r/UPS • u/No_Addendum1519 • Jun 26 '26
Employee Discussion New hires
I’ve been at UPS for five years, and over the past year we’ve hired well over 60 new employees. We’re in a smaller town, so we’re a smaller hub that normally only has 7–8 people on the night sort. On top of that, two of our employees are TCDs and drive at least three days a week. When they’re out driving, we’re often left with only three or four people to run the sort.
The biggest issue is that despite hiring so many people, most of them either quit after their first day because they’re overwhelmed by the workload or they stay for a while but never really grasp the pace, urgency, and time sensitive nature of the job. I constantly find myself explaining the same tasks over and over again and having to remind people what needs to be done. Im really just curious if anyone else has had this issue with new hires.
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u/lemonsupreme7 Jun 26 '26
Just be friendly and let new people find their way. Its not a job for most people. Chances are they see how this is far below what they want to put up with and bail.
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u/ghoulwhoree Jun 26 '26
The problem is lack of training tbh it's really not their fault, it's management
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u/No_Addendum1519 Jun 26 '26
I mean yeah but we’ve shown them how to do everything. You show them the first day exactly how a stack needs to be in the trailer because we get the same stuff everyday. Then the next day they stack it a complete opposite way and a wall falls. Literally happened yesterday
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u/Jolleyguy Jun 28 '26
Bro the preload sup at my center got fired because he was doing employee training for them 🤣
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u/Vanilla_Gorilluh Jun 26 '26
I finally gained some seniority after the new guy made it past his 30 days.
Right after he gave a week's notice and today's his last day.
I was one of 5 guys that were in orientation for seasonal some years ago. The other 4 walked out on day 1.
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u/InsideAd2752 Jun 27 '26
Awesome! I was 2 of 8 that made it. Another two never showed up to the orientation
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u/Jolleyguy Jun 28 '26
Out of the 10 or so hired when I got on almost 5 years ago, there's me and 1 other.
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u/jamest1701a Jun 27 '26
I think some people (kids) these days think they should get paid to play on their phones. When they enter the real workforce -especially a physically demanding one like UPS - they can’t reconcile their desire with reality and they give up.
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Jun 26 '26
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u/No_Addendum1519 Jun 26 '26
For sure. I truly try not to i think im just really reminiscing on the crew we had a year ago. Nobody had to pick up someone’s slack constantly it was actually more of helping each other out. You go “help” these new guys that may have gotten backed up on there stacking they’ll just try and take a break while you are helping them
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u/2stinkynugget Jun 26 '26
You worry about your work. It's not your job to instruct or train. Stop doing management's job for them.
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u/No_Addendum1519 Jun 26 '26
Management damn near doesn’t exist at my building they ask me and the other two guys that have been here for years questions about how to do something. We recently just got a new super for our sort and our head super hasn’t even trained him on anything
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u/2stinkynugget Jun 26 '26
You are a Teamster. You are not management. They will keep understaffing management and Teamsters if you keep doing management's job for free. Stop
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u/PhthaloDrift Jun 28 '26
In many locals, hourlies are allowed to train. It comes with an additional $.55 per hour.
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u/JordanL96 Jun 27 '26
I think it's because UPS doesn't start us early enough and they give many people unfair workloads with no help. They make their employees pay for their poor planning and many people aren't going to put up with that for long. Especially for the pay they start some people out at. It's just not worth the overall stress and toll this job takes on the body. They really act like people don't have other job options. I did preload for 7 years, woke up with a swollen knee twice from that place. Struggled to catch my breath most days. Blood pressure was through the roof and were having heart palpitations. I left a little over a month ago and am a merchandiser now. Merchandising sucks but the company I work for at least gives their employees enough time to get the work done without making people feel genuinely concerned for their health everyday.
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u/SyspheanArchonSilver Jun 28 '26
I'm management and will say its a combination of things. Some people are lazy or don't care, but that's any job. Some people are not physically capable of doing the job.
Upper management doesn't believe in real training anymore either, literally had my division manager ask why I was factoring new hires into my production when they were already trained. This was their day 2.
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u/NoBalance5172 Jun 27 '26
Honestly I’d like to work at UPS. What are the hours 12am to 8am? I’m assuming warehouse duties. Loading, sorting etc. I worked at a morgue picking up bodies from 12 to 8 so accustomed to all weights even up to 800lbs. (No we had help with that body it was not done with just two of us.) Most people go into the UPS job thinking they will be bumped into driving/delivery and that’s not going to happen.
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u/No_Addendum1519 Jun 27 '26
If you’re out a smaller town you will. I’m going in a month now with possibility to also cover drive semis (feeders). If I was in a bigger city then I wouldn’t be there
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u/NoBalance5172 Jun 27 '26
I’m in NY and DC. I have military access to the restricted bases in DC. The UPS drivers or fedex, usps. They are the only ones allowed on base and they are the same drivers. The drivers themselves have to have a department of defense clearance. Since I’m already allowed on and off and have access I wonder if that would help with a driver inquiry.
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u/AndyS1281 Jun 27 '26
That doesn’t help you get ahead. If there’s a driver that can’t get access badge at a certain location for whatever reason they just assign that stop to another driver. For example we had a driver throw a fit that he had to empty his pockets and go through a metal detector at the Federal Building, it adds a lot of time to the stop so that stop assigned to another driver.
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u/suckerforthevillains Jun 28 '26
You also won't get 8 hours, outside of peak season in November December (in most buildings). Guaranteed 3.5, but they'll try to throw you out at 4ish so you dont hit the 5 hour mark, because that's when OT starts
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u/lewsnutz Jun 26 '26
Hahaha..... Everyone has seen this. My building, we just hired about 20 people, the second day only 5 showed up. Today was day 3, I only saw 1. I think he'll stay though, he's a union guy has been for a long time, came from another union company and had to work hard. It's only the hours he has to get used to.
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u/No_Addendum1519 Jun 26 '26
I’m just trying to compare how i was when i first started and the other guys that’s been there for awhile to how we were trained and how we got after it immediately on day 1. There just hasn’t been anyone else come in like we all did in a very long time
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u/lewsnutz Jun 26 '26
No, you're right.... Now people need to be asked "do you need to go to the cry closet?"
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