5 Commandments for using a helper (On Topic)

[haller]

My co-worker said his driver dropped him off with multiple stops worth of boxes and then told him to meet him a few blocks away. Is that what being a driver helper is? Running after a truck after they make you deliver ? He described it as literally running after the truck.

Yep and seeing smiles on people as they receive their packages.

 

[What The Hawk?]

Yep and seeing smiles on people as they receive their packages.

Damn. Better get my legs ready. lol

 

[Box Ox]

My co-worker said his driver dropped him off with multiple stops worth of boxes and then told him to meet him a few blocks away. Is that what being a driver helper is? Running after a truck after they make you deliver ? He described it as literally running after the truck.

I'd only drop a helper off if I were coming back in his/her direction. Like if I gave 'em packages for 218, 220, 221 and I wanted to hit 237 at the end of a cul-de-sac while they do it.

Otherwise, we're both delivering if it's tight or I'm stopped and sorting the next 5 stops while the helper delivers. No running after the truck stuff. Helpers deserve better than that.

 

[soberups]

Slow day for sober, he needed something to do.

It seems like a relevant topic to reintroduce every November.

 

[What The Hawk?]

I'd only drop a helper off if I were coming back in his/her direction. Like if I gave 'em packages for 218, 220, 221 and I wanted to hit 237 at the end of a cul-de-sac while they do it.

Otherwise, we're both delivering if it's tight or I'm stopped and sorting the next 5 stops while the helper delivers. No running after the truck stuff. Helpers deserve better than that.

I'd only drop a helper off if I were coming back in his/her direction. Like if I gave 'em packages for 218, 220, 221 and I wanted to hit 237 at the end of a cul-de-sac while they do it.

Otherwise, we're both delivering if it's tight or I'm stopped and sorting the next 5 stops while the helper delivers. No running after the truck stuff. Helpers deserve better than that.

At my center there is a reminder that says "Helpers are humans not robots". I like that. I have a question though, do they put female helpers with male drivers and vice versa? I'm just wondering cause I would prefer to be with the same gender. But I can manage if it weren't that way.

 

[haller]

At my center there is a reminder that says "Helpers are humans not robots". I like that. I have a question though, do they put female helpers with male drivers and vice versa? I'm just wondering cause I would prefer to be with the same gender. But I can manage if it weren't that way.

Have you gone out yet? Have your icy hot ready for the temporary back pain. The jump seat does not fully support the spine.

 

[Box Ox]

do they put female helpers with male drivers and vice versa? I'm just wondering cause I would prefer to be with the same gender. But I can manage if it weren't that way.

Gender isn't considered in helper assignment as far as I know. But driver requests for specific helpers are generally honored. If a female driver knows you, speak up about it.

Sometimes certain helpers become known as all stars and the highest seniority driver requesting them gets to keep them.

I was a helper for a few years before coming on board as a part timer. Was a great experience with both female and male drivers. But I can definitely see how a female helper could get uncomfortable. It's a male dominated profession and smoke show helpers are noticed.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

We had a female helper accuse a male driver of sexual harassment. That coupled with other "errors" earned him his walking papers.

 

[What The Hawk?]

I know a few female drivers I would love to be helpers for. I just don't know how to ask them or tell them.

 

[Box Ox]

I know a few female drivers I would love to be helpers for.

Just ask. If the drivers are anything like me, they'd much prefer a volunteer to ask them and have some certainty now than play the lottery with an off street seasonal.

 

[Brownslave688]

At my center there is a reminder that says "Helpers are humans not robots". I like that. I have a question though, do they put female helpers with male drivers and vice versa? I'm just wondering cause I would prefer to be with the same gender. But I can manage if it weren't that way.

Seriously? Why would that matter? Is it 1940?

 

[Box Ox]

Seriously? Why would that matter? Is it 1940?

Some guys think it's 1940 if they get a hot helper.

 

[haller]

No one going to chime in on the jump seat? It needs to have the devil beaten out of it.

 

[Box Ox]

No one going to chime in on the jump seat? It needs to have the devil beaten out of it.

I'm gonna try to make mine the nicest in my center. Wrap it up in Christmas lights and a mattress topper or something. Appeal to the helper's butt comfort and holiday spirit in case we're still way short on helpers when stuff hits the fan and they get to choose their driver.

 

[soberups]

I could care less what gender my helper was as long as they did the job. Although I generally had better luck with females, they tended to be more reliable and detail-oriented than the guys. When you have less upper body strength you learn to work smarter not harder. It seemed like I had a harder time getting the guys to listen and pay attention.

 

[Brownslave688]

Some guys think it's 1940 if they get a hot helper.

Then they should be dealt with. Most of us are here to work and go home. End of story.

If the helper is looking to be harassed they are gonna read into things weather it's actually happening or not.

 

[What The Hawk?]

I don't feel comfortable with the idea of being a helper for a male driver. that's why I was asking. personal reasons. But if i must be put with a male driver, I'll ing deal with it. Thanks for the answers.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

I don't feel comfortable with the idea of being a helper for a male driver. that's why I was asking. personal reasons. But if i must be put with a male driver, I'll ing deal with it. Thanks for the answers.

If you want the extra work....Get over it. Most drivers are not going to risk losing their $100k a year job just to sexually harassing their female helper.

 

[Future]

I don't feel comfortable with the idea of being a helper for a male driver. that's why I was asking. personal reasons. But if i must be put with a male driver, I'll ing deal with it. Thanks for the answers.

If you can go to the right house I don't care if your a u unicorn ....get over yourself

 

[PT Car Washer]

If you want the extra work....Get over it. Most drivers are not going to risk losing their $100k a year job just to sexually harassing their female helper.

Who has the time. Get done and go home.