UPS — Pre-load

[nikki27]

How's that sort going? Did you make it past seasonal. Kids thinking they are entitled. Then wanted to say how sort is the toughest job. Ps sweet pea, you are not a preloader, you work sort. Cmon over and let us show you some hard work.

 

[jibbs]

Ps sweet pea, you are not a preloader, you work sort.

Preload's a shift, not a position. Unload, sort aisle, inbound, outbound-- if they work the preload shift, they're a preloader.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Preload's a shift, not a position. Unload, sort aisle, inbound, outbound-- if they work the preload shift, they're a preloader.

Agreed...we identify by own positions or the center we work in...but we're all preloaders.

 

[laffter]

How can the OP be sorting on the 1st day? Isn't that a preferred position that should go to a senior employee?


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No. "Sorter" does not appear on bid sheets. If you can't bid on it, then it is not a preferred position and they can put anyone from that shift in that spot. Unless this varies by region, but I don't believe so. Here, "preload" consists of loaders, unloaders, sorters (primary and pick-off), irreg drivers, "scanners", and whatever positions there are in small sort... They can move anyone from preload into any of these positions at any time.

 

[BrownRoosterBrownBull]

Btw, I did not clock in today I was just assigned to positions. Will I obtain a user ID to clock in? How does UPS clock in system work. My sup knows I did work however 4 hours and so does HR. I just don't want them not counting my work just because I wasn't assigned an ID and wasn't put into the system right away

I think you need an employee ID. You should have one if you are employed by UPS.

After that, you should just need to be added to the system.

hope that helps

Edit: oops, haven't had my coffee yet today. Didn't read the entire thread yet.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

Funny headsup regarding the preload - apparently the majority of new hires have been quitting. I believe the rate was 75% thus far. I won't go any further seeing "people" read here.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Funny headsup regarding the preload - apparently the majority of new hires have been quitting. I believe the rate was 75% thus far. I won't go any further seeing "people" read here.

I agree,...even with a 1.50 raise on the starting wage....they can't get them to stay more than a few weeks.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

I agree,...even with a 1.50 raise on the starting wage....they can't get them to stay more than a few weeks.

Yeah, I think it was $8.50 in the 1980's. Welcome to PAS, ORION, etc. and interchangeable cheap labor.

 

[fres431]

$8.50 in the 80s was good money..

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Yeah, I think it was $8.50 in the 1980's. Welcome to PAS, ORION, etc. and interchangeable cheap labor.

It was $9 or 9.50 when I started.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

$8.50 in the 80s was good money..

That's true...what was the federal minimum wage back then...about $3.35 or so?

 

[PT Car Washer]

I think it was 1982 when UPS and the Teamsters started the two tier wage system for PT. $8.00/hr starting wage. Less then what I was making but still way above min. wage. I don't thing anybody could have imagined it would be the same starting wage 30 years later.

 

[Brownslave688]

Funny headsup regarding the preload - apparently the majority of new hires have been quitting. I believe the rate was 75% thus far. I won't go any further seeing "people" read here.

Lol from what I understand the last few groups here have come in for the tour and before its over they tell HR they aren't interested anymore.

 

[Brownslave688]

I agree,...even with a 1.50 raise on the starting wage....they can't get them to stay more than a few weeks.

$10 was bare min needed to pass the contract. $12 is about where it needs to be to retain employees.

The union acted like $1.50 was so awesome but even then after 90 days it was only a 50 cent raise. Kids are on their parents insurance until 26 now. They could care less about that.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

$10 was bare min needed to pass the contract. $12 is about where it needs to be to retain employees.

The union acted like $1.50 was so awesome but even then after 90 days it was only a 50 cent raise. Kids are on their parents insurance until 26 now. They could care less about that.

That's true...remember when it was 18 unless you were FT college student?

 

[PT Car Washer]

Min. wage in 1982 was $5.25/hr.

 

[Brownslave688]

That's true...remember when it was 18 unless you were FT college student?

That was like 4 years ago. Yeah I remember.....

 

[bleedinbrown58]

That was like 4 years ago. Yeah I remember.....

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Min. wage in 1982 was $5.25/hr.

Federal minumum wage in 1982 was $3.35. Hell...when I got my first job "on the books" in 1993...minimum wage was only 4.75. Maybe your state minimum wage was higher.

 

[UnconTROLLed]

It was $9 or 9.50 when I started.

Yeah it was $8.50/ $9.50 preload/sort/HV/LV pickoff in 2001. Good luck finding any ounce of skill or passion to survive PEAK at UPS for a month or two for those types of wages (near $10).