UPS facilities can't seem to find the funds to mow their grass, it's over a foot high now, cost cutting. Vendors are cancelling UPS accounts for non-payment. UPS is ruining it's reputation out there, no longer following policy book "we pay all our vendors on time". Drains are filling up in UPS facilities because the vendors who remove the sludge aren't being paid. Is this really how UPS wants to do business? How they want to be perceived? "Our people are our greatest asset" and yet, VRP's encourage employees with all the knowledge to leave, and then overload the remaining workers, not filling open positions (hiring freeze) and expecting them to take up the slack. The big benefits seem to be at the top, earned on the backs of those at the bottom. No longer proud to work for Big Brown. Embarrassed.
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I work for a division of this company and yes they pay vendors on UPS's terms, 90 days or more. I have vendors and/or carriers calling or emailing asking for payment. We pay thru a procurement officer where you have to email for service cause you cannot find a nbr for a live person. You get zero help form a supervisor or manager. I tell the customer if they choose to drop us, I woud do the same. They have also gotten rid of and will be employees in accounting in El Paso TX and Dallas TX and possibly Scranton PA to outsource to Pune India and Bogota Columbia. Combined, these employees have over 20yrs with company. At one point El Paso was a corporate office for accounting. In 2012 they got rid of about 11 or more of us and only kept 2. I had to find work in another dept that can now be on the crux of moving to Atlanta. Poorly run, they have cut hours since last Aug, mgt does nothing about operations people who get behind in their work. Instead they keep their hrs while mgt cuts office workers hrs and slow operations to work it with temporary company workers working or as well. They need an outside company to audit their operations. UPS only cares about nbrs not employees.
I work for a vendor who sells supply to them and I thought it was a rogue employee in purchasing that said they only pay every 120 days. I have invoices sitting, orders that have hold and won't ship because of that policy. Their people go without what they need to work because of the policy. I wonder if they pay their truck fuel bills late? Health insurance? Sounds dicey.