UPS "package handler"

[NutritionFacts]

Hi all,

Has anyone had one of these jobs before? If so, what was your experience with it?

Thanks

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[toddzilla]

2. I was a loader for a few months

I think UPS is highly over rated as a company. I busted my ass and did recieve some recognition for it, but overall i found it to be more frustrating than anything. It doesn't pay well to start with, and expect to sweat your ass off every day. You are either a loader or unloader, loaders scan packages and build "walls" with them inside the trailers. unloaders do just that, i don't think they have to scan but i'm not sure.

it's hard work for little payoff if you ask me, although it may be good for a college student who wants part time work. the benefits are OK, and after a year you get a small tuition stipend, but it's not much.

[gold_bug]

4. I was also a loader

I thought the pay + benefits were decent, and in my opinion UPS treats their employees really well and makes sure the work environment is a good one for everyone (I should probably give credit to the Teamsters union for that too).

As toddzilla says, loading/unloading is very hard work, physical and fast paced. Where I worked, at least half of the new people didn't even last a week before they gave up and quit.

[toddzilla]

6. i intended on going for a supervisor position when i applied

After working for 2 months, and getting very positive feedback about my work i was "audited" where the supervisor scans all your packages before you do. when the "audit" came back i supposedly had scanned only 70% of my packages, which was a complete fucking joke. When i pointed out that i usually loaded about 1100 packages, and that i would have had to pass up several hundred packages without scanning, the super told me "yeah the audit thing isn't very accurate", and said that i can't have any misloads for a month prior to being accepted as a supervisor. He then told me that if a package has an old label on it that i scan instead of a new one that it's considered my fault somehow. I quit shortly therafter. every time i got my docks caught up they would just send me to another dock to take up their slack, which i got very sick of. That and the sorter that had 18 years in that just would not help no matter how backed up you were. They were trumpeting the installation of fans to blow into the trailers as some kind of second coming of christ or something. If your business has been open for 50+ years and you are just now getting around to putting a fucking fan in a trailer that is 120 degrees inside, i don't know what to say other than WTF?

i was unimpressed overall, but it could have just been my local ups station, which is a sizable hub (st. louis) it will keep/get you in shape probably. but it's not worth the 9.50 they pay you by a longshot.

[DS1]

3. I was a runner, truck to door during xmas rush

I thought that was tough, then I heard about the package handlers.

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