yeah thankfully the center that i work at people there are nice i was mainly refering to you
s here who find my question funny my center manager already mentioned to me that i might get hired because the route that i do is done by an old guy who is going to retire soon i know u probably dont like an off the street person getting a ft job but it still happens even if u hate the fact that you had to work for 10 years as a preloader to to get a shot at driving. i know i would be pissed too
Don't drink the Kool-Aid -- remember what I told you earlier. Once that "old guy" retires, his route has to go up for bid (among existing drivers within the building); even if the center manager gifts you a driving job, he cannot gift you a route. If he did, oodles of grievances would be filed, you'd be off the route, and the center manager would be red-faced. You see, when you go into driving you become known what's called a "swing driver" -- somebody who pulls whatever route needs to be covered. And as you'd expect from a union shop, swing drivers with more seniority than you get to pick the routes they want to do first. You'll likely spend your first months driving learning a different route every single week (and sometimes multiple routes per week). Remember, during the Holiday season -- which you recently covered -- UPS puts you in a specific area to handle heavy volumes. But Summer is completely different... you're covering for vacations, not volume, and therefore you'll be in different areas every week, if not every day.
Just remember the Kool Aid I talked to you about. Since the center manager has offered you a job on the Preload, he has no plans to gift you a FT driving job.
(FWIW, the lowest-senority driver with a route in my building -- and there's over a couple hundred routes -- has over 20-years seniority.)