Uline has always been reactive instead of proactive. For example: They wait until a building is way over capacity before they build a new one that's just barely bigger.....and they run out of room again in a year. They still run our systems using AS-400 for God sake. It's so old, schools no longer teach this type of programming to students, so anyone who was trained how to program it is older (no offense) and dying off. Literally - we had one of our programmers pass away earlier this year and we have a really hard time hiring people to work with this system because they just don't exist. They say they're working on getting us a newer system, but its taking them forever. How is it that over the years Uline still hasn't learned from their mistakes?
They're so behind the times. Liz Uihlein still wants to send out mass amounts of paper catalogs even though most customers shop online. And when one of those customers asks to be removed from our mailing list do you know what happens? We usually don't remove them. That's right! We tell them that we'll do it, but it's common practice not to.
Liz requires women to wear panty hose half the year. How old fashioned is that? And don't get me wrong. That's not my major complaint here but it shows just how out of touch with current times there are. Just like covid-19.
Just because Liz feels covid-19 has been "over-hyped", "a huge disruption" and "not as rampant as the press would have you make it" (all her words) doesn't mean we all feel that way. Most of us are scared. Some of us live with immune-compromised people. There's people with newborns or elderly parents or grandparents living with them who are high risk. Even though most people recover from the disease, we're still learning about what it does to the body long term: it damages the lungs permanently, can cause blood clots, liver damage, heart damage, you get the idea. Many have felt tremendous relief being able to work from home. And even though the corporate office has been shut down for 9 weeks with only minimal people in the building, we still ended up with 2 employees contracting covid-19 last week while in the office. And you think its a good idea to bring us all back in the office right now?
