Has anyone (inside part-time employees), ever completed a seasonal driving job, such as to cover vacations in the summer (May - Sep), or peak season (Oct- Dec 31) and been kept on by the company? Or in other words has anyone been able to get in full-time from doing Seasonal driving?
Seasonal to full-time
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UnconTROLLed
perfection
I know of one PT'er who drove peak, seasonal and vacation cover for three years and recieved the 6:1? outside hire spot last year, in 2010. He started in 2007.
He is a gunner who skips lunches and didn't/probably still does not play by the rules, just how UPS likes 'em.
Thanks for the responses. I did vacation coverage for the summer. We have a total of three drivers off. One had a dui and is in rehab. The other two are having surgeries, one for knee, and the other for back surgery. So there a little tight for drivers in my center.
They havent posted any full-time jobs, only seasonal. Im debatin wether or not I should sign a bid posted in our center for peak season driver. Thinkin I should, cause im hopin it will eventually get me full-time somehow...
They havent posted any full-time jobs, only seasonal. Im debatin wether or not I should sign a bid posted in our center for peak season driver. Thinkin I should, cause im hopin it will eventually get me full-time somehow...
brown_trousers
Well-Known Member
Thats BS if they can hire seasonal drivers as permanent FT drivers. There's a whole lot of us who have been been waiting in the part-time ranks for almost a decade for a FT driving job. Its not right to let someone skip the seniority line.
Unless its the 6:1 hire though, then its OK.
Unless its the 6:1 hire though, then its OK.
Coldworld
60 months and counting
That's still not right ...especially if there are nearby buildings that have part timers who want to go driving..they should be able to to take those jobs before an off the street hire every single time..only exception would be a pt sup on the 6:1 ratio or if no pt inside employees wanted to drive.
Who loads the cars ?
barnyard
KTM rider
Out in the Bakken, eh.
We had letters hung in our center that PT could go out to the Bakken and go FT. Drivers and supes are quitting to work the oil patch.
barnyard
KTM rider
Unless it is western ND and eastern Mt. Notices were hung in my building 400+ miles away that PT could move to ND or MT and get a FT gig. The problem is there is no place to live. Everything is filled with oil field workers. Then of course there is the whole, "ugh, I have to move to middle of freaking nowhere ND for a FT job?!?!?!?!" No thank you.
Coldworld
60 months and counting
I did see something on the national news about north and south Dakota having really low unemployment rates and actually the high tech industry is moving to these states.
Here is the news article. IT's all about OIL not the high tech industry.
America's Boomtown: North Dakota housing crunch - Oct. 21, 2011
barnyard
KTM rider
No, not really. Other companies are moving away. Why??? Losing too many employees to the oil patch. Who really wants to move to western ND, pay $150,000 for a used mobile home for a $15.00/hr or less data center job.
Not gonna happen.
