UPS 2023 quiet hiring freeze?

[Commercial Inside Release]

UPS Jobs - USA

Most of the listings are for management and automotive, zero for drivers, half a dozen for preloaders.
If you subtract duplicates there might be less than 200 listings. Normal would be around 2,000.

Edited to add: many of the supervisor jobs might be derelict listings, too.

 

[Thebrownblob]

UPS Jobs - USA

Most of the listings are for management and automotive, zero for drivers, half a dozen for preloaders.
If you subtract duplicates there might be less than 200 listings. Normal would be around 2,000.

Edited to add: many of the supervisor jobs might be derelict listings, too.

I’ve been told there is a hiring freeze where I am on full-time hourly.

 

[Rain Maker]

The reason they aren't hiring is because they're days away from laying off the seasonal workers.

 

[Sissy Brown Short Shorts]

Overheard some management at my building saying there’s going to be either a freeze on hiring and or significant layoffs. That they have lots of cover drivers that they don’t know what to do with. Usually in a recession though the first group of workers that get cleared out is useless middle management and other management redundancies. I’m middle of the pack in terms of seniority. Hopefully I’m unaffected and the Union doesn’t do something so stupid like strike.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Overheard some management at my building saying there’s going to be either a freeze on hiring and or significant layoffs. That they have lots of cover drivers that they don’t know what to do with. Usually in a recession though the first group of workers that get cleared out is useless middle management and other management redundancies. I’m middle of the pack in terms of seniority. Hopefully I’m unaffected and the Union doesn’t do something so stupid like strike.

Better start saving some money

 

[MECH-lift]

Almost time for the preloaders pay cut

Remember last year? EVERYONE QUIT ! LOL

 

[Thebrownblob]

Almost time for the preloaders pay cut

Remember last year? EVERYONE QUIT ! LOL

Good times, good times

 

[Babagounj]

Sounds like normal post-peak dribble.
The layoffs begin and, except for some drivers, everyone's hours will be cut.

 

[JustDeliverIt]

Almost time for the preloaders pay cut

Remember last year? EVERYONE QUIT ! LOL

My loader just asked me yesterday if I knew when they were dropping the pay. Must be getting ready to walk.

 

[Returntosender]

Almost time for the preloaders pay cut

Remember last year? EVERYONE QUIT ! LOL

 

[ManInBrown]

We’ve hired so many off the street feeder drivers here in the last 2 years. Gonna be a lot of unhappy people working on the pallet dock or completely laid off starting in the next few weeks. I gotta feeling it’s going to get real ugly In terms of layoffs. And it also doesn’t help that its contract year. UPS probably feels the gloomier they can paint the picture, the better.

 

[Thebrownblob]

We’ve hired so many off the street feeder drivers here in the last 2 years. Gonna be a lot of unhappy people working on the pallet dock or completely laid off starting in the next few weeks. I gotta feeling it’s going to get real ugly In terms of layoffs.

Off the street here means they don’t qualify to do package so they are laid off or can work in the building for less pay

 

[ManInBrown]

Off the street here means they don’t qualify to do package so they are laid off or can work in the building for less pay

Same here one exception being even former package drivers can’t go back to package. We don’t have that here, and the crazy thing is I could see former package drivers possibly being laid off. We have feeder drivers that aren’t even at top rate. That’s how quick they run thru the package to feeder list here. And I’m pretty sure the ones that go inside the building or the pallet dock remain at their pay rate.

 

[Thebrownblob]

Same here one exception being even former package drivers can’t go back to package. We don’t have that here, and the crazy thing is I could see former package drivers possibly being laid off. We have feeder drivers that aren’t even at top rate. That’s how quick they run thru the package to feeder list here. And I’m pretty sure the ones that go inside the building or the pallet dock remain at their pay rate.

I believe as long as it’s not been 12 months they can come back here I can’t remember the exact time although most don’t bother lol.

 

[ManInBrown]

One has to wonder if the over hiring the last few years here, and I’m sure it’s happened elsewhere was hoping they’d have drivers that would cross the line in the event of a strike. It’s such a stark contrast IMO between package transfers to feeders, and off the street. They know nothing about the way the company operates and most don’t bother to educate themselves. There’s a disconnect.

 

[KearsargeCoop]

We’ve hired so many off the street feeder drivers here in the last 2 years. Gonna be a lot of unhappy people working on the pallet dock or completely laid off starting in the next few weeks. I gotta feeling it’s going to get real ugly In terms of layoffs. And it also doesn’t help that its contract year. UPS probably feels the gloomier they can paint the picture, the better.

Could be used/viewed the opposite tho too.
Corp could keep people on/working then come contract says "look how many we've hired and kept on", "look at our labor costs, highest in years. all for you, cut down on OT, 9.5 etc"

 

[Trucker Clock]

I believe as long as it’s not been 12 months they can come back here I can’t remember the exact time although most don’t bother lol.

18 months in the Central.

 

[Thebrownblob]

18 months in the Central.

Thank you I couldn’t remember exactly how long

 

[ManInBrown]

We can tra

I believe as long as it’s not been 12 months they can come back here I can’t remember the exact time although most don’t bother lol.

We can go back and maintain package seniority in the first 30 days of being in feeders. After that it needs to be a transfer and we have classification seniority so would be back at the bottom again. There’s no going back for layoffs though.

 

[margaritaville]

We’ve hired so many off the street feeder drivers here in the last 2 years. Gonna be a lot of unhappy people working on the pallet dock or completely laid off starting in the next few weeks. I gotta feeling it’s going to get real ugly In terms of layoffs. And it also doesn’t help that its contract year. UPS probably feels the gloomier they can paint the picture, the bet

easy ass jobs are going close to 20 an hour now. It's gonna be hard to convince lazy ass people to do UPS truck driving. So even in a recession hopefully UPS realizes no one is gonna do this level of work without good pay.