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UPS Pictures

This is the picture page. I have gathered UPS related pictures from across the world wide web and placed the best ones here for your perusal. If you want to add a picture just let me know. If you see a picture here that you feel should not be here, let me know that too. I try not to infringe on anyone's copyright, so let me know if you feel breached and I will remove the offending photo. Enjoy

A Brain Teaser

This is an imaginary situation, but it may be interesting deciding what you would do.

The situation:

You are in the Midwest and there is a huge flood in progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and infrastructure destroyed.

Let's say you're a photographer out getting still photos for a news service, traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant scenes.

You stumble across Rush Limbaugh. He is struggling to keep from being swept away in a raging river.

You have a choice of rescuing him or getting a Pulitzer prize-winning photograph of his drowning.

The question:

What shutter speed would you use?

Don't Do This

I was alone at my boyfriend's house and a driver dropped off a package. I thanked him, and started to turn around when he asked me what my name was. I told him and asked his. He said his name. He then proceeded to ask me if I would give him my number, maybe we could smoke a blunt after he got done work. Of course, I said absolutely not. I am not sure who to complain to, as this was a driver based in West Chester PA, and your web site does not give that info.

Please, If your company does not condone this behavior, drug test your driver immediately, and discipline him on his unprofessional conduct! People who use drugs have no place being on the road driving your companies vehicles. Please do so before he delivers another package to my boyfriend's house, as he is VERY angry about this!

Drug Test drivers on a regular basis, as well as reprimand him for this issue!!!
Posted by a disgruntled customer on Planetfeedback

Fear and Anger

       UPS drivers need a lot of energy to get them through their day. This is not a job where you can kick back, have a lazy day and still get done. You need to hit the ground running every day.
        UPS drivers work harder than anyone I know and I often wonder why management rides us like we are a bunch of slackers. They never compliment us on having done a good job. They never accept our best day as an great achievement, instead they want that best day every day from now on. In fact, life on the shop floor at UPS is the opposite of rewarding and nurturing. It's angry and fearful. Drivers are chastised every day for not doing enough. People are written up for the smallest mistakes and every documentation ends with the threat that future occurences will lead to more discipline up to and including termination.
        Why would UPS feel the need to constantly threaten us? Is it because they know there is a lot of energy in fear? A recent article in Entrepreneur magazine suggests that we can actually use the energy inherent in fear to propel us forward. "Energy gives us willpower. It propels us forward. What happens if we simply use "fear energy" for its opposite purpose? Instead of letting fear paralyze us, why not scream "Fear is the energy we need to achieve the impossible!" Embrace that energy—it is powerful." Does UPS use fear to get us to run faster?
        Anger has the same effect. Have you ever noticed that we are always disciplined in the morning and never at night? Drivers often come out of the office so angry in the morning that they could tear down a mountain. Where will they work off that angry energy? They will run their routes faster that morning then they ever have. There is a lot more energy in a threat than there is in a compliment.
        What can you do when your manager threatens your job and you slam out of the office and roar off in your package car? Take a deep breathe and think about this. The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Remember that your chances of losing your job are slim. Facing the truth really will set you free. Calm down. Let go of your anger. Be constructive with the energy in your fear. Use that energy to perfect your methods. When you perfect your methods then you won't be getting called into the office anymore. Then you won't be getting disciplined and you won't be fearful and angry. Use your energy to break the cycle of fear and anger.
George Kieffer

Look at This

Coming to a Package Car Near You

The company is in the process of installing sensors in all of the newer package cars that monitor your seatbelt usage, monitor your bulkhead door, monitor your e-brake usage, and monitor your use of reverse.
Additionally the system will monitor any check vehicle codes that may occur throughout your day. It’s simple; you are being watched every second of every day.

Bob Newhouse

Why and How to File a 9.5 Grievance

    Many drivers are working excessive overtime. The company has chosen not put enough cars on the street to keep hours down.
UPS would rather lay drivers off and work you 11 hours a day than keep everyone working at 9 hours.
    You can fight this unfair practice by filing a 9.5 grievance to keep your hours down and encourage the company to reduce the paid day.
    By taking control of your overtime situation, you are not only doing yourself and your family a favor, but you are helping out every driver who is laid off.
    The unemployment rate is high. People want and need jobs. By working excessive overtime and not filing to get your hours reduced, you are helping fuel the lay off problem and the unemployment problem.
    A 9.5 grievance is easy to file. First, you must let your manager or supervisor know with your steward present that you don’t want excessive overtime.
    Second, you call or message in each day you are going to be over 9.5 and inform them that you will need help to be under 9.5 hours.
    Third, when you work 3 out of any 5 days over 9.5 hours, you tell your steward you need to file a 9.5 grievance. It’s that simple.
         A 9.5 grievance is filed under Article 12 of the Central States Supplement, which reads, “The employer shall continue its efforts to reduce overtime where requested.”
    Many times, your supervisors will welcome a 9.5 grievance because they feel the center is understaffed also. Your 9.5 grievance gives them hard evidence to show upper management that more drivers are needed.
         Don’t spend unnecessary time away from your family by working excessive overtime. .
         File a 9.5 grievance. Do it for yourself. Do it for your family.

George Kieffer

A Manager's Power Zone

     The big status symbol for upper management these days appears to be the carrying of their entire workload in a heavy duffel bag.
    Much like the Greek god Atlas carrying the World upon his shoulders, these upper management folks struggle in and out of the building everyday with their heavy loads slung over one shoulder. Their bodies are jacked the opposite way from the bag to offset their weighty burden creating the appearance of person who doesn't know the safe work methods.
     We all know that when you carry a heavy load, you don't carry it on your hip; you get the weight in front of you. You hoist your burden up into your power zone and you carry it with the weight evenly distributed.
    Why these managers would want to demonstrate such poor lifting and carrying methods is beyond me. Is it just to show off or do they really not know how to carry a heavy weight safely?
    Someone needs to teach these guys some better HABITS before they hurt themselves.

George Kieffer

How I Survived Christmas

    It was a rough Christmas in Denver this year. The weather was absolutely brutal. We set a record low one night of 19 degress below zero. It's hard to get up and get yourself going when it's that darn cold.
    But, this year was different. I'm retired. I promised my self every Christmas for 30 years that the first Christmas I was not working my wife and I were going to go somewhere during the month of December. And this year we did.
    We flew to the Cayman Islands. It was during Denver's coldest of the cold days and we snorkled and we swan and we sat on the beach and read about how cold it was back home. Brutal.
    The Caymans are British, they drive on the left side of the road. I can't tell you how many times I nearly got hit crossing the street. After 30 years of looking left, right, left I find that the traffic is coming from the right! Nasty.
    But you know what the strange thing was, it didn't feel like Christmas. I'm so accustomed to being stressed and tired and anxious and irratible that Christmas in the Cayman Islands was just weird.
    When we got back to town I went out on the street and followed a UPS truck around for an hour just to try to suck up the stress and anxiety. It worked too. One good look inside the car and it all came back to me. I went back home and sorted through my seashells. It felt really good.

George Kieffer

Don't Do It

UPS Driver Arrested

A 13-year-old girl told detectives a UPS Inc. driver delivering packages in her Port Orange neighborhood pulled down his brown uniform shorts and exposed his privates to her, a police report shows.

That act got 35-year-old Michael Scott Woodward arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious exhibition against a person under 16, the report states.

Woodward could not be reached for comment Monday but his grandfather Robert Woodward said his grandson is "innocent until proven guilty."

"He never went near her," Robert Woodward, 83, said Monday. "It was just a gesture. He's a good Christian boy."

But the police report states Woodward confessed to dropping his shorts and exposing himself to the youngster after he delivered packages on Dec. 30.

At first, Woodward told investigators that after he attempted to a deliver a package, he had to urinate. He told detectives he parked his truck in front of the area where the girl was standing. He said he pulled out a plastic bottle and relieved himself and that he would have had to expose himself in order to do that, the report shows.

But when the investigator told Woodward that his story was inconsistent, the suspect confessed, the report shows.

Woodward was taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail and posted $10,000 bail.

Robert Woodward said his grandson continues to work for UPS, but is not currently driving. A UPS supervisor could not be reached Monday.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal

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