No hiring at UPS for the next TWO years!

[Clyde]

Per Rick Barr at a crew meeting Friday. He sees no hiring at UPS for the next two years. If UPS sticks to past practice, look for them to drain the hiring pool and start all over when the do resume hiring. Yes, that means that current poolies would have to reinterview.

 

[Windsor]

$hit....

 

[brownie]

He is a manager and his lips were moving. YOU DECIDE.

 

[fokkers&beer]

So much for the 100+ they talked about hiring in my indoc class last summer. I guess the field has been changed over the last 6 months.
Oh well, I don't mind sitting in the engineer seat for a couple of years, its only temporary.

 

[Windsor]

I think the age 65 rule is a contributing factor. Granted I'm on the outside looking in, but thats my guess.

 

[pony251]

Rick Barr cited the age 65 rule and the slowing economy(recession) as contributing factors.

 

[Fit59]

Age 65 is devastating to the junior pilot at UPS. It's all about timing, and if you are very senior and born in 1948 then your timing happened to work out well.

 

[AV80R]

... Yes, that means that current poolies would have to reinterview.

Is that what he said or are you assuming that based on his other comments? In the past some had to re-interview but I believe it was after more than 3 years in the pool (during no hiring period after 9/11)

 

[TravisMcgee]

Per Rick Barr at a crew meeting Friday. He sees no hiring at UPS for the next two years. If UPS sticks to past practice, look for them to drain the hiring pool and start all over when the do resume hiring. Yes, that means that current poolies would have to reinterview.

Clyde, you're nonchalant comment above basically just ruined my life. That's a pretty bold statement to make about the poolies being toast without giving one iota of information to back up your claim. Why didn't you ask the question at the crew meeting about the plans for the poolies? Is there anyone out there who could ask it now? I've heard that UPS is a great place to work if you don't mind being treated like a second class citizen. If the way they treat the poolies is any indication than I'm starting to believe it.

 

[AV80R]

Rick Barr cited the age 65 rule and the slowing economy(recession) as contributing factors.

So did he call the slowdown a recession? Or are you proclaiming that it is in fact a recession? Because if one of you says so - then it's official - the end of the world IS here!

 

[AV80R]

Clyde, you're nonchalant comment above basically just ruined my life ... I've heard that UPS is a great place to work if you don't mind being treated like a second class citizen. If the way they treat the poolies is any indication than I'm starting to believe it.

Travis - Please don't base your outlook on life on this message board. Neither should you base your view of your prospective future employer on "I've heard..." stories. The pool at big brown has been an enigma to all of us for years but you knew that when you applied here, didn't you?

I'm sure you're very nervous right now on what might happen in the future with your pool slot - I'd say keep doing what you're doing right now and things will probably work out after all. Remember the "slowdown" in hiring is a typical knee-jerk reaction many companies, not just UPS, have when there's a significant change in the economy or retirement legislation, in this case both.

However, when people start backing up the training department with all the extra training events, when the atmosphere here turns sour and folks get tired of picking up open time, when over 60 guys who miraculously got better to get back the left seat again start calling in sick again or go back on medical leave again , etc, they'll recognize that we might have to start hiring much sooner that that after all.

I'd imagine this early in the game no one, even R Barr, really knows when we'll need to be hiring again. Personally I think it'll be sooner rather than later.

Either way - good luck to you and to all the poolies - hang in there knowing that the guys who're already wearing the brown uniforms constantly keep pushing the company and the union to make sure the pool gets drained asap.