Snooker match or court case?
Matt 57 - John 2
Come on boys and girls, give John a listen. There's a Frost* connection
Maps
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Congratulations
I'm rich !!!!! Not.
Along with the Lloyds TSB, Santander & Halifax accounts that I don't have.
This must be the ticket that I never bought on every trip to Spain
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Along with the Lloyds TSB, Santander & Halifax accounts that I don't have.
This must be the ticket that I never bought on every trip to Spain
Congratulation!We are pleased to notify you again that your email address
has won the EL GORDO ELECTONIC EMAIL IN CONJUCTION WITH MICROSOFT National
On-line Sweepstakes held 30th JANUARY,2012,with lucky numbers:9,11,13,24,43,
and Ref:Es/72/N.14/LT/410/.You are therefore been approved to claim the sum
of (€850,000.00) Euros.we are yet to recieve your file for claims.
For confirmation,proccessing procedure for due remittance of funds,
contact BANK claims agent for your claims with:
Ticket No: (((56475600545 188. 9-11-13-24-43
NAME OF CLAIMS AGENT:DR.CARLOS POLINI SMIRTH. )))*******************
OFFICE:GLOBANET FINANCIAL SERVICES.
Claims BANK Agent Email: gfsorgzn@aol.com **********************
Awaiting your response.:
Tel:+34-603-097-883. Fax:+34-911-817-341
1 Full Names: 2. Residential Address: 3. Mobile Tel: 4.Fax:
N.B
This EL GORDO/MICROSOFT online electronics which you emerged a winner
was a free ticket online email address drawn where thousands of emails
addresses were collected from world wide websites and used for the onl
ine draws/sweepstakes and during winners selection your email address
came out among first ten which won you the lottery in first category
and entitles you to claim the sum of(€850.000.00EUROS)
N.B.Cheques not collected within (3) weeks of this notification will be
forfieted by winners.
From: Mrs.Paula.Hendrix.Pedrosa
(Web-Email Information Manager)MADRID- SPAIN Government..
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Monday 30 January 2012
Matt Stevens 2
Good to see my Matt Stevens post being the most read.
Still don't understand the stats, it definitely has to do with only 10 countries, maybe only the most recent 10, rather than the most popular.
Hopefully Matt has fans in India, Japan, Mexico & Denmark which appear to be the newbies over the last couple of days. Welcome to you all.
Sad news for an old git like me, I'm getting links from facebook, I'll be tweeting next. I don't think so.
Enjoy Matt's music, and go and have a listen to the John Young post. Sure you'll enjoy it.
Still don't understand the stats, it definitely has to do with only 10 countries, maybe only the most recent 10, rather than the most popular.
Hopefully Matt has fans in India, Japan, Mexico & Denmark which appear to be the newbies over the last couple of days. Welcome to you all.
Sad news for an old git like me, I'm getting links from facebook, I'll be tweeting next. I don't think so.
Enjoy Matt's music, and go and have a listen to the John Young post. Sure you'll enjoy it.
Saturday 28 January 2012
Matt Stevens
Just so you get the right Matt Stevens, there's a few of them about.
Here's a few of the most excellent Matt's tracks
Hay mazing watching him play these live
Here's a few of the most excellent Matt's tracks
UPS v. North Yorkshire Police
Bullying acceptable in both so maybe this one's a draw
Today's quote from Daryl Gates - It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
Today's quote from Daryl Gates - It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
Friday 27 January 2012
UPS v. RBS
At least, by fair means or foul, UPS make a whacking great profit.
RBS still owe us a considerable amount of dosh. When they've paid that back, they can pay whatever bonuses they want.
If Stephen Hester wants to leave if he doesn't get his bonus....................then it should be bye,bye
The bailed-out bank attempted to justify the bonus – which is being paid in shares that Hester will be able to gain access to in 2014 – by saying it needed to reward the chief executive for the progress he had made in reducing the size of RBS.
Since he joined in November 2008, the bank has cut 33,000 jobs.
The bank also stressed that a bonus Hester had been awarded when he joined shortly after the £45bn taxpayer bailout in 2008 – worth £6.4m at the time – and which would have paid out this year, was now worthless. (I doubt it)
Sir Philip Hampton, the RBS chairman, said tonight: "The board is aware of the difficulties in trying to reconcile the competing objectives of all our stakeholders. This is especially true on the issue of pay."
Hampton will also not receive shares that he was awarded when he joined in 2009 after the bailout.
He said Hester's bonus – which is 60% of the maximum and will involve the award of 3.6m shares – was being granted as it "reflects progress in the categories agreed with our shareholders as set out in the remuneration report". The 3.6m shares are currently worth £963,000 and could rise or fall in value by 2014.
Hampton added: "His pay is strongly geared to the recovery of RBS, which he was recruited to turn around, having played no part in its collapse. The priority is to reshape a business that was far too big and far too risky, reducing legacy losses whilst improving performance in the group's strong core businesses."
Hampton argued that a "safer and more valuable RBS is in the interests of our customers, shareholders and the UK economy".
The size of Hester's bonus sparked a wave of criticism and calls for him not to accept the money.
Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat peer who resigned as a Treasury spokesman for his party a year ago over the lax treatment of the financial sector by the coalition, said the bank should realise that any bonus for Hester this year was "utterly unacceptable".
Oakeshott is concerned about the slow flow of lending to small businesses, which the major banks, including RBS, committed to last year under the Project Merlin agreement. "The bonus would be a reward for RBS's failure to lend to small business which was the key target," he said.
Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne, speaking on BBC1's Question Time, said that Hester should decline the bonus as "a question of honour".
"Even if there is a contractual opportunity for him to have it, it doesn't mean he has to accept it. He's already being paid more than £1m a year.
"His total package now means he gets paid in about three days what a soldier serving in Afghanistan, risking his life, gets in a whole year. I think he should reflect on that," the Liberal Democrat MP said.
Chris Leslie, Labour's shadow financial secretary to the Treasury, said: "Nobody doubts that Stephen Hester has done some important things at RBS, but what this award shows is David Cameron's promises about reining in excessive bonuses at state-owned banks or using shareholder power have proved to be utterly worthless.
"Indeed, anyone who thinks it is acceptable to award a bonus of almost £1m on top of a basic salary of £1.2m in these tough times is desperately out of touch with millions of people who are struggling to make ends meet."
"Instead of fiddling at the margins of this issue, David Cameron should take proper action on excessive executive pay as well as agree to Labour's call for a new tax on bankers' bonuses this year to fund 100,000 jobs for young people."
A Conservative Party spokesman said: "This is a bit rich from Labour given that they completely failed to do anything to curb multimillion-pound bonuses during their time in government – which was when the worst excesses of the City occurred. It would clearly have been unacceptable for Stephen Hester's bonus to have been the same as last year. So we are pleased it is less than half of that this year."
"The government has also made clear that it's capping cash bonuses at RBS at £2,000 this year.
"We have been very clear that at RBS and in other banks the bonus pool has got to be considerably lower than it was last year."
Britain's biggest banks are expected to reveal bonus plans next month alongside annual results. Bob Diamond, boss of Barclays, could receive a share award worth nearly £10m.
Antonio Horta-Osorio, chief executive of part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group, announced he would forgo his annual bonus of up to £2.4m following his two-month leave of absence due to exhaustion. (from counting his money?)
It was unclear whether or not John Hourican, the boss of the RBS investment banking arm, would meet the performance criteria for him to receive shares worth up to £4m in April.
The row over Hester's bonus comes just days after the business secretary, Vince Cable, announced new proposals to crack down on excessive pay by giving shareholders a binding vote on executive pay deals. However, UK Financial Investments, which looks after the taxpayers' stakes in the bailed-out banks, is backing the award. Cable rejected calls from unions to give employees a greater say over executive pay.
David Hillman, spokesman for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said: "Curbing Hester's bonus at state-owned RBS is a small step in the right direction but nowhere near enough. Having just heard our economy has shrunk again, it's beyond belief the government is letting other City fat cats off the hook."
The bonus is in the form of a so-called "share bank" and based on a share price of 26.75p – which was the RBS closing price on Wednesday. This is still well below the 50p at which the taxpayer bought its 82% stake in RBS.
RBS still owe us a considerable amount of dosh. When they've paid that back, they can pay whatever bonuses they want.
If Stephen Hester wants to leave if he doesn't get his bonus....................then it should be bye,bye
From the Guardian
Royal Bank of Scotland stoked a political row on Thursday night after it announced it had awarded its chief executive, Stephen Hester, a bonus worth almost £1m.
The payment was derided as "utterly unacceptable" by one Liberal Democrat peer, while a Foreign Office minister calculated that Hester's package meant he was paid in three days what a soldier in Afghanistan, "risking his life", earned in a whole year.The bailed-out bank attempted to justify the bonus – which is being paid in shares that Hester will be able to gain access to in 2014 – by saying it needed to reward the chief executive for the progress he had made in reducing the size of RBS.
Since he joined in November 2008, the bank has cut 33,000 jobs.
The bank also stressed that a bonus Hester had been awarded when he joined shortly after the £45bn taxpayer bailout in 2008 – worth £6.4m at the time – and which would have paid out this year, was now worthless. (I doubt it)
Sir Philip Hampton, the RBS chairman, said tonight: "The board is aware of the difficulties in trying to reconcile the competing objectives of all our stakeholders. This is especially true on the issue of pay."
Hampton will also not receive shares that he was awarded when he joined in 2009 after the bailout.
He said Hester's bonus – which is 60% of the maximum and will involve the award of 3.6m shares – was being granted as it "reflects progress in the categories agreed with our shareholders as set out in the remuneration report". The 3.6m shares are currently worth £963,000 and could rise or fall in value by 2014.
Hampton added: "His pay is strongly geared to the recovery of RBS, which he was recruited to turn around, having played no part in its collapse. The priority is to reshape a business that was far too big and far too risky, reducing legacy losses whilst improving performance in the group's strong core businesses."
Hampton argued that a "safer and more valuable RBS is in the interests of our customers, shareholders and the UK economy".
The size of Hester's bonus sparked a wave of criticism and calls for him not to accept the money.
Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat peer who resigned as a Treasury spokesman for his party a year ago over the lax treatment of the financial sector by the coalition, said the bank should realise that any bonus for Hester this year was "utterly unacceptable".
Oakeshott is concerned about the slow flow of lending to small businesses, which the major banks, including RBS, committed to last year under the Project Merlin agreement. "The bonus would be a reward for RBS's failure to lend to small business which was the key target," he said.
Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne, speaking on BBC1's Question Time, said that Hester should decline the bonus as "a question of honour".
"Even if there is a contractual opportunity for him to have it, it doesn't mean he has to accept it. He's already being paid more than £1m a year.
"His total package now means he gets paid in about three days what a soldier serving in Afghanistan, risking his life, gets in a whole year. I think he should reflect on that," the Liberal Democrat MP said.
Chris Leslie, Labour's shadow financial secretary to the Treasury, said: "Nobody doubts that Stephen Hester has done some important things at RBS, but what this award shows is David Cameron's promises about reining in excessive bonuses at state-owned banks or using shareholder power have proved to be utterly worthless.
"Indeed, anyone who thinks it is acceptable to award a bonus of almost £1m on top of a basic salary of £1.2m in these tough times is desperately out of touch with millions of people who are struggling to make ends meet."
"Instead of fiddling at the margins of this issue, David Cameron should take proper action on excessive executive pay as well as agree to Labour's call for a new tax on bankers' bonuses this year to fund 100,000 jobs for young people."
A Conservative Party spokesman said: "This is a bit rich from Labour given that they completely failed to do anything to curb multimillion-pound bonuses during their time in government – which was when the worst excesses of the City occurred. It would clearly have been unacceptable for Stephen Hester's bonus to have been the same as last year. So we are pleased it is less than half of that this year."
"The government has also made clear that it's capping cash bonuses at RBS at £2,000 this year.
"We have been very clear that at RBS and in other banks the bonus pool has got to be considerably lower than it was last year."
Britain's biggest banks are expected to reveal bonus plans next month alongside annual results. Bob Diamond, boss of Barclays, could receive a share award worth nearly £10m.
Antonio Horta-Osorio, chief executive of part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group, announced he would forgo his annual bonus of up to £2.4m following his two-month leave of absence due to exhaustion. (from counting his money?)
It was unclear whether or not John Hourican, the boss of the RBS investment banking arm, would meet the performance criteria for him to receive shares worth up to £4m in April.
The row over Hester's bonus comes just days after the business secretary, Vince Cable, announced new proposals to crack down on excessive pay by giving shareholders a binding vote on executive pay deals. However, UK Financial Investments, which looks after the taxpayers' stakes in the bailed-out banks, is backing the award. Cable rejected calls from unions to give employees a greater say over executive pay.
David Hillman, spokesman for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said: "Curbing Hester's bonus at state-owned RBS is a small step in the right direction but nowhere near enough. Having just heard our economy has shrunk again, it's beyond belief the government is letting other City fat cats off the hook."
The bonus is in the form of a so-called "share bank" and based on a share price of 26.75p – which was the RBS closing price on Wednesday. This is still well below the 50p at which the taxpayer bought its 82% stake in RBS.
Thursday 26 January 2012
I'm sure I'll get the hang of this soon
Hmm, I've got a spam 'inbox', remember to check it. Got to find it first.
Stats only seems to show 10 countries, but not the 10 with the most posts.
There goes that cupboard
Stats only seems to show 10 countries, but not the 10 with the most posts.
There goes that cupboard
Finished job on the fireplace
A before on the garden
And an after
Though I haven't finished the other side yet (don't tell the boss)
Anybody looking for a rental property in Batley?
I could get used to this property maintenance lark.
Even put in a 6 mile walk afterwards
John Young
Having played a bit of Qango, have got the urge to promote John Young & his band a little
Underside
Unknown Soldier
Childhood's End
Different
When I was Young
Qango's
Not the excellent band featuring John Wetton, Carl Palmer, John Young & Dave Kilminster.
For lovers of Qango & Copland..........
I was thinking about all the cuts that were being made, (none for MP's & councillors, we could do with a few less) & thought about these. Although some cuts were made, allegedly in 2010, do we need to spend £64 billion on these?
The term 'quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation' was created in 1967 by the Carnegie Foundation's Alan Pifer in an essay on independence and accountability in public-funded bodies incorporated in the private sector. This term was shortened to 'quango' by Anthony Barker, a British participant during a follow-up conference on the subject. It describes an ostensibly non-governmental organisation performing governmental functions, often in receipt of funding or other support from government, while mainstream NGOs mostly get their donations or funds from the public and other organizations that support their cause. Numerous quangos were created from the 1980s onwards
According to the Tax Payers Alliance, in the year 2006-07, tax payers funded 1,162 Quangos at a cost of nearly £64bn; equivalent to £2,550 per household. Since the coalition government of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats was formed in May 2010, over 80 of such public bodies funded by government have been abolished (BBC News - Quango list shows 192 to be axed) under Conservative plans to reduce the size of the public sector, as a route to reducing the overall budget deficit. However about a thousand still remain.
Of course someone has to say;
"The Tories now need to tell us whether their desperation for headlines and faster cuts means the cost of closing quangos is actually bigger than the savings. And while they're at it, they should tell us whether their manifesto commitment for 20 new quangos is now on ice."
From May 2010
A £500million bonfire of quangos run by public-sector fat cats will be unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne tomorrow in the first phase of his war on the £163billion deficit that has brought Britain to the brink of bankruptcy.
Dozens of quangos will be scrapped or scaled down as the Government announces the first £6billion of spending cuts aimed at speeding up to the economic recovery.
Mr Osborne will also announce new curbs on perks for Ministers and mandarins.
The spending included £125million on taxis, £320million on hotel bills, £70million on flights, £1.5billion on consultants, £580million on office furniture and more than £1 billion on advertising.
Under Labour the number of quangos – non-governmental advisory groups funded by taxpayers – soared to an estimated 1,162 at total cost of £64billion. They employ more than 100,000, and 68 quango chiefs earn more than the Prime Minister, with salaries of up to.............
£624,000
‘Some have become more like Government departments than small, well-run public advisory groups. It has mushroomed into a huge industry which we neither need nor can afford. Every year they spend more and pay ever bigger salaries to themselves.’
The pay and perks of quango fat cats has caused growing anger. Last year, it emerged that the employment package of Chief Constable Peter Neyroud, the £195,000-a-year boss of the £550million a year National Policing Improvement Agency, includes a Westminster apartment in a block that has a gym, pool, sauna and valet parking.
The highest-paid quango boss is David Higgins, the Olympic Delivery Authority’s chief executive, whose total package is worth £624,000 a year.
James Stewart, chief executive of Partnership UK, which promotes ‘high-quality public services and the efficient use of public assets through stronger partnerships between public and private sectors’, is paid £505,000.
Another quango in the firing line is Ofcom, which oversees TV and other media. Chief executive Ed Richards, who was forced to cut his £430,000 pay after public uproar, is a former adviser to Tony Blair and one of a number Ofcom officials with close links to Labour. Ofcom may escape abolition, but could lose several of its functions.
Q(u)ango's ? Definitely but none of those & more of these
For lovers of Qango & Copland..........
I was thinking about all the cuts that were being made, (none for MP's & councillors, we could do with a few less) & thought about these. Although some cuts were made, allegedly in 2010, do we need to spend £64 billion on these?
The term 'quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation' was created in 1967 by the Carnegie Foundation's Alan Pifer in an essay on independence and accountability in public-funded bodies incorporated in the private sector. This term was shortened to 'quango' by Anthony Barker, a British participant during a follow-up conference on the subject. It describes an ostensibly non-governmental organisation performing governmental functions, often in receipt of funding or other support from government, while mainstream NGOs mostly get their donations or funds from the public and other organizations that support their cause. Numerous quangos were created from the 1980s onwards
According to the Tax Payers Alliance, in the year 2006-07, tax payers funded 1,162 Quangos at a cost of nearly £64bn; equivalent to £2,550 per household. Since the coalition government of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats was formed in May 2010, over 80 of such public bodies funded by government have been abolished (BBC News - Quango list shows 192 to be axed) under Conservative plans to reduce the size of the public sector, as a route to reducing the overall budget deficit. However about a thousand still remain.
Of course someone has to say;
"The Tories now need to tell us whether their desperation for headlines and faster cuts means the cost of closing quangos is actually bigger than the savings. And while they're at it, they should tell us whether their manifesto commitment for 20 new quangos is now on ice."
From May 2010
A £500million bonfire of quangos run by public-sector fat cats will be unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne tomorrow in the first phase of his war on the £163billion deficit that has brought Britain to the brink of bankruptcy.
Dozens of quangos will be scrapped or scaled down as the Government announces the first £6billion of spending cuts aimed at speeding up to the economic recovery.
Mr Osborne will also announce new curbs on perks for Ministers and mandarins.
The spending included £125million on taxis, £320million on hotel bills, £70million on flights, £1.5billion on consultants, £580million on office furniture and more than £1 billion on advertising.
Under Labour the number of quangos – non-governmental advisory groups funded by taxpayers – soared to an estimated 1,162 at total cost of £64billion. They employ more than 100,000, and 68 quango chiefs earn more than the Prime Minister, with salaries of up to.............
£624,000
‘Some have become more like Government departments than small, well-run public advisory groups. It has mushroomed into a huge industry which we neither need nor can afford. Every year they spend more and pay ever bigger salaries to themselves.’
The pay and perks of quango fat cats has caused growing anger. Last year, it emerged that the employment package of Chief Constable Peter Neyroud, the £195,000-a-year boss of the £550million a year National Policing Improvement Agency, includes a Westminster apartment in a block that has a gym, pool, sauna and valet parking.
The highest-paid quango boss is David Higgins, the Olympic Delivery Authority’s chief executive, whose total package is worth £624,000 a year.
James Stewart, chief executive of Partnership UK, which promotes ‘high-quality public services and the efficient use of public assets through stronger partnerships between public and private sectors’, is paid £505,000.
Another quango in the firing line is Ofcom, which oversees TV and other media. Chief executive Ed Richards, who was forced to cut his £430,000 pay after public uproar, is a former adviser to Tony Blair and one of a number Ofcom officials with close links to Labour. Ofcom may escape abolition, but could lose several of its functions.
Q(u)ango's ? Definitely but none of those & more of these
Bye, bye, Sweden
& now Portugal's invaded Sweden
United Kingdom
|
189
|
Russia
55
Ireland
52
United States
29
Netherlands
8
Spain
4
Germany
3
Portugal
2
Canada
1
Israel
1
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Three Bungee Cords and a Disaster Waiting to Happen
By Michael A. Savwoir, UPS Feeder Driver, Local 41, Kansas City
But who would ever think UPS, a multinational corporation, would actually employ such remedies? That’s just what happened on Oct. 5, when a broken fuel tank strap on a ‘94 Mack truck was replaced with a single rubber bungee cord.
A senior driver had refused to move this vehicle from Earth City, Mo. to Kansas City, Kan. (some 240 miles) the previous day, stating the obvious: “This repair is not road worthy.” So management forced a junior driver to make the move with the improved security of adding a second bungee cord.
After a intense debate and an eerie silence when asked, “Would you want your family following this vehicle down the road?” the junior driver sarcastically added a third bungee cord for good measure and hoped for intervention at the scale house 25 miles down the road.
We all know about UPS and “Safety First” but does management even know what safety is?
Maybe someone should tell them what it is not!
Safety is not reciting the ten point commentary. It is not putting yourself, your company, or the general motoring public at undue peril by taking unnecessary risks. And it is certainly not sending a tractor down the road with one soon-to-fail fuel tank strap and three bungee cords!
& from NABER
UPS IS FINED $71,700 FOR TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE OF FATAL ACCIDENT
Utah's OSHA accused UPS of tampering with evidence connected to a fatal employee accident, lying to investigators and then trying to hide its actions." UPS management "deliberately and knowingly removed and/or altered equipment, materials or other evidence
Confused again....no change there
United Kingdom
|
188
|
Ireland
52
Russia
41
United States
27
Netherlands
8
Spain
4
Germany
3
Canada
1
Israel
1
Sweden
1
Looks like Israel's invaded the Ukraine.
No idea where the Ukraine's gone, but I've definitely got all the stats showing.
Ahh!! they don't add up, absolutely no idea why.
Hello Israel, my father in law comes over & preaches regularly.
He was imprisoned in Czechoslovakia for smuggling bibles, on his way to Israel in the early '70's
Monday 23 January 2012
Jim Casey quotes
A few of Jim Casey's quotes 'studied' by NABER
N.A.B.E.R. INC.
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF "BROWN" EMPLOYEES AND RETIREES INC
James E. Casey's 10 Rules For Continued Success Of UPS
C.L. Kane wrote "The Tightest Ship" an expose' about UPS from a driver's point of view Kane listed 10 Commandments from the company's founder.
- 1."The future of the package industry is in the air"
Casey began an air service in 1928. The Depression made the company abandon the service. After WWII, Casey wanted a Next Day Service. The "new" leaders of the company decided 48 state ground service was more important.
- 2."A fair day's work for a fair day's pay"
Old timers remember when almost every driver "ran under". The time allowance has been tightened so much that only the drivers who take short-cuts, skip lunch, work "off the clock" and/or run meet the standard.
- 3."Don't make company demands that border on harassment"
This website has many, many examples of the harassment that is systemic at UPS.
- 4."They are advised to constantly seek better, safer work methods."
If that was true, would UPS have the safety record it does? Faster, faster, and faster seems to be the policy.
- 5."Provide the best possible service for the least money."
"Left in building" packages are on the rise. Damage claims (especially over 70 lbs.) are very difficult to be resolved successfully. Other companies discount their prices deeper.
- 6."Always promote from our own ranks"
This should be especially true of the Industrial Engineering Department that sets the time allowance.
- 7."No stock outside the company"
Today, it's no voting power outside the company. No outsider (B stock owner) can pressure the Board of Directors to do anything. And how much did the Board members' portfolios rise on the day UPS began to publicly sell stock?
- 8."Treat your people well and the company will florish."
- 9."Stay close to your employees."
That probably didn't mean spy technology installed in every truck.
- 10."Personal pride and dignity are essential to each employee, without this management fails and the company will not prosper."
N.A.B.E.R. couldn't agree more
Sunday 22 January 2012
I'm Stressed Out!!!
Denver Brown again
I'm Stressed Out!!!
Burnout is created by an environment with too many pressures and not enough support.
People who burn out develop negative self-concepts and job attitudes, while becoming detached, apathetic, angry or hostile. Jobs that promote burnout include ones in which workers do repetitive or routine tasks, never get much positive feedback or have a lot of responsibility but very little control.
Employees who are suffering from burnout feel they are answerable for everything that happens. They feel they receive very little understanding from management, and they personally feel powerless to change things. These feelings tend to make them assume a martyr-like position, become resigned and apathetic, and focus on the worst aspects of the job.
Does this sound all too familiar?
Many people learn to deal with job-related stress. Those who burn out don't. Often, the types of people who burn out are those who show the most promise at the beginning of their careers. They are perfectionists, idealists and workaholics. They start out enthusiastic about their work, dedicated and committed to doing their jobs. They typically have high energy levels, positive attitudes and are high achievers.
Over time, stress and the inability to cope with it lead to pessimism and job dissatisfaction. Workers in the early stages of burnout feel fatigued, frustrated, disillusioned and bored. As burnout progresses, work habits begin to deteriorate. Productivity drops. They become increasingly angry, hostile and depressed.
Burnout doesn't happen overnight, and it can be reversed with the right steps. UPS, if they really cared about their workers, could help by:
People who burn out develop negative self-concepts and job attitudes, while becoming detached, apathetic, angry or hostile. Jobs that promote burnout include ones in which workers do repetitive or routine tasks, never get much positive feedback or have a lot of responsibility but very little control.Employees who are suffering from burnout feel they are answerable for everything that happens. They feel they receive very little understanding from management, and they personally feel powerless to change things. These feelings tend to make them assume a martyr-like position, become resigned and apathetic, and focus on the worst aspects of the job.
Does this sound all too familiar?
Many people learn to deal with job-related stress. Those who burn out don't. Often, the types of people who burn out are those who show the most promise at the beginning of their careers. They are perfectionists, idealists and workaholics. They start out enthusiastic about their work, dedicated and committed to doing their jobs. They typically have high energy levels, positive attitudes and are high achievers.
Over time, stress and the inability to cope with it lead to pessimism and job dissatisfaction. Workers in the early stages of burnout feel fatigued, frustrated, disillusioned and bored. As burnout progresses, work habits begin to deteriorate. Productivity drops. They become increasingly angry, hostile and depressed.
Burnout doesn't happen overnight, and it can be reversed with the right steps. UPS, if they really cared about their workers, could help by:
- Involving employees in decision-making and allowing them to use their skills and abilities. Employees need to feel needed and important.
- Giving positive feedback and recognizing achievement. Praise and encouragement are vital to job satisfaction.
- Developing a supportive management style. The most stressful management styles are: intimidating; overly ambitious; cold and arrogant; or demanding and unfair.
& from Denver Brown
Now and Then
I've been at UPS a long time and you know what...things have changed. They've changed a lot. Sometimes things just happen and when they happen, UPS reacts differently today then they did back when I started. Here are a couple of examples:
I completed my 30 days probation, when do I reach full pay?
1980 3 months
2009 30 months
I hooked a mirror on a tree branch and cracked it.
1980 Was told to write it up tonight.
2009 I meet the safety manager at the exact spot in half an hour, he takes pictures, I'm given a warning letter for an accident.
I had a COD for $5000 cash only.
1980 I will carry $5000 cash in my pocket all day and turn it in tonight.
2009 I will carry ten $500 cashiers check in my pocket all day.
A customer called in on me and claimed I was rude.
1980 My manager called them back and told them to use another carrier next time. (There were no other carriers.)
2009 I was written up, my job was threatened, the company believed the customer more than they believed me.
My truck didn't get washed last night.
1980 Take it through the car wash, we never put a dirty truck out on the street.
2009 We don't wash the trucks every night, shut up and drive.
I forgot to run a call tag.
1980 Do it tomorrow.
2009 I get written up.
I asked if I could bring my family in to tour the building.
1980 My boss said it was OK, be careful, have fun.
2009 Don't even think about it, too risky, someone may get hurt or besides, my family could be a security threat.
I swing home for lunch for my son's birthday party.
1980 My boss doesn't care as long as I get my route done.
2009 I get fired.
I bring back 20 stops because I was overdispatched. 1980 The manager says to keep quiet about it and do them tomorrow.
2009 Upper management is aware of it before the rooster crows and I'm fired.
I ask my manager for advice on a company related problem.
1980 We go in the office and have a heart to heart.
2009 He can't give me any advice until he checks with his boss who has to check with his boss also.
Echo, Echo, Echo, Echo, Echo
A little something for Nigel there
I completed my 30 days probation, when do I reach full pay?1980 3 months
2009 30 months
I hooked a mirror on a tree branch and cracked it.1980 Was told to write it up tonight.
2009 I meet the safety manager at the exact spot in half an hour, he takes pictures, I'm given a warning letter for an accident.
I had a COD for $5000 cash only.1980 I will carry $5000 cash in my pocket all day and turn it in tonight.
2009 I will carry ten $500 cashiers check in my pocket all day.
A customer called in on me and claimed I was rude.1980 My manager called them back and told them to use another carrier next time. (There were no other carriers.)
2009 I was written up, my job was threatened, the company believed the customer more than they believed me.
My truck didn't get washed last night.1980 Take it through the car wash, we never put a dirty truck out on the street.
2009 We don't wash the trucks every night, shut up and drive.
I forgot to run a call tag.1980 Do it tomorrow.
2009 I get written up.
I asked if I could bring my family in to tour the building.1980 My boss said it was OK, be careful, have fun.
2009 Don't even think about it, too risky, someone may get hurt or besides, my family could be a security threat.
I swing home for lunch for my son's birthday party.1980 My boss doesn't care as long as I get my route done.
2009 I get fired.
I bring back 20 stops because I was overdispatched. 1980 The manager says to keep quiet about it and do them tomorrow.2009 Upper management is aware of it before the rooster crows and I'm fired.
I ask my manager for advice on a company related problem.1980 We go in the office and have a heart to heart.
2009 He can't give me any advice until he checks with his boss who has to check with his boss also.
Echo, Echo, Echo, Echo, Echo
A little something for Nigel there
More Intimidation
United Parcel Service Should Take A Lesson From The New Leaders
If UPS thinks the “military” style that it has often been labeled as identifying with as good, I say take a look at some of the new Corporate Leaders that have emerged over the last decade that are known for treating their employees with respect and are often ranked as “1 of the best places to work”, companies such as Google, Quicken Loans, and UPS often featured company Zappos.com.
Just look at the difference in employee attitudes at a successful company that UPS promotes regularly in its marketing, employee literature and websites
I believe UPS could adopt many of the attributes associated with new millennial market leaders with regard to employee treatment and still be as, if not more successful than it is today.
The current employees of UPS have the best chance at reforming the unethical few that unfortunately make many of our lives unnecessarily difficult.
If this were just about me, I would have quit long ago, but there are 100s of 1000s current employees and millions of future employees who are good, honest hard working people who are determined to see a few unethical people in charge weeded from the ranks.
Where have I heard this before?
& no, I'm not the Mikey that's on Brownair
What does Lou Holtz say about that? -
When you concern yourself with the welfare of others, you engender loyalty and respect.
5 Stocks That Could Outperform In 2012
From seeking Alpha Web site
First of all, I would like to celebrate everyone's New Year. Let it bring us luck, happiness, and health. As the New Year comes, Apple (AAPL), Visa (V), and United Parcel Services (UPS) reported their record sales in recent years. I think these companies will keep doing great in 2012. I added two other stocks that, I believe, will do just fine in 2012. I have analyzed all of them from a fundamental perspective, and added my O-Metrix Grading System, where possible. Here is an analysis of five stocks ready to outperform..............................
United Parcel Service
UPS is the last Santa stock in my list. The world's largest package delivery company shows a trailing P/E ratio of 17.8, and a lower forward P/E ratio of 15.2. Analysts expect the company to have an 11.2% annual EPS growth in the next five years. It sports a 2.84% dividend, and the profit margin is 7.9%, higher than the industry average of 5.6%.
With a Beta value of 0.83, United Parcel is the third-least volatile stock in its industry. Revenue and cash flow seems all right. There is great competition in this industry, but United Parcel is one of the best players. Both P/E ratio and earnings per share [ttm] have come to very good levels. Return-on equity is 50.6%, more than doubling the industry average of 21.8%. Although the company recently broke through the $73.66 resistance level, it couldn't stay much above that number. Dividend history is appetizing, and United Parcel offers safe returns with an acceptable dividend. Buy this name as soon as it goes below $70 a share, United Parcel has an O-Metrix score of 4.25.
I could think of a reason why it might go below $70
First of all, I would like to celebrate everyone's New Year. Let it bring us luck, happiness, and health. As the New Year comes, Apple (AAPL), Visa (V), and United Parcel Services (UPS) reported their record sales in recent years. I think these companies will keep doing great in 2012. I added two other stocks that, I believe, will do just fine in 2012. I have analyzed all of them from a fundamental perspective, and added my O-Metrix Grading System, where possible. Here is an analysis of five stocks ready to outperform..............................
United Parcel Service
UPS is the last Santa stock in my list. The world's largest package delivery company shows a trailing P/E ratio of 17.8, and a lower forward P/E ratio of 15.2. Analysts expect the company to have an 11.2% annual EPS growth in the next five years. It sports a 2.84% dividend, and the profit margin is 7.9%, higher than the industry average of 5.6%.
With a Beta value of 0.83, United Parcel is the third-least volatile stock in its industry. Revenue and cash flow seems all right. There is great competition in this industry, but United Parcel is one of the best players. Both P/E ratio and earnings per share [ttm] have come to very good levels. Return-on equity is 50.6%, more than doubling the industry average of 21.8%. Although the company recently broke through the $73.66 resistance level, it couldn't stay much above that number. Dividend history is appetizing, and United Parcel offers safe returns with an acceptable dividend. Buy this name as soon as it goes below $70 a share, United Parcel has an O-Metrix score of 4.25.
I could think of a reason why it might go below $70
Saturday 21 January 2012
More from Brownair on sickness
The point in the UK would be the 'top paid boyz' would be paid, no questions asked, not even a return to work interview. Staff at Dewsbury are immediately keyed as 'unpaid sick' i.e. Statutary sick pay, and then have to go cap in hand and grovel to the Manager with justification for why they should be paid. This change in policy was sneaked in with NO communication from the Manager (though I'm sure he'll deny this)
HQ vs Hub “Sick Day” Challenge
How often have you heard, “If you don’t like it, QUIT”?
If everyone who sought change for the better from their employers simply found other employment, there would have never been positive change (ie overtime laws, employer sponsored health insurance, restroom privileges [going back to Henry Ford days]). The real heroes are the 1′s who stayed and lead the charge. If people who work at a company don’t care enough to influence change, why would anyone on the outside think twice about their plight (ie OSHA, congressman, media, etc…) to help.
When corporations report how many billions they make every 3 months and put on a pretty face for the public and outside shareholders, it becomes a bitter pill to swallow as employees who know how we operate on the inside (whether it’s the “SAFETY IS #1″ [right after profit] facade, bitter cold working temperatures, or myself and coworkers being poisoned by carbon monoxide and diesel fumes simply because a few bad apples in control don’t think it’s a safety hazard (even though a boat load of medical EXPERTS disagree).
Before I really get going, let me leave you this thought. If the people on the bottom aren’t a value and part of the engine that drove to the billions of profit, I challenge 400 of the top paid Atlanta boyz to not show up for a week, and 400 hourly to not show up for a week at ANY hub across the US (no cheating with calling in cover people), see which 1 has a bigger effect on production, and customer reputation (this works for just about any LARGE corporation).
Health & Safety
There are a number of posts on Brownair regarding air quality
OSHA
Whilst this may be Michigan, US of A, here's a few more local examples of air quality in Dewsbury, U of K, or G of B, whichever you may prefer.
These's photo's are spread over a year, so not just a one off
What Does Jack Kevorkian (AKA Dr. Death), Rick Snyder (Michigan Governer), and Mark Jansen (Michigan Senator) All Have In Common?
Posted on April 24, 2011
Lansing, MI – They believe that more carbon monoxide is better to get the job done.
If you think corporations will always “do what’s right” out of common decency, you are sadly mistaken. Apparently there is too much pressure from executives, shareholders and the like to improve profit every 3 months, that at some point they are willing to stop at no expense, no matter the cost to the health of their employees.Paint fumes post
OSHA
Whilst this may be Michigan, US of A, here's a few more local examples of air quality in Dewsbury, U of K, or G of B, whichever you may prefer.
These's photo's are spread over a year, so not just a one off
UPS v. Brownair
| From UPS's News page UPS: UPS News
10/25/2011 Press Release UPS Earnings Per Share Rise 14 Percent on 8 Percent Revenue Growth in 3Q
07/26/2011 Press Release UPS 2Q Earnings Per Share Jump 25 Percent on Revenue Growth of 8 Percent
02/01/2011 Press Release UPS 4th Quarter Earnings Surge 44 Percent, 2011 EPS Expected to Set All-Time High
10/21/2010 Press Release UPS 3Q Earnings Climb 69 Percent on Revenue Growth of 9 Percent
07/22/2010 Press Release UPS 2Q Earnings Soar 71 Percent on 13 Percent Revenue Growth
04/27/2010 Press Release UPS 1Q Earnings Jump 37 Percent on Revenue Increase of 7 Percent
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UPS Exec Brags About Low Wage Increases for Teamsters
UPS Chief Financial Officer Kurt Kuehn bragged to investors that UPS Teamsters will continue to get “below-inflation increases in wages” under the concessionary contract negotiated by Hoffa and Hall in 2008.
The UPS’s Exec’s comments were featured in a Business Week article called, “Having a Job Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be.”
The article reported that take-home pay, adjusted for inflation, has fallen three times in the last five reported months. The number of Americans living in poverty is at a 17-year high.
UPS is quoted in the article as being happy with our “modest” wage increases that are “below inflation.” UPS profits aren’t modest though. The company has made $3 billion in the first 9 months of the year and now it’s peak!
Rise, Jump, Surge, Climb and Soar v. Modest & Below Inflation.
I wonder how much Scott Davis's package increased over the year, willing to bet that wasn't Modest.
The UPS’s Exec’s comments were featured in a Business Week article called, “Having a Job Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be.”
The article reported that take-home pay, adjusted for inflation, has fallen three times in the last five reported months. The number of Americans living in poverty is at a 17-year high.
UPS is quoted in the article as being happy with our “modest” wage increases that are “below inflation.” UPS profits aren’t modest though. The company has made $3 billion in the first 9 months of the year and now it’s peak!
Rise, Jump, Surge, Climb and Soar v. Modest & Below Inflation.
I wonder how much Scott Davis's package increased over the year, willing to bet that wasn't Modest.
Oooooh !!!!! He's a vice-president
Anthony Colaizzo's Overview
Current
- Director of Operations UK , Ireland & Nordics at UPS
Past
- VP Operations Pacific Region at UPS
- Ops Mgr at ups
Education
- University of Oxford - Said Business School
- Emory University - Goizueta Business School
- University of Phoenix
- Duquesne University
Anthony Colaizzo's Experience
Anthony Colaizzo's Education
University of Oxford - Said Business School
Masters, Strategy and Innovation
2011 – 2011
Emory University - Goizueta Business School
MBA, Strategy/Leadership
2004 – 2006
Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society
University of Phoenix
BS, Business Administration
2004 – 2006
Duquesne University
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