Getting a Job at UPS

Working at UPS pays well, but is a very tough place to work. If it was easy, they would call the girl scouts.

$31.00 an hour for first 8 hours and 46.50 an hour after that. They pay 100% of me and my families health insurance. Where else you gonna find that with no college degree? I think ill drive my brown truck all day long.Fed ex pays maybe half that and no union!!!!!!

brown driver wrote:

$31.00 an hour for first 8 hours and 46.50 an hour after that. They pay 100% of me and my families health insurance. Where else you gonna find that with no college degree? I think ill drive my brown truck all day long.Fed ex pays maybe half that and no union!!!!!!

But is the stress, heavy lifting, and the long hours really worth it? Are you really happy doing what you do?

To whomever reads this, just listen,if you want to work for UPS, have a plan to do something better, cause you don't want a career where you have to break your back and put up with bull like working with others who don't work and supervisors who do a bad job of supervising. Be an hourly as long as you must but work towards a degree to either move up or move out.

Unloading in 90+ degree heat (that's outside, not inside the hub or worse, inside the trailers) during the day will test you physically. Unless you are trying to work your way up to become a driver, a supervisor or a full-timer (they make $20+ hr) then do not make UPS your career. Every part-timer i work with has another job. If UPS decides to keep you after peak season, congrats. If you manage to tough it out your 1st year @ $8.50 hr minus $25 a week for 3 months paying union dues, then you will be rewarded with Aetna healthcare, one of the few things worth it as a part-timer at UPS. Wait that and if you're going to school, they'll pay for some of it. And it's a stable job if you don't get seriously injured or if you're not a f*ckup(thief or punching someone etc.). As said before it is hard work mostly physical some mental. Good luck.

I start Tuesday as a package unloader/truck washer, and am very excited to work hard. Being 22 I don't mind the job or being yelled at or being at the bottom. I have worked far worse jobs. Saving for my dream car a 1967 Shelby GT500 (all original) I will get there ;)

To anyone complaining, you expect to much from a job. Go sit at a desk if you are all lazy and don't like a stressful environment. Nothing in life comes easy so suck it up and work your butts off.:)

Package Unloader wrote:

I start Tuesday as a package unloader/truck washer, and am very excited to work hard. Being 22 I don't mind the job or being yelled at or being at the bottom. I have worked far worse jobs. Saving for my dream car a 1967 Shelby GT500 (all original) I will get there ;)
To anyone complaining, you expect to much from a job. Go sit at a desk if you are all lazy and don't like a stressful environment. Nothing in life comes easy so suck it up and work your butts off.:)

Young man, save your money, go to school, keep working there and get some of the costs paid. You can do it now but later life's circumstances may limit your options.

Horrible work environment, brutal physical work, unimaginable stress and management that promotes a culture of harassment . It's a crummy place to work, but I still wh*re myself out for the money and the benefits.

I heard a rumor that UPS was talking about buying out Yellow Freight Trucking.

UPS is advertising for help again. They hire a lot of extra help for the Christmas season every year.

I sheet on ups van

UPS is a excellent company to work for. If you work hard you will be rewarded. Good pay and benefits. The USPS should turn over the mail logistics to UPS especially Priority Mail.

No, Ups is not a great place to work. If you are young and want to work hard and recieve recognition for that then join the United States Marine Corps. Otherwise I would advise learning a trade. Dont work for Ups!

Seth G wrote:

UPS is a company that was founded almost 100 years ago. One of the best things about UPS is their promotion from with in policy. Everyone starts at the bottom, but before UPS would look off the street to fill a position, they will look internally. If you work for UPS, you will not be working a dead end job. There is a new contract that is going to go into place that, it will pay the UPS driver $28.05 per hour after 30 months driving. On a 40 hr work weak that is $58,ooo per year. That is before overtime. You add in the benefits, figured to be worth $50,000, you now have a position requiring no college education that could have a total compensation worth $130,ooo per year if you are working 50 hr work weeks. Sure, you will work hard. UPS has high expectations, they will push you. UPS, a great place to be.

ive been working there for 11 years and it IS a part time dead end job. i never get called for a full time job. and they do hire outside first for the better office jobs. everyone in the feeder dispatch office was an outside hire. if i wasent a diabetic i would have left long ago.

UPS isn't a terrible place to work, as long as you realize before you set foot on the property:(1) They could care less about you, your family, or anything regarding anything outside of UPS,(2) The benefits aren't quite what they're cracked up to be,(3) Making $25 a hour as a part-timer is not much good if you only work 3 hours a day,(4) The PAS is nothing more than a way for management to completely screw up routes, then for 'digital evidence' or 'proof' to use against a driver or a loader for a scapegoat.
These are a few of the things you will have to be aware of. Just a few!

I just heard a terrible story about 3 ups drivers that were running for a postion in the teamsters 3 years ago in the metro detroit area. All 3 drivers were from diffrent centers, pontiac, ypsilanti, and another. They were all fired within days of each other, right before election time. The teamsters in office were re-elected because they had no competion and metro detroit ups centers remain the most abusive in the country, shame on u all!

Lot of doublespeak wrote:

UPS isn't a terrible place to work, as long as you realize before you set foot on the property:(1) They could care less about you, your family, or anything regarding anything outside of UPS,(2) The benefits aren't quite what they're cracked up to be,(3) Making $25 a hour as a part-timer is not much good if you only work 3 hours a day,(4) The PAS is nothing more than a way for management to completely screw up routes, then for 'digital evidence' or 'proof' to use against a driver or a loader for a scapegoat.
These are a few of the things you will have to be aware of. Just a few!

It is a very tough place to work, if it was easy they would call the girl scouts.

Girl scouts sell cookies and earn merit badges...Every hard working woman and man deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. As an hourly employee you will not get that at ups..If you drive a truck, u won't even get a lunch. Ups management abuses all of it's workers in more ways than any other company in the United States...Dont take my word for it, just go ask a driver or loader how they are treated at work!

Seth G wrote:

UPS is a company that was founded almost 100 years ago. One of the best things about UPS is their promotion from with in policy. Everyone starts at the bottom, but before UPS would look off the street to fill a position, they will look internally. If you work for UPS, you will not be working a dead end job. There is a new contract that is going to go into place that, it will pay the UPS driver $28.05 per hour after 30 months driving. On a 40 hr work weak that is $58,ooo per year. That is before overtime. You add in the benefits, figured to be worth $50,000, you now have a position requiring no college education that could have a total compensation worth $130,ooo per year if you are working 50 hr work weeks. Sure, you will work hard. UPS has high expectations, they will push you. UPS, a great place to be.

Yeah the money is good and benefits. But management cares only about numbers. As soon as you wreck the truck or get hurt they want to fire you. They have no loyalty.

Mick wrote:

<quoted text>Yeah the money is good and benefits. But management cares only about numbers. As soon as you wreck the truck or get hurt they want to fire you. They have no loyalty.

You are right about UPS. But the same is true of the low pay companies. Wreck one of their trucks or get hurt and watch how fast they fire you.

Just apply i did..got right in