beentheredonethat
Well-Known Member
First off, I think that most jobs at UPS are demanding. (At least the ones I've had, which include driving.) I will grant you that when I drove it was before SSI, before Diad, etc so maybe my experience is outdated. But Top 5, top 10, top 20 I wouldn't put it in that category. Are there days it's tough, Heck Yes. Are there days when the weather makes it miserable, sure. But by and large, you only see your boss in the AM and PM. You get to interact with people, you aren't stuck inside a building doing a mindless job with no interaction. I spent time before working at UPS doing warehouse work (pick\pack) at another Teamster job, and I thought by the end of the summer, I couldn't imagine doing this job another month, let alone make a career out of it. I couldn't handle the boredom. Similarly, I had a job before UPS that manufactured paper bags etc. Again, that job was awful, no interaction, noisy, monotonous. I hated that job, but did it for money for college. I couldn't do that for years on end. So those are two jobs I had, and I'd much prefer the UPS driving jobs to those.
Also, I think it funny, many people have said, that hiring a new kid out of college with an engineering degree and giving him\her a clipboard doesn't give them the right to time study the drivers. They don't know what it's really like etc etc. They have to do our job first before they can understand it etc.
Yet many of the same people who say that, can say we are one of the hardest jobs. Again, not many jobs before UPS (I started UPS young). But I have two I would put as "harder" or worse then UPS driving. Can't speak of others that I haven't done.
I saw satellite driver saying that certain jobs he had in the past were a lot tougher or worse then his driving job. Again, to me, that's the real test. I find it hard that it's that bad, or else people would leave for a better job. But very few drivers leave. I know pay is good, but pay isn't everything.
,get it?
