Heard it thru the grapevine...

[Roy Cutler]

I worked construction during the strike and handed my $55 check back to our BA.

I think the Fed Ex subcontracts there ground work to other companies and they hire drivers.

 

[Roy Cutler]

Freight train? Damn that does NOT sound safe!

Right about not safe.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I think the Fed Ex subcontracts there ground work to other companies and they hire drivers.

That's nice---not quite sure how it relates to my post.

 

[JL 0513]

I saw one of the Duck Dynasty guys driving a FedEx Ground truck last week.

LOL. Never mind postal workers. Half of them don't even where a uniform anymore. Kind of disgraceful. I see them in t-shirt and jeans walking around with a mail bag. I don't know when the USPS decided that this was acceptable .

 

[cosmo1]

Auto Zone has been driving for some time now.

So he says.

 

[burrheadd]

Most of the fedex guys I see look like ex-cons with long hair, beards or go-tees, and tats. they look terrible. I bet neighborhood watch calls on them all the time.

I am proud of the professional look we UPSers have. yes I am retired, you haters, but once a UPSer, always a UPSer.

What happened to @browncubster anyway

 

[AutoZone]

Auto Zone has been driving for some time now.

I'll admit, harder then I thought it'd be.. wouldn't be so bad if more then half my route wasnt 3rd and 4th floor apartments in new areas that all the Orion snaps are off on. And the addresses have no sequence or street names posted yet! And of course Google maps hasn't updated.. have to hope cars aren't parked on the curbs blocking the spray painted Street names. Lots of walking packages off.. best part tho is my being overallowed every day isn't a problem because they know it's messed up out there.. $$$

 

[Benben]

Benben, feel free to ask me a "driver specific" question.

I'll wait.

Whats the new change that has come down in the past month or so related to the special counts screen? I noticed it a couple times this week.

I'll wait.

 

[8 Hour Day]

Rural routes yes..... besides that no.....its a shame

Not in my neck of the woods.... they did such a crap job in implementing ORION, the worst ORION routes are the all-resi routes by far. It's almost completely random, pulling you in & out of one entrance subdivisions. Baffling.

 

[Brownslave688]

No, you have a line of kids that have never worked before, or hardly worked that take those tours.. they come in, get there free week of class paid, 1 week of work(if that) and quit.. when I was rehired a little over a year ago, I was 1 of 15 guys.. I warned them they're in for an awakening. This isn't easy Work and it's for crappy money.. gotta stick it out at least a year!! Well every one of them quit within 1 month. Caught one walking out one night and he was like screw this place! I'm going to go drive a vending truck.. $400 a week! Double what I make here!!! I told him stick it out bud!! You'll laugh at $400 a week once you're in here... I never saw him again.. needless to say, I made $43/hr today (almost his whole week)... Don't know why these kids don't listen!

It's not just part timers. Out of 7 drivers that started with me in the summer 10+ years ago. I'm
One of 2 left.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Whats the new change that has come down in the past month or so related to the special counts screen? I noticed it a couple times this week.

I'll wait.

Unscheduled pickups.

 

[trickpony1]

So, in other words, you don't know what you are talking about.

Actually she does know what she's talking about.

I've seen the reference to "research" in the company policy book. I questioned it using the analogy of "....pull ideas out of your rear and see if they work....", management didn't seem impressed.

EDIT: I think the term used may have been "experiment" but the meaning was still there.

 

[HEFFERNAN]

Unscheduled pickups.

Wrong

If you get an ARS now, it has to be scanned to get credit.
You can't just put in 1 and throw it in the back.
The number is not editable now, it only reflects scanned RS packages.
Noticed that this week too, there was no mention of it to me.

 

[hellfire]

Whats the new change that has come down in the past month or so related to the special counts screen? I noticed it a couple times this week.

I'll wait.

You seem to be very angry, settle down

 

[a911scanner]

Whats the new change that has come down in the past month or so related to the special counts screen? I noticed it a couple times this week.

I'll wait.

No longer have to enter a piece amount. Automatically entered based on number of scanned packages.

What do I win Bob?

 

[Benben]

Unscheduled pickups.

Swing and a miss.

Want to go for double or nothing?

I'll wait.

 

[dookie stain]

Good luck with that. Even with orion, this job is a lot harder than it looks.

Idk why but it pisses me off when someone says how easy our job must be

 

[dookie stain]

I worked construction during the strike and handed my $55 check back to our BA.

I'd have taken that check and bought a 30 pack and a tri tip...you dumb bastard

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Idk why but it pisses me off when someone says how easy our job must be

It's only as hard as you make it out to be.

 

[dookie stain]

It's only as hard as you make it out to be.

That's not true...I don't cram 500 boxes into a truck...I don't order 150 shelves...I don't do a terrible job loading...I don't get to choose how hard my day is