i just started working in the preload at ups about 2 months ago. there's this guy that loads the normal 3 trucks on the stop bar. he is always ahead...stop bar clear, packages loaded, ect...and he just stands there and looks at the belt. people are talking about how much they hate him.
if he's doing a good job, why do they hate him so much?
I'm a stop-bar preloader. Sometimes I hustle and stay ahead and take 15-20 seconds to "look at the belt" or whatever, but it's a rarity. Lately I've been swamped so bad with everybody's crap they miss as well as missorts that I feel like I deserve the occasional mini-break if you can really call it that. Even then I'm walking or moving about staying aware of situations or reviewing the inside of my cars to see if anything needs improving. You can't do much of that if you stay behind.
When I was on the sort isle in my earlier days I would outsort the other guys in belief that I had to while they slowed down and watched me pull double the weight back there. I remember thinking of all of them as slackers yet there was nothing anybody did about it to make sure everybody pulled exactly the same "weight" to be fair. No, it was a choice to slack or not.
The same choice is being made by some preloaders up the belt who watch 5 or 8 heavy packages go right by while pretending they don't notice, or they're spending too much time in their cars on purpose. That's the kind of stuff that the stop-bar buys have to deal with every single day, so cut them a little slack, as they are doing their work, and some of the work of 2 or 3 guys up the belt.
Envy is probably what the other guys are doing instead of actually hating that person? I dunno.