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<blockquote data-quote="km3" data-source="post: 1839196" data-attributes="member: 56117"><p>A higher starting rate for PTers may help too. My sort is severely understaffed because they can't keep anyone. Dangling the benefits that you get after a year in front of people has only had a negligible effect on people staying. As it turns out, people don't want to do this job for $10.10/hr and no benefits in the foreseeable future when there are easier jobs out there for the same pay. Especially when they get told that they can't be a driver due to visible tattoos, or they're not old enough, etc..</p><p></p><p>As for my own suggestions, I'd like to see hazmats taken off of the main belts. I posted in another topic about how I'm getting slammed with dozens of boxes of paper every night, often at the same time. Well, the other night I also got a poison gas hazmat (allowed in ground system, prohibited in air), and the box was in less than ideal shape. Not torn, or completely smashed, and no holes, but in rough shape nonetheless. I loaded it according to proper hazmat handling procedures, but ever since I've been thinking about how dangerous it would have been if a dozen boxes of paper came down right behind it and crushed it even further. I've been anxious about handling hazmats ever since, as the worst case scenario of a heavy package or perhaps a sharp object comes flying down the belt afterwards and smashes or penetrates the contents keeps playing through my mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="km3, post: 1839196, member: 56117"] A higher starting rate for PTers may help too. My sort is severely understaffed because they can't keep anyone. Dangling the benefits that you get after a year in front of people has only had a negligible effect on people staying. As it turns out, people don't want to do this job for $10.10/hr and no benefits in the foreseeable future when there are easier jobs out there for the same pay. Especially when they get told that they can't be a driver due to visible tattoos, or they're not old enough, etc.. As for my own suggestions, I'd like to see hazmats taken off of the main belts. I posted in another topic about how I'm getting slammed with dozens of boxes of paper every night, often at the same time. Well, the other night I also got a poison gas hazmat (allowed in ground system, prohibited in air), and the box was in less than ideal shape. Not torn, or completely smashed, and no holes, but in rough shape nonetheless. I loaded it according to proper hazmat handling procedures, but ever since I've been thinking about how dangerous it would have been if a dozen boxes of paper came down right behind it and crushed it even further. I've been anxious about handling hazmats ever since, as the worst case scenario of a heavy package or perhaps a sharp object comes flying down the belt afterwards and smashes or penetrates the contents keeps playing through my mind. [/QUOTE]
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