Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Health and Medical Topics
UPS employee falls ill due to extreme heat
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="UPSgirl2002" data-source="post: 1030700" data-attributes="member: 39565"><p>I have worked for UPS unloading for 10 years.. I've never been looked at as lazy or a slacker or one to avoid work. (some issues with attendance over the years but never lazy or selfish more of the one to use to get <img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://*" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> done!) I use to love unloading .. felt like a superstar at work .. Over the last year it has changed drastically. I had heat illness a lil over a year ago and ever since my body just cant handle the heat at all anymore. No matter how much water I drink I cant seem to cool down once I get hot.. and in the back of a long trailer with no air flow makes me want to die. If there is anything near what hell feels like that's it. Migraine headaches.. Weak... and in the past couple months High Blood Pressure Problems bad. Missing all kinds of work.. scared to go to work when I'm leaving my house and my blood pressure is 160-170/130-110 cant imagine what it gets to while I'm working in the heat in hot trailers and within the hour my brains feel like they are boiling and trying to come out through my eye sockets. </p><p>So not being one who ever uses salt on anything .. I cut out soda.. energy drinks no more coffee and yep no more Gatoraid all I drink is water. Now I take bp meds but not much change .. so doc changes meds.. after a few days feeling a little better ... but eventually within the week usually.. I'm back to feeling miserable in the heat .. body not cooling down.. going home nightly with headache and nausia and head feeling so hot could burn ya if ya touched it..</p><p></p><p>would fans help in the trailers.. ?? yes.. am I getting older? yes... is it time after ten years of unloading to maybe consider something else? yes.. </p><p>But ... but...will management help that employee to another position or shift? and when so much work has been missed by the employee over the last 6months is it even possible..?</p><p></p><p>Heat and working conditions effect each of us individually ... some of us work harder then others..Could upper management pay more attention? yes </p><p></p><p>(sometimes I feel like a hamster in one of those clear balls ... being pushed by some bratty kid and I just cant run anymore.. little hamster feet bleeding and bratt dont notice.. eventually hamster will die)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UPSgirl2002, post: 1030700, member: 39565"] I have worked for UPS unloading for 10 years.. I've never been looked at as lazy or a slacker or one to avoid work. (some issues with attendance over the years but never lazy or selfish more of the one to use to get [IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG][IMG]*[/IMG] done!) I use to love unloading .. felt like a superstar at work .. Over the last year it has changed drastically. I had heat illness a lil over a year ago and ever since my body just cant handle the heat at all anymore. No matter how much water I drink I cant seem to cool down once I get hot.. and in the back of a long trailer with no air flow makes me want to die. If there is anything near what hell feels like that's it. Migraine headaches.. Weak... and in the past couple months High Blood Pressure Problems bad. Missing all kinds of work.. scared to go to work when I'm leaving my house and my blood pressure is 160-170/130-110 cant imagine what it gets to while I'm working in the heat in hot trailers and within the hour my brains feel like they are boiling and trying to come out through my eye sockets. So not being one who ever uses salt on anything .. I cut out soda.. energy drinks no more coffee and yep no more Gatoraid all I drink is water. Now I take bp meds but not much change .. so doc changes meds.. after a few days feeling a little better ... but eventually within the week usually.. I'm back to feeling miserable in the heat .. body not cooling down.. going home nightly with headache and nausia and head feeling so hot could burn ya if ya touched it.. would fans help in the trailers.. ?? yes.. am I getting older? yes... is it time after ten years of unloading to maybe consider something else? yes.. But ... but...will management help that employee to another position or shift? and when so much work has been missed by the employee over the last 6months is it even possible..? Heat and working conditions effect each of us individually ... some of us work harder then others..Could upper management pay more attention? yes (sometimes I feel like a hamster in one of those clear balls ... being pushed by some bratty kid and I just cant run anymore.. little hamster feet bleeding and bratt dont notice.. eventually hamster will die) [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Health and Medical Topics
UPS employee falls ill due to extreme heat
Top