Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
Off the street seasonal--got called back again for summer season
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1077934" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p>And the union's proposing changing it to 8:1, so this could change by the end of the summer.</p><p></p><p>I agree with Ms.PacMan - you should attempt to discuss with your center manager your prospects of being an off the street hire. Every center is different, but in mine in typically takes at least ten years (and has been stretching much longer than that recently) to go into FT package car driving. Meanwhile, they're always short seasonal drivers, and no PTers sign-up to be cover drivers, so we have persons with less than a year seniority who spend most of the year driving (at the seasonal rate, of course). Of course, the months they spend working Preload must be a shocker (it pays only $8.50-$9.50/hour to start, and they're lucky to get 3.5 hours). Whatever you do, don't be fooled if any manager attempts to convince you that he/she can pull some strings to get you driving much sooner than you otherwise would. They tell this to everyone here -- attempting to get Super Man-like work performances -- usually saying 'we'll have you quit, then we'll hire you off the street as a the 1:6.' I've been here for well over a decade, they've used this line on dozens of kids, and guess how many it's happened to (hint: rhymes with hero). Sadly, that doesn't stop people from thinking 'well, it's going to happen to ME!'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1077934, member: 43436"] And the union's proposing changing it to 8:1, so this could change by the end of the summer. I agree with Ms.PacMan - you should attempt to discuss with your center manager your prospects of being an off the street hire. Every center is different, but in mine in typically takes at least ten years (and has been stretching much longer than that recently) to go into FT package car driving. Meanwhile, they're always short seasonal drivers, and no PTers sign-up to be cover drivers, so we have persons with less than a year seniority who spend most of the year driving (at the seasonal rate, of course). Of course, the months they spend working Preload must be a shocker (it pays only $8.50-$9.50/hour to start, and they're lucky to get 3.5 hours). Whatever you do, don't be fooled if any manager attempts to convince you that he/she can pull some strings to get you driving much sooner than you otherwise would. They tell this to everyone here -- attempting to get Super Man-like work performances -- usually saying 'we'll have you quit, then we'll hire you off the street as a the 1:6.' I've been here for well over a decade, they've used this line on dozens of kids, and guess how many it's happened to (hint: rhymes with hero). Sadly, that doesn't stop people from thinking 'well, it's going to happen to ME!' [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
Off the street seasonal--got called back again for summer season
Top