Originally Posted by koine2002
A number of my colleagues while I was working on my Master's degree paid for school working for the UPS Hub/sorting facility in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Apparently, It's a mess and they just throw stuff around. They tell me that sometimes an employee(s) up top will hold the boxes and let them all come down at once to play a prank on the guys at the bottom. Hence the damage. It sounds like poor leadership within that company to me.
I knew someone who worked at UPS for a short while. What you described happens frequently as boxes marked fragile were tossed harder since the dock workers considered this statement an insult forcing them to work harder for the same pay.