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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Working at UPS day... Heh, Like I'm Actually Keeping Count!
You know I haven’t written about work in a long, long time. So, let’s do a little update on things.
First off, I’m still a loader. No promotions yet. Although I’m working on that!
I was given a raise in August. Well, everyone was because it was time for yearly raises. I got another dollar an hour so that means I’m now making $10.00/hour. Not bad pay but it could be better. When you only get 20 hours a week even 10/hour doesn’t mean that much pay. Take home has been about $170.00 a week, give or take.
I’m still in PD-6 which is nice. It’s a pretty tough area to work but I like it. We’ve cycled through a bunch of people this year. Only a core group of us are still around. We are the real hard workers that bust our humps day in and day out.
Lets see, new news…
I’m very hopeful at getting to be the Area Safety Rep comes this Thursday. The current guy doesn’t want to do it anymore so he’s offering it to me or another guy. I have more seniority than that guy (well I’m pretty sure I do) so I’m going to pull rank and just take it. I’ve been in the area since I started working there in October. This guy showed up in like March. I think he switched shifts so he might actually have been working at UPS longer than me but I’d say the fact that I’ve worked in the area longer is what counts. Anyhoo, we’ll just see…
I’ve also have to get off my rear end and get around to writing a letter of intent for promotion. See at UPS they do not promote people. You can run around and be the best darn loader there is but they won’t do anything. You have to write a letter of intent which states that you want them to look at you for a promotion.
Basically, there are two jobs you can usually get promoted to. An Area Supervisor, which is the guy that runs each of the PDs or a Training Supervisor, that does the actual training of new hires.
I’m sort of leaning toward the Trainer right now. Running an area is a lot of work. It’s easy I guess but just a lot of annoyances. Dealing with employees not showing up for work, keeping boxes flow, calling trucks, all the freaking paperwork they have to do, etc. I mean I wouldn’t mind doing it some day. Right now however I think I’d have more fun training new hires. I like to try to help new guys out when they show up. Give them the 411 on how things actually work, give them positive support after managers yell at them for missloads, etc. I really think I’d be good at working with the new hires and getting them off on the right foot. I’ve managed to stay here this long when so many others have come and gone, so I think i must know something about how to be a quality worker for UPS. I’m sure I could have some of that rub off on the new hires. He he he…
I guess that’s it. I think I get another raise come October so we’ll see if that does happen and how much I get. I have my fingers crossed for another dollar/hour!
on 08/30/2005 at 07:41 PM