UPS Freight Reviews

Pros

steady work steady pay, benifits

Cons

outside extreme weather elements, low morale , poor recognition, work overload, disorganized environment, poor communication and information sharing

Advice to Senior Management

find creative and competent management

Pros

The work is easy to do. The pay is good. I have weekends off. I work in a group of 40 people.

Cons

I only work 2 hours a day when ups promise me 5 hours. I have to pay union dues and i'm only seasonal.

Pros

Insurance. Employee discounts. Occasional free food.

Cons

Compensation is hardly worth the stress and constant correcting of mistakes by incompetent employees deemed untouchable due to seniority.

Advice to Senior Management

Compensate, promote office employees based on work performance, not seniority. We don't get union benefits, shouldn't get union style punishment.

Pros

Pros would have to be the pay. That's just about the only reason I can think anyone stays. That and maybe the retirement.

Cons

Just like the title said, this is the land of Negativity. We don't look forward at what we need to do, we look back at what we did wrong. If there was a flaw in the day prior, that is the focus for the next day. Write em up, fire them. That's the goal these days. Very discouraged, tired of it. Morale is low, and sinking lower every day.

Advice to Senior Management

How about just trying to be positive. How about focusing on the goods for a while instead of anything not up to "standard" you can find. This company has come a long way from where it was prior to being bought by UPS, but the Negativity is killing that forward momentum.

Pros

This Job has been fairly good about having a good working schedule. Never work weekends and have major holidays off.

Cons

Graveyard shift and yet the pay is sub-par compared to similar places of employment. You have to join the Teamsters union to work here. Yet they only really care about the drivers. The same is true about UPS, they really only care for the drivers.

Pros

Great benefits at UPS WFF in louisville, ky: Pays for college in full with end of the semester bonuses and book reimbursements, 100% covered medical with dental, vision and life insurance, 401k and a UPS class A stock plan. Becoming a supervisor is fairly easy but moving up after that takes entirely to long. End of first year you get two weeks of vacation and after two years you get three weeks and two discretionary days off.

Cons

The list is to long to describe them all but the mains I will touch base with. There are typically only two reasons why people work their, the insurance and the paid college. The downside where I live and work is you have to work 3rd shift in order to get college paid for in full. You don't get very many hours, typically you get 3-4 hours a night which is reasonable for a full time college student. Pay starts off horribly at $8/hr but you get raises quick. Also for the first year you get no vacation and insurance (new union contract for new employees). The union sucks if you hard worker. Working hard has no merit on terms of lateral moves to another area, it is all based on seniority. So lazy worker with higher seniority will get a position over a hard worker. The main issue is the style of management, Management is very autocratic characterized by individual control over all decisions and little input from group members) and see things only through their eyes. They have no appreciation for the amount of work employees do and they tend to be very narrow sighted in terms of production and deadline, Workers are like work horses that clock in and hit the ground running doing a lot of work at a fast pace. This is not bad but once the smallest thing goes wrong upper management swarms in and has to make someone accountable regardless if the situation was just a just a natural human error that occurs from the large amount of work done. They lead by placing fear of punishment on employees instead of encouraging and motivating. There are quite a few more downsides but these are the ones that stand out to me after working there for the last four years. I MUST say that this is not the experience for all employees. I have heard some good experiences but most of what I hear is negative.

Advice to Senior Management

Where I work there are A LOT of workers that are working towards a college degree. Some are not that bright but there are some that are extremely intelligent and can give great input on matters related to work methods and ideas. So in other words get rid of the autocratic leaders ship and promote an organic environment. That is allow employees to be more involved in decisions of the daily operation and provide some employees with a sense of ownership in what they do. One of the most important things I would advise is to not lead through fear. When someone makes a honest mistake don't just to punishment first; instead look inward first to see if maybe the mistake was yours and then look outward to see if there are methods to solve that problem that don't involve punishment. This could be done by encouragement, incentives, willingness to teach, and just giving a warning.

Pros

The health insurance was incredible and I wish I still had it, especially due to health problems that I have now. The pay was also pretty good.

Cons

I think that after a while there it is easy to feel that you are undervalued. I never had any problems with the people I worked with, but I did realize the environment was not somewhere I wanted to be long term. The job moves as fast as the drivers on the road. Weather permitting.

Advice to Senior Management

Oh I don't really know what advice to give. They (management) are often the people that have been in the company since they were like 18, so they don't really have a lot of experience outside of it. They get screwed around just like employees below them, but they are also complicit in the lack of communication and confusion that exists when you are trying to learn and do your job.

Pros

good pay mostly benifits good thats how they keep employees hook with the pay . the work is reasonable according to indust standards .

Cons

Being UNION is a joke the ibt has no way to make ups stand behind the contract and the contract carriers are destroying jobs. Drivers are very upset and get deaf ears from both the teamsters and the company there ideas of operations are morally sad not everything in life is money how about some loyalty.

Advice to Senior Management

they could really listen to the regular employees and take some advise from people that really know what it is all about and not every college person knows everything. try to remember what its like to actually have to work and support a family. dont spend so much time thinking about your bonuss remember the people who make the company you know the little guy that works day in and day out ups employees

Pros

For the industry I am in the pay is satisfying. They seem to try and do good things in the community.

Cons

Not really doing any investing in the future. Sort of getting behind in the times. Their vacation package is HORRIBLE. I am in Information Technology. They have different policies and rules between supervisors and nonsupervisors. For example, supervisors cannot have any facial hair and no visible tattoos yet in the same office nonsupervisors walk around with any sort of facial hair and clothing they want. I actually saw a female walking around today that had a human skull tattooed on her arm and in plain site. Supervisors can walk around with a 80s mustache, but no other kind of facial hair. Its a trucking company for goodness sakes. Probably alot of these rules comes from parent company UPS. They seem to treat UPS Freight like the red headed step child.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect your employees. Treat everyone fair and equal. improve your 401K plan. And dont make people have to work there 8 years before they get 3 weeks vacation. Does not seem to promote family time.

Pros

Good union job . It is very helpful to be a union supporter if you plan to work here . It is a good company but a strong labor environment . Get educated before you just go for the brown (ups). Also the current contract is back loaded on salary . Which means you must be willing to sacrifice for a payoff at the end of three years .

Cons

Lots of aggravation over labor issues . The company likes to try to skirt the contract .

Advice to Senior Management

Get more organized. We will help you,we want this company to be the best . Quit trying to skirt the contract that YOU signed onto . We make Billions of dollars just give us what we got coming according to our CBA.