Great opportunities and benefits for HARD workers - Part-Time Supervisor/Former Package Handler UPS Employee Review

4.0
Apr 5, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

This place offers more benefits for part time workers than anywhere else. As a union employee, you get free (and pretty good) health care along with paid vacations and paid days off (after working there for a couple years). I was promoted from package handler to operational supervisor after working there for only six months. As a 19 year old community college students, I was making $350/week, $16/hr for 30 hours a week. I had health, vision, and dental insurance for $8.50/week and a 401k. I gained a ton of experience personally and it looks great on my resume. I left because I transferred to a university and working 5 nights a week with a commute while being a full-time student was making my grades suffer.

Cons

This place is great if you are willing to work HARD. This means that you're (literally) sweating buckets off every night and show the in-building management that you're a hard worker. This isn't necessarily a con, but from my point of view, the high turnover rate is because most people aren't willing to really bust their backs for a job that only starts you at $10/hour, which is fair. If you stick with it for a little while, you'll go far. If you're trying to make a career out of it, that's another story. To move from hourly employee to part-time supervisor is generally a pretty quick process if you're a good worker. To make the next step and become full-time, you have to work as a part-time supervisor with pretty small raises for years. Most of my full-time supervisors worked at UPS for at least 10 years before they got the promotion. When you become full-time, you work crazy hours, but make ~$65,000 a year with no college education. The majority of part-time supervisors are competing against one another to try to get promoted to full-time, which rarely happens. The other route to go as a long-term career is to go driver. Given, I don't know a whole lot about this process, but I do know that it's the same story as trying to move full-time. It takes years. Then when you do get the promotion, you only work part-time through peak season and they put you back to your original position. Deal with that for a couple years and you can have a pretty good, secure job to make a career out of. The last con that I've mentioned many times: this is HARD WORK. Especially during the dreaded peak season. You're expected to meet pretty high production standards for 8 hours a day during peak. Given, the pay is awesome because Union employees make time and a half after five hours. Part-time supervisors get paid for all the hours they work too. But man, this is a ball-busting place. Easily the most stressful job I could imagine. If you can handle it, awesome. If not, don't bother. You won't last long. Another minor thing: you have to really commit to the Monday-Friday work schedule every day. They do not give a lot of days off and if you can't work every day every week then they won't hire you.

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The pay is excellent .health care is 100 % paid with 100 %coverage...with exception to eye and dental which is about 70%..coverage...pension is outstanding..full package with wages and benefits is worth 130,000 yearly..without a college education I am grateful for the standard of living UPS HAS AFFORDED ME AND MY FAMILY!...and with 27 years of service I now get 6 weeks vacation with 8 sick days..and 9 paid holidays...we work hard like many people in the work force but we are well compensated!.

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The only con is while your children are young you give up a lot of family time..I never got to watch my kids play sports and missed a lot of their growing years...the job can be hard on your home life but if you can make it through those years you and your family will enjoy the financial freedom that UPS provides...and now I look forward to a prosperous retirement!...so hang in there all you young drivers...

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