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any UPS employees here?

xcental34x

xcental34x

Feb 28, 2003
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I just started my 2nd tenure at UPS earlier today, awkwardly seeing all the old co-workers that I used to work with. I worked there before as an unloader and part-time supervisor for about a year, and I'll be starting in unload again. I don't know why I left in the first place. It's the most perfect job to have for a college student: good part-time job, benefits, tuition assistance. Anyone else here work for UPS?
 
#2
xcental34x said:
I just started my 2nd tenure at UPS earlier today, awkwardly seeing all the old co-workers that I used to work with. I worked there before as an unloader and part-time supervisor for about a year, and I'll be starting in unload again. I don't know why I left in the first place. It's the most perfect job to have for a college student: good part-time job, benefits, tuition assistance. Anyone else here work for UPS?
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I applied, waiting for respound. :)


Then again I applied to every place in 10 mile radius that does not ask for drug test or brain.
 
#3
kserg said:
I applied, waiting for respound. :)


Then again I applied to every place in 10 mile radius that does not ask for drug test or brain.
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I applied there while attending the U. of Utah (mid-eighties), and I didn't hear anything for quite a while. A friend who worked there let me in on a secret: He told me just to call the personnel guy and tell him that I received a call saying to call him about a job. I did so, and the guy rustled some papers on his desk and said something like:

"Oh yes... I have your file right here on my desk! Orientation is this Tuesday at 8 PM. Your name was what again?"

The following week, I had a job there. :D

I spent three years there as a sorter working for a great wage and short hours.
 
#4
Atoz said:
I applied there while attending the U. of Utah (mid-eighties), and I didn't hear anything for quite a while. A friend who worked there let me in on a secret: He told me just to call the personnel guy and tell him that I received a call saying to call him about a job. I did so, and the guy rustled some papers on his desk and said something like:

"Oh yes... I have your file right here on my desk! Orientation is this Tuesday at 8 PM. Your name was what again?"

The following week, I had a job there. :D
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HAHAHA!!!

That's awesome.
 
#7
Six years strong baby!!! Im working the Pre-Load as a sorter. I wouldn't say its a great job, but for the benefits you can't beat it.

Just make sure you finish school and don't make it your career. I work as a Personal Trainer in the afternoon. I make my good money there, and use UPS as like I said: benefits and employee discounts that they get. Go to upsers.com and check them out.
 
#10
Nope. That was Service Master. Service Master is proof that theoeconomics is a bad idea.

The pay isn't the best, but it beats flipping burgers at McDonalds, and it gives me the exercise that I won't do on my own will outside of work. Who knows, maybe one day I'll supervise again.... yeah, right.
 
#12
I've always wanted to work for UPS or FedEx. The UPS guy who delivers to my job also delivers to a swanky neighborhood where many Seattle pro athletes live. Sometimes, he shows us some of the boxes going to them.

-Mike
 
#14
My son worked for UPS when he was in college and hated it. He worked a night shift unloading trailers in Edison, NJ.

When I asked him why he quit, he said "If someone pulled a 45' trailer up in front of the house and told you that you had an hour to unload it by hand, then get paid $8.40 for that effort, would you do it?"

I have to admit, he had a point there ..... :help:
 
#15
He doesn't show us what is inside the boxes. As an example, he delivers to Ichiro Suzuki. At least once a week, Nike sends Ichiro several boxes of shoes and other items. So while our UPS guy is unloading our boxes, he'll point out that Nike boxes for Ichiro.

-Mike
 
#16
pointbass said:
My son worked for UPS when he was in college and hated it. He worked a night shift unloading trailers in Edison, NJ.

When I asked him why he quit, he said "If someone pulled a 45' trailer up in front of the house and told you that you had an hour to unload it by hand, then get paid $8.40 for that effort, would you do it?"

I have to admit, he had a point there ..... :help:
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Well, what kind of truck was it?
 
#19
xcental34x said:
Yup. It takes quite a few years to actually drive. But the kind of money they make is almost worth the wait.
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Yeah, big time waiting list to become a driver, but I've never seen an unhappy UPS driver... those guys are totally loyal to the company and they just seem to always been in the best of spirits. I don't know what they pull down, but it has to be all right by those observations. (Plus, you get to wear those bitchin' shorts in summer.)
 
#20
pointbass said:
My son worked for UPS when he was in college and hated it. He worked a night shift unloading trailers in Edison, NJ.

When I asked him why he quit, he said "If someone pulled a 45' trailer up in front of the house and told you that you had an hour to unload it by hand, then get paid $8.40 for that effort, would you do it?"

I have to admit, he had a point there ..... :help:
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$8.40? :eek: How long ago was that? They started me off at around that in 1985, and within a year or so, I was making $10.50 (and $15.75 for OT), which was some serious coin in 1986 Salt Lake City.
 

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