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lost · 07-05-2008, 05:40 AM

When I first started UPS I loaded on day sort.( I was also a single mother)
I dreamed that that all the boxes coming down the rollers had arms, reached out for me to pick them up. 2000 boxes with arms waiting for me!!!

filthpig · 07-05-2008, 09:11 AM

Mine is always the same: I'm going through the day doing everything BUT deliver. Going to Mcdonalds shopping, etc. I finally decide to look in my truck at about 6:30 and freak because I haven't done anything.

rocket man · 07-05-2008, 04:50 PM

3 am In my bedroom sound a sleep, I woke up turned on the bedroom light, started tearing apart my sock draw, screaming to the wife wheres my diad? The rest you figure out. This happend twice.

Lou Dog OG · 07-29-2008, 12:17 AM

In the preload (unload to be exact), when I first started I used to dream of unloading endless trailors. Then as a sorter I would dream of numbers, numbers and more numbers. Then of course as a driver delivering for days and still not clearing any shelves...

and I sometimes wake up looking for my board or a NDA thats 'hiding' in my load... only I'm looking for it around and under my bed. My wife is like, "

are you doing?"

LuvWV · 07-29-2008, 12:27 PM

I often dream about doing Look-ups. I wake up just as tired as I was when I went to sleep. These dreams usually happen at Christmas time. They are true nightmares......

jds4lunch · 07-30-2008, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by toonertoo

Sometimes I would get home and grab a nap before the kids got home, and I would wake up, look at the clock, and say HOLY S***its 330 and I am so late. Then try to call the center to tell them I was running late, hoping my sup had beat me to work......... for once, and the afternoon clerk would answer and I would realize it was pm, not am......and hang up.....Happened alot.

I've done this a few times......usually during long weeks when I'm running low on sleep.

HAPPYDAYS · 07-30-2008, 06:19 PM

My husband (who likes to walk and talk in his sleep) will sometimes wake me up in the middle of the night with his hands in the air(holding onto a imaginary steering wheel), and left foot slamming down on the clutch. Cursing.

Now I hate to complain, but on these nights, he pulls all the blankets and sheets off the bed and leaves me with none. This would not cause a huge problem but 90% of the time these dreams occur in the middle of the winter when the roads are bad.

This year he got a brand new automatic truck...the dream has not returned ...yet...winter is coming.

Hoaxster · 07-30-2008, 07:27 PM

Happydays - Sounds like he left you in the clutch ... with no covers.

haydendavid380 · 07-31-2008, 03:24 PM

Normally at least twice a week I have a strange dream that is nothing but PAL's flashing by like a flip book. I guess it comes from watching so many go by on the belt....

Diegotron · 09-08-2008, 03:23 AM

Don't know why this thread didn't get more replies. Anyways here's my dream, evem if it's late.

I'm in the very back of a truck trying to load it but I have to climb all the way out and up the ladder to break a jam on the belt but I can't because all the packages have fallen off of the rollers onto the sides so high I can't even climb over them yet the rollers are still full and the packages are still coming down and falling over the sides even though there's a jam so I'm trying to load some so I can clean up the sides some so I can get to the jam that is still somehow showering the truck with packages but I really need to push the rollers back some to make room for a new wall so I can get rid of some of the packages on the rollers so I can clean up my sides so I can get to the jam BUT I CAN'T MOVE CAUSE THERE'RE BOXES EVERYWHERE AND MY WALL JUST STARTED TO FALL ON ME......

I think the no punctuation should help you in feeling how I do when the dream occurs. This has also really happened to me minus the magic jam that sends packages. Had this dream multiple times. Get's me in trouble with ma lady since I apparently elbow her when I have this dream. Hard.

broncobros1 · 09-09-2008, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by over9five

I have always believed our paid day should include time spent having UPS nightmares...

Then quit!

Mike23 · 06-21-2009, 10:42 AM

After a long, hard week, I'll be driving in my own car and swear I hear my DIAD go off...OR I'll begin to back my car up and in the nick of time remember NOT to 'toot' the horn because it's my car!

Mike23 · 07-03-2009, 07:29 PM

My fat jerk of a depot manager having a stroke...oh, wait, that's my life long dream not the one I had last night

DS · 07-09-2009, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike23

My fat jerk of a depot manager having a stroke...oh, wait, that's my life long dream not the one I had last night

Man, why is it that you come across like a self centered child with no couth ? Please think before you post ,one stroke too many.

UpstateNYUPSer · 07-10-2009, 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by DS

Man, why is it that you come across like a self centered child with no couth ? Please think before you post ,one stroke too many.

Amen.

PackageMonster · 08-05-2009, 03:50 PM

I've only been working at UPS as a pre-loader for 10 months. I was hired on for the peak season and was not even trained. I was just thrown into the fire. It was terrible. Working from 1am to almost 9am and then running to my full-time job was terrible. Then the dreams started.

It started with waking up and shaking my wife awake to tell her I think I may have left a package in the wrong section. This went on for a couple of weeks. Then the dream of a stack of packages crushing me to death started. That one was kinda funny because I had to stack out the first stop and so I had all these packages coming down on me.

Thankfully the dreams are gone. We joke around at our hub about how after a few months you just kinda stop caring.

Hoaxster · 08-05-2009, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by scratch

I can remember during peak season twenty years ago I used to "deliver packages in my sleep". As time went by, I was able to train myself not to have these nightmares anymore. I remember one where I was working and looked down to discover I wasn't wearing pants.....

Would you like for me to interpret this for you?

HEFFERNAN · 08-07-2009, 04:43 PM

We have the cage system for preload here. In my 2nd year, they asked me to work full time for the christmas rush. So I was sorting basically it felt for 9 hours a day with that wall of cages creeping slowly past me.

When I got home to sleep, the wall my bed was against turned into those cages. I would wake myself up in the middle of the day because I slammed my arm up against the wall like I was sorting.

The Good Ol' Days

tworavens · 08-08-2009, 06:58 PM

Back when I was a p/t supe and ran the metro unload I would have recurring nightmares about not getting all the cars unloaded. I remember waking up on several occasions in a panicked sweat thinking there was a full P1000 sitting on the 800 side somewhere, with all those service failures.

I don't think many supervisors at my hub would be too worried about it these days, from what I've seen. Come to think of it, I doubt I would be either. Shows how much we've lost as a company in the last 20 years.