UPS was the worst experience I have ever worked for. I worked with this chill dude who worked there for 20 years, close to retirement in like 5 to 10 years and he literally went through hell and back working for that company. We talked for a month and had lots of conversations.
The trucks turned into ice skate floors in the winter and were rolling toasters as he called it (imagine doing having to deal with that for about 4 months every year or more due to the season). He said he almost twisted his ankle lots of time in the winter and had back surgery due to the load of mails he had to carry out of the truck onto your front door. He also said that company was the worst thing he has done in his life due to how bad the management is there for every UPS (he worked at 3 UPS warehouses in his lifetime), he only worked there due to having 3 daughters. He had the strength of an ox to work there and was pretty much the nicest guy i've ever met too, considering every other driver was usually either pissed off like some fedex transfer dude who I worked with or quiet. The only tips to survive that toaster is carrying a large container of water but not too much since the company monitors you if you take too many pee breakers like Amazon.
Not to mention that you had to keep the doors open to keep a fast pace and due to the AC only working for heat (some trucks had a very small fan for the driver not for their buddy though sadly), it didn't help much since you literally turned it off a few seconds later to deliver another box. The doors being kept open is dangerous but is still being used today, when I worked there most of the building still used old trucks from the early 2000s with stick shift.
It's a completely hard job, i'm telling you guys now it paid $15 per hour for newcomers, the work is very uneven you are either scanning inside which is a lot easier, scanning outside in 100 degree trailers or doing the heavy mover for the same pay. I was a heavy mover guy and I was shouted at by a boomer saying “FASTER, WE HAVE TOO MANY, FASTER!”(While I was getting my feet cut up due to my boots and dying from the heat, pushing large plastic carts filled with packages). The union didn't help either since they didn't care about working conditions as long as the company gave you a little sheets of rules it was okay (They don't like you doing proper knee lifting though since it takes too long). Not worth it at all considering people sitting at their desks at the warehouse are getting 100k per year/more while the other half (the drivers) are getting 100k a year with a chance of almost dying every summer due to heat stroke. I've also heard that being a supervisor of the pushers or scanners you barely get a pay increase too and you get the most hate.
Don't even get me started on the hiring process either when they hired me that was also a nightmare. I'm pretty sure I was payed the wrong amount due to not getting the right punchout clock id, the machine not working and the hiring manager glossing over it. There's so much miscommunication it's not funny.
This was also during whole mask mandatory wave so it was extra brutal.
Not to mention now that it's freezing cold in the UPS trucks and you could easily slip on the sidewalk. Plus the people who you deliver to are even more annoying and frustrating, legit had a few aggressive hood people in a bad side of town get upset if you even don't give them the package on time while you have a few dog owners say “hE DoEsN'T B1tE” then have the dog look at you growling. Not worth the $15 an hour or less considering I heard UPS wanted to lower wages after COVID restrictions had ended.
The only good thing from working at UPS is that it made me go to trade school.
This was almost 2-3 years ago (I worked with him on seasonal and got a hourly job there for 2 weeks then ditched) I still remember it like yesterday…