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Going to Integrad getting a lot of mixed information from fellow employees.
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<blockquote data-quote="browndingo" data-source="post: 1217671" data-attributes="member: 50642"><p>No, it is not a week of beating the seeing habits into your brain, and there is no grading for punctuation. </p><p></p><p>You spend 1.5 to 2 hours a day just learning the DIAD. And even in the training exercises where you are being shown the methods for, say, a rear-door delivery, you are run through the whole routine of stopping and securing the car, selecting and walking off the packages and delivering them to your partner using a DIAD. Most of it is hands-on practice handling real packages and completing stops in the DIAD exactly as you would do on the job. The time schedule is very tight and you are expected to stay up to speed while working independently, just like you are in the real world. The days are 11-12 hours long, just like they can be in the real world. On the day I took my delivery test in the mock village it was pouring rain. Wet labels wouldn't scan and the crappy defrosters made it hard to see the mirrors for backing. The backup camera monitor went out on one of the cars, but the people driving it were told to just get along without it. Just like the real world. And also just like the real world, we weren't given any special consideration because of the weather. We were graded just the same as everyone else. Two people failed, and were sent home. That was less than 10% of the class.</p><p></p><p>I understand the attachment to the "old school" way, but UPS saw that nearly one out of three drivers were failing the old school. To say that is better than just one out of ten failing makes no sense. It costs money when a driver fails, whether he's being trained at Integrad or by a local supervisor. It puts extra work on other drivers when a driver fails, whether he was trained at Integrad or locally. Bringing that number down saves UPS money, saves drivers time and headaches, and has real practical value.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="browndingo, post: 1217671, member: 50642"] No, it is not a week of beating the seeing habits into your brain, and there is no grading for punctuation. You spend 1.5 to 2 hours a day just learning the DIAD. And even in the training exercises where you are being shown the methods for, say, a rear-door delivery, you are run through the whole routine of stopping and securing the car, selecting and walking off the packages and delivering them to your partner using a DIAD. Most of it is hands-on practice handling real packages and completing stops in the DIAD exactly as you would do on the job. The time schedule is very tight and you are expected to stay up to speed while working independently, just like you are in the real world. The days are 11-12 hours long, just like they can be in the real world. On the day I took my delivery test in the mock village it was pouring rain. Wet labels wouldn't scan and the crappy defrosters made it hard to see the mirrors for backing. The backup camera monitor went out on one of the cars, but the people driving it were told to just get along without it. Just like the real world. And also just like the real world, we weren't given any special consideration because of the weather. We were graded just the same as everyone else. Two people failed, and were sent home. That was less than 10% of the class. I understand the attachment to the "old school" way, but UPS saw that nearly one out of three drivers were failing the old school. To say that is better than just one out of ten failing makes no sense. It costs money when a driver fails, whether he's being trained at Integrad or by a local supervisor. It puts extra work on other drivers when a driver fails, whether he was trained at Integrad or locally. Bringing that number down saves UPS money, saves drivers time and headaches, and has real practical value. [/QUOTE]
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