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Originally Posted by imcarthur
We have corporately stopped insuring parcels shipped via UPS (or FedEx) due to their refusal to pay for damaged goods without a major battle for each & every claim.
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Disgruntled ex-employee here of
some undefined shipping company, with a body f'cked up for life in my late 20's.
My perspective on how your panels were damaged:
Management:
Company hires lowlifes who will not support a union and overwork them like dogs. Union reps only think of themselves. Employees are encouraged to burn out and quit before becoming vested (pension and benefits).
Floor shift managers are put under tremendous stress to "make their numbers" i.e. packages per hour. Verbal abuse and personal pressure is common and condoned, and low level managers are rotated or fired frequently to avoid class action lawsuits upon the corporation.
Equipment and processing:
Outdated and inefficient with 6' belts reducing to 3', insufficient turning radius, vertical support structures that catch edges and create jams, belts and walkways not being at ergonomic height with trailers, etc, etc, etc. Repeat daily with tens/hundreds of thousands of packages daily in each hub and you'll understand.
Trailers are not cleaned and full of dust and debris and creates a psychologically negative working environment.
Delivery vans are ill-equipped to handle oversize packages and consistently overloaded in the morning for the whole day. I've seen one sitting in the road with two busted leaf springs. Clutches are replaced frequently.
Employees:
Lowlifes skip Mondays and Fridays frequently, with sometimes 25% of the building missing. Most work very hard though some vested employees (lawyer-ed up and special) don't do anything all day long.
Electronic stub hours are occasionally shorted, or overtime is not even recognized even for hard working employees.
Mysterious how those computers work....
The other remaining employees are given the task of 2-3 people and verbally abused. Managers consistently move more employees to the sorting isle, which overloads the belts upstream, damages packages, and creates pressure on loaders at the trailers. Package handling and care is null at this point, because nobody cares how the packages get into the trailer.
A daily crisis and manufactured by design.
Everything is processed together, because there are no rewards for doing a good job, and little is lost for not trying.
Who cares in that type of work environment?