u/_IsaacReeder

Late last night, I tried calling my hub to call in sick for today, but nobody answered and there wasn’t a way for me to leave a voicemail.

After that, I texted both of my preload supervisors letting them know that I wouldn’t be able to make it in today. I woke up this morning and still haven’t gotten a response from either of them, and nobody has tried calling me.

Am I pretty much in the clear since I made an attempt to call and then notified both supervisors by text? Or should I be worried about getting an attendance point/discipline for this?

Just wondering how this is usually handled at UPS.

I’m a preloader and lately it feels like a huge amount of packages coming down the belt need to be taped up before they can even go into the package car.

Between trying to keep up with the flow, getting everything into the correct truck, and dealing with bulk, stopping to tape boxes feels like it puts me even further behind.

How do you experienced preloaders handle this? Do you stop and tape them as they come down, throw them in the truck and deal with them later, or is there a better way to keep up without getting buried?

Curious what everyone else does, because it feels like I’m wasting a ton of time taping instead of actually loading.

I’m a UPS preloader who about 45 days in and there’s one driver in particular whose truck I load that I swear I can’t win with.

No matter how hard I try or how much effort I put into getting her truck loaded correctly, there’s always something wrong. If the packages aren’t in the exact order she wants, she complains. If something gets loaded in a way she doesn’t like, she complains. If I’m trying to keep up with the belt and don’t have time to organize everything perfectly, somehow that becomes a problem too.

And instead of just coming to me and saying something, she always seems to run straight to management and complain about it.

The frustrating part is that I’m genuinely trying. I’m not purposely throwing her packages in there or making her job harder. I’m loading multiple trucks at the same time while packages are constantly coming down the belt, and sometimes the priority is simply getting everything into the right truck before it piles up.

I’ve even started paying extra attention to her truck because I know she’s going to find something to complain about anyway. But at this point it feels like no matter what I do, I’m still going to hear about something.

For the drivers/preloaders here: How do you deal with that one driver who seems impossible to please? Do you just stop worrying about it and do the best you can, or is there actually a way to keep these drivers happy?

I’ve been doing preload since June, and I’m honestly wondering if it ever starts to feel manageable.

Every day I’m assigned 3 trucks, usually somewhere between 160–220 packages per truck. I work as fast as I possibly can, but I still end up getting so far behind that they have to send 2–4 people down at the end of the shift just to help clear everything out.

I feel like I’m constantly fighting the belt and trying to keep up, and once I get behind, it feels almost impossible to catch back up.

For those of you who have been doing preload for a while: does it actually get easier with experience, or is this just what the job is like? Is there something I’m missing that could help me keep up better?