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I'm not gonna pretend I know how driver jobs work. I only have 3 peak and 3 part time months experience and two driver friends not in my hub. From the sounds of it, you folks get screwed every step of the way.
But man, there are some drivers who just lose it every morning. Is the union screwing them? I just started third belt (local sort, loading trailers, preload scanner/unloader, smalls support, splitter, belt with 4 cars, now learning third belt) so I get the general idea of how this works.
But why show up pissy every day? If it's not peak what can possibly cause drivers to lose it? One woman used to be a huge ... well... anyway, all I had to do was ask her how she would like her car loaded and what helps her the best. Now we have like a bro-bond and she asked I load her car every day.
Are drivers just fed up with rotating part timers that can't load a car? It ain't hard.. I already know what a dozen drivers want and I've been on 3rd belt 2 weeks. It's not hard to remember a car name and associate it with a driver and one or two things they want or would like.
Do other part timers not care how bad your day is gonna go?
Why do a majority of drivers come to work upset? Because UPS will find a way to make their job unnecessarily hard with mis-loads or part timers who just don't care?
Cuz some of us do care how neat and tidy your car is, after cleaning your trash, or if you want all smalls in totes, air in the 1000s or 4000s regardless of HIN, >70's at RDC, etc.
I guess what I'm asking is how can someone be upset every day at a union-backed job that pays 30-40+ an hour?
How can I make things easier for my drivers?
I know it's car wash's job, but if I see a dirty dash or dirty wheel I'll wet rag and clean up the front as much as I can when belts stop, or if soda or whatever spilled I'll just clean it up, obviously driver was too busy to do it themselves.
Thanks for any insight. I'd like to keep getting better at this, as they are fast tracking drivers in a town we wanna move to, I'd really like some insight into where I'm at or where I can be going, and where I draw the line between taking something to my sup and something to my steward, who said it's fantastic they're teaching me all the positions so fast. I have heard though that some people get moved around frequently until they quit or get fired. But I'm kinda not worried since I show up early and always ask if they need help when everyone's gone.. I mean, do I even matter? Lol. Does anyone who's not driver/union?
But man, there are some drivers who just lose it every morning. Is the union screwing them? I just started third belt (local sort, loading trailers, preload scanner/unloader, smalls support, splitter, belt with 4 cars, now learning third belt) so I get the general idea of how this works.
But why show up pissy every day? If it's not peak what can possibly cause drivers to lose it? One woman used to be a huge ... well... anyway, all I had to do was ask her how she would like her car loaded and what helps her the best. Now we have like a bro-bond and she asked I load her car every day.
Are drivers just fed up with rotating part timers that can't load a car? It ain't hard.. I already know what a dozen drivers want and I've been on 3rd belt 2 weeks. It's not hard to remember a car name and associate it with a driver and one or two things they want or would like.
Do other part timers not care how bad your day is gonna go?
Why do a majority of drivers come to work upset? Because UPS will find a way to make their job unnecessarily hard with mis-loads or part timers who just don't care?
Cuz some of us do care how neat and tidy your car is, after cleaning your trash, or if you want all smalls in totes, air in the 1000s or 4000s regardless of HIN, >70's at RDC, etc.
I guess what I'm asking is how can someone be upset every day at a union-backed job that pays 30-40+ an hour?
How can I make things easier for my drivers?
I know it's car wash's job, but if I see a dirty dash or dirty wheel I'll wet rag and clean up the front as much as I can when belts stop, or if soda or whatever spilled I'll just clean it up, obviously driver was too busy to do it themselves.
Thanks for any insight. I'd like to keep getting better at this, as they are fast tracking drivers in a town we wanna move to, I'd really like some insight into where I'm at or where I can be going, and where I draw the line between taking something to my sup and something to my steward, who said it's fantastic they're teaching me all the positions so fast. I have heard though that some people get moved around frequently until they quit or get fired. But I'm kinda not worried since I show up early and always ask if they need help when everyone's gone.. I mean, do I even matter? Lol. Does anyone who's not driver/union?