I think I might get fired soon...

Indecisi0n

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Hello, fellow UPSers. I'm a new hire (been doing preload for about 3 weeks now, but it's my 4th week at UPS). I think I'm gonna get fired.

Let me explain: I'm not very quick— I load pretty good sometimes, but often the drop will get packed and they'll need to have a more experienced loader help me out. I usually do 4- 5 trucks. Another thing, I keep getting a :censored2: ton of misloads (usually it's 1or 2) the other day I had 8 misloads in total and my sup did not have time to scan so those drivers had to put up with my :censored2:-up. My PT supervisor is a really cool dude, but everytime I mess up he always has me sign :censored2: about my mess-ups and it's kind of stacking up... what he keeps saying is that if this continues for like a month straight it could lead to discharge and I'm terrified of that. I'm 18 and finding work before UPS was so hard. I don't think I could find any good work if possible employers knew that I was fired at UPS. As a side question: I crushed my finger and it started bleeding— it was mostly OK, but I figured I'd let my sup know because it was my first real injury on the job and he asked me questions and made sure it was OK. Later on, my FT sup was talking with me about it and made it seem like a bigger deal than it actually was "Don't see a doctor if this gets bad, make sure you talk to us about it before". It was kind of weird. Anyone want to explain this for me?

What do you think I should do? Stay a little longer, see if I get better or just quit before they :censored2: me up?

Also, anyone coming to this thread to call me an idiot: I'm expecting you and I don't give a :censored2:.

Thanks for the help.
At 18 how physically fit are you? Can you describe your body in detail for us?
 

Indecisi0n

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On a serious note, think they'll keep me? And is 4-5 trucks really a lot? Feels like a lot, but seems like the norm at my hub.
Do your best, that's all you can do. Misloads are big, I would say if PPH needed to slightly suffer in order to have no misloads then it's worth it.
 
W

What The Hawk?

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I agree. They act like you get paid $30/h when it's just minimum wage (or near that). Who the hell wants to work 110% and leave work needing an immediate shower everyday for the same amount that Taco Bell employees get paid? I go to work everyday, work as hard as I can and I still get told that it's not good enough.
Hahahaha I work at Taco Bell. I can confirm this. I make $9.99/hour and have been there for almost 2 years. I'm actually going to be working both UPS and Taco Bell.
 

Griffin1820

File! File! File!
4 to 5 is the norm in our hub. I do think 5 is a lot especially when it's 1000 pkgs. A 50 foot span of belt full of packages and some big, irregular, and or heavy is a work load. If preloaders was paid even 15 per hour and given a lighter load how much time "which equals money" would that save drivers if we could load them stop for stop in perfect chronological order? Seriously I had 3 trucks once and my drivers was amazed! 3 trucks is a fairly light load but you can load a truck to perfection. Heck I even wrote the number on the end of every single box their day was a breeze and zero miss loads!
 

burrheadd

KING Of GIFS
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Hahahaha I work at Taco Bell. I can confirm this. I make $9.99/hour and have been there for almost 2 years. I'm actually going to be working both UPS and Taco Bell.
 

Dr.Brownz

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On a serious note, think they'll keep me? And is 4-5 trucks really a lot? Feels like a lot, but seems like the norm at my hub.

Your own drop? Are you at the bottom of a slide or something and the packages just pile up and you load them? 4-5 could be alot if the routes are heavy city/industrial routes. 3 is the most they have here but that is the end of the belt. Everyone on the belt line only loads 2.
 
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