What's one thing you wish you'd known before joining UPS?

While top level executives have good intentions for the organization, mid level management doesn't understand what it means to groom the next generation of leaders. Regretfully, the culture is that if you haven't come up through the UPS ranks, then you don't know UPS, and therefore your leadership potential is curtailed. Finally, to have a dissenting opinion in a management meeting is to invite jeers, snicker or sneers. In public Management (Mid or other) wants to hear what you have to say. Inside the office, its a "work as directed" attitude.

Getting in the 401k the 1st day of eligibility. Would have bigger balance if I had joined 10 years earlier.

That they were going to change the age of retirement as soon as I got close to it

How hateful the atmosphere is. The supervisors are trained to cheat, rob, steal from the hourly employees.

Do not believe that it will get better with your seniority. Good people will be abused.

That the job would have gotten worse as the years passed.

That once they have you..... THEY HAVE YOU

How much the job wears on my body.

How to stand up to overbearing management.

How strenuous and physical the job is.

how disposable their employees really are

It operates just like the Army.

That they don't follow a contract

It's a back stapping job

How they treated their employees

Promises that are not kept

They employees badly

Bad management.