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Q&A With UPS Employees

UPS employees answer questions about what life is like behind the scenes at their company, including queries about culture, leadership, professional development, and compensation.

How employees describe working at UPS

Toxic work environment, set up to fail

Review from Operations Dept

Caring about the employees instead of the shareholders.

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being human and appreciating and trusting their teams

Review from Operations Dept

Our yearly sales plan is set up to fail so that a great majority are not rewarded for gains. These need to be aggressive but also realistic.

Review from Marketing Dept

Challenging me..to be the best

Review from Operations Dept
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What it's like to work at UPS

  • UPS employees generally work 9.0 hrs a day
  • Employees at UPS report the work pace is extremely fast
  • On a typical day, employees at UPS have 1 meeting
  • 77% of UPS employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
  • UPS employees most often take 20-30 paid vacation and sick days each year
  • 39% of UPS employees report they are happy with their work life balance
  • UPS employees never get valuable feedback on how to improve at work
  • 51% of UPS employees call their work environment positive

Q&A With UPS Employees

Asked to all employees at UPS

  • That I earned my money !! My customers loved me !! Very accomplished

  • Love my job

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  • no pets

  • No..never

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Asked to the Engineering Department at UPS

  • Fair. But your treated like a number

  • Poor

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Asked to the Engineering Department at UPS

  • Structured work does not enable you to make any changes

  • Very diverse but stretched to the absolute maximum.

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Asked to all employees at UPS

  • most of the time no

  • No, the only acceptable feedback is "yes sir" and "how high?"

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Asked to all employees at UPS

  • Yes

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Asked to all employees at UPS

  • Ask yourself "Do I have the mental focus and discipline to stick with it when things get tough?"

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Asked to all employees at UPS

  • Classroom training, basic hands on training, safety and observation lasted about 2 weeks for me, but it can vary from location to location and on the job role that you are going to be doing.

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Asked to the Customer Support Department at UPS

  • When was the most difficult situation you were in and how and what steps did you take to resolve it?

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Asked to all employees at UPS

  • No outings

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Asked to the Business Development Department at UPS

  • Tell me about a time your persuaded someone. Tell me about a sale you made. Use the STAR method to answer.

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Asked to all employees at UPS

  • Volunteering

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Asked to the Engineering Department at UPS

  • You will need to sell your soul to them and work in other departments by force even if you have no knowledge of area

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Asked to the Engineering Department at UPS

  • Speed and amount of packages being delivered...there are other variables. I don't recommend working for UPS.

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Asked to the Marketing Department at UPS

  • We're getting there, and it is improving. Every year we bring in more well-rounded, business oriented, professionals capable of sharing value-oriented (vs price oriented) stories that elicit a customer "call to action."

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35% of UPS employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 19% are neutral and 46% would not recommend working at UPS to their friends.

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