3 to 12 months to promote to Driver?

[G.V. Rush]

Hello to anyone who has an opinion on this,

I was hired about 5 months ago as a sunrise loader/unloader, upon my hire I asked the H.R. manager what kind of amount of time I would be looking at to go full-time driver. She said anywhere from 3 months to a year. I had heard that this was the case at my hub before I actually was hired. I guess my question is, do you really think that is true or was the manager just trying to get me in to fill the void. I've heard that people transfer to my hub all the time for this reason. Does anyone think that this could actually be true

​thanks yall

 

[Re-Raise]

If you have read any of the threads on this site, I think you already know the answer.

 

[Eman1978]

It took 13 years for me.

 

[TooTechie]

The current norm I'm seeing is 3-9 years, but it varies greatly.

 

[cachsux]

Are you sure it's not every 3 to 12 months they promote the senior employee to driver? Maybe in 10 years you'll find out.

 

[nystripe96]

If you work in a big city it's possible

 

[Indecisi0n]

Managers don't lie.

 

[neartom]

I have a bridge that I think you should buy from me. You could turn it into a toll bridge and make a fortune.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Managers don't lie.

Nor do they tell the truth!!

 

[Cementups]

It could take you anywhere from 30 days to 30 years. And that's just a ballpark figure.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Did you work for the cable company prior to coming to UPS?

 

[UPSGUY72]

Hello to anyone who has an opinion on this,

I was hired about 5 months ago as a sunrise loader/unloader, upon my hire I asked the H.R. manager what kind of amount of time I would be looking at to go full-time driver. She said anywhere from 3 months to a year. I had heard that this was the case at my hub before I actually was hired. I guess my question is, do you really think that is true or was the manager just trying to get me in to fill the void. I've heard that people transfer to my hub all the time for this reason. Does anyone think that this could actually be true

​thanks yall

"There's a sucker born every minute", PT Barnum and David Hannum

 

[Loyal Teamster]

Hello to anyone who has an opinion on this,

I was hired about 5 months ago as a sunrise loader/unloader, upon my hire I asked the H.R. manager what kind of amount of time I would be looking at to go full-time driver. She said anywhere from 3 months to a year. I had heard that this was the case at my hub before I actually was hired. I guess my question is, do you really think that is true or was the manager just trying to get me in to fill the void. I've heard that people transfer to my hub all the time for this reason. Does anyone think that this could actually be true

thanks yall

Your manager is most likely correct. According to a 2012 Standard & Poor's report, 8 % of UPS Full Time hires had been employed with the company under 24 months. I guess your hub is part of those 8%.
Good luck with your career in UPS, try developing your skills as much as possible and grow together with this awesome company.


Thanks,
Loyal Teamster

 

[Re-Raise]

Your manager is most likely correct. According to a 2012 Standard & Poor's report, 8 % of UPS Full Time hires had been employed with the company under 24 months. I guess your hub is part of those 8%.
Good luck with your career in UPS, try developing your skills as much as possible and grow together with this awesome company.


Thanks,
Loyal Teamster

We hire 1 outside for every 6 inside. The outside hires haven't been with the company very long.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

We hire 1 outside for every 6 inside. The outside hires haven't been with the company very long.

I know one who has been here for 24 years.

 

[Re-Raise]

I know one who has been here for 24 years.

I was responding to the post about how long new full-time hires had been with the company, it didn't really have anything to do with how long they would stay with the company.
You really had to reach there to make it about you, but you did.

 

[TooTechie]

I know I probably shouldn't feel this way, but I don't have the same respect for an off-the-street hired to perm full time that I do for someone like us who took their lumps working 2 jobs, many of us on the night shift getting 2 hours of sleep per day for years to get the chance to go driving.

 

[brownmonster]

I know I probably shouldn't feel this way, but I don't have the same respect for an off-the-street hired to perm full time that I do for someone like us who took their lumps working 2 jobs, many of us on the night shift getting 2 hours of sleep per day for years to get the chance to go driving.

I respect the driver for how he performs his job as a driver.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I know I probably shouldn't feel this way, but I don't have the same respect for an off-the-street hired to perm full time that I do for someone like us who took their lumps working 2 jobs, many of us on the night shift getting 2 hours of sleep per day for years to get the chance to go driving.

In my 24 years I have yet to figure out how knowing how to load 'em has anything to do with knowing how to deliver 'em. Some of our best preloaders have become some of our worst drivers and vice versa.

We have a PT cover driver who is used only as a last resort (hell, they'd rather put the janitor on the street than this guy) as he seems to think that he can maintain his insider pace while on road.

 

[Coldworld]

I know one who has been here for 24 years.

your a dying breed...this isnt the 80's anymore...Im actually glad that they took a chance on a military veteran, or any military veteran for that fact, but there will never be more that a trickle of outside hires in the future...the floodgates have locked shut!!