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<blockquote data-quote="ORLY!?!" data-source="post: 937116" data-attributes="member: 16334"><p>The boxline, is highly out dated piece of crap you will ever see. Yet, it is still in use all over the country. The postion " chargers " are placed along a slide. The slide gets dumped with packages, and the chargers pick them up and fill the cages. A boxline is colored cages, examples top green, top blue, middle brown, bottom red etc etc. Some buildings/ centers, have optional colors to cages. Examples, white cages or tan, pink or black cages that are used to be filled with out going, add cuts and miss sorts. They get dumped by chargers on to a slide under them, called repo; which is used to send packages back to sort.</p><p></p><p>Preload, is indeed, one of the hardest jobs in the building. Lifting and lowering heavy, large or in-between the both for 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours a night, 5 days a week. Sure that sounds somewhat difficult, and yet I left out the 8 1/2 to 12 miles you will walk a night on each shift. Preloaders will also have to come to know a term called missloades. The condition of the word means placing the wrong package into the wrong package car. Thus, having to deal with supervisors and management about them, and possibly being written up for just one offence. Another term used, late air or air found in load. This one is a real bad one, thus meaning they lost service on that package if it were late. Over night packages cost a ton to be mailed. 14-18$ just for an envelope. Hundreds of dollars for large packages. Service missed or late on these will deem you a write up. </p><p></p><p>Now, I really don’t want to sound negative to your ( OP’s ) decision / choice on working at UPS. I know that the worst examples of employees here are those within college. And it isn’t because they are kids, of today’s generation. It is a matter of working a highly demanding job on top of doing a lot of school work. Thusly, they prove to be slow and lazy at work. This in turn causes problems for others. An example, they end up slowing down and need help all the time. This causes problems for those who are holding their own. And leaves that individual, slacking, to never be able to help others. </p><p></p><p>This job used to be for those who didn’t have anything else under their belt. Such as retired military and people just working this a job, nothing else. One thing I would like to see UPS do in the future, is do away with the attraction towards college kids. They prove to be more of a problem then an asset. </p><p></p><p>As I’ve said before, “ preload is a death sentence here “. You will soon find out. I don’t want to detour your choice, just giving you fair warning. If you really want it, you REALLY have to want it. It’s a job that should be those who can commit themselves to it 100%, not 50-50. And overall, its just another job. A hard one, a do-able one, but will be ( for most ) the hardest thing they will ever do. This is a job everyone wants, pay raises, benefits and chances of promotions. But is a job nobody wants to do. To put it perspective, my center or my side of the boxline, had 100% turnover rate last year. That should say it all, if I hadn’t said too much already.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ORLY!?!, post: 937116, member: 16334"] The boxline, is highly out dated piece of crap you will ever see. Yet, it is still in use all over the country. The postion " chargers " are placed along a slide. The slide gets dumped with packages, and the chargers pick them up and fill the cages. A boxline is colored cages, examples top green, top blue, middle brown, bottom red etc etc. Some buildings/ centers, have optional colors to cages. Examples, white cages or tan, pink or black cages that are used to be filled with out going, add cuts and miss sorts. They get dumped by chargers on to a slide under them, called repo; which is used to send packages back to sort. Preload, is indeed, one of the hardest jobs in the building. Lifting and lowering heavy, large or in-between the both for 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours a night, 5 days a week. Sure that sounds somewhat difficult, and yet I left out the 8 1/2 to 12 miles you will walk a night on each shift. Preloaders will also have to come to know a term called missloades. The condition of the word means placing the wrong package into the wrong package car. Thus, having to deal with supervisors and management about them, and possibly being written up for just one offence. Another term used, late air or air found in load. This one is a real bad one, thus meaning they lost service on that package if it were late. Over night packages cost a ton to be mailed. 14-18$ just for an envelope. Hundreds of dollars for large packages. Service missed or late on these will deem you a write up. Now, I really don’t want to sound negative to your ( OP’s ) decision / choice on working at UPS. I know that the worst examples of employees here are those within college. And it isn’t because they are kids, of today’s generation. It is a matter of working a highly demanding job on top of doing a lot of school work. Thusly, they prove to be slow and lazy at work. This in turn causes problems for others. An example, they end up slowing down and need help all the time. This causes problems for those who are holding their own. And leaves that individual, slacking, to never be able to help others. This job used to be for those who didn’t have anything else under their belt. Such as retired military and people just working this a job, nothing else. One thing I would like to see UPS do in the future, is do away with the attraction towards college kids. They prove to be more of a problem then an asset. As I’ve said before, “ preload is a death sentence here “. You will soon find out. I don’t want to detour your choice, just giving you fair warning. If you really want it, you REALLY have to want it. It’s a job that should be those who can commit themselves to it 100%, not 50-50. And overall, its just another job. A hard one, a do-able one, but will be ( for most ) the hardest thing they will ever do. This is a job everyone wants, pay raises, benefits and chances of promotions. But is a job nobody wants to do. To put it perspective, my center or my side of the boxline, had 100% turnover rate last year. That should say it all, if I hadn’t said too much already. [/QUOTE]
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