How are bonuses paid?

[Wally]

I’m a seasonal driver helper and just got my first paycheck, but the $300 bonus was not on it. Does that come on a different check? Or do I need to kick someone’s ass?

All you get is $300? You are getting hosed sucker. Our runners get $150 each and every week.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

All you get is $300? You are getting hosed sucker. Our runners get $150 each and every week.

$300/week.

 

[Wally]

$300/week.

$300 a week bonus? That seems stupid. Why not jack up the hour rate to pull in workers? Even $5 bucks a hour would be cheaper.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

$300 a week bonus? That seems stupid. Why not jack up the hour rate to pull in workers? Even $5 bucks a hour would be cheaper.

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Palatine IL

 

[brownmonster]

$300 extra a week for walking slow, smoking and talking too much?

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

$300 extra a week for walking slow, smoking and talking too much?

And trying to bum a couple bucks off the driver for "gas money".

 

[Future]

And trying to bum a couple bucks off the driver for "gas money".

LMAO.... yep had a few of them over the years ...and sucker Future Gave it 2 them

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

And trying to bum a couple bucks off the driver for "gas money".

I give mine $20/week.

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

I give mine $20/week.

This one will be getting all the tips on the last day (and it's been a very lucrative tip season).

I've had some helpers that don't even get a goodbye when I drop them off.

 

[thatsatommorowproblem]

it's because no one is signing up...

 

[retiredTxfeeder]

I had a helper one year who was an executive with Southern Pacific Railroad. He was in his 50's and took 6 weeks off during the Christmas season. Whatever he made, he used it to buy Christmas gifts. He told me what subdivision he lived in and it was the same one our division manager lived in. $300,000 homes and up, and that was almost 35 years ago. Good worker. I should have begged *him* for gas money. lol.

 

[Wally]

$300 extra a week for walking slow, smoking and talking too much?

Could be "Nick O Teen", or "The Drifter"

Wally's Primer on Common Helper Psychological Haplotypes and Personalities

 

[clean hairy]

I’m a seasonal driver helper and just got my first paycheck, but the $300 bonus was not on it. Does that come on a different check? Or do I need to kick someone’s ass?

You get $300 worth of expired K-Mart gift cards.

 

[Two Tokes]

I’m a seasonal driver helper and just got my first paycheck, but the $300 bonus was not on it. Does that come on a different check? Or do I need to kick someone’s ass?

Go kick somebody's Ass That always works

 

[MisterTeddyKent]

All you get is $300? You are getting hosed sucker. Our runners get $150 each and every week.

No, it’s 10.20 per hour, plus $300 per week if yoy are available to work every day.

 

[MisterTeddyKent]

$300 a week bonus? That seems stupid. Why not jack up the hour rate to pull in workers? Even $5 bucks a hour would be cheaper.

The $300 is only awarded to you if you are available to work whatever they ask of you Monday through Friday. This way, they don’t have to pay the $300 if someone calls off or says they can’t work or something, which happens a lot according to some of the drivers I’ve been with. Not stupid at all really. It’s actually the smartest thing they could do.

 

[MisterTeddyKent]

Yep, just

in my center the helpers get a weekly bonus of 300 dollars.. but for some reason they are two weeks behind on the bonuses.. I wonder why.. so maybe that's what's going by you.. id ask the helper coordinator or whoever hired you..

Yep, just got it for two weeks ago on last week’s pay period. Idk why, but it is 2 weeks behind.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The $300 is only awarded to you if you are available to work whatever they ask of you Monday through Friday. This way, they don’t have to pay the $300 if someone calls off or says they can’t work or something, which happens a lot according to some of the drivers I’ve been with. Not stupid at all really. It’s actually the smartest thing they could do.

No, the smartest person thing would be to offer a competitive wage.

 

[MisterTeddyKent]

It took me 2 checks to get my bonus the first time I did helper, and then got all 3 at once and then recurring.

Don't forget you have to either call in or show up every day. Always speak with the coordinator and make your name and face known. All 3 years I was paid bonuses in weekly checks. The end of the year bonus took 2 extra weeks. Got my final check the first week of January and 1k seasonal bonus right before February. That's the only time they've been separate.

I wouldn't go "kicking some ass", but I'd politely contact your helper coordinator to inform him or her of the error and ask how the pay will be dispersed.

Remember it's conditional. So if you missed Monday or decided not to call Wednesday, you're not fulfilling your end of the bargain.

If you didn't work or call every single day of peak you won't get the final bonus. If it really even exists. Some years some places do it sometimes they don't, so word of mouth on that isn't reliable and it changes every year based on need.

Yeah I got it on my paycheck today, which is my second paycheck. My coordinator told me it always takes two weeks. I didn’t ask why. Doesn’t matter as long as I get it.

 

[MisterTeddyKent]

No, the smartest person thing would be to offer a competitive wage.

I mean, they’re only looking to keep us for the month of December. Most of us are college students on break, or retired people looking to make an extra buck. We’re not looking for anything crazy. Most seasonal retail options around Chicago pay $10 an hour, so this job’s wage is already higher, and even moreso with the bonus. That’s pretty competitive. It’s just ty work.