Route 66
Slapped Upside-da-Head Member
April 17, 1973? You must’ve started right alongside Ancient Flatulence.
Thoughts / Advice on moving from a ramp to a station
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59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
You know how it is. Some can do the job, some can't.
Purplepackage
Well-Known Member
You'll stop stressing when you realize you basically have to blatantly falsify or steal to get fired from this place.
If you have a pulse you can work at express until they shut it down
If you have a pulse you can work at express until they shut it down
dezguy
Well-Known Member
I usually say you have to take a
on your managers desk to get fired but I now doubt even that would do the trick.
Star B
White Lightening
..... or fail a drug/alcohol test..... or crash too often (yes, we had a few get cut because of that)
And if you mess with her it's WHOAman!
Do you teach?
I knew it, you're a caveman!
!Retired!
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Yes, I have a route. I guess you COULD say it's one of the 'better' routes in our station. 'Hard route' is a relative term people use to describe a route when they can't handle it. A route is only as hard as you make it. If I remember correctly, I've had 5 FT routes, 4 PT routes and was a PM swing. Everything from pure business 'run and gun' city routes and split shift routes to 35-40 stop/drive 350 miles VERY rural routes and everything in between. I haven't done a single route that I would consider 'hard', but others would. Sorry if I find this job easy.
When you're not whining, you can actually be a little funny.
True. I welcome the challenge of taking on new hires and showing them it's not as bad as others make it seem.
Route 66
Slapped Upside-da-Head Member
I shall cherish this comment forever and ever.
or at least until the little hand is on the 5 and the big hand is on the 12
Oldfart
Well-Known Member
Post of the year.
The job is easy if you don't mind manual labor and working in the various weather conditions.
I would love to go back to the job knowledge test days and watch people panic and have every excuse possible as to why they couldn't pass an OPEN book test.
I had a swing driver meet me this morning. I told him to meet me on a certain street and I would be south of a certain cross street. Both of these were 2 very large roads. Fella couldn't find me because he needed an exact address to put in his GPS. He didn't know how to use a mapbook, only a GPS. Pitiful.
Paswingcourier
Member
I just went from the ramp part time to a full time swing driver and other than getting hours I really like it. Agfs is very much different from dgo in my opinion just different attitude and time management is key. I know with the ramp and getting flights out on time seems like a time crunch but delivering seems different to me.
OP,
You said you are a ramp agent in Memphis, I’ve been lead to believe you guys only sit in the office. I did meet a few RAs from Memphis when we did a relief flight to Puerto Rico and they were very nice.
OP,
You said you are a ramp agent in Memphis, I’ve been lead to believe you guys only sit in the office. I did meet a few RAs from Memphis when we did a relief flight to Puerto Rico and they were very nice.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
Nope
MemphisHubFedExer
Well-Known Member
Some RAs sit in the office, some bust their ass doing a little bit of everything. On big market flights, some of the more senior RAs will do the office work, especially if they have good RAs working with them. It really just depends on the flight and the outbound team working it.
