UPS Reviews in Los Angeles, CA Area

Pros

I would say the pros for driving for UPS are the benfits are the best i ever heard of any company giving to there employess. Making 30 dollars and hours plus at least 5 hours of overtime at time and half. After the 10 year mark you get 5 weeks paid vacations, 4 paid personal days and 7 paid sick days each year. Driving for UPS the day goes by so fast.

Cons

The cons for UPS is definitely the manangement. Supervisors that get promoted to on road Have no idea how to do the job. The upper management just look at numbers on how to be more efficient and cut out routes and makes the drivers day extremely heavy.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop killing your drivers management and treat your good package drivers better by not slapping more work on them just because you know that they will get the job done.

Pros

Great benefits package and fair pay

Cons

Get ready to sell your soul to "Brown"

Advice to Senior Management

The powers that be never cared bout anything but the bottom line. It doesn't matter what it takes or who we destroy as long as we get it done and under budget

Pros

Good benefits, balance of work to life.

Cons

Senior management doesn't appreciate employees

Pros

Good pay, great vacation time, very secure company. Used to be a great company that treated it's management as a Partner in the organization. Large diverse corporation with plenty of career choices.

Cons

In 2010 the corporation downsized the number of district within the US from 46 to 20. They offered early retirement options for some, but most of the management did not take it. Which left people being demoted to lesser jobs through out the company. Since this happened the pressure to perform has been outrageous!!! The goals and expectations are not even realistic and everybody is just miserable. 14 hour days are the norm and you never hear anything positive only the negative. Ive worked here for over 20 years and loved the people and the company, But now I wouldn't wish this job on my worst enemy.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat the people that run the centers like partners instead punishing everyone by having 6am conference calls and 7pm calls. Its just punishment.

Pros

Security and good health benefits.

Cons

Not a lot of room to move up and comminsion plans are always changing making it extremely difficult to obtain you quotas.

Advice to Senior Management

Management being able to think outside the box.

Pros

Great pay, health benefits, and tuition reimbursement perks. Great company if you don't have a family and are just going to school.

Cons

Usually work horrible hours that cut into your personal life. Zero communication among management. Management only cares about the bottom line at the expense of its employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Less focus on numbers because happy employees will bring you the results you keep on striving for. Use more open communication.

Pros

UPS has given me the opportunity to complete my college degree with minimal cost to myself. The bad part of working there is their promotion process. Computer test, written test, panel interview, and then wait until a position opens.

Cons

Military style leadership and management. A lot of people are clueless aand not motivated to do a good job. Passing the buck is very common.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the need for useless paperwork and streamline the promotion process. Better communication between managers would be a good thing.

Pros

The best reasons to work for UPS is great health benefits, career advancement and stability. More over this company will give you time off when you need to go to school. For example, some of the workers can get two days out from the week to go to school and still gets the full benefits.

Cons

The downsides of working for UPS is the labor part. Majority of the new workers do not make it in the first three months, it is extremely hardship and contains a lot of energy to finish the tasks. Furthermore, the pay in the beginning will be only a little bite more than working in the fast food links.

Advice to Senior Management

The recession is leading the entire company into a totally different aspect on manage their employees. For example, focus on micro management and cutting back spending. In the short-term this would help UPS to get by, but in the long-term this will only give other competitor like FedEx the chance to expand.

Pros

Benefits are good and the salary is competitve

Cons

Senior management is more concerned with the overall profit of the company and not the happiness of its employees

Advice to Senior Management

Actually do something about ERI surveys...its not enough to just listen to complaints...CHANGE

Pros

Solid, efficient company, ok compensation, chance for advancement if you can put up with the hard work and huge amount of hours required to get any recognition. Promotions are hard to come by but they do try to promote based on performance, so hard work does pay off. Since the focus is on performance, there is less bias (in my opinion) against gender, race or other common areas of work bias.

Cons

very demanding, lots of hours, not tolerant of mistakes. union employees are given better treatment than non-union.
The Teamsters fight (and win) to keep employees jobs that deserve to get fired; ie, thieves, assaults, drugs, poor attendance, poor performance, poor attitudes.
Management employees lose their jobs for poor results and when they try to address the problem employees they dont get backed.

Advice to Senior Management

Take better care of your management people, union employees are treated better than your own.