Pros
Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance Tuition Reimbursement
Cons
Rude, unprofessional managers engage in swearing, yelling, and aggressive behavior in the workplace. Physical altercations/fights witnessed on warehouse floor between hourly and management staff Employees are subject to body searches, wanding, disassembly of their coolers for, made to remove work boots, socks, and disrobe in front of security for inspections/checks Workplace does not drug test so many workers come in to work high on drugs or alternately low on drugs making them unfit for work and operating on compromised judgement Dangerous working conditions - falling objects may strike you on sort aisle or coming down from conveyer system several stories above you, chemical spills including acidic substances, hazardous materials handling UPS did not pay enough when I started working there to afford any costs of living. They started me at $8.50 per hour and when I left I was making $13.50 per hour after six years on the Twilight shift in 2018. I constantly had to defend myself against write ups for misloads and attempts to terminate me despite being a great worker as they sent other people into my work area who would make mistakes I would later be blamed for. The company terminated me while I was out sick with serious illness only months after my wife died on my birthday. They do not care about your kids, dependents, or significant other. There is no work/life balance. One night my wife had a car accident and needed me to come pick her up. The company did not want to release me from work to go attend to the emergency as part-time and full-time management was indifferent to my circumstances. This is unconscionable and speaks to a greater problem within management at the company. This makes the argument that UPS leadership and management lack any ethics or values at all except profit. There was abundant labor to cover my absence. They refused to let me leave because they could. After leaving at the end of the shift, I could not find my wife or the vehicle that was crashed into a ditch and the next day found it in an impound yard. My wife was later dropped off in the front yard at 3:30 a.m. in the morning. On the day my Dad was struck and killed by a truck, UPS district manager was indifferent and rude to both me and my supervisor despite me coming to work that night. UPS is completely callous to family emergencies that come up no matter the severity and does not compensate to make such treatment acceptable under any circumstances. A worker who has just lost their father should be shown much more empathy. Management would attempt to terminate pregnant workers, would cancel their insurance, and refuse to accommodate them in the workplace on coming in with lifting restrictions because they thought female workers working part time at UPS were too poor to secure legal representation to sue the company for unlawful discrimination against them and enforce their rights as pregnant women. Management would allow security to call women to the side for having different sized breasts, allow women to have their chests wanded, and ask women to disrobe suspecting them of concealing their personal cell phones in bra or cleavage. The company treated hourly workers like criminals coming in and out of the guard shack. It was routine to see workers who had worked with the company for many years passed over for much better paying driving positions working outside the building where workers who had just been hired experienced personal favoritism as friends of the human resources recruiter. I had to file more than 60 grievances in my time with UPS which averaged out to be about 7-8 per year on behalf of myself and separately my wife because of constant workplace harassment by part-time and full-time supervisors. There was racial bias against whites. I was referred to by one or more persons by my skin color rather than my name. I was continually targeted for my attempts to enforce the labor union contract rules preventing supervisors from working and stealing my hours. I observed that I would be missing overtime and entire days from my paycheck, resulting in the loss of substantial sums of money as management sought to pad their production numbers by making the overall hours worked appear to be much less than what was actually worked and in turn denying us compensation for our labor. Union enforcement of the contract was very poor. We were in constant conflict with management trying to get them to observe union contract guidelines and the business agent would not enforce the contract on behalf of Teamsters Local 988 Members where UPS was in continual breach and violation of labor rules. UPS cancelled my pregnant spouse's benefits for a year and refused to let her work in a position that would be less strenuous because they did not want to accommodate non-management employees who were pregnant where they would give accommodation to managers who were part-time.