Umm, post 76 by joeboodog.
"On Topic" - rules regarding smoking in package cars.
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Umm, post 76 by joeboodog.
PT Car Washer
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I had one last year for a couple days after peak was over. Also driver sups doing safety rides. What they do outside the truck when we take a break is their business. I also live in a smoke free work area state.
that one, and a helper does not need to smoke, he/she is there to work. You just tell them NO you are in charge.
box_beeyotch
Well-Known Member
Drop him back at the meet point? I would've left his whiny arse wherever we were at after his first complaint.
Overpaid Union Thug
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I bet the same people who can find a way to justify smoking in a package car (which isn't supposed to happen) and while a non smoker is with them are also the same ones that can find a way to justify skipping their lunch, riding with the bulkhead door open, stacking there next ten stops in the cab, running, refusing to deliver packages to apartment offices, well......you all get the idea.
box_beeyotch
Well-Known Member
Yeah bs. I'm a smoker and I'll be damned if I ever skip my lunch and give away time to the company. If you smoke, you smoke, its not a habit you break over not, especially not for some half useless seasonal. A helper doesn't dictate what a driver does in the truck. Sorry, not sorry.
Overpaid Union Thug
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The rule is no smoking. That, if common courtesy doesn't, is what SHOULD dictate whether or not you smoke on the truck. And if you truly don't skip your lunch then you have plenty of time to smoke OUTSIDE the truck.
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selfcancelsignal
Guest
From a non smoker, you have no business being a helper at UPS if something this minor bothers you so much.
728ups
All Trash No Trailer
My helper smokes, I dont and HATE cigarettes but if it makes the kid happy and keeps me from worrying about him showing up everyday then I can deal with it. $8.50 an hour deosent buy a very good employee
box_beeyotch
Well-Known Member
Yeah well we dont have that rule or at least none of us follow it nor is it enforced. The point is, if I want to smoke a cigarette I'm going to regardless of what you or any other jack ass tells me I can or cant do. Deal with it or get off the package car.
box_beeyotch
Well-Known Member
Thank you. For Christ sake, not everyone is a maroon.
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
The OP's story in both posts do not add up....shocking.
upsbeernut
Sometimes i feel like a nut sometimes i dont
Wear a mask, home depot in the paint dept.
Drop your helper off. Give him a dolly,full of packages. See you in an hour. Puff away.
bleedinbrown58
That’s Craptacular
Merry Christmas Tooner!
You forgot. Sex,drugs and Rock n roll.
Those are addictions.
brownmonster
Man of Great Wisdom
I don't smoke but I've had helpers that did. I do the same thing I do with a smoking Supe. I'll take care of this COD, good time for you to burn one.
NEnewbie
I feel like an elf.
Hi all, I was able to be paired up with a non-smoking driver today. We did 9 hours and 320 stops. There was no issues at all today when calling the helper coordinator.
Thank you for the advice, I get very flustered and stressed when issues like this come up.
I told my story today to the driver as he was the driver I had the first day, a guy very close to retirement. We exchanged phone numbers so I do not have to deal with any other driver or the driver helper for the rest of the season. I casually asked him if it's true that seasonal jobs cannot lead to full time employment and he laughed it off saying drivers have more say in this than you think.
He said if I kept "working like the road runner" that he would "put the word in" for when I apply after the peak.
This is what I always wanted and I am elated. I was always told by my fathers friend who is retired car driver that UPS is a career where if you go full out all the time you can and will move up quickly. They only care about results and if you provide those results you will do ok.
I want to tell other driver helpers that the drivers CAN help you get hired after peak, the stuff they say at orientation that this cannot lead to full time is not exactly true. Drivers have more power than you think especially drivers who have 35 years and are near retirement like mine.
He gave me advice on the chain smoking driver calling him a "young buck who is going to burn out if he needs 2 packs a day to do just 140 stops" and to "not take any bull
from anyone, if you are reliable and bust ass and don't screw up "
I honestly never thought I could do this job beforehand but now I know I can, impressing the driver is key. The driver told me the reason why he is giving me his personal number " you save me time and in my career I have only had 7 helpers who took to this so quickly so you bet your ass I am going recommend you UPS needs people like you for the future, at least until drones kill our jobs"
I guess it was "girly" but I nearly cried.
Thank you all for the help and advice - you have made this woman very happy. You guys are all right and the reputation of this site is not accurate at all.
I will keep reporting my experiences for future driver helpers to benefit from !
Thank you for the advice, I get very flustered and stressed when issues like this come up.
I told my story today to the driver as he was the driver I had the first day, a guy very close to retirement. We exchanged phone numbers so I do not have to deal with any other driver or the driver helper for the rest of the season. I casually asked him if it's true that seasonal jobs cannot lead to full time employment and he laughed it off saying drivers have more say in this than you think.
He said if I kept "working like the road runner" that he would "put the word in" for when I apply after the peak.
This is what I always wanted and I am elated. I was always told by my fathers friend who is retired car driver that UPS is a career where if you go full out all the time you can and will move up quickly. They only care about results and if you provide those results you will do ok.
I want to tell other driver helpers that the drivers CAN help you get hired after peak, the stuff they say at orientation that this cannot lead to full time is not exactly true. Drivers have more power than you think especially drivers who have 35 years and are near retirement like mine.
He gave me advice on the chain smoking driver calling him a "young buck who is going to burn out if he needs 2 packs a day to do just 140 stops" and to "not take any bull
from anyone, if you are reliable and bust ass and don't screw up " I honestly never thought I could do this job beforehand but now I know I can, impressing the driver is key. The driver told me the reason why he is giving me his personal number " you save me time and in my career I have only had 7 helpers who took to this so quickly so you bet your ass I am going recommend you UPS needs people like you for the future, at least until drones kill our jobs"
I guess it was "girly" but I nearly cried.
Thank you all for the help and advice - you have made this woman very happy. You guys are all right and the reputation of this site is not accurate at all.
I will keep reporting my experiences for future driver helpers to benefit from !
