r/UPSers

Only 9 hours left to my day 🙃

Hi. I'm looking for my first job. I just had an interview to work as a retail associate with one of UPS's ground stores, and it was kind of strange. The manager seemed like he was trying to intimidate me (intentionally or unintentionally) about the environment of the job, talking about how he's terrible to work with and a brutal supervisor; he also asked me a ton of weird / possibly illegal questions to try to gauge why i applied i think? (He asked me if I had Anxiety/ADHD, who I live with, how long I've lived here, how long they've lived here, what kind if car I drive, when I got my driver's license, just to name the worst ones) He was super adamant about me being sure I needed this job because it was apparently going to be very intense. He described the training process and it seemed pretty alright to me -- carry a notebook around, listen watch and learn, learn on your feet kind of thing. But this supervisor is giving me a ton of red flags and I don't know if this is going to be a good choice for my first job.

Is working as a package processor in store really that intense? Or rather is the learning curve as brutal as he's making it seem? I'm going to be paid minimum wage ($12) so I don't know if it's going to be the most insane job on the planet.

I mean, this is all depending on if I pass the 'first round' or not to even give me the option to move on to training, but I'm getting really bad feelings about this manager. Despite his brutal attitude, it didn't seem very professional at all.

Anything helps, thanks :)

I’ve been with the company for 6 years working preload and in those years they’ve only hired 1 FT driver. Our center has been sending everyone to intergrad in the warehouse and using about 5+ utility drivers everyday as well as calling other drivers from different centers to drive routes. Literally half of preload is listed as utility. It’s annoying because UPS is taking advantage of the utility driving jobs and not hiring anyone for FT when there is clearly work that can be FT. Anyone else having this issue and how can it be solved, I’m local 665 Northern Cali and looking for help in what can be done to do what’s right and get more FT jobs to ones in need including myself. Thanks for listening and have a great day Teamsters 🫡

So, yesterday I was dropping my air at the meet point and got a call wanting me to go take stops from somebody. I said no, I had shit to do today. A few minutes later, another call from a different supervisor asking the same thing. I gave the same answer. When I got to the building the building manager asks who did you tell you had things to do today? I looked at him like he was crazy and said nobody. He says, from now on you need to let somebody know before hand. This same day thing doesnt work for me. I said yeah, ok.

But wtf?! Is there specific language in the contract that says we are obligated to work overtime? Cuz for me, this is my job, not my life. UPS is my employer, not my owner. I hurry up and finish to go home, not go help somebody who only goes out with 90 stops and makes it a 12 hour day. Usually I will go help but this irritated tf out of me.

Is there anything in the contract that says you must work overtime?

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 work the am preloader shift and they keep having me do 5 truck slip, and scan work 6 days a week and we working about 6 hours a day.. my question is I thinking about switching to twlight night shift, what shift is better?

The title pretty much sums it up. Has anyone worked for these guys in central Florida? I don’t outright hate my current job. The benefits are rock solid. The training,however, sucks and the supervisor fairly well told me that he didn’t care if I quit. I never stopped putting in applications since the day I started. Clean class A with THX and doubles/triples endorsements.

Currently a 22.2 bid is in my center (I signed my name on it already lol), what is 22.2 about? What kinda duties do they do and if I get it how will that affect me since I’m a pt preloader doing rtd/tcd. I get confused with all these 22.2/22.3/22.4 and whatnot lol

My boyfriend drives for UPS, and he said you can ask any driver out there— if you start out your morning with full ass shelves but a clear walkway? you having a good day. but if have completely empty shelves with irregs all over the floor, your day is fucking going over those boxes lmao

is it really that much worse?

I have called off 3 days in a row and now the ft sup is saying I have to file for disability… is this good or bad?

Why can they send a message asking for help on local sort every day, not finish preload on time, and not have any more drivers to put in more routes.... yet there are no job postings for our area. 🤦

I have anxiety and I am really nervous about attending integrad. Anyone else dealing with anxiety? If so, how or any advice on how to get through integrad?