UPS rewards your work with high pay. They will also "reward" you for getting done fast by loading more stops on you the next time around...because that makes them more money in the long run. Slow down, the pac.ages will be there tomorrow and the day after that.
That's when I learned. I started out the usual runner/gunner/lunch skipper after making seniority because I liked getting out early. I would bust my ass and burn it up to get it done fast. A minor accident didn't give me a wake up call.
My wake up call was the day I needed to get out early and I had confirmed with my on-car that if I killed it he wouldn't send me to help anyone and he would let me go home early if I went code 5. I skipped my lunch, ran my butt off and got a 10 hour dispatch done in 8. Light of death came on as I was getting a text from my on-car that he needed me to go meet a driver 20 minutes away to take his pickup pieces. I called my on-car and he said he needed my help, blah blah blah. I was livid.
I drove out to meet the driver (who is the only guy I can't stand in the center) and he right away starts giving me packages to deliver. He then informs me that the on-car told him that not only would I take his 230 pickup pieces in...that I would also do 25 stops for him in an area I didn't know. I lost my
at this point and called him back. He confirmed that he told him to tell me to do it and then told me "I'm instructing you to do this work" and hung up. The biggest kick in the butt was the guy I was doing all this work for then said I'm going to lunch now and started walking toward the McDonalds across the parking lot.
That was my
last day as a runner gunner. That was also the last time I believed anything that came out of a supervisor's mouth.
