UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Come up and show me how it's done sometime.
Pack a lunch and bring your big boy pants.
Heard it thru the grapevine...
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Come up and show me how it's done sometime.
Pack a lunch and bring your big boy pants.
Johney
Well-Known Member
Yawn.
dudebro
Well-Known Member
There are a number of paths the technology can take the job. But it's not as simple as comparing the experienced driver to the new driver. Of course the experienced driver will wipe the floor with the new driver, all other things equal.
But if the new driver is cheap enough that the productivity difference doesn't matter, if a new driver can do 2/3rds the work at half the cost, it becomes a possibility.
Personally, I hope the drivers continue to be paid well and we add skill and automation management to the job so it continues to be a living wage occupation and UPS remains competitive, but no one can say where this will head for certain.
pkgdriver
Well-Known Member
Love his "old school" interjections.
trickpony1
Well-Known Member
Dave is real proud of this and wears it like a feather in his cap.
What he doesn't realize is he's screwing himself out of tens of thousands of dollars.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Someone should let him know.
AutoZone
BrownPower
It only took me a week of training and 1 week of oh
, did I do that right... And I've been fine since.. I'd really love to know what you seasoned veteran drivers consider the hardest part of driving PC's are... Curious if I've even been the yet in the 5 months of driving, and haven't noticed..
Johney
Well-Known Member
Many have.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
I worked yesterday. Our PDS could not get EDD to download so we were told to force the addresses in to the board. The look on some of the newbie's faces was priceless.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
It only took me a week of training and 1 week of oh
Driving is the easy part of the job.
Turdferguson
Just a turd
It only took me a week of training and 1 week of oh
I don't believe I have heard you discuss a single customer interaction or experience in any of your posts.
Preload has no customers
DumbTruckDriver
Allergic to cardboard.
Try running ten different routes over a two week period, six of which are blind.
Big boy pants... *eyeroll*
Do it for 30 years and not 30 days like you.
Tick Toc
Well-Known Member
I think the issue at hand here is not what's so "difficult about the job". Rather more trying to show some respect to the vets from n00bs like us. Yes, they're not hard steps to march. But we haven't marched millions of them yet.
Read more, learn more. Ruffle feathers less.
Read more, learn more. Ruffle feathers less.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
But he has a clean conscious and his management respects his work ethic.
It's a trade off for sure.
AutoZone
BrownPower
You're missing what I'm saying and taking it out of context... It's not a slam on the older guys. I'm seriously asking what they consider the hardest part of the job. I'm sure each has a different view of it. I know I'm new.. I'm sure there's harder work I've yet to do. That's why I'm asking.. and that's why I said the hardest thing I do is walk up stairs with 5-6-7 packages, or walking up 3-4 flights with 70+ lbs packages... Other then that, I haven't really come across anything to difficult... Time commits?? I make sure I break off early enough to get them done... I guess that could be a slight stress too.. but there has to be more difficult things involved I'm sure... Anyone care to chime in what they deal with daily, Or even once in a while that's REALLY TOUGH?
AutoZone
BrownPower
Last I checked, drivers are the preloads customers....
AutoZone
BrownPower
About 150 days.. close tho, by your math skills..
