pjmartin1998
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First, let me start by saying that while I am not an employee of UPS Freight, I have been married to one of its employees for many years now. My spouse who has worked for MC/Overnite/UPS for quite some time started first on the dock, then moved to P & D, and now he is an LTL driver.
I have to ask, are you employees irritated with this company right now? It's like the blind leading the blind out there, and apparently, no managing skill sets are required for the job of manager, any manager position. Who in the blazes is running this company, Forest Gump?
I have seen some backwards#$% managing strategies in my life, but nothing to the likes of the level of incompetence that is being displayed, at least along the west coast! Since when do LTL drivers break their own trailer, work the dock and best of all, work as P & D drivers to fill in the gaps in a terminal? Well, if the group of schmuck Execs who thought up this "brilliant idea", along with the laundry list of other "brilliant ideas" that have popped up lately, wish for the LTL drivers to blow through their 70 hours a week (especially in chaining season) pushing freight and waiting for hours for their trailers to be ready at these "minihubs", then I am sure the same Execs won't mind when their tractors and trailers full of freight are left at the side of the road because the LTL drivers have blown through their 70 hours and can drive no more (it's the law)---- more power to you Execs!
This is just one of the many disturbing turn of events as of late. LA to Sacramento bid drivers being sent 3 days out to Medford (why bid on a run?), OR, cutting a crucial Portland run out of Salt Lake so now the Portland freight is just stacking up on the docks, OR, Sacramento LTL drivers being turned into Sleeper Teams, OR, the half#$% computer training materials being sent out for a little light toilet reading, OR, 6 day runs out of Boise (can you say burnt out and out of hours?)....I can go on and on and on.....
This is out of control! As a person in the business of operations management and business analysis, I am absolutely astonished by the mismanaged and ineffective way this company has been managed since the "merger". I am not even sure who is running the show.
Overnite/UPS may not want a union in their midsts, but anymore poor communication, mismangement, lies, deception and BS like I have seen displayed over the past 3-4 weeks and they won't need to violate the employees civil rights by sending out harassing letters and CD's, because employees will be lining up just to sign up with the teamsters. That's what I call a great strategy by the Execs --- treat your employees like crap so they won't join the teamsters, what a brilliant idea, unfortunately, it doesn't work that way!
I want to get paid what these guys are getting paid, lots of many to "brainstorm" and implement half baked ideas.
I have to ask, are you employees irritated with this company right now? It's like the blind leading the blind out there, and apparently, no managing skill sets are required for the job of manager, any manager position. Who in the blazes is running this company, Forest Gump?
I have seen some backwards#$% managing strategies in my life, but nothing to the likes of the level of incompetence that is being displayed, at least along the west coast! Since when do LTL drivers break their own trailer, work the dock and best of all, work as P & D drivers to fill in the gaps in a terminal? Well, if the group of schmuck Execs who thought up this "brilliant idea", along with the laundry list of other "brilliant ideas" that have popped up lately, wish for the LTL drivers to blow through their 70 hours a week (especially in chaining season) pushing freight and waiting for hours for their trailers to be ready at these "minihubs", then I am sure the same Execs won't mind when their tractors and trailers full of freight are left at the side of the road because the LTL drivers have blown through their 70 hours and can drive no more (it's the law)---- more power to you Execs!
This is just one of the many disturbing turn of events as of late. LA to Sacramento bid drivers being sent 3 days out to Medford (why bid on a run?), OR, cutting a crucial Portland run out of Salt Lake so now the Portland freight is just stacking up on the docks, OR, Sacramento LTL drivers being turned into Sleeper Teams, OR, the half#$% computer training materials being sent out for a little light toilet reading, OR, 6 day runs out of Boise (can you say burnt out and out of hours?)....I can go on and on and on.....
This is out of control! As a person in the business of operations management and business analysis, I am absolutely astonished by the mismanaged and ineffective way this company has been managed since the "merger". I am not even sure who is running the show.
Overnite/UPS may not want a union in their midsts, but anymore poor communication, mismangement, lies, deception and BS like I have seen displayed over the past 3-4 weeks and they won't need to violate the employees civil rights by sending out harassing letters and CD's, because employees will be lining up just to sign up with the teamsters. That's what I call a great strategy by the Execs --- treat your employees like crap so they won't join the teamsters, what a brilliant idea, unfortunately, it doesn't work that way!
I want to get paid what these guys are getting paid, lots of many to "brainstorm" and implement half baked ideas.