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I remember back during peak season (the Christmas holiday) at least 2 managers at UPS said it would slow down drastically during January.  They told me that it would be possible to get an entire week off because they would have too many people and end up sending people home every day.  If you asked your supervisor, he would gladly let you just not come in because it’s easier for him to plan knowing you just won’t be in all week.

BULL SHIT!

My girlfriend and I are planning to drive to New York City so that she can pack up everything from her apartment there and move back here to Ohio.  Ore plans were that we would head off Thursday morning so that we would have all of Friday and Saturday to pack up and spend one last weekend in NYC.

I asked my super today if I could have off the two days next week.  He just laughs and says we don’t have enough people that come in to guarantee I can get the days off.  Now I think that’s crap.  Just for the record I’m doing about 1200 boxes on Mondays and it tapers off each day of the week to where I do only about 800 pieces on Friday for my truck.  During peak I would do 2500-3000 average per day and even once I did 5000!  Last Friday we had 5000 pieces for the whole area! 

I think they can live without me for two days personally.  We only have 12 people on the roster for our area and they only run 9-10 a day anyways.  The problem apparently is that too many others don’t show up for work, which I find hard to believe.  I’ve see the same people every day at work for the last few weeks.  Where are these supposed slackers that don’t show up?  I’ve never seen any strange faces of these mysterious employees just appear once a week or anything.

I know I’m not exactly the model employee but I sure work hard.  I think he could be a little nice and work with me on this.  Since I’ve been working there I’ve only asked time off twice and missed one day of work.  I asked off once for a job interview and once to pick up my girlfriend from the airport.  The one day I missed was during the last big snow storm.  Our area was under a level 3 snow emergency.  For you that don’t live in snow areas, a level 3 is basically the worst.  It means most roads are un-drivable and in fact if the police, sheriff, or highway patrol catches you on the road they can pull you over and give you a ticket!  So there was no way I was going to go to work that day.

So Mr. Supervisor, let me get this straight?  I come in to work every day, where I’m usually the first there and usually the last to leave, I bust my hump and help out wherever I can.  All I want is two days off, when the load will be low anyways, but you can’t give it to me?

Thanks for nothing!