Corporate cutbacks at UPS
 

UPS Cutbacks

Reported By: Bill Liss
Web Editor: Michael King
Last Modified: 12/11/2006 8:43:43 PM
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UPS Corporate Layoffs

As Atlanta-based UPS gears up for its busiest holiday delivery season yet, cutbacks are on the way at the corporate office.

The worldwide delivery service is offering voluntary separation agreements to 650 corporate staffers to eliminate what UPS calls redundant positions.

Employees have until the end of January to take the deals.

Don't you guys have multiple "chief pilots" for each a/c and seat?

We have a flight system CP and a CP for evey fleet. Then there are the ACP's that work under the CP.:D

We have, by far and away the highest number of "management pilots" of anyone in the industry. I THINK there are over 270 of them running around looking for something to justify their existance. Really important stuff like:

"Hey, there's a strand of hair touching the top of your left ear."

"Those shoes could use a shine."

"Look, a pile of magazines to straighten!"

"How about those Cardinals."

"There are no line guys to harrass, let's eat lunch."

In addition to the surveillance and suppression duties they are a non-union airline within an airline who have no duty limitations and creative MEL interpretations to keep volume moving at all costs. If we ever grew a set they, along with subcontractors could make a half hearted effort at breaking a strike...many were scabs in previous lives. Other than that they're great to have around.

seems like we have 1 acp per airplane, if not more

the cutbacks are to pay for those hefty pilot pay raises :)

That's sort of what I was getting at with my earlier post. Most other airlines have a CP (of the airline) and then an ACP for each jet or each crew base. Seems to me that when I worked at UPS, they had a bunch of "ACPs", and each pilot reported to a specific one. What a Richard dance. They used to be by seat, so the second officers on the 727 reported to different guys than the DC-8 second officers, etc. Is it still that way there?