whiskers
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Yes this does happen. I can see why a driver would not want to spend a lot of time showing a helper how to use a diad, but it is unfortunate for someone like me that is there mainly for the experience.
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Yes this does happen. I can see why a driver would not want to spend a lot of time showing a helper how to use a diad, but it is unfortunate for someone like me that is there mainly for the experience.
laffter
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When I started helping a couple peaks ago, management knew I would work and not screw around. They put me with a driver who specifically wanted a helper that would stick with him all season. He needed someone who could make bulk deliveries to a shopping area while he sorted his truck out. That required teaching me the basics like scanning, taking signatures, stop completing. If they had thrown me in with a random driver who just wanted to get his day over with, I'm sure he wouldn't have bothered- and I think that's what happens most often.
Helping seems to be just like any other job at UPS. There's minimal "training"... they just throw you in and let you figure it out on your own.
laffter
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Who says there isn't enough time? The driver, or the driver's sups? The first couple days with a new helper may not be the most efficient. What, are you going to get in trouble for showing a helper how to use the diad because you "wasted" 10 minutes? I don't think so.
I said there wasn't enough time. Every year, by the time I got a helper, I was already hopelessly over-dispatched. Add to that, the helper I was assigned was usually dumber than a box of rocks (no real offense intended, but they were usually just trying to prove to Unemployment Compensation that they really were looking for a job
).Seeing as you are a pre-loader, tell me how I had time to train a helper with 50-70 more stops than usual.
Oh, yeah, I'll think of you guys every day after 11/1, while I'm having my second cup of coffee.
I said there wasn't enough time. Every year, by the time I got a helper, I was already hopelessly over-dispatched. Add to that, the helper I was assigned was usually dumber than a box of rocks (no real offense intended, but they were usually just trying to prove to Unemployment Compensation that they really were looking for a job
Seeing as you are a pre-loader, tell me how I had time to train a helper with 50-70 more stops than usual.
You suck!.........just saying!.lol
Oh, yeah, I'll think of you guys every day after 11/1, while I'm having my second cup of coffee.
I just might violate the TOS..................................by saying.......................................................................................go.friend.....................!What can I say?
I'll probably wake up with that 'sense of urgency,' and say to myself, "screw that!"
Then, I'll go make coffee.
iowa boy
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What can I say?
I'll probably wake up with that 'sense of urgency,' and say to myself, "screw that!"
Then, I'll go make coffee.
Cosmo,
Hopefully, the only sense of urgency you will have when you get up is to pee and grab that first cup of coffee.
Lmao!
TooTechie
Geek in Brown
Why are you still here? Simon says go away troll.
whiskers
Well-Known Member
It would make more sense if management took the time to train the helpers, But we all know most of the stuff they do doesn't make much sense.
I went to driver helper orientation, and they had a diad that they passed around for us to mess with. Didn't learn anything because the orientation was given by HR and security people, and they sure didn't know how to use it.
PT Car Washer
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Did you ever meet an HR or LP person that had ever delivered? Not until they were promoted to on road sups I mean.
whiskers
Well-Known Member
If this post was directed at me, No I haven't, and that was my point.
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