by Outcast_Searcher » Wed 26 Jan 2022, 12:42:20
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'B')y the end of summer, the employment situation may have turned around.
At my work, people are starting to quit because UPS wants to cut everybody's pay. They offer a bonus to make up the difference to the old pay, but they won't make any guarantees about how long it will last, or whether the terms will change capriciously. My guess is their economist(s) have told them they don't need to actually change the pay rate. The people who are quitting, they must be saying, will be coming back soon.
I know that's not the whole story. It must be part of it. I wonder what corporate expectations are?
This sounds more like rumor than fact the way it is stated. Is UPS actaully cutting "everyone's" pay, or is there talk among employees that "UPS wants to cut everyone's pay"?
When you say UPS is cutting pay, do you mean they're cutting salaries in the face of the inflation (which is obviously very bad), or they're ending Covid support, Covid danger bonuses, etc, which cuts net pay for people on the front line?
Not saying the second thing is "OK" until Covid is officially endemic (or functionally endemic for months), but the second thing is quite different in substance from the first thing.
A quick look, and I'm not finding a recent source re Google for "UPS cutting pay" that's more credible than a reddit discussion.
The discussion seemed to center around the contractual $15 an hour rate, vs. the seasonal bonus rate of $21. If UPS does seasonal hiring for the Christmas season and NOTIFIES people that's what it is (a seasonal bonus), then people getting mad at UPS when that pay is cut back to the NORMAL level is ridiculous, IMO.
If people don't want to do the hard physical work of sorting (often heavy, and at a fast rate all day on their feet) packages for $15 an hour, I understand that. If people expect holiday bonus rates to become permanent, that's unrealistic.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.