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<blockquote data-quote="AwashBwashCwash" data-source="post: 4344178" data-attributes="member: 73305"><p>It's so different from center to center that it's hard to give advice.</p><p>I used to work night sort at a small center, 1 belt, about 30 routes total.</p><p>We didn't have one of those extendo things, you just had to pick up these huge 10 feet long metal rollers and connect them to the belt and add more of them as you went deeper into the trailer. They are heavy af, most of them are bent or broken somehow, and they barely work.</p><p>You'd also have to prop them up with load stands which were little piece of crap metal tripods where you could adjust the height by turning a screw that always came loose so your whole chain of rollers would fall down the whole shift.</p><p></p><p>The facilities are cramped, dangerous, and shoddy because UPS is a cheapskate company that doesn't care about you or your health until it affects their image. There's often not enough room to maneuver and there's pitfalls and places to break an ankle everywhere you look.</p><p></p><p></p><p>UPS does not even own the building I work at now. They rent it.</p><p>They've been renting it for like 30 years. It's the most ghetto thing I've ever heard of for a company of this size.</p><p>It's basically a big shed that they jerry-rigged up for loading/unloading, the whole thing looks like a crackhouse.</p><p></p><p>Bigger facilities have belts that automatically extend which must be really nice, but apparently you get chopped in half if the feeder driver decides to pull away and you get caught between the belt and the wall of the trailer, that has happened to a few people.</p><p></p><p>In general it's pretty brutal. The boxes will come faster than you can stack and they'll constantly be tumbling off the belt and onto the floor. The trailers sit out baking in the heat all day and by the time you come in to work they must be at least 130 degrees on the inside. There's been several times where I would puke on the floor of the trailer from the extreme heat.</p><p></p><p>you'll be asked to stack high so they can fit as much junk into the trailer as possible which is nice in theory but in practice you don't always conveniently get the heavy stuff first and then the light stuff later which means RIP to your rotator cuffs.</p><p></p><p>When you're an inside employee, there is no escape. They are always there watching.</p><p></p><p>My load qualities always sucked big time but we were always desperately short handed so I always got away with it. Your experience at UPS will greatly depend on the particular circumstances at your facility. As a general rule of thumb though, it's going to really suck and if you're going to work here you should have a long-term goal in mind because otherwise there is no point in subjecting yourself to this.</p><p></p><p>Keep in mind that if you are planning to be a FT driver, you will likely have to do this for years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AwashBwashCwash, post: 4344178, member: 73305"] It's so different from center to center that it's hard to give advice. I used to work night sort at a small center, 1 belt, about 30 routes total. We didn't have one of those extendo things, you just had to pick up these huge 10 feet long metal rollers and connect them to the belt and add more of them as you went deeper into the trailer. They are heavy af, most of them are bent or broken somehow, and they barely work. You'd also have to prop them up with load stands which were little piece of crap metal tripods where you could adjust the height by turning a screw that always came loose so your whole chain of rollers would fall down the whole shift. The facilities are cramped, dangerous, and shoddy because UPS is a cheapskate company that doesn't care about you or your health until it affects their image. There's often not enough room to maneuver and there's pitfalls and places to break an ankle everywhere you look. UPS does not even own the building I work at now. They rent it. They've been renting it for like 30 years. It's the most ghetto thing I've ever heard of for a company of this size. It's basically a big shed that they jerry-rigged up for loading/unloading, the whole thing looks like a crackhouse. Bigger facilities have belts that automatically extend which must be really nice, but apparently you get chopped in half if the feeder driver decides to pull away and you get caught between the belt and the wall of the trailer, that has happened to a few people. In general it's pretty brutal. The boxes will come faster than you can stack and they'll constantly be tumbling off the belt and onto the floor. The trailers sit out baking in the heat all day and by the time you come in to work they must be at least 130 degrees on the inside. There's been several times where I would puke on the floor of the trailer from the extreme heat. you'll be asked to stack high so they can fit as much junk into the trailer as possible which is nice in theory but in practice you don't always conveniently get the heavy stuff first and then the light stuff later which means RIP to your rotator cuffs. When you're an inside employee, there is no escape. They are always there watching. My load qualities always sucked big time but we were always desperately short handed so I always got away with it. Your experience at UPS will greatly depend on the particular circumstances at your facility. As a general rule of thumb though, it's going to really suck and if you're going to work here you should have a long-term goal in mind because otherwise there is no point in subjecting yourself to this. Keep in mind that if you are planning to be a FT driver, you will likely have to do this for years. [/QUOTE]
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