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<blockquote data-quote="kingOFchester" data-source="post: 319433" data-attributes="member: 11246"><p>A preloaders perspective:</p><p>Started on a Tuesday:</p><p> </p><p>Day 1) 2 hours of signing papers and watching "safety videos"</p><p>Then taken down to three trucks, where Part-time sup shows you a chart and a PAS label. spend all of 5 minutes (more like 3) on how to read the label and where to put it on the specific truck. Then you are left to a seemingly endless flow of packages down a slide as well as the irreg belt. </p><p> </p><p>Day 2) 1.5 hours of more videos, including the history of UPS, flip thru a cornerstone book. Then taken back to the 3 trucks where the slide is all backed up as they were waiting for you to come and start to load the trucks. You are bombarded with everything from letters to fireplaces and everything in between. Only this day the shelf that was light the day before has 25 boxes of paper and the floor space you had the previous day is eaten up with a sleep number. Supe stops over and tells you "find another spot". to which you find another spot to see at the tail end of the shift 121 boxes of gears weighing in at 57lbs each. Being so new you don't even know or notice that the label clearly states 1 of 1.</p><p> </p><p>Day 3) 1 hour. Finish watching the videos, questions and answers and given a quick tutorial on all the allowed and banned Hazardous materials. Then back to the three trucks and no one even thinking twice as to what you are doing. So you tackle the fall of boxes. Supe tells you about the 2 missloads from the day prior.</p><p> </p><p>Day 4) Given a test where the trainer gives everyone in the room the answers word for word. Then sent back down to the belts: You arrive at your trucks and come up with a plan of attack. You think things thru a little bit but all of a sudden that Wal-Mart stop is replaced with a manufacturing stop that must be processing lead blocks into something. This is the 1st day you get to meet your driver and figure things out with his/her likes and dislikes. You go home not knowing what you did right or wrong...good or bad....all you know you are beat and no one tells you anything other then your misloads.</p><p> </p><p>Starting the next week you arrive at your trucks just to be sent to a new set of trucks with an entirely different set of stops. Fl1 is now empty and your 8000 is packed. Just as your 2nd week comes to a close...and you get told that your PPH is not up to par and the 3 misloads is not good either you are then pulled to another set of trucks. You finally get to the point where you say to yourself "heck if they don't care about anything other then PPH and misloads then why should I"</p><p> </p><p>I am not saying that is what happened to me. I have since been moved to picking off the belt, but my drivers that I was finally assigned to for all of peak, keep asking "when are you coming back to work with the real men"? My one driver was the one who took time out of his morning to come in early show me how to load his car and other cars for a driver. He explained things that may seem obvious to him and you, but for the regular Joe who has no clue to UPS or packages it was always good advise.</p><p> </p><p>In short, try to treat your loaders with a litte understanding. Can't blame all the crap on some sucker working for 8.50hr at 4am.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kingOFchester, post: 319433, member: 11246"] A preloaders perspective: Started on a Tuesday: Day 1) 2 hours of signing papers and watching "safety videos" Then taken down to three trucks, where Part-time sup shows you a chart and a PAS label. spend all of 5 minutes (more like 3) on how to read the label and where to put it on the specific truck. Then you are left to a seemingly endless flow of packages down a slide as well as the irreg belt. Day 2) 1.5 hours of more videos, including the history of UPS, flip thru a cornerstone book. Then taken back to the 3 trucks where the slide is all backed up as they were waiting for you to come and start to load the trucks. You are bombarded with everything from letters to fireplaces and everything in between. Only this day the shelf that was light the day before has 25 boxes of paper and the floor space you had the previous day is eaten up with a sleep number. Supe stops over and tells you "find another spot". to which you find another spot to see at the tail end of the shift 121 boxes of gears weighing in at 57lbs each. Being so new you don't even know or notice that the label clearly states 1 of 1. Day 3) 1 hour. Finish watching the videos, questions and answers and given a quick tutorial on all the allowed and banned Hazardous materials. Then back to the three trucks and no one even thinking twice as to what you are doing. So you tackle the fall of boxes. Supe tells you about the 2 missloads from the day prior. Day 4) Given a test where the trainer gives everyone in the room the answers word for word. Then sent back down to the belts: You arrive at your trucks and come up with a plan of attack. You think things thru a little bit but all of a sudden that Wal-Mart stop is replaced with a manufacturing stop that must be processing lead blocks into something. This is the 1st day you get to meet your driver and figure things out with his/her likes and dislikes. You go home not knowing what you did right or wrong...good or bad....all you know you are beat and no one tells you anything other then your misloads. Starting the next week you arrive at your trucks just to be sent to a new set of trucks with an entirely different set of stops. Fl1 is now empty and your 8000 is packed. Just as your 2nd week comes to a close...and you get told that your PPH is not up to par and the 3 misloads is not good either you are then pulled to another set of trucks. You finally get to the point where you say to yourself "heck if they don't care about anything other then PPH and misloads then why should I" I am not saying that is what happened to me. I have since been moved to picking off the belt, but my drivers that I was finally assigned to for all of peak, keep asking "when are you coming back to work with the real men"? My one driver was the one who took time out of his morning to come in early show me how to load his car and other cars for a driver. He explained things that may seem obvious to him and you, but for the regular Joe who has no clue to UPS or packages it was always good advise. In short, try to treat your loaders with a litte understanding. Can't blame all the crap on some sucker working for 8.50hr at 4am. [/QUOTE]
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