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<blockquote data-quote="want to retire" data-source="post: 554631"><p>Hello everyone, while I'm new to this forum, I have 28 years with the Company. 8 years non operation/15 years package/5 years feeder. The non operation years were like real life: normal hours and a REAL lunch break. My newbie experience as a package driver was a change to put it mildly. A whole different company. Your success will depend really on a few things. How much do you want to be a package driver? Want that good money? If you're just in it for the money, you won't be happy. I had 8 years with the Co. and was forced to drive(or leave the Co.)(due to oper. changes). Knowing now...I'd never become a package driver. The hardest thing for me to accept was the outright manipulation of time and the dishonesty from management(time, allowances etc.). Your acceptance of the "system" will make you successful. Accept: you will be run to exhaustion. Forget about a break( you take that hour lunch for the forseeable future and you will be hopelessly behind). It will be a long time before you get "good at it". Negative? Maybe. But then again, I never wanted to be a package driver. Realize this: You are always being watched(in all repects). OJS, records, secretely, vehicle.... Don't ever be dishonest(see above). Own up to your errors, mistakes, accidents. Dishonesty(as always) is the quickest way to lose your job. Your best effort will quite often not be good enough. Your job set up is calculated by a computer and does not consider intangibles(unknowns). The Co. doesn't recognize these either. Your day will be full of delays, changes and all manner of non-recognized things. Your job is to be able to make it all fit in the allowed time. Your success depends on how good a juggler you really are(at least initially). Time on the area will make it easier. Remember supervisors get paid (and get to keep their jobs) to squeeze every last drop of performance out of the drivers. On the other hand.....maybe you are happy go lucky and roll with anything. Good for you. A professional attitude will make you a better driver. A few comments on what a few others have said: about the driving your area off the clock. This is WRONG. It is the same as the Co. expecting you to work through your lunch and set up your car prework and post. See above about dishonesty and time manipulation. You are not salaried. You should not have to buy any maps, supplies etc. You should be able to learn the job in the given amount of time. Still want to be a package driver? Good luck. It can be done and is all the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="want to retire, post: 554631"] Hello everyone, while I'm new to this forum, I have 28 years with the Company. 8 years non operation/15 years package/5 years feeder. The non operation years were like real life: normal hours and a REAL lunch break. My newbie experience as a package driver was a change to put it mildly. A whole different company. Your success will depend really on a few things. How much do you want to be a package driver? Want that good money? If you're just in it for the money, you won't be happy. I had 8 years with the Co. and was forced to drive(or leave the Co.)(due to oper. changes). Knowing now...I'd never become a package driver. The hardest thing for me to accept was the outright manipulation of time and the dishonesty from management(time, allowances etc.). Your acceptance of the "system" will make you successful. Accept: you will be run to exhaustion. Forget about a break( you take that hour lunch for the forseeable future and you will be hopelessly behind). It will be a long time before you get "good at it". Negative? Maybe. But then again, I never wanted to be a package driver. Realize this: You are always being watched(in all repects). OJS, records, secretely, vehicle.... Don't ever be dishonest(see above). Own up to your errors, mistakes, accidents. Dishonesty(as always) is the quickest way to lose your job. Your best effort will quite often not be good enough. Your job set up is calculated by a computer and does not consider intangibles(unknowns). The Co. doesn't recognize these either. Your day will be full of delays, changes and all manner of non-recognized things. Your job is to be able to make it all fit in the allowed time. Your success depends on how good a juggler you really are(at least initially). Time on the area will make it easier. Remember supervisors get paid (and get to keep their jobs) to squeeze every last drop of performance out of the drivers. On the other hand.....maybe you are happy go lucky and roll with anything. Good for you. A professional attitude will make you a better driver. A few comments on what a few others have said: about the driving your area off the clock. This is WRONG. It is the same as the Co. expecting you to work through your lunch and set up your car prework and post. See above about dishonesty and time manipulation. You are not salaried. You should not have to buy any maps, supplies etc. You should be able to learn the job in the given amount of time. Still want to be a package driver? Good luck. It can be done and is all the time. [/QUOTE]
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