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<blockquote data-quote="Mike23" data-source="post: 547637"><p>Well, the oil boom are longer, grueling hours (or so I've heard) sometime 14 hours a day. It's whenever the oil starts flowing is when you start. We have a driver in Calgary who did it for awhile and said he made about $3200 a week. My cousin also knows a pipe welder who signed a 3 year deal for $500 000 with a $375 000 signing bonus.</p><p></p><p>I enjoy my job, never let that be an issue here because I like my customers and getting to know them. I know we've had people from other provinces come out and out, A LOT. I went through some training with another training sup from Ontario for awhile, also BC and Winnipeg. This was in the span of a month. </p><p></p><p>As I said, in Calgary we're decent, the farther north you go (closer to fort mcmurry) the harder it is on the UPS drivers. I've heard the Edmonton branch has it worse since they're only about 3 hours away from it. A typical trailer there, about 1 year ago (I mean trailer park trailer) was selling for $500 000. In Calgary it was hard to find a house for under $400 000 (I'm talking just a small bungalow too). </p><p></p><p>We do have some management problems (but who doesn't). I think they just got so used to pressing the panic button in every situation that they have a problem with continuing to do that. I know we're in much better shape then a year ago. I haven't heard of us trying to get any drivers from any other province for awhile and we're actually able to do light duties when injured (I managed to tear some tendons in my shoulder and was told to only lift 20pounds and was still given 120 pound pieces on the truck). The whole thing in Calgary was strictly a panic trying to get anyone to get packages out. Our building is literally falling apart (one of our doors won't even shut which makes it freaking cold in -30 weather in that building for the preloaders). Our 'heating' system is the kind you find at a hockey arena (a heated pipe running along the roof). We're at max capacity now for preloaders which means half the mornings drivers show up 30min early, WITHOUT pay just to finish loading the mountain in the back of their truck (sometimes half their truck). I'm honestly surprised we weren't trying to get drivers from the states to come up and help for a few weeks. We do have a bit of a closer bond, I think, then some depots due to knowing everyone got the same shaft when we first started and we all know what it's like to be poorly trained and just thrown in a truck. However, that being said, it has also created a 'us vs them' mentality from the drivers and the managers, which is a shame because a lot of the management are fairly nice and we just don't trust them due to the amount of times they claimed things have been fixed when they haven't been.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure about any other province, and I would like to know, but how often are your fire extinguishers in the trucks recertified? I know ours hasn't been in 3 years and the head of health and safety came out claiming they didn't need to be every year because we follow the federal law and not the provincial law. That didn't make any sense to me because isn't that saying we don't need to follow the highway traffic act because it's a provincial law? Also we follow the International fire code (federal government included) which states they need to be recertified every year, so ***?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike23, post: 547637"] Well, the oil boom are longer, grueling hours (or so I've heard) sometime 14 hours a day. It's whenever the oil starts flowing is when you start. We have a driver in Calgary who did it for awhile and said he made about $3200 a week. My cousin also knows a pipe welder who signed a 3 year deal for $500 000 with a $375 000 signing bonus. I enjoy my job, never let that be an issue here because I like my customers and getting to know them. I know we've had people from other provinces come out and out, A LOT. I went through some training with another training sup from Ontario for awhile, also BC and Winnipeg. This was in the span of a month. As I said, in Calgary we're decent, the farther north you go (closer to fort mcmurry) the harder it is on the UPS drivers. I've heard the Edmonton branch has it worse since they're only about 3 hours away from it. A typical trailer there, about 1 year ago (I mean trailer park trailer) was selling for $500 000. In Calgary it was hard to find a house for under $400 000 (I'm talking just a small bungalow too). We do have some management problems (but who doesn't). I think they just got so used to pressing the panic button in every situation that they have a problem with continuing to do that. I know we're in much better shape then a year ago. I haven't heard of us trying to get any drivers from any other province for awhile and we're actually able to do light duties when injured (I managed to tear some tendons in my shoulder and was told to only lift 20pounds and was still given 120 pound pieces on the truck). The whole thing in Calgary was strictly a panic trying to get anyone to get packages out. Our building is literally falling apart (one of our doors won't even shut which makes it freaking cold in -30 weather in that building for the preloaders). Our 'heating' system is the kind you find at a hockey arena (a heated pipe running along the roof). We're at max capacity now for preloaders which means half the mornings drivers show up 30min early, WITHOUT pay just to finish loading the mountain in the back of their truck (sometimes half their truck). I'm honestly surprised we weren't trying to get drivers from the states to come up and help for a few weeks. We do have a bit of a closer bond, I think, then some depots due to knowing everyone got the same shaft when we first started and we all know what it's like to be poorly trained and just thrown in a truck. However, that being said, it has also created a 'us vs them' mentality from the drivers and the managers, which is a shame because a lot of the management are fairly nice and we just don't trust them due to the amount of times they claimed things have been fixed when they haven't been. I'm not sure about any other province, and I would like to know, but how often are your fire extinguishers in the trucks recertified? I know ours hasn't been in 3 years and the head of health and safety came out claiming they didn't need to be every year because we follow the federal law and not the provincial law. That didn't make any sense to me because isn't that saying we don't need to follow the highway traffic act because it's a provincial law? Also we follow the International fire code (federal government included) which states they need to be recertified every year, so ***? [/QUOTE]
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