UPS MD-11 crash at SDF

Rather interesting that they "post dated" the MD11 retirement back to last year with this announcment. They were keeping crews current in the sim until today. Just goes to show you how much power the bean counters have. Someone in accounting decided that saying the MD11 was retired last year would look best on the books and they made it so.
 
WacoFan said:
People actually argued with my characterization of employees as motor oil.
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I learned that big brown was the devil when I worked for a feeder. They do not care about human life other than in how it moves the bottom line. Not that any of the others are any better, but little companies have the advantage of the leadership having to look you in the eyes while they •ed you. Small companies are often just as crooked, but there's something particularly evil about pretty much all organizations when they get above a critical mass of employees because of the abstraction between people and process. I couldn't tell you where that line is, but "motor oil" is exactly right. And before people misconstrue this as some dig at UPS, it's not - they're not really any different than any other shop. Your job will never love you back because you are motor oil, and do we care how much oil we burn? Only when it's causing problems elsewhere or may lead to issues elsewhere.

During peak I remember some young guy with a bull horn yelling at little old ladies to unload a truck "FASTER FASTER!" Peak is right, peak absurdity.
 
What sets UPS apart is it's a trucking company with airplanes (Fedex started as an airline and then got trucks). It's a completely different corporate mindset compared to a major pax airline. The biggest change I saw over the years was when the company went public. When it was private, there was accountability cause the managers owned the company. Once they went public, that was the start of them becoming just another large corporation run by bean counters.
 
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