, his brother-in-law died, DIED, in his house. (I knew him from a route I used to cover and he was a very nice guy, I felt horrible) He passed after a long battle with cancer and this supervisor left his wife that morning, she just lost her brother for christ sakes, to come in the building to handle the cardboard.
Really?? Seriously?? What type of person reasons that boxes are more important than family at a time like that (SCREW PEAK) and is this a symptom of his personality or the 'programming' he received in management training?
Just to be clear, he has been an on-road forever and is not now, or ever, mentioned as a center manager candidate.
I will never, ever, NEVER have any respect for this person. Your actions have completely negated any positive action you will ever take in our center, not that you have any...