History of Peak Season

[Hadjabear]

What year did Peak Season become defined?

Was it always Thanksgiving thru Christmas or did it start out as like 1 week and expand from there?

When did no vacations during peak season come about?

Were vacations always in weeks at a time? (Yes I know about single day vacations, but that's only some not all time off)

Finally, when seasonal employees were first allowed was there a push to get back vacations during peak?

 

[Brownslave688]

What year did Peak Season become defined?

Was it always Thanksgiving thru Christmas or did it start out as like 1 week and expand from there?

When did no vacations during peak season come about?

Were vacations always in weeks at a time? (Yes I know about single day vacations, but that's only some not all time off)

Finally, when seasonal employees were first allowed was there a push to get back vacations during peak?

Ask again in 3 months. We refuse to talk peak before November.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Peak is 52 weeks a year now.

 

[Box Ox]

What year did Peak Season become defined?

Nobody's really sure. But it's generally thought to have been around 1786, after Benjamin Franklin created the national highway system and gave his "Give me Amazon, or give me death!" speech at the ribbon cutting ceremony in LA.

 

[4evapreloader]

Whenever it happens, UPS management will be "surprised". That is a guarantee. They have been surprised when peak comes every year I've been there.

 

[Brownslave688]

Peak is 52 weeks a year now.

That hard up for money you're working vacations now?

 

[Future]

Peak is 52 weeks a year now.

 

[WorknLateHuh]

Peak is 52 weeks a year now.

it really is. It never ends and we're drowning in work here

The only difference between now and December is that we get a helper then

 

[LeadBelly]

"The first peak season is actually this year". After you have been around for a couple, you will understand my first sentence.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

it really is. It never ends and we're drowning in work here

The only difference between now and December is that we get a helper then

And no snow!

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

That hard up for money you're working vacations now?

Strike fund.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

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Right @Jkloc420 ?

 

[Wally]

Peak is no more. Working the day after Thanksgiving permanently solved that problem according to management.

 

[Big Package]

I send bricked out cars every day. I heard during peak that it's not gonna be shoving every tiny item as possible in there.. just more routes.

Last year it wasn't uncommon for my driver and I to head out, finish commercial and air, come back to load a decent car, cutoff for pickups, drop off and load again if feasible, work until the DIAD said to.

That center was in Portland Metro.. that's not how it normally went the two years before that.. I was kind of surprised.

 

[Ecw21411]

It's peak at my center now!!!!

 

[PT Car Washer]

Drivers at my Center can't wait for Peak so they can have some OT relief.

 

[WorknLateHuh]

imagine this company with no DOT restrictions. 70 hour work week, "safety first!"

 

[FrigidFTSup]

Whenever it happens, UPS management will be "surprised". That is a guarantee. They have been surprised when peak comes every year I've been there.

We started our peak plans 2 weeks ago

 

[Hadjabear]

Ask again in 3 months. We refuse to talk peak before November.

Too late at that point, going to submit contract proposals and looking for some background on the matter

 

[Brownslave688]

Too late at that point, going to submit contract proposals and looking for some background on the matter

I'm
Assuming you want vacation during peak. Lol ain't gonna happen



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