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<blockquote data-quote="Nimnim" data-source="post: 800395" data-attributes="member: 28856"><p>Bidding is for positions available. They post a signup sheep and you put your name down and they go down the list by how long people have been there, meaning the people there longest will get it before you if you both want it.</p><p></p><p>As for jobs available you're most likely going to be a loader or unloader. Loaders will load the feeders to be sent out, unloaders will unload the feeders that arrive for processing. If you're on the preload shift you may be a preloader, the people who load the package cars for the drivers. Other than that there's sorter, small sorter, pickoff, incompatables sorter, and a couple other things I've never seen someone hired into so don't worry about them yet. Sorters take what the unloader unloads and sorts them to different belts that go to the pickoffs who then sort those packages to the loaders. Small sorters will also get things from the sorters, letters small packages, which will then be sorted into bags that will then work their way to the loaders.</p><p></p><p>Any of the sorter/pickoff positions are "skilled" so you'll receive another $1/hr for doing those, so if you're good with learning numbers get hold of a packet and get tested. They tend not to bid for those positions as much and just take people who are qualified, but it also depends on the staffing so don't hope on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nimnim, post: 800395, member: 28856"] Bidding is for positions available. They post a signup sheep and you put your name down and they go down the list by how long people have been there, meaning the people there longest will get it before you if you both want it. As for jobs available you're most likely going to be a loader or unloader. Loaders will load the feeders to be sent out, unloaders will unload the feeders that arrive for processing. If you're on the preload shift you may be a preloader, the people who load the package cars for the drivers. Other than that there's sorter, small sorter, pickoff, incompatables sorter, and a couple other things I've never seen someone hired into so don't worry about them yet. Sorters take what the unloader unloads and sorts them to different belts that go to the pickoffs who then sort those packages to the loaders. Small sorters will also get things from the sorters, letters small packages, which will then be sorted into bags that will then work their way to the loaders. Any of the sorter/pickoff positions are "skilled" so you'll receive another $1/hr for doing those, so if you're good with learning numbers get hold of a packet and get tested. They tend not to bid for those positions as much and just take people who are qualified, but it also depends on the staffing so don't hope on that. [/QUOTE]
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