Anyone work on an Island?

[BrownHatt]

I drive each morning to a port, and take a 45 minute ferry to an island, then I take a bus or a cab to my center. UPS pays for everything but my gas and time. There are set times to leave the island, if you miss the 9:30 boat because you were not back to the center and on the cab by 9:15 they put you up in a hotel for the night... so much for clean uniforms and a clean shave... The boats we have any chance of boarding leave at 7:15 8:30 and 9:30pm from two different ports that are different distances from the center. Anyone else deal with this kind of stuff?

 

[UPSGUY72]

NOPE. Maybe you should move to the island

 

[BrownHatt]

Not worth it. We just got EDD 8 weeks ago, and drivers load their own tucks.

 

[BrownHatt]

Oh I just re read your post. No I can't afford it. only 4 of 14 drivers on this island can.

 

[Coldworld]

Where is this at...

 

[Jackburton]

I think corporate is located on this same island.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I think corporate is located on this same island.

Fantasy Island?

 

[pickup]

I drive each morning to a port, and take a 45 minute ferry to an island, then I take a bus or a cab to my center. UPS pays for everything but my gas and time. There are set times to leave the island, if you miss the 9:30 boat because you were not back to the center and on the cab by 9:15 they put you up in a hotel for the night... so much for clean uniforms and a clean shave... The boats we have any chance of boarding leave at 7:15 8:30 and 9:30pm from two different ports that are different distances from the center. Anyone else deal with this kind of stuff?

If clean uniforms and a clean shave are an issue, can't you keep an extra set in your locker as well as an extra razor blade?

 

[OVERBOARD]

If clean uniforms and a clean shave are an issue, can't you keep an extra set in your locker as well as an extra razor blade?

lol Lockers, UPS provider you a locker. You have it made. I think I'm going to fight for lockers in my building in the next contract. BTW I think the Island the OP works on is martha's vineyard

 

[splozi]

We have lockers at my center. They share the same rooms as the toilets.

 

[OVERBOARD]

I did my time on a island and it was the best job I had at UPS. I lived on the island for two years. I was paid to load my PKG car for 2 Hrs, I was of the Clock by 5 everyday and the best part was I hardly saw any supervisors. The reason I left was the island was 4 Hrs away by boat and I had family commitment back home on the mainland.

 

[OVERBOARD]

We have lockers at my center. They share the same rooms as the toilets.

Well, I wouldn't want a locker on the bottom row. If its anything like the bathroom in my center. I would never change my clothes in that bathroom.

 

[rocket man]

I drive each morning to a port, and take a 45 minute ferry to an island, then I take a bus or a cab to my center. UPS pays for everything but my gas and time. There are set times to leave the island, if you miss the 9:30 boat because you were not back to the center and on the cab by 9:15 they put you up in a hotel for the night... so much for clean uniforms and a clean shave... The boats we have any chance of boarding leave at 7:15 8:30 and 9:30pm from two different ports that are different distances from the center. Anyone else deal with this kind of stuff?

thats a good gig

 

[rod]

I had a customer on my route who lived on a private island. He left signed delivery notices for me at the local laundromat. When I had a package for him I would give him a call and leave his stuff on top of the pop machine. Never had a problem. Ya have to love small towns but I'm guessing you couldn't do that now.

 

[OVERBOARD]

We ruled the roost out there, The things we did, you could never do nowadays. If you wanted something you had to use UPS there was no Fedx ground. During Christmas I would make over thousand dollars in tips.

 

[Anonymous 10]

I drive each morning to a port, and take a 45 minute ferry to an island, then I take a bus or a cab to my center. UPS pays for everything but my gas and time. There are set times to leave the island, if you miss the 9:30 boat because you were not back to the center and on the cab by 9:15 they put you up in a hotel for the night... so much for clean uniforms and a clean shave... The boats we have any chance of boarding leave at 7:15 8:30 and 9:30pm from two different ports that are different distances from the center. Anyone else deal with this kind of stuff?

Sometimes I feel like my mind is an island and I'm the only one there.

 

[Cementups]

[h=1]At UPS, you're and island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.[/h]

 

[BrownHatt]

"Someone's" Vineyard. I have not been offered a locker.

 

[Buck Fifty]

Fantasy Island?

Couldn't be Fantasy Island. OP said Ferry not De Plane, De Plane. Paradise Island maybe ?

 

[klolx]

u live in bermuda triangle OP?