UPS is a joke! Not what it use to be and flat out sucks!!!!

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jibbs

Guest
Sounds like a cry baby to me. It is a manual labor job of-course it is going to suck. I been loading for seven years. The things you are complaining about are minor. This job is not meant for everyone our hub for the last 4 years has 100% turnover rate because people just aren't tough anymore.

Crybaby? Seems more like venting to me. I'd be ready to talk someone's ear off too if I hadn't been paid for several weeks, not to mention my first several weeks with the company.

Sure, the things he's mentioned are minor but when you couple minor issues with slave labor I think venting online is one of the most reasonable, least drastic measures Axel could've made.


This was a rather humorous troll thread

Jesus, this forum is gosh darn obsessed with trolls. Leave that **** be, man. I'm starting to think most of you just see something you don't agree with 100% and shout "TROLL!" at the top of your lungs. **** is ridiculous....
 

Notcool

Well-Known Member
Crybaby? Seems more like venting to me. I'd be ready to talk someone's ear off too if I hadn't been paid for several weeks, not to mention my first several weeks with the company.

Sure, the things he's mentioned are minor but when you couple minor issues with slave labor I think venting online is one of the most reasonable, least drastic measures Axel could've made.

Seen it numerous times where guys gave the wrong account number and there check never came. When I switched to direct deposit it to three weeks to start working.
 

ChickenLegs

Safety Expert
Jesus, this forum is gosh darn obsessed with trolls. Leave that **** be, man. I'm starting to think most of you just see something you don't agree with 100% and shout "TROLL!" at the top of your lungs. **** is ridiculous....



It is clearly a troll thread. But go ahead, keep giving advice to Loyal Teamster
 
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jibbs

Guest
Could be, might not be. I've learned to give the benefit of the doubt in situations where I can't definitively prove a point. LT's got a good side, a bad side, and then I'm assuming there's the actual personality of the person behind the keyboard lurking under one of his persona's. When he's a dick, I treat him accordingly. When he's not a dick, I try to treat him with at least the amount of civility I would expect a person to approach me with.

If this is his thread, let him get his rocks off by creating fictitious scenarios to play off the emotions of us here at BrownCafe. If it's not his thread, what possible harm could come from responding?


If I'm thinking clearly here (and I'm pretty sure I am), absolutely no harm will come from this. I come here to learn and talk in my downtime, not to single out people and refuse to acknowledge them with anything other than "TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLLLL!!!!!11!!!!!!"
 

Brownslave688

You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
How it used to be? I was delivering packages probably 20 years before you were born so don't lecture me on how UPS used to be. Welcome to the real world of accountability and responsibility. Thru your journeys in life if you find nirvana at a job let us know about it.

To start off you don't know my age and if you read correctly there isn't any lecture about how it use to be! It's about my experience! I have 9 family members who are employees of ups so just like you, I've heard tons of stories about how much things have changed! I've heard 37 years of personal ups experiences from my grandfather, so yes how it use to be! Furthermore, If you've had the pleasure of packing a feeder truck in this day and time, not 30 years ago then you understand how demanding the job is and when things don't work it makes the job a lot more difficult and still i'm there each and every night 30 minutes before my shift! So being in a sloppy hub full of broke down equipment and management who refuses to pay me, there is no question of my accountability and how responsible I am! Thank you for your negative, pointless reply!

It's a hard job we all know its a hard job. Suck it up and do it or quit. There really isn't anymore to it.
 

you aint even know it

Well-Known Troll
Troll
You've been working for three weeks and haven't been paid? I envy your dedication-- I would not have returned the third Monday if I was left penniless on my first UPS payday. The job's not worth being paid in corporate I.O.U.'s.

But yeah, you'll get used to it, man. Seems like when people first start out part-time with UPS they're only told that they're not good enough, not fast enough, not accurate enough, not safe enough to cut it-- you rarely hear things like "Good job yesterday," or "Awesome work, keep it up!", not just when you first start out but pretty much throughout the duration of your stay with UPS.

It's a ****ty job, no doubt about it. I turn my mind off to that and just remember that I'm exercising with boxes and getting health insurance and a paycheck to do it. Plus, it's only 4-5 hours a day... I figure if I can't handle a tough 4-5 hours a day I might as well just give up on being a grown-up. :whiteflag:

That's just how I look at it, at least.

Same thing happened to me when I started, I wasn't paid for 3 weeks. I remember my ft sups sending me home for putting the wrong package on the belt (nobody told me what goes and not goes on the belt) during my second week at UPS. I was really really mad that I walked back halfway to the building to curse him out and demand my paycheck and quit, something popped into my head to not do it, and I just turned back and hopped on the train. Now that I've made probation, things are much much much better! Out of the 8 people that were hired on the same day as me and had the same orientation as me, I'm one of the three that is still here.
 

you aint even know it

Well-Known Troll
Troll
To start off you don't know my age and if you read correctly there isn't any lecture about how it use to be! It's about my experience! I have 9 family members who are employees of ups so just like you, I've heard tons of stories about how much things have changed! I've heard 37 years of personal ups experiences from my grandfather, so yes how it use to be! Furthermore, If you've had the pleasure of packing a feeder truck in this day and time, not 30 years ago then you understand how demanding the job is and when things don't work it makes the job a lot more difficult and still i'm there each and every night 30 minutes before my shift! So being in a sloppy hub full of broke down equipment and management who refuses to pay me, there is no question of my accountability and how responsible I am! Thank you for your negative, pointless reply!

Time out, so you're telling me that you give them 30 minutes of free labor everyday? And by the way, just ignore hateful users like him, he will not be the last one you encounter on here.
 

Howe909

Active Member
Alex just be glad ur not at my sort we have made the last 5-7 ppl quit because we had to help them... since our sups are too soft we do it for them we have found out the bigger *******s we are to the new guys the better workers they become after probation... and sorry about ur checks it sucks but think on the bright side ur two 80$ checks will seem alot more when they pay u all at once...
 

Re-Raise

Well-Known Member
Wow, I hadn't realized how much things have changed since I started out as a part-timer. My first three days we all held hands and sang songs together.

I hate to break it to you kids, but life is tough. People quit a lot of things because they aren't tough enough to handle it. They quit jobs, they quit college, they bail on their marriages.

We had part-timers quit at the first break years ago when I started.

I am thankful I didn't have to fight a war or settle the west with you cry babies. Boo hoo , you got dust in your eyes.
 

browntroll

Well-Known Member
thats ups for you now a days. just let it out its ok to vent on the internet better than going at it with your sup or the packages at work and getting
injured or worse fired. but you should really complain more about your paycheck thats not something that would be tolerated at my hub since
it creates unhappy workers. sups try to push new hires all the time to see how fast they can make them work which works since most new hires
are scared of getting fired before they reach probation try not to let it get to you also some veteran workers dont like new hires since they have
to "help" most new hires cause ups decided not to train like they used to.
 

sandwich

The resident gearhead
For some damn reason I've always wanted to work here. Everyone says its a good career move if college isn't your thing. So after years of applying and checking the careers website, I finally get an appointment for a interview. I was sooooo ready to start, but little did I know how much of an terrible experience this would be! First, the HR supervisor said they were hiring for both preload and twilight shifts. I applied for twilight. It took over a month to start because somehow they were hiring for twilight but had no openings. Once I started, there was not one friendly person in the entire hub, my supervisor was weird as hell, and he expected me to be as good as his other feeder loaders on my first couple of nights. The waist belt holding my terminal was broken so I had to put it on the floor and was unable to hear if my packages were scanned or not. My barcode finger scanner was broken, my laser kept going out every two minutes, causing packages to backup even more. The rollers wouldn't lock in place, so every time I move it forward so I could start a new a wall it would slam into my foot. Its hell trying to move this thing when your boxes are backed up! My eye swelled shut due to dust and debris, and the sweat irritated it more. My supervisor never show me how to build a wall, he just said "play tetris, play tetris!", then he would be pissed if I wasn't stacking right. At times I would look outside my trailer and see nothing but darknest! Everyone left when they were finish but when I finished early I was told to go help this people and that person but he never sent help my way. I knew 2 small sort guys and 1 guy from pickoff so they would come help me on their way out. I asked them for advice on building my walls but they were no help! Fortunately for them they were brought in through a temp service years ago, so they never had the pleasure of doing this! Its been 3 weeks and I still haven't received a paycheck! Nothing was directly deposited in my account and no one has a paper check for me. The only thing I was told was "let me get with our HR guy and call you back".... 2 days later and still haven't received a call. To sum it up; bruises, cuts, excruciating pain, broken equipment, extreme lack of teamwork, crappy supervisor, a year wait for health benefits, and its my third week and I'm still waiting on my first paycheck! This has been the worst experience of my life and it sucks because I really hoped to stay forever and retire from this place. To make matters worse, the economy is so insane no one wants to retire which means no room for advancement at all, which means, due to seniority I will live this nightmare for at least 2 years and all for $8.50! Even when the raises come if they ever do, it still isn't worth the hassle! Now I understand how older guys make so much money. If you can put up with this crap for 15-30 years you deserve a healthy paycheck!
Live this nightmare for 2 years lol. More like 10 years until a full time driving spot will come your way.
 

you aint even know it

Well-Known Troll
Troll
Alex just be glad ur not at my sort we have made the last 5-7 ppl quit because we had to help them... since our sups are too soft we do it for them we have found out the bigger *******s we are to the new guys the better workers they become after probation... and sorry about ur checks it sucks but think on the bright side ur two 80$ checks will seem alot more when they pay u all at once...

It won't work after they make probation, they'll just hate you and hold a grudge against you that will explode when you tick their right nerve one day. Good luck having your way with them after they make probation, and be careful what you say to the wrong guy so you don't end up having to waste thousands of UPS money paying a dentist to fix your mouth up.
 

breno2342

Member
Your hub sucks, man; I feel sorry for you! In my hub, the supervisors are tolerable at worst, while most of them are pleasant and offer positive reinforcement instead of negative. My coworkers (loaders) are friendly, helpful, and pretty eager to spread their knowledge of the job. I agree with you on the crappy equipment, however...

And I find it weird that you weren't given any training? I spent my first week in the classroom learning the basics, then the second week working side-by-side with a training supervisor the entire shift.

At times I would look outside my trailer and see nothing but darknest! Everyone left when they were finish but when I finished early I was told to go help this people and that person but he never sent help my way.


I can sympathize with this; that's exactly how it was for me until I made friends and people were willing to help me out before they took off.

Of course, it's also troubling that you haven't received your paycheck yet too... I got mine my second week like you're supposed to.

Well, I'm certain that I would have quit if that were my experience. Screw these guys that tell you to suck it up or leave; you obviously have the worst of an already difficult job.
 
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