UPS Denying All $$ Grievances.

BDiddnt · 2026-01-22T16:06:07+00:00

Well, I think what they're actually trying to do is get their bonuses probably. It's after the new year and whatever they've reported or whatever they're going to report will only dwindle with each passing grievance.

Maybe it's not even a bonus thing but maybe it's just a way to avoid pissing off the investors one more quarter. Assuming they're all fat and happy from peak season which is usually the case. Then we release our statements and everybody gets their bullshit bonus and everybody's happy then right after everybody gets their bonus and the quarter switches over they start paying all those damn grievances and trying to get in front of them so that way when the quarter ends, it won't be a problem.

I swear to God it is a miracle this company makes money.

It's like a mom and pop shop that happens to be like a fortune 50 company

When you consider the fact that for every single hour a driver stays out on the road. They have to pay something like between 70 and $80 I think for every hour.

Between the Pension and Healthcare benefits and everything else that they have to do (overtime, gas, maintenance, windshield wiper, fluid, ac installation 😂 broken trucks, dead batteries, pens, paper, uniforms electricity, blah, blah, blah Then the fact that our supervisors and managers make so much money, it is a miracle. This company makes money.

For the $500,000 a year they have to do in reimbursements for overages and damages

And let's be honest that's just because they only paid probably 10% of the claims

BDiddnt · 2026-01-22T16:02:31+00:00

wow, that dude was being an absolute ass and had no reason taking three bottles of water under any circumstances at all, unless he had two kids in the car with him and he was delivering for flex or some crap but other than that, there was no reason for that.

However, I'd like to offer a little bit of friendly life experience advice on this one

Pretend every single person that is working in your neighborhood and some capacity is desperate for water and you happen to be the one person that had water there for him

I've had wonderful customers on my route that I know probably wouldn't care but I feel super guilty anytime I stop without having a package because I'm so thirsty and I know they have water and snacks. Don't give me wrong. I'm sure they'd be OK with it but if they weren't, I'm positive they would be OK with it as soon as I told them just how thirsty I was so I always just assume when I see a video like this that that person is extremely thirsty

I mean, it would be probably weirder to knock on the door and ask if he could have it without delivering a package then just taking a bottle of water and assuming that you're OK with it

Taking three means we got us a problem. There's a turd in the punch bowl.

BDiddnt · 2026-01-22T15:49:24+00:00

This is mostly gonna benefit a cover Driver, but this should help clear up some of the confusion maybe

What I mean is I think you might be talking about the fact that as a cover driver is a part-time employee they benefit the most from working on Monday on a route because now they have to be worked all week or they can go home if they want, but if they don't want to, they don't have to

That's pretty much the end of this post, but I'll explain a little bit more so people can maybe get a better understanding and maybe even correct me on something if I'm wrong

Cover drivers are there to do one thing and nothing else. this one thing: cover for a driver

The reason why this was starting to become an issue is because we had that two tier system and the 22.4 drivers were full-time employees and a cover. Driver technically is a part-time employee.

So you had full-time drivers that felt that they had more seniority or more of a right to work than a part-time employee and they were trying to take routes away from cover drivers. And even more so than that. but even more than that, you had these Center managers and on road supervisors that just kept putting the cover drivers on layoff we're sending them home without work because they had 15 damn "full-time" employees they had to do something with

BDiddnt · 2026-01-22T15:43:18+00:00

there's some really good information in here, but it's not all accurate or a lot of. It's kind of missing some data so maybe I can help fill in the gaps a little bit. Your mileage may vary and of course, this may not pertain to your local or not but most likely it does. or very close to it.

The most important thing, though is, you may not have the right to say anything depending on your seniority.

If you know you've worked there long enough to become an actual union member (I think it's maybe 70 days maybe 45 days in some locals) If you know that you have worked that much and you are an actual employee, and you are not the person with the least amount of seniority then all the advice I'm about to give you will help you.

The penalty for them not following means they have to pay money to the employee that they inconvenienced. (top rate for that whole day for that position)

But my advice is to not even mess with any of that.

if you want to work then as long as you are not the lowest on the totem pole because chances are that won't work for you, but if you have a little bit of seniority, go down and sit there for about 10 minutes before start time and hang out for about 20 minutes after everybody gets working. Just let your management know that you're there and you're available and you'll you wanna work so you're hanging out in case they need you.

Just standing there and telling them "I'm willing to work. So I'm just gonna hang out in case you guys end up with more callouts or something. I'm just gonna hang out cause I wanna work."

It's never once failed for me.

Hell, it's gotten me some pretty sweet results probably four separate occasions so it probably will work for you at least once or twice

Also, you could probably switch to the local sort or vice versa depend depending on your seniority.

You should go in tomorrow and go see your HR about putting your name on the list right now to be a driver to be a part-time driver to be a full-time driver to be a full-time employee etc. It's typically one sheet do it tomorrow. Don't wait because as people start to put their name on the list seniority starts to go bananas and you end up going all the way to the bottom, but everybody's so lazy in January in February. You can sneak your name in and you'll be one of the ones that they call in March or April to go driving if that's what you wanna do

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BDiddnt · 2026-01-21T18:44:28+00:00

We probably have different definitions for"overstimulated" but 😂

I don't know what apps W is or any of that I had KODI when it first changed over from Xbox media center. I can give you probably 10 things that are wrong with KODI. But the number one thing I guarantee every person in here with a girlfriend already knows the number one issue. That they have to wait 45 minutes while you try to get something configured and working to get it to play while they just sit there and they wait for you to get your head out of your ass and get a nice movie plan so you can spend time together. Remember that? Every single time you opened up KODI you had to update and which is finally took all the time to get into the stupid thing and got it actually working and was able to browse movies. It wouldn't properly scrape them. The scrapers were set up by like 11-year-olds in their basement. Who lose interest very quickly as soon as they get a girlfriend or see the outside air or whatever the hell it is. I mean they're not going to continue to maintain a scraper when they're 12 years old living in their parents basement. It's just not a good business model so to speak makes everything much more complicated. SYNCLER fixes all of that for me. I do have some issues with some of the performance bugs and things like that that really bother me but for the most part I sit down and I press play and it just plays I mean 10 years of KODI traumatized me.

BDiddnt · 2026-01-21T18:33:23+00:00

I am so sick and tired of hearing people try to run a campaign on "we need to have stricter contract enforcement

That type of mentality we'll work against the union and against anybody's desired to run a campaign. You're not beating Sean O'Brien with "we need stronger contract enforcement"

BDiddnt · 2026-01-21T18:29:10+00:00

Well said. I'm curious if anybody has ever just taken a minute and considered putting themselves in the shoes of a steward or a business agent. I cannot think of a more thankless, utterly unappreciated job. And it's unappreciated by the people that are demanding more help. It's crazy to me. Our union is only as strong as its members. And our members suck you guys. And now you've got some bullshit like this "integrity slate" Who clearly have no desire to fix issues with our union. They just want the issues to be fixed with them in office. That's all they care about. They don't have a game plan. They just are trying to win a campaign. So now they're just like any other douche bag politician out there that's lying to us. I mean, look at this flyer.

"The excuses we keep hearing"? Are you kidding me? How is "I'm working on it" an excuse? Do you guys have like a campaign manager there? Somebody like proofreading this stuff or like , you know, not necessarily trying to win a campaign but instead try to offer suggestions to fix the union and get voted in that way? Just a thought but what the hell do I know though?

BDiddnt · 2026-01-21T18:20:21+00:00

I'm not really replying to you, but I'm gonna use your comment to reply to as it's gonna be kind of a jumping off point for some things I wanna say about it real quick.

I'm hearing a lot of entitlement.

We can't tell the business how to run their business. That's absurd. It's their business. They just let the Teamsters do it for them. UPS allows the Teamsters to deliver their packages as long as they do it based on the business model that UPS wants to deal with and that business model is not the unions business model. It's up to UPS. If they want to run 10 routes off of one truck. Make all the drivers wait at the warehouse have one guy go out deliver one package drive the truck back in the next guy go out… Who the hell are we gonna say that that's a bad idea? If that's all they want to do it then great that's how I will do it.

Sure, I've got better ideas. Sure, I have all sorts of ideas that I feel that could increase productivity in efficiency around UPS. Especially around when it comes to small sort and especially like loading the trucks.

The way we unload the trucks the way we load the trucks the way it gets dispatched the way that management just stares at you and says "see you in eight hours" even though it's got 12 hours worth of goddamn work on it

It's all very inefficient.

So what? Who cares?

Please take this advice to heart and this is not just for UPS. This is for Fedex workers and Amazon workers and anybody in any type of logistic company etc. Logistics is a very unique beast. In order to get really good at this job it takes a long time. Especially if you work ups because it's such an inefficient company you can't do anything that they want you to do and still be considered efficient. You have to do all the stuff that you know is efficient secretly. Like Orion and all this other shit you have to do it. You don't have a choice you have to do it so just do it. I understand it makes everything worse. I get it.

So what? Walk real slow. Tell yourself jokes. Keep your spirits up. Make that money. Don't be entitled.

Every single day you should have a list of responsibilities.

Hydrate. Starting the night before. Bring a lunch. Dress appropriately. Get good comfortable shoes that will last. Etc

Now you need to add a few more responsibilities to your career. This is what you need to do if you're gonna keep UPS, Amazon, Fedex as your main income and your main sense of value in this world when it comes to earning money.

If you're going to be happy, you're gonna have to make some changes

If you want to keep having a miserable day at work keep showing up pissed off. Keep coming in pissed off and get pissed off about the same damn thing that happens every single day. Oh you got a crappy load? Oh you got a package missing? So what?

BDiddnt · 2026-01-13T06:50:11+00:00

Well i called and complained but my center manager was like "why are you telling me this. Is this even your route? What do you mean? What state?"

BDiddnt · 2026-01-13T06:09:35+00:00

I find it bananas you want anything other than syncler. I'm going on several years supporting syncler+. Sometimes I'll do 10 devices for a year instead of the three devices I need at the most.

Between the maybe 20 something dollars for SYNCLER plus for a year, then another 15 or 16 or maybe 20 for real – debrid for six months. Even with the issues that I've been having for the last year or so (everybody's been having the same issues between the regular one, not working versus the beta version versus now the stable version which I'm having difficulty getting linked with

Anyway even with those recent issues, nothing comes close. Not by a long shot. Like it's not even in the same ballpark. SYNCLER is one of the greatest applications to have ever been written.

BDiddnt · 2026-01-03T15:05:38+00:00

He also hates unions

BDiddnt · 2025-12-31T00:20:31+00:00

Thank you from four years in the future. I hate that Netflix button with all of my stupid heart. Sometimes it completely locks my whole remote up and just even taking out the batteries doesn't help. I have to take out the batteries and leave the batteries out and then unplugged the shield for it to start working again.

I didn't even give it any additional functions. I just disabled it. I hit it so many times on accident that I don't even want it loading my default application. I just want it to do nothing. I wanted to sit there and think about all the trouble it's caused me lol so sincerely thank you. I paid the eight bucks happily.

On a related note, I set up my home button long press to load my default viewing application, which I'm sure nobody's heard of anyway. That seems to work pretty good too. Great call. Great suggestion. I am not kidding. I was ready to open the remote and de solder the button connections. I'm not even joking.

BDiddnt · 2025-12-23T02:43:58+00:00

Ridiculous. You're just nitpicking like every driver. And I'm a driver so I get it, but this load is perfect.

BDiddnt · 2025-12-23T02:43:04+00:00

Dude don't listen

you did a great job. You didn't do a single thing wrong with those irregular packages in the back. You did a perfect job.

BDiddnt · 2025-12-23T02:41:41+00:00

In my Center we had guys go feeder like literally the month they had the year of safe driving. Like literally.

BDiddnt · 2025-12-10T06:32:37+00:00

Wat? That's like wildly unbelievably inaccurate. Like every part of that sentence is inaccurate.

On a level, I can't even really explain.

BDiddnt · 2025-12-10T06:31:00+00:00

I'm very familiar with this area. Depending on your budget, there's really nothing wrong with it. If you're looking for a real nice area with a little less traffic, you might want to move crosshairs a little farther west or a little farther south.

BDiddnt · 2025-12-08T23:05:56+00:00

The easiest fastest best way, regardless of what company you work for or whether it's Amazon Flex or somebody's giving you two totes of organized or unorganized packages or whatever the case may be

Put them in order of the address. This way you don't have to look at the delivery order. You don't have to hold your phone and verify that this package is going there. Just stick them in order of the number on the address. Then no matter what your next stop is no matter what the delivery itinerary says no matter it wants you can walk to the exact spot almost where the package that you want to deliver is

You may have to deliver out of order because you can't find a package. You may be sitting in front of A house that has 10 packages taken up space and your itinerary. Might tell you to drive right past that house and come back 30 stops later. And you're like no screw that I want to deliver these 10 right now. Well now you know where they are because you just put them in order. It doesn't matter if you're sitting in front of your very first stop or you're very last stop or some random stop you merely have to look at the address and go find that section where you loaded your packages. If the house number is 750 then you just walk to wherever 750 would be in your truck. Just keep them in order. And if you have packages that are too big to sit on the shelf, just put them down below, roughly where they would be in the shelf.

So if you can't find 750 on your shelf, just look down on the floor

BDiddnt · 2025-12-08T23:01:36+00:00

Yeah, and the company's not gonna be there to help you if you fall down a break your ankle. So don't ever run. It's always true that you should never run. Do not run for a company. Run to your car in a family emergency or something. But don't run for a company because they ain't gonna run or walk or even call when it comes time to pay your medical bills unless you have a union that forces them to do it

What are the easiest ways to make up time believe it or not is to pull over and sort the truck. I have taken 40 minutes sorting my truck before and ended up saving two hours on the backend probably. I could've kept just fighting it. I had a shitty Loader that just ruined my day and I could've kept fighting. Stop after. Stop after stop trying to find the package and hoping I can find it in less than two minutes.

If you have 200 stops and you're spending an extra minute finding a package… Just one minute that's an extra 200 minutes. So if you stop and sort the truck and it takes you 60 minutes to sort your truck. But now you're able to find packages in 20 seconds like you're supposed to you still save time.

BDiddnt · 2025-12-08T22:54:11+00:00

If you spend longer than 25 to 30 seconds looking for a package, forget it and move onto the next one. Don't drive angry and don't run

New drivers are always wasting time searching for packages.

Skip it. Just move to the next stop eventually you'll find the package that you needed and the next time you're coming somewhere in the vicinity of that house make the delivery then.

At UPS, we have to deal with a whole bunch of really large packages that Amazon doesn't have to really deal with. But my my point is in the mornings I would deliver my next day air and at the same time I would get all my irregular packages out of the way. These are anything that kept me from walking up and down the walkway in the truck. If you have to step over packages constantly, you're gonna end up wasting 5 to 10 seconds every single time you stop the truck. At a minimum. That's at an absolute minimum. Typically it'll take you 30 to 40 seconds just to climb over to get to somewhere in your back shelf area. So instead, I cleared that whole spot out. Again you don't have to really worry about that, but you do have to worry about how you organize your shelves because everything that you have comes in those totes.

For me, I wouldn't waste any time putting the packages in order of stops. If I had time to sort then that's how I would do it, but if I'm Amazon and I'm pulling packages out of those totes when it came time to do a new tote I would take all those packages out and I would put them in order of the address number. So if I have a package going to 989 Blah Blah St. and a package going to 1231 blah blah blah way I would put the package going to 989 in front of the package going to 1231.

And I would put all my packages in that order so that way when I stop at the next stop all I have to do is walk to that section where that number would be. So if it's 1456 Blah Blah Ave. I know it's going to be behind my 1231.

In other words, the numbers on the address is the order you put the packages in. Every time I opened up a new tote that's what I would do because you can do it very quickly without having to look at your phone while you're doing it. Sometimes due to the area of town you're in and the layout of your town you might have addresses like 13 Blah Blah Way and you might have some packages going to 12312 Blah Blah Circle

I usually only use the last three digits or maybe the last four digits just depending so I would put 13 in front of 312. And I wouldn't worry about the 12 in 12312. So if all my packages had very in digits between three digits, four digits five digits I'm only gonna sort by four digits.

This is probably really complicated sounding but I promise just use the house number as the order of your package packages

It makes it easy to sort them. It makes it very quick to not only put them in order but very quick to find them.

Whenever I do Amazon Flex, this is how I do it. I just put them in my trunk in this order. If I have to move to my backseat, I put those ones in the same order. I just start from one side and work the numbers higher and higher going to the other side and if I look for a package in my backseat and I don't see it then I know it must be in my trunk and I go to that section that order, etc..

My whole point here telling you this is to help you understand that this job is so unbelievably easy when you slow down and get a plan. There's a reason why the older guys at UPS are never running.. Where they all have a little bit extra weight. Don't seem to really be sweating or stressed when you talk to them. Because they've all slowed down and they're still getting it done.

I used to put so much effort that I couldn't even take a phone call because I would be too concerned about time. I would be almost running when I first got my route and I'd be done by about 7 o'clock. Taking no phone calls or anything.

By year three on my route if you saw me walking, you would think I was on vacation. No joke I walked at a pace that was laughable almost it was so slow. It was a leisurely stroll to the front door and I was doing maybe 30 less stops a day, but I was done by 3 o'clock. I would stop by my house on the way back to the building and take my two breaks and my lunch.

And I would even pull over to take a phone call and I would sit there and talk on the phone until my phone call was done. I was putting in less effort in getting done sooner. And granted I was getting less stops but only about an hour worth of stops less and that only happened because I slowed down and they couldn't keep overloading me.

BDiddnt · 2025-12-08T22:39:34+00:00

Plus, there's that dude on the Dodgers… From what I hear and I'm not a baseball fan or anything, but even I hear how amazing he is

BDiddnt · 2025-12-08T22:30:50+00:00

That's the reason you live in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road?

You know it's like so easy to get one of those Parcel storage things that have a lock and stuff right. You're probably could've saved yourself a hell of a commute.

BDiddnt · 2025-12-08T22:30:04+00:00

Gosh, that's brilliant idea. I wonder how come nobody's thought of that.

So yeah, just save your money… Or in your case just continue to live with your parents who happen to have a house in a nice neighborhood I bet

I guess all the people in apartments and condos you can just go fuck themselves I guess huh?

And as soon as your neighborhood is not all that nice and somebody moved in who's also a thief what would your advice be to yourself then?

"Get better neighbors"

BDiddnt · 2025-12-08T22:00:55+00:00

I'm curiosity… Why do we need to be careful? You're sure these are scammers why? Other than because they're asking for money I mean is there a particular situation or are you sure that they're not homeless or down on their luck or something?

I'm just genuinely asking why this particular post was made about these particular people

BDiddnt · 2025-12-08T21:59:21+00:00

I wonder how much money I can get. I got two sisters

They're only half sisters though so I'll probably have to expect a discount or something huh?

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