Already injured two weeks in, what do I do?

[upschuck]

If you get hurt this early in your career they see you as a liability.

I had an injury in my probationary period, and I'm still here.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I had an injury in my probationary period, and I'm still here.

Every once while somebody slips through cracks.....

 

[upschuck]

Every once while somebody slips through cracks.....

Or I was just that good.

 

[Fido]

How do you get hurt doing trash duty

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Or I was just that good.

Umm...

 

[upschuck]

Umm...

Really.

 

[Big Rigger]

I never heard of recycling.

It's part of dispatch on Mondays..

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

It's part of dispatch on Mondays..

Upstate NY?

 

[542thruNthru]

I had an injury in my probationary period, and I'm still here.

Yeah because you're a supervisor. You guys are born liabilities.

 

[Big Rigger]

I had an injury in my probationary period, and I'm still here.

Probably because when the Management said jump you jumped.
Ribbit.

 

[Big Rigger]

How do you get hurt doing trash duty

Porter paralysis.

 

[Big Rigger]

Upstate NY?

After his shift at H&R he comes in to scrub the manager's office for free just to get to smell the familiar scent of cardboard..

 

[eats packages]

It's part of dispatch on Mondays..

Mondays are just as much a chit show inside as they are on route. So much completely and utterly unnecessary labor that could have been avoided and this is on the day where people are most likely to be completely sleep deprived, hungover, or called out sick.

Is it literally just taking stuff off the end of the belt and running it back up to the front? Sounds dreadful.

 

[Big Rigger]

Mondays are just as much a chit show inside as they are on route. So much completely and utterly unnecessary labor that could have been avoided and this is on the day where people are most likely to be completely sleep deprived, hungover, or called out sick.

Is it literally just taking stuff off the end of the belt and running it back up to the front? Sounds dreadful.

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Sad but true.

 

[SorryLazyPOS]

How do you get hurt doing trash duty

He had to throw himself in there.

 

[burrheadd]

I had an injury in my probationary period, and I'm still here.

that sounds about right
You fall off a toad stool?

 

[Steamer]

If you get hurt this early in your career they see you as a liability.

I mentioned that preload at the split was hurting my shoulder some and I wanted to drive. So they made me a full time RPCD. Go figure. I did come in 150 clicks under just about daily for seasonal though. I never signed up for preload. I didn't complain to quit working though. I just didn't want to do preload and they knew it.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I mentioned that preload at the split was hurting my shoulder some and I wanted to drive. So they made me a full time RPCD. Go figure. I did come in 150 clicks under just about daily for seasonal though. I never signed up for preload. I didn't complain to quit working though. I just didn't want to do preload and they knew it.

Everyone has a different story. The bottom line with the economics today if a new employee is going to get hurt UPS does not want that liability

 

[No1 Special]

Hello, I am a new employee and I am not sure what to do about this situation. They have me doing recycling which involves walking a cart full of boxes back and fourth for four hours straight. The first day they put me to work I started getting pain at the base of my big toe. I believe it is called sesamoiditis and it takes six weeks to heal IF you let your foot rest which is not an option for me. I also must have hurt my thumb yesterday because I have all the symptoms of arthritis. The back of my knee is killing me too. I really need this job to pay for college but I am afraid my body won't even work by the end of the year. If I ask them to put me in a different department, such as small sort, will they let me? If I pretend that I just got the injury today what will they do? Because I dont want them saying that I did not get injured there when it is so obvious. My body has never had this many injuries at once. Also can anyone provide tips for keeping myself safe? Thank you.

I had the same issues as you have when I first started at UPS, what worked for me was having my Mom come in to talk to my supervisor. Once she explained how soft I was, they gave me really easy jobs in the building.

 

[542thruNthru]

I had the same issues as you have when I first started at UPS, what worked for me was having my Mom come in to talk to my supervisor. Once she explained how soft I was, they gave me really easy jobs in the building.

@Jkloc420 did the same thing. Now's he's a PT sup.