UPS v. Bercow

I had the opportunity to listen to most of PMQ's one day last week.
It was the one where Cameron called Milliband a conman and was told off by the speaker.

Details

What it doesn't say is that Cameron was wrong, just that it was a bit below the level.

The connection with UPS Management?

Conmen

I can also use

Thieves
Crooks
swindlers
fleecers
Liars
Cheats

Why? Because they are all true

Can't use perjurers yet, though they probably already have.

UPS Share price

	Adam Shapiro (@Ajshaps)
25/10/2013 13:55 .@UPS shares up 1.8% in pre market. Scott Davis says currency headwinds not expected to be drag on earnings 2014

That's a lot of shares, boosted by dishonest trading

Haven't looked at the share price recently.
It was 76.38 on 3rd January, its now 95.61

That's a nice little earner


Shares can go down though

:-)

UPS results-Fraud pays

Atlanta, October 25, 2013

U.S. Domestic Leads with Operating Profit Up 16%

E-commerce Drives U.S. Domestic Results

International Export Daily Volume Grows 6.7%; Deferred products up 11%

SC&F Operating Profit Increased 6.9%,Operating Margin Expands to 8.9%

YTD: $4.6 Billion in Shareowner Distributions and $3.6 Billion in Free Cash Flow

Maintains Full-Year 2013 Adjusted EPS Guidance of $4.65 to $4.85

We supplement the reporting of our financial information determined under generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") with certain non-GAAP financial measures, including, as applicable, "as adjusted" operating profit, operating margin, pre-tax income, net income and earnings per share. The equivalent measures determined in accordance with GAAP are also referred to as "reported" or "unadjusted." We believe that these adjusted measures provide meaningful information to assist investors and analysts in understanding our financial results and assessing our prospects for future performance. We believe these adjusted financial measures are important indicators of our recurring operations because they exclude items that may not be indicative of, or are unrelated to, our core operating results, and provide a better baseline for analyzing trends in our underlying businesses. Furthermore, we use these adjusted financial measures to determine awards for our management personnel under our incentive compensation plans.
We supplemented the presentation of our third quarter and year-to-date 2013 and 2012 operating profit, operating margin, pre-tax income, net income and earnings per share with similar measures that excluded the impact of certain transactions.  In the third quarter of 2012, we recorded an $896 million pre-tax charge ($559 million after-tax) in the U.S. Domestic Package segment to establish a withdrawal liability related to the New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund.  In the first quarter of 2013, we recorded transactions related to our attempted acquisition of TNT Express N.V. These items included the impact of (1) a pre-tax charge for the TNT termination fee and transaction-related costs of $284 million ($177 million after-tax), and (2) a pre-tax currency gain realized upon the liquidation of a foreign subsidiary of $245 million ($213 million after-tax).  We believe these adjusted measures better enable shareowners to focus on period-over-period operating performance. The underlying matters that produced these charges were unique, and we do not believe they are reflective of the types of charges that will affect future results.
Because non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized, it may not be possible to compare these financial measures with other companies' non-GAAP financial measures having the same or similar names. These adjusted financial measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for GAAP operating profit, operating margin, net income and earnings per share, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures reflect an additional way of viewing aspects of our operations that, when viewed with our GAAP results and the preceding reconciliations to corresponding GAAP financial measures, provide a more complete understanding of our business. We strongly encourage investors to review our financial statements and publicly-filed reports in their entirety and not to rely on any single financial measure.
Except for historical information contained herein, the statements made in this release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of UPS and its management regarding the company's strategic directions, prospects and future results, involve certain risks and uncertainties. Certain factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including economic and other conditions in the markets in which we operate, governmental regulations, our competitive environment, negotiation and ratification of labor contracts, strikes, work stoppages and slowdowns, changes in aviation and motor fuel prices, cyclical and seasonal fluctuations in our operating results, and other risks discussed in the company's Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which discussions are incorporated herein by reference

Which bit does profit from DIAD fraud come under?

or profit from bullying?

Lance Armstrong v. UPS

Armstrong only won by cheating
UPS make profits by cheating



Three-time winner Greg LeMond believes Lance Armstrong was only capable of a top-30 Tour de France finish "at best" without performance-enhancing drugs.

LeMond, 52, is the only American winner of the Tour after Armstrong was stripped of his seven titles in 2012 for systematic doping.

"If he was clean and everybody else was clean, he's a top-30 [Tour finisher] at best," LeMond told CNN.(external)

"He's not capable of winning the Tour, he's not capable of the top five."

Armstrong, 42, was also banned for life following a United States Anti-Doping Agency investigation into the doping practices of the United States Postal Service team, a punishment LeMond feels is fair.

"There are people who are criminals who just shouldn't be able to participate again in anything," he said.

"It's like [jailed financier] Bernie Madoff - should he be allowed to come in and be a part of Wall Street managing money? No, he shouldn't.

"And that's [the case] with Armstrong. He shouldn't be allowed to be back in sport."

Glassdoor review

“Good job if you are single”

Anonymous Employee (Current Employee)

I have been working at UPS

Pros – Money is good as you progress. Other employees are very helpful and great to work with. Medical benefits good as well.

Cons – No personal life. Work from 8:30am to 9:00pm, during the regular season. During "peak" add another 45 min. Plus weekends sometimes. So with commuting you are looking at 7:30am to 10:45pm.

New UPS Standards

	UPS (@UPS)
22/10/2013 16:23 RT @newmanikki: You must forget about traditional standards when it comes to social customer service. @UPS #CSMCS #CSCMP2013

Forget the standards that are a hundred years old

Asset quote

	UPS (@UPS)
23/10/2013 16:45 We agree. RT @cevalogistics: No asset is more important to a company's success than the human asset, says CEVA CEO Marv Schlanger #CSCMP2013

Pity UPS seem to disregard the importance of this quote.

Some interesting conversations this week

UPS definitions

	UPS (@UPS)
22/10/2013 00:05 Ensure an optimal delivery experience. Encourage your customers to sign up for #UPSMyChoice: bit.ly/14W0Nrh

op·ti·mal  (pt-ml)

adj.

Most favorable or desirable; optimum.

When you can be cheated out of your money back guarantee, I don't consider that to be optimal


That's theft and fraud

Well done Unite

	Richard Ruzyllo (@spygun)
23/10/2013 17:00 Grangemouth closes. Thanks UNITE...for once again proving that Industrial Unions belong in the 19th Century.

Union rep in selection scandal?
Details here

Unite failing to help its members?
Now where have I heard that before

Still waiting for Unite to have the courtesy to respond to my e-mails, even if it's sod off

Another quote

	The QI Elves (@qikipedia)
21/10/2013 21:26 Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. GEORGE CARLIN

Ah, I see where UPS may be coming from

Hello America

You are so predictable, did the little alarm bell go off?

:-)

Jessica Cobbs @ UPS

Pity she doesn't seem to be on twitter :-)

True to its heritage? I don't think so

Don’t miss the opportunity to hear from this national brand

At the October 17th luncheon discover how UPS continues to grow its brand during a period of transformation, while staying true to its heritage and committed to its customers.

Jessica Cobbs, Global Brand Director will share how UPS leverages its brand to navigate change, guide behavior and adapt its business for the future.

Gain insights from this national brand on how any brand manager can:

• Leverage and build brand equity
• Support global growth through your brand
• Improve internal and external engagement of your brand

Jessica Cobbs is the Global Brand Director for UPS, overseeing the brand strategy department of a $54 billion company. Responsibilities include brand strategy, brand management, creative services and mergers and acquisitions to drive global growth.

Previous to UPS Jessica Cobbs was responsible for Global Brand Development for a Merck and sanofi-aventis joint venture. Her responsibilities included global brand management processes, specifically strategy, planning and brand development to increase global revenue and brand equity. She directed and oversaw all of the global brand management activities for animal health pharmaceutical brands including Frontline, the #1 brand in animal health.  Jessica has an MBA in international business and a Masters in Project Management. Jessica also teaches marketing courses at Keller Graduate School and Southern New Hampshire University.

Requesting quotes again

1. We are repeatedly dishonest because it is a habit
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

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More on Glassdoor

“Supervisor”

Part Time Supervisor (Current Employee)

 Knoxville, TN

I have been working at UPS for more than 3 years

Pros – Good pay, great benefits and great people to work with

Cons – Horrible management and work ethics.

Advice to Senior Management – Never become a supervisor. Stay an hourly with the union.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Questionable work ethics?

Bernard Marr

KPI & Big Data guru Wonder if they do KPI's on fraud?

Mike Whitehead, You have a new follower on Twitter.   Bernard Marr @BernardMarr Bestselling author, enterprise performance expert and analytics, KPI & big data guru London · http://www.ap-institute.com/index.asp Following: 39638 · Followers: 64419 Follow

Another old chestnut

	UPSers (@UPSers)
08/10/2013 14:35 A great deal of #power & #truth can be found in a quote. What's your favorite inspirational #quote?

Here's a quote

If you want to be a UPS Manager, it helps if you are dishonest.

There's power and truth for you

Back to basics Eh?

	UPS (@UPS)
10/10/2013 13:02 RT @EntMagazine: Grow Your Business By Getting Back to Basics entm.ag/11J3Wsh by @actioncoachceo cc @CarMax

Dear UPS

What were your core values?

How about going back to those for a starter on getting back to basics

Mostly Autumn & Chantel McGregor

4th October - Picturedrome, Holmfirth
Great gig.
Another young guns v. older gits battle.
This time the young guns won hands down for me.
Rather like the Kaiser Cheifs, Mostly Autumn didn't look like they were enjoying the gig.
Not that Mostly Autumn aren't a decent enough band, who performed a good & entertaining set but were blown away by Chantel & her band.

This was the third time that I'd seen the band this year and they just keep getting better and better. I have to say that Chantel was both the better guitarist and vocalist on show last friday night, which may have some bearing on why she recently won......er something. Can't remember exactly what it was, best guitarist & female singer possibly.


.....to be continued and/or updated

In the meantime....enjoy some vids

http://www.chantelmcgregor.com/chanteltv.html

A different view on UPS

http://isreview.org/issues/58/rev-ups.shtml A review from ISR Issue 58, March–April 2008 The big idea: Exploitation Greg Niemann Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPSJossey-Bass, 2007 256 pages $25 Review by JOE ALLEN There seem to be three “great” experiences that are offered to young people in America at the beginning of the twenty-first century. One is the military; the second is prison; and the third is working at United Parcel Service (UPS). It might be hard to tell the difference between the three with one’s eyes closed—to judge where one is by the constant abuse that is screamed heaped upon those involved. UPS, popularly known as “Big Brown,” is one of the largest and most profitable corporations in the U.S., employing literally an army of part-timers to unload, load, and sort the millions of packages that go through its package-delivery system each day. It’s miserable, demeaning, and back-breaking work. I worked at UPS for a total of eight years and I never knew anybody who “liked” working there. Yet, UPS has bought a lot of great PR over the years. It is rarely criticized in the mainstream press. In fact, it almost always receives rave reviews, particularly during Christmas time. UPS regularly wins awards for its “corporate citizenship” from organizations it gives donations to. The last time that UPS came under any serious public scrutiny was a decade ago during the 1997 national Teamsters strike, when UPS’s dirty laundry was hung out for the whole world to see. So when I saw an ad for Greg Niemann’s book Big Brown: The Untold Story, I looked forward to reading it, thinking that it would be a long overdue exposé of UPS’s rotten history, especially its notorious labor policies and right-wing political connections. Man, was I wrong. Niemann, the former editor of UPS’s regional newsletter the Southern California Big Idea, has written a fawning, if not downright embarrassing, book. Nevertheless, despite the brown fog that Niemann tries to throw up around UPS’s history and practices, some things come through that reveal the thinking behind the policies that have made the American workplace a living hell. UPS has long been known as a totalitarian workplace for union activists. Former UPS CEO “Oz” Nelson supposedly once described the UPS management style as “a combination of the Marine Corps and the Quakers.” This Borg-like description leaves most of us sick, but Niemann sees it as a great thing. “UPSers turn out better than machines,” he gushes after describing the company’s fanatical determination to control every second of the workday. Not content just to control their bodies, UPS wants to also control their employees’ thinking. The process by which this is done, according to Niemann, is a kind of boot camp, indoctrinating employees with UPS’s unique corporate culture and expectations.… By the time employees have moved mountains of cardboard-clad merchandise, they have either caught the UPS commitment or they haven’t. If they have, that seed of UPS perseverance will spread through their systems until they “bleed brown blood.” It’s no wonder that there is such a high injury and turnover rate at UPS.If “bleeding brown blood” sounds a little cult-like to you, you’re not alone. When UPS tried to export this “Big Idea” to the rest of the world, it suffered what Niemann calls a “rude awakening.” In the mid-1970s, UPS opened up its delivery operations in West Germany: The work ethic in 1970s Germany was not the fine-tuned Swiss watch the UPS pioneers anticipated. The country’s labor climate was institutionalized by German laws that called for extended vacations, much time off, liberal unlimited sick day policies, short work hours and weeks, and other inflexibilities. The hourly employees listened to the stress and pressure to get the job done as if it were Greek. According to Gale Davis, member of the initial start-up team and later German region personnel manager, “Most Germans felt that a better way to handle excessive work loads was to hire more and more people.” Like most Europeans, the German population didn’t even consider the concept of “living to work”; they worked only to live and strived to work as little as possible. You can imagine how this lassitude and lack of commitment struck UPS managers who lived and breathed “brown.” You can’t make up stuff like this. Most Americans too don’t like “living to work” and wish they had many of the benefits that workers have in major European countries do. One of the reasons they don’t is the politically backward nature of the American trade unions, particularly the Teamsters, which represents the vast bulk of UPS drivers and production workers across the country.As early as 1916, Jim Casey, the founder of UPS, approached the Teamsters about representing his workforce when it was still a bicycle messenger service based in Seattle. Niemann recognized that Seattle was “a haven for left-wing politics” where activists called “for the emancipation of the working class from the ‘slave bondage of capitalism.’” Niemann believes Casey’s willingness to allow his workforce to be represented by the conservative Teamsters came out of his “family” approach to business. But isn’t the obvious answer that Casey hoped to preempt his workforce from joining more radical unions or unions with more militant leaderships? In the 1930s, Casey cut a deal with West Coast Teamster leader Dave Beck to represent UPS drivers and warehouse workers. Beck was a firm believer in “business unionism” and hostile to rank-and-file control of the unions. “Unions are big business,” Beck once declared. “Why should truck drivers and bottle washers be allowed to make big decisions affecting union policy? Would any corporation allow it?” Casey would have agreed. “Over the last eighty-eight years, the Teamster-UPS relationship has been mostly positive, with some exceptions,” according to Niemann. The positive side of things for UPS has been the pioneering of part-time work with Teamsters’ approval. Today, over two-thirds of UPS’s 210,000 unionized workers are part-time with starting pay remaining the same as it has—$8.00 or $8.50 an hour—since the early 1980s. The UPS empire has been built on the destruction of full-time jobs. The exception to this cozy relationship was during the years under the Teamsters reform leader Ron Carey, a former UPS driver, described by Niemann as a “disenchanted former UPS driver” who had “taken over the Teamsters union in the nineties and vowed ‘to get’ UPS.” Niemann conveniently forgets that Carey was the first Teamster general president ever elected by the rank-and-file of the union, unlike other UPS-friendly Teamsters leaders. The 1997 strike against UPS, called by Carey and supported by the vast majority of UPS Teamsters, was precisely so popular because people were tired of simply “living to work” and wanted a better life. We can thank Greg Niemann for writing down and publishing the inner thoughts of UPS management that so rarely make it into the public domain. The Big Idea behind UPS is the rapacious exploitation of its workforce, which has produced billions in profits during the last century. The real untold story of UPS still needs to be written.

Redrashid el amin

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