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<blockquote data-quote="SignatureRequired" data-source="post: 176528" data-attributes="member: 6417"><p>UPS Driver </p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </p><p> </p><p>William Rosario </p><p>Interviewed by Paul Vee </p><p>I am a "Full-Time Package Car Driver" for UPS. I've been doing it for ten </p><p>years. I started because I was a student and I needed a part-time job. I went </p><p>for an interview for what I thought was "Part-Time Loaders." When I got there </p><p>they said it was for drivers. So I filled out the application, and they called </p><p>me back three days later. </p><p>It was the first real job ever in my life and, at the beginning, it was pretty </p><p>overwhelming. UPS is heavily fortified. You've got to show a pass to get in the </p><p>gate. So like, every day, you go in, you change into your uniform in the locker </p><p>room, and then you go downstairs for the morning meeting. Every day there's a </p><p>meeting in the morning to tell you what you did wrong the day before. Every day. </p><p>They get you all together in a group, all the drivers and everybody, and then </p><p>they yank you in the office and yell at you personally for about five minutes. </p><p>It's like roll call, like, you know, a police station show. Except they just </p><p>yell at you. At UPS, you're never told what you did well. </p><p> </p><p>They're like a military organization. They check you over for appearance, </p><p>everything. They make sure your shoes shine, your tee shirts can only be white </p><p>or brown--they can't be black, your socks have to be brown or black. Your shoes </p><p>have to be polished. </p><p> </p><p>Then, after the meeting, you go to your truck, which is already loaded and full </p><p>of gas. All you do is drive and deliver. You have a route set up for you every </p><p>day, with a specific number of delivery and pick-up accounts you do. And you </p><p>have to deliver every single package. If you bring one package back without </p><p>attempting to deliver it, they can fire you right there. </p><p> </p><p>But, the most important thing is: "Don't spill your coffee." You know, don't </p><p>spill coffee in the truck. The most important thing is to not spill hot coffee </p><p>when you're driving. Forget the UPS rules, just don't spill coffee. That is the </p><p>unwritten number one law of driving a truck. </p><p> </p><p>And you know, the service you give people all depends on how they tip you at </p><p>Christmas. People who don't tip you at Christmas, you **** them. They get </p><p>dropped off late in the day and picked up early. Or, you drop 'em off and pick </p><p>'em up at the same time. The people who have coffee and doughnuts, and the </p><p>people who have cute women working there, you deliver them first. </p><p> </p><p>Zippy Printers are the worst ****ing account in the world. They're ****. They </p><p>gave me a bottle of Asti Spumante for Christmas. These people should give me a </p><p>hundred dollars, easy. They're a pain in the ass. They want an early delivery, </p><p>they want a late pickup. These people, they pretend they're your friend, but one </p><p>problem, they're on the phone, calling in major complaints against you. It's </p><p>bull****. </p><p> </p><p>But some people give me great stuff for Christmas. Newland Candy gave me five </p><p>bottles of great wine. And then there's a place called All-time Hardware on my </p><p>route now. They let you use their phone. I call everybody I know. They have a </p><p>television, they have coffee. They have doughnuts and bagels every morning. And </p><p>they have good bathrooms. That's what you really learn at UPS: who has a good </p><p>bathroom, who has a clean bathroom, and who has a paper, and who has porno for </p><p>the bathroom. </p><p> </p><p>You run into a lot of porno in bathrooms, especially in industrial </p><p>places--factories and things like that. Cresti and Sons had some of the most </p><p>bizarre porno I'd ever seen in my life. Stacks and stacks of it. And the </p><p>Desposito Tool Company is a prime stop. Always coffee cakes and doughnuts in the </p><p>morning, hot coffee and two stalls, which are both very clean, and on each </p><p>toilet, in each stall, at least a foot-high stack of current, good porno. Things </p><p>like Leg Show, Gent, Club--good porn--not Playboy. Double-D Cup. [Laughs] And </p><p>there's somebody who has a major foot fetish who gets something called </p><p>Toe-Sucker Magazine. </p><p> </p><p>Normally, you work around eleven hours a day. Average is around ten hours a day. </p><p>The most stops I've ever done in one day was at Christmas, once, like 240, with </p><p>a helper. That's 240 separate doors and there's guys who go out on cars at </p><p>Christmas with 400 stops and two helpers. When you get a helper, and you're the </p><p>driver, you're like the captain of the ship. You're Kurtz. [Laughs] You're </p><p>Captain Kirk, and you slave the **** out of your helper, usually. Although I </p><p>guess it depends a little bit on how they treat you. If they're pricks, you </p><p>slave the **** out of them. I had a helper who was a nice guy. We used to smoke </p><p>pot and get coffee every morning. But basically, they're totally dependent upon </p><p>you for the day, so if you get somebody who's a prick, you slave 'em. You drop </p><p>'em off in, like, a three-block area with a hand-truck and say "I'll pick you </p><p>up." Then, you go and get coffee. </p><p> </p><p>Sometimes I start the day and I just realize I can't do it. I can't keep </p><p>working. A couple of times, I called 'em, told 'em they had to come get me. I </p><p>said I was sick. They loved that. But usually, when I'm out there, I just do </p><p>everything I can to not actually work. I mean, on my stops, I watch television, </p><p>make telephone calls, flirt with secretaries, call my girlfriend, call my </p><p>friends, go shopping, read the newspaper, go swimming in the summer at a motel </p><p>pool. </p><p> </p><p>You can get caught at this stuff. I've already had three trials. One was the </p><p>"Milk Shake Trial" for getting a milk shake. One was for insubordination. And </p><p>one was for wearing a tee shirt. I was wearing a Bob Marley tee shirt, a white </p><p>tee shirt, in the summer. Somebody ratted me out for the tee shirt, and we had a </p><p>supervisor who didn't like me and this other guy, so he followed us. He was </p><p>jealous that we went to a pool every day cause we had great tans, and he was </p><p>pissed. So he hid in the parking lot. He didn't even say anything to us. He just </p><p>watched us and went back to UPS and filed a report. And then they filed a </p><p>complaint with the union. </p><p> </p><p>So I had these trials. They were held on work days, you know, by appointment. </p><p>And at the trials there was my Division Manager, my Manager, the Supervisor, </p><p>myself and two union representatives. Like Nuremburg. And I had to explain </p><p>myself. But I got off every time. I mean, we're Teamsters, and the only thing </p><p>they really will fire you for at UPS is stealing packages or being drunk on the </p><p>job. Now I've done both of those, but I've never been caught. </p><p> </p><p>And my relationship with my supervisors is generally pretty workable. It's </p><p>functional. But you can never trust them because they're company people. And the </p><p>managers at UPS are worse. UPS treats their own people--the managers and </p><p>supervisors--worse than they even treat their drivers. It's like the theology is </p><p>"**** rolls downhill." So you can never trust anyone, and every driver has this </p><p>attitude. You know, it's "us against them." Totally. </p><p> </p><p>Some of the other drivers are decent, though. Some aren't. I've met nice guys at </p><p>work. I've met decent people. I've had some of them to my house for dinner. And </p><p>I love to drive. That's my favorite thing. I live to drive. But do I like the </p><p>work? No. There are too many hazards: accidents, sprained ankles, disc problems </p><p>in my back, massive wear and tear on your body from carrying all these packages, </p><p>stress, anxiety--I've had dreams about this job. Anxiety dreams. And I've never </p><p>been robbed, but lots of guys I work with get robbed. The guys who work in </p><p>Passaic and stuff like that. And there's auto accidents. And on Halloween, they </p><p>throw rocks at the truck. In Passaic, they throw rocks and bottles. In Clifton, </p><p>they throw eggs. </p><p> </p><p>I've been chased by dogs. When you're chased, you gotta run back to the truck as </p><p>fast as you can. Always run to the truck. And slam the door. I haven't ever been </p><p>caught by a dog, but I know somebody else who got attacked and ended up in the </p><p>hospital. I've learned a lot about dogs at UPS. Nice dogs, bad dogs. </p><p> </p><p>And it's hot in the summer. You will literally lose five, six pounds in August. </p><p>I drop every year. It's physical work. I mean, you could never do this job for </p><p>thirty years. There are guys who do it, but they end up with major physical </p><p>disability. I'd like to stay another year or two, then I'm leaving. I want to go </p><p>back to school and study Buddhism, or psychology, which is really what I like. </p><p> </p><p>Besides, I have a problem with authority figures. I hate wearing a uniform and </p><p>dealing with people who are real *******s. I hate having to deal with someone </p><p>that you can't stand, five days a week and having to take their ****. You cannot </p><p>say a word at UPS. If somebody treats you like **** and calls you any name they </p><p>want, says this or that to you, you cannot say a thing cause, in UPS's eyes, the </p><p>customer is always right. I hate having to eat crow. </p><p> </p><p>But I've gotten laid because of the job. I deliver to a lot of womens' clothing </p><p>stores. Like I used to do a shopping mall on one route. And there's lots and </p><p>lots of forty-year-old divorced women, thirty eight and forty--really still cute </p><p>and really still hot--really nice, really sweet. I've gone to dinner with them, </p><p>I've gone to their house. But you know, no divorcee ever greeted me at the door </p><p>in her undies, or anything like that. I always had to set it up for later. And </p><p>I've heard plenty of stories about guys having sex on the job, but I think most </p><p>of those guys are liars.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SignatureRequired, post: 176528, member: 6417"] UPS Driver -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Rosario Interviewed by Paul Vee I am a "Full-Time Package Car Driver" for UPS. I've been doing it for ten years. I started because I was a student and I needed a part-time job. I went for an interview for what I thought was "Part-Time Loaders." When I got there they said it was for drivers. So I filled out the application, and they called me back three days later. It was the first real job ever in my life and, at the beginning, it was pretty overwhelming. UPS is heavily fortified. You've got to show a pass to get in the gate. So like, every day, you go in, you change into your uniform in the locker room, and then you go downstairs for the morning meeting. Every day there's a meeting in the morning to tell you what you did wrong the day before. Every day. They get you all together in a group, all the drivers and everybody, and then they yank you in the office and yell at you personally for about five minutes. It's like roll call, like, you know, a police station show. Except they just yell at you. At UPS, you're never told what you did well. They're like a military organization. They check you over for appearance, everything. They make sure your shoes shine, your tee shirts can only be white or brown--they can't be black, your socks have to be brown or black. Your shoes have to be polished. Then, after the meeting, you go to your truck, which is already loaded and full of gas. All you do is drive and deliver. You have a route set up for you every day, with a specific number of delivery and pick-up accounts you do. And you have to deliver every single package. If you bring one package back without attempting to deliver it, they can fire you right there. But, the most important thing is: "Don't spill your coffee." You know, don't spill coffee in the truck. The most important thing is to not spill hot coffee when you're driving. Forget the UPS rules, just don't spill coffee. That is the unwritten number one law of driving a truck. And you know, the service you give people all depends on how they tip you at Christmas. People who don't tip you at Christmas, you **** them. They get dropped off late in the day and picked up early. Or, you drop 'em off and pick 'em up at the same time. The people who have coffee and doughnuts, and the people who have cute women working there, you deliver them first. Zippy Printers are the worst ****ing account in the world. They're ****. They gave me a bottle of Asti Spumante for Christmas. These people should give me a hundred dollars, easy. They're a pain in the ass. They want an early delivery, they want a late pickup. These people, they pretend they're your friend, but one problem, they're on the phone, calling in major complaints against you. It's bull****. But some people give me great stuff for Christmas. Newland Candy gave me five bottles of great wine. And then there's a place called All-time Hardware on my route now. They let you use their phone. I call everybody I know. They have a television, they have coffee. They have doughnuts and bagels every morning. And they have good bathrooms. That's what you really learn at UPS: who has a good bathroom, who has a clean bathroom, and who has a paper, and who has porno for the bathroom. You run into a lot of porno in bathrooms, especially in industrial places--factories and things like that. Cresti and Sons had some of the most bizarre porno I'd ever seen in my life. Stacks and stacks of it. And the Desposito Tool Company is a prime stop. Always coffee cakes and doughnuts in the morning, hot coffee and two stalls, which are both very clean, and on each toilet, in each stall, at least a foot-high stack of current, good porno. Things like Leg Show, Gent, Club--good porn--not Playboy. Double-D Cup. [Laughs] And there's somebody who has a major foot fetish who gets something called Toe-Sucker Magazine. Normally, you work around eleven hours a day. Average is around ten hours a day. The most stops I've ever done in one day was at Christmas, once, like 240, with a helper. That's 240 separate doors and there's guys who go out on cars at Christmas with 400 stops and two helpers. When you get a helper, and you're the driver, you're like the captain of the ship. You're Kurtz. [Laughs] You're Captain Kirk, and you slave the **** out of your helper, usually. Although I guess it depends a little bit on how they treat you. If they're pricks, you slave the **** out of them. I had a helper who was a nice guy. We used to smoke pot and get coffee every morning. But basically, they're totally dependent upon you for the day, so if you get somebody who's a prick, you slave 'em. You drop 'em off in, like, a three-block area with a hand-truck and say "I'll pick you up." Then, you go and get coffee. Sometimes I start the day and I just realize I can't do it. I can't keep working. A couple of times, I called 'em, told 'em they had to come get me. I said I was sick. They loved that. But usually, when I'm out there, I just do everything I can to not actually work. I mean, on my stops, I watch television, make telephone calls, flirt with secretaries, call my girlfriend, call my friends, go shopping, read the newspaper, go swimming in the summer at a motel pool. You can get caught at this stuff. I've already had three trials. One was the "Milk Shake Trial" for getting a milk shake. One was for insubordination. And one was for wearing a tee shirt. I was wearing a Bob Marley tee shirt, a white tee shirt, in the summer. Somebody ratted me out for the tee shirt, and we had a supervisor who didn't like me and this other guy, so he followed us. He was jealous that we went to a pool every day cause we had great tans, and he was pissed. So he hid in the parking lot. He didn't even say anything to us. He just watched us and went back to UPS and filed a report. And then they filed a complaint with the union. So I had these trials. They were held on work days, you know, by appointment. And at the trials there was my Division Manager, my Manager, the Supervisor, myself and two union representatives. Like Nuremburg. And I had to explain myself. But I got off every time. I mean, we're Teamsters, and the only thing they really will fire you for at UPS is stealing packages or being drunk on the job. Now I've done both of those, but I've never been caught. And my relationship with my supervisors is generally pretty workable. It's functional. But you can never trust them because they're company people. And the managers at UPS are worse. UPS treats their own people--the managers and supervisors--worse than they even treat their drivers. It's like the theology is "**** rolls downhill." So you can never trust anyone, and every driver has this attitude. You know, it's "us against them." Totally. Some of the other drivers are decent, though. Some aren't. I've met nice guys at work. I've met decent people. I've had some of them to my house for dinner. And I love to drive. That's my favorite thing. I live to drive. But do I like the work? No. There are too many hazards: accidents, sprained ankles, disc problems in my back, massive wear and tear on your body from carrying all these packages, stress, anxiety--I've had dreams about this job. Anxiety dreams. And I've never been robbed, but lots of guys I work with get robbed. The guys who work in Passaic and stuff like that. And there's auto accidents. And on Halloween, they throw rocks at the truck. In Passaic, they throw rocks and bottles. In Clifton, they throw eggs. I've been chased by dogs. When you're chased, you gotta run back to the truck as fast as you can. Always run to the truck. And slam the door. I haven't ever been caught by a dog, but I know somebody else who got attacked and ended up in the hospital. I've learned a lot about dogs at UPS. Nice dogs, bad dogs. And it's hot in the summer. You will literally lose five, six pounds in August. I drop every year. It's physical work. I mean, you could never do this job for thirty years. There are guys who do it, but they end up with major physical disability. I'd like to stay another year or two, then I'm leaving. I want to go back to school and study Buddhism, or psychology, which is really what I like. Besides, I have a problem with authority figures. I hate wearing a uniform and dealing with people who are real *******s. I hate having to deal with someone that you can't stand, five days a week and having to take their ****. You cannot say a word at UPS. If somebody treats you like **** and calls you any name they want, says this or that to you, you cannot say a thing cause, in UPS's eyes, the customer is always right. I hate having to eat crow. But I've gotten laid because of the job. I deliver to a lot of womens' clothing stores. Like I used to do a shopping mall on one route. And there's lots and lots of forty-year-old divorced women, thirty eight and forty--really still cute and really still hot--really nice, really sweet. I've gone to dinner with them, I've gone to their house. But you know, no divorcee ever greeted me at the door in her undies, or anything like that. I always had to set it up for later. And I've heard plenty of stories about guys having sex on the job, but I think most of those guys are liars. [/QUOTE]
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