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Is being an overachiever at UPS worth it?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rawrzxor" data-source="post: 1296133" data-attributes="member: 51342"><p>I just got my seniority last week, and before that they tried telling me once that I had to do 400 boxes in an hour. Now. I'm a 130 pound guy. Just 180 was back-breaking for me, while I was out of shape. I managed to pop it up to around 230 over my month of probation, then started hovering around 200 an hour. </p><p></p><p>This last week, on Thursday, I was pushing down most of the night (due to another 6-yeared senioritied employee getting talked to about having to do 200; I figured I'd help him out a bit since they hadn't mentioned anything to me. Plus, he's a cool guy and we talk a lot while loading. He was busting his ass and managed to make it to somewhere around 350-400), and ended up around 198. </p><p></p><p>Now. Two separate supervisors told me two separate things. The first--relatively decent guy--said the minimum we should be doing is 200; I asked if I was in trouble because of making 198 due to pushing down (as he saw me doing so), to which he responded, "No, that's close enough".</p><p></p><p>The second, (a supervisor from a couple trailers down--not mine) said that we had to be doing 300, and told me I spent too much time pushing down. (Previously, I hadn't spent enough time picking up boxes off the ground to make it look 'clean' for seemingly no one, where a previous supervisor had told me to leave them on the ground since they were going to fall anyway when we get that busy.) </p><p></p><p>Talk about dichotomous bull<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />; this is really starting to piss me off, to say the least; but, I'm afraid to load at a decent pace instead of pushing myself, because I really don't want to get fired. However, *all* the employees there tell me to just keep up a decent pace, and that the supervisors will always tell you to go faster even if you're loading 1,000-2,000 an hour. </p><p></p><p>I've noticed that the supervisors at my hub seem to want to manipulate us rather than actually tell us how it is. The terms, "Well, think about it.; Work harder, we get out of here faster.; There are people doing 500-600 packages an hour, so you don't really have any excuse. (On that last note, again, I'm 130 pounds and don't have people pushing down for me all the time and have only been there for a month...);It's good exercise (there is a limit to what qualifies as good exercise and what qualifies as over-training, inducing injuries; thus, humorously, making me a less effective worker for the rest of the week. )</p><p></p><p>I may have had to vent a little... >_>;;</p><p></p><p>What does everyone think a nice, decent pace is? Should I be doing more like 250?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rawrzxor, post: 1296133, member: 51342"] I just got my seniority last week, and before that they tried telling me once that I had to do 400 boxes in an hour. Now. I'm a 130 pound guy. Just 180 was back-breaking for me, while I was out of shape. I managed to pop it up to around 230 over my month of probation, then started hovering around 200 an hour. This last week, on Thursday, I was pushing down most of the night (due to another 6-yeared senioritied employee getting talked to about having to do 200; I figured I'd help him out a bit since they hadn't mentioned anything to me. Plus, he's a cool guy and we talk a lot while loading. He was busting his ass and managed to make it to somewhere around 350-400), and ended up around 198. Now. Two separate supervisors told me two separate things. The first--relatively decent guy--said the minimum we should be doing is 200; I asked if I was in trouble because of making 198 due to pushing down (as he saw me doing so), to which he responded, "No, that's close enough". The second, (a supervisor from a couple trailers down--not mine) said that we had to be doing 300, and told me I spent too much time pushing down. (Previously, I hadn't spent enough time picking up boxes off the ground to make it look 'clean' for seemingly no one, where a previous supervisor had told me to leave them on the ground since they were going to fall anyway when we get that busy.) Talk about dichotomous bull:censored:; this is really starting to piss me off, to say the least; but, I'm afraid to load at a decent pace instead of pushing myself, because I really don't want to get fired. However, *all* the employees there tell me to just keep up a decent pace, and that the supervisors will always tell you to go faster even if you're loading 1,000-2,000 an hour. I've noticed that the supervisors at my hub seem to want to manipulate us rather than actually tell us how it is. The terms, "Well, think about it.; Work harder, we get out of here faster.; There are people doing 500-600 packages an hour, so you don't really have any excuse. (On that last note, again, I'm 130 pounds and don't have people pushing down for me all the time and have only been there for a month...);It's good exercise (there is a limit to what qualifies as good exercise and what qualifies as over-training, inducing injuries; thus, humorously, making me a less effective worker for the rest of the week. ) I may have had to vent a little... >_>;; What does everyone think a nice, decent pace is? Should I be doing more like 250? [/QUOTE]
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