Early Start

[iDontWorkAtUps]

Starting an hour early Monday. Anyone else?

We started at 12 (midnight)

 

[McGee]

We do Target and Gap pickups every Saturday to ease the strain on local sort Monday. Allows us to have guys in early to start sorting the smalls and get everything in the trailer before the main sort starts. They filled a package car with Target alone yesterday. Should be interesting tomorrow.

They just dropped a feeder trailer at one here, they have so much!

 

[SubPop79]

Loader here...do we get lunch breaks? I gotta go in at 3 p.m. and will probably be there till 11 p.m. (hopefully). The last few peaks this wasn't an issue, but being a little more health conscious this year, I need to know.

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Loader here...do we get lunch breaks? I gotta go in at 3 p.m. and will probably be there till 11 p.m. (hopefully). The last few peaks this wasn't an issue, but being a little more health conscious this year, I need to know.

You get your paid break. But no lunch

 

[SubPop79]

You get your paid break. But no lunch

I take it that paid break is after 5-6 hours?

 

[FrigidFTSup]

I take it that paid break is after 5-6 hours?

I always tried to do it at the halfway point.

 

[hondo]

Loader here...do we get lunch breaks? I gotta go in at 3 p.m. and will probably be there till 11 p.m. (hopefully). The last few peaks this wasn't an issue, but being a little more health conscious this year, I need to know.

If you want/need a lunch break, look up your state's laws about breaks (or call whatever state agency covers labor issues for that info). Most likely you are entitled to an unpaid break. Remind your FT supvr about said law, and you should be accommodated. Your union shop steward should be able to back you up.

For example, when I was PT preload shift and starting at 11:30 PM or midnight, I took a 30 minute unpaid break between 3 and 4 AM.

 

[browner89]

We're expecting to run 2pm-12am and get kicked out before finishing for the preload to start. Happened last year on this day as well. Bring food and hot chocolate if your building has a microwave accesible like ours!

 

[browner89]

If you want/need a lunch break, look up your state's laws about breaks (or call whatever state agency covers labor issues for that info). Most likely you are entitled to an unpaid break. Remind your FT supvr about said law, and you should be accommodated. Your union shop steward should be able to back you up.

For example, when I was PT preload shift and starting at 11:30 PM or midnight, I took a 30 minute unpaid break between 3 and 4 AM.

^ this, look it up. If you're in my state you're SOL. Part Time jobs are not entitled to a break because of job classification, but we're not the rule, more of an exception I believe.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Actually Monday start time was pushed back 15 minutes here.

We were supposed to start at 0910 but the center manager let us go at 0850. 20 minutes makes a huge difference.

 

[Drink Craft Beer]

Started at 1:50am, but for a usual Monday would be no earlier than 5:00am (start 3:30am tomorrow)

Sup stopped the unloading about 8:15am to get wrapped up, but still had 200% in the yard. I didn't ask why, but assumed cause package cars were pretty much full.

 

[Returntosender]

Started at 1:50am, but for a usual Monday would be no earlier than 5:00am (start 3:30am tomorrow)

Sup stopped the unloading about 8:15am to get wrapped up, but still had 200% in the yard. I didn't ask why, but assumed cause package cars were pretty much full.

West Coast grape vine, Ontario Air Hub, don't have enough planes to get the air packages out.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Our preload is starting at 4 tomorrow morning with projected volume just over 14K.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Our preload is starting at 4 tomorrow morning with projected volume just over 14K.

Getting out at noon?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Getting out at noon?

9:25 driver start.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

9:25 driver start.

I meant with the preload starting so late.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I meant with the preload starting so late.

That is early.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

That is early.

Our preload starts at 23:30

 

[scratch]

We started at the usual 9:00 time and I left the building 35 minutes later. Our Preload stinks and it never will get any better. They did start the golf cart route on my area and I got an easy day without a Helper. I'm the Apex driver on our loop and they started the C route between the B route and myself. I will take any easy day I can before stuff hits the fan.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

We started at the usual 9:00 time and I left the building 35 minutes later. Our Preload stinks and it never will get any better. They did start the golf cart route on my area and I got an easy day without a Helper. I'm the Apex driver on our loop and they started the C route between the B route and myself. I will take any easy day I can before stuff hits the fan.

A routes rule!