Pros
- Security - Great Benefits Package - Generally good people to work with - Stock ownership for management
Cons
- Industrial Age company culture that reminds you of the military and stifles creativity. - You get LOTS of accountability and blamed for everything that goes wrong, but absolutely no power to make decisions to make things more efficient. - Rigid management incapable of thinking outside of the box. - Tons of inefficiency and redundancy that no one does anything about. - Corporate in ATL tries to micromanage everything while being completely out of touch with what is happening on the front lines. - Arrogant management whose egos are 10x the size of their brains or actual ability. - Management culture completely out of touch with trends in business and management philosophy. The whole place is like a black and white factory movie. - BAD for Gen Y, some Gen X, or anyone who really wants to love what they do. - Knee deep in politics; brown-nosers get promoted before brains. - Too much red tape; many levels of approval to get anything done. - Double talk; lots of hot air about "entrepreneurship", yet management people need 25 levels of approval and signatures for everything. - Way too top heavy with management; everybody has their hand in every pot trying to justify their jobs, creating a mountain of admin work for front line and mid management. - Too many lifers. You'll get the same promotion @ UPS @ age 40 or 45 that you will get at 28 or 30 at a younger, more hip company. - Surprisingly simple-minded management; lots of otherwise smart people have been trained to take orders and not think; they will expect you to do it too.