Lack of control on a center level

[Brownslave688]

I don't know about how many people quit, but I do know UPS really jack up the PPH to where all you can do is just throw the boxes into the truck and hope it is the right truck. Misloads are thru the roof some days. Can't keep preloaders or preloads sups. I wonder if there is a connection.

You know once you knew your trucks I don't see how PAL is that much faster. I was one of the few sorters that actually passed the sort test. In my heyday I could keep up with two unloaders for about half a trailer.

Now with the new scanners it's two sorters per unloader.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Really. 2 unloaders? You must have been an animal. Had unloaders that almost put me to sleep and had unloaders that made me sweat in January. Kind of miss those days.

 

[FilingBluesFL]

Really. 2 unloaders? You must have been an animal. Had unloaders that almost put me to sleep and had unloaders that made me sweat in January. Kind of miss those days.

The whole reason I'm an employee to this day, is because I used to blow trailers out when I was hired for peak season. I did anything and everything I could to get out of those trailers in an ungodly amount of time, to make sure I stood out from the crowd.

Needless to say I was kept on after holiday, because I turned a few heads for the "right" reasons.

 

[Brownslave688]

Really. 2 unloaders? You must have been an animal. Had unloaders that almost put me to sleep and had unloaders that made me sweat in January. Kind of miss those days.

Yep back when I was trying to impress. Sup would always say I'll get another sorter over here ASAP. A few times I kept up for a whole trailer but at some point you're just slinging and don't really have much confidence in where it's going.

 

[Brownslave688]

The whole reason I'm an employee to this day, is because I used to blow trailers out when I was hired for peak season. I did anything and everything I could to get out of those trailers in an ungodly amount of time, to make sure I stood out from the crowd.

Needless to say I was kept on after holiday, because I turned a few heads for the "right" reasons.

Yep even though I wasn't seasonal I was young and knew ups was my shot at a career with no degree.

I knew I had a 30 day probation and I knew there was no way anyone hired with me was going to out work me. All this after I worked a 4pm-2:30am shift at an auto parts plant.

 

[FilingBluesFL]

Yep back when I was trying to impress. Sup would always say I'll get another sorter over here ASAP. A few times I kept up for a whole trailer but at some point you're just slinging and don't really have much confidence in where it's going.

As long as the labels were up, I could handle two unloaders, one that was beasting it.

When the a-holes put all the labels down, I'd hit that Shiny Red Button like it was going out of style (Conveyor stop).

When I was on layoff, I had to butt heads with this ignorant supervisor. I was more than happy to hit the Shiny Red Button for any/everything I could lol He gets soooo angry.

 

[FilingBluesFL]

Yep even though I wasn't seasonal I was young and knew ups was my shot at a career with no degree.

I knew I had a 30 day probation and I knew there was no way anyone hired with me was going to out work me. All this after I worked a 4pm-2:30am shift at an auto parts plant.

When I was working during peak, I'd go to my full time job pushing shopping carts for a major big box retailer from 3pm to 11:50pm, drive straight to UPS, start at 12:05am until 9am.

Rinse, sleep, repeat Mon-Friday. I lost about 80lbs or so, went down a couple belt sizes.

 

[PT Car Washer]

The Shiny Red Button that just shuts your belt off or the one that shuts the whole building down?

 

[Brownslave688]

The Shiny Red Button that just shuts your belt off or the one that shuts the whole building down?

If you're a sorter at least in my building u shut it all down.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Emergency Stop. Hurry up and reset before the tower can see which stop it is.

 

[jumpman23]

You know once you knew your trucks I don't see how PAL is that much faster. I was one of the few sorters that actually passed the sort test. In my heyday I could keep up with two unloaders for about half a trailer.

Now with the new scanners it's two sorters per unloader.

At the end of our shift when I was on preload, they would always have me finish down the stretch. I was the fastest sorter and they would routinely have 3 guys unloading on me. I would kill them dudes. The preload supe was always like dam dude your a bad dude, I aint never seen anybody sort that fast and keep up with 3 guys unloading a trailer on them. Yeah this kid was a freak lol.

 

[What'dyabringmetoday???]

Feeder drivers control EVERY center. Lol?

 

[PT Car Washer]

O Kay. Anybody sort for 4 unloaders? How about 5?

 

[Brownslave688]

At the end of our shift when I was on preload, they would always have me finish down the stretch. I was the fastest sorter and they would routinely have 3 guys unloading on me. I would kill them dudes. The preload supe was always like dam dude your a bad dude, I aint never seen anybody sort that fast and keep up with 3 guys unloading a trailer on them. Yeah this kid was a freak lol.

3 people to a trailer sounds like a cluster .

 

[Brownslave688]

O Kay. Anybody sort for 4 unloaders? How about 5?

This one time on preload.....

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Alpha charts were better than PAS/Orion is today.

Load charts could not handle today's volume.

 

[PT Car Washer]

Load charts could not handle today's volume.

You are exactly right on that. Would have to have a preloader for every car. But UPS wants less drivers.

 

[BCFan]

You know once you knew your trucks I don't see how PAL is that much faster. I was one of the few sorters that actually passed the sort test. In my heyday I could keep up with two unloaders for about half a trailer.

Now with the new scanners it's two sorters per unloader.

I believe you because that scanner is bogus. I do a shuttle that requires me to unload a van and those sorters are slowed down by that scan and slap junk. When I started in 79 I was a unloader and love to smoke those sorters. Talking smack and kicking crack!

 

[Anonymous 11]

Card files. RD/RR Box numbers. EC? Yeah, right. Every single package was attempted every single day. "Call the center" meant finding a payphone.


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It definitely was a lot different than today. You can do more stops so I get that aspect but the decisions you and I had to make back then would make these knew generation of drivers head spin.

 

[Anonymous 11]

Same for preloaders. They really had to know their shtuff. Had to have a good memory.

That was the measure of a great preloader back then. We had some guys the pat were like rainman.