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Oct 8, 2014

“HORRIBLE STAFF - WORST JOB I'VE EVER HAD ”

Current Employee - Inside Sales RepresentativeinPhoenix, AZ

I have been working at UPS full-time (more than an year)

Pros

They have decent pay, the hours were from 9-5 with no overtime, and the commissions were decent. Great work environment.

Cons

The people are complete idiots. Supervisors, Specialist, and HR are on these high horses and they treat employees like crap. Micro managing is EXTREMELY high and they treat Associates like high school teens. They don't have your best interest at heart and it is just an all around depressing environment only because of management.

Advice to Management

This place has the most horrible and stressful environment that you can ever work in. One of the managers told our team that since we didn't meet a goal he had to tell his wife he can't take her shopping!!! Seriously? How motivating is that. Another horrible statement was if we brought in $2 million - $3 million dollars we would get a pizza party. Come on, really?

Another thing was there is a lot of discrimination against minorities. I started with class 1 and every black person (including myself) have not been promoted to any positions since the launch of the site. All of the blacks have either been terminated, quit because of no advancement, or they're still there.

Get it together UPS...it's a great company with some scandalous and shady employees.

Oct 7, 2014

“UPS is a thankless employees with a large number of dissatisfied employees. I am looking forward to finding a different employer and escaping this toxic environment as soon as possible ”

Current Employee - Part Time Package HandlerinDes Moines, IA

I have been working at UPS part-time (more than 10 years)

Pros

The best reason to work here is for the benefits package for hourly employees. It is negotiated by the Teamsters union and is truly second to none.

Cons

Management is constantly breathing down your neck and demanding that you work at very high rates of production that prove impossible for most to sustain over time. The starting wage is terrible for the pace and menial nature of the work you will be asked to perform. They only offer a very small tuition assistance program on the midnight/graveyard shift--everyone else is simply out of luck. There is a constant, and ridiculously high, turnover of new and established employees, as most self respecting people find themselves unwilling to work under these types of conditions.

Advice to Management

Upper management should consider having semi-regular meetings with employee representatives to consider possible changes to workplace practices. If this does not happen, I believe that the company runs the risk of falling apart from the bottom up as prospective employees no longer give them serious consideration in the numbers necessary to maintain their operation.