UPS reviews

Great union support if you manage to qualify; excellent benefits for self and family; max out pay in 4 years

Benefits are truly unbeatable, honestly. After 1 year of working there you receive full benefits: dental, vision, prescription, and no deductible. I have mine through Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield. After 1 year you get 2 weeks paid vacation and paid holidays. After 2 years you get 3 weeks paid vacation and it keeps going up after a certain amount of years are worked. I work with a guy who's been there for 23 years and gets 7 weeks paid vacation every year! It's awesome. It's also honest hard work and if you're not a sissy it provides a certain amount of satisfaction when the job is done for the day. You'll start out as a loader or unloader (unloading is easier). I was an unloader for a month before they promoted me to a sorter. You'll start out at $10.15 as a loader or an unloader and a sorter makes a dollar more. You also get 2 raises a year. One in February and one in August. I went from $10.15 to $12.00 in just a year and a half. If you're looking to make GOOD money, then you'll have to become a driver or work in full time management. Driver's are full time and start out at $18.75 an hour and I think full time management starts out at $60k a year but they're both seniority based jobs. Staying with the company for many years is crucial to making the big bucks. If you go into management though then you'll lose Union benefits which I hear are better than management benefits. I worked in the Cincinnati Hub by the way. Different locations might pay slightly differently, obviously. As far as management to worker relationships goes it depends on location. If you work hard then management shows a high amount of respect and will most likely give you a little bit more hours a week and also could help you climb the ladder of promotion a bit easier (even though it's mainly seniority based). You'll be working around 20-25 hours a week on average. During peak season (November 25th-January 1st), however, you can work as much as you want because they'll be needing help during the holidays. I worked 71 hours in one week and around 60 the other 4 weeks so definitely take advantage of those peak hours. The time and a half and double time rack up big time during peak. My personal advice would be to WORK HARD and IT WILL pay off. Another helpful tip to the "out of shape people like me" when I started is that you will definitely lose weight. I went from 225 at 6'1 to 195 in 3 months. No kidding! It's labor work. What do you expect? Oh and they also offer in-school tuition help. I think it's $2,750 in help every semester! Not too shabby! You'll work for a good company and also get free money to help aid in getting a degree wherever you go! My advice would be to take advantage of that. Go to work, go to college, graduate, become a driver and make $60k+ a year or go into full time management with that degree you received and make $60k+ a year. Win win.