UPS part-time jobs

[Imzadi]

You start at $8/hr with 3.5 hr min. per day. Qualified preloaders/sorters make $1/hr more. If you stay with it, you will get the same benefits as FT employees(~6 months in most areas). Benefit package keeps more PT employees on the job than wages.

I think Starbucks pays $11/hr. Plus benefits to even part timers who work 20 hours a week or more. They have early morning shifts as people are going to work, and late nite shifts, (for after DS is in bed.)

 

[angwill]

I worked at UPS for 7+ years and I feel most people do the work for the benefits. I worked in customer service for most of my time and I did enjoy it. I had to be trained in every position including delivery driver for their preffered customer service position. I also worked in one of their air hubs at one point. Loading and unloading is hard work but doable. I trained in unloaded during the Christmas season. I actually liked being kept really busy so it didn't bother me and there were not a whole lot of 70lb packages. I looked at it as a good workout. Depending on where in the country you work the pay varies and where I worked they would hire anyone and I don't feel they gave priority to certain people really it was whoever could handle the work. Well if you knew someone who worked there that helped too. They did do background checks and fingerprints so they would not hire anyone with and criminal history but that was the only restriction they had in my area on hiring. Things changed a lot around there though so it could be different now. I was surprised to read that they now hire immediate family. I remember people being shocked when they allowed cousins to work for UPS and they would get rid of one person if a couple who worked there got married. I finally quit in 2000 after over 7 years with them when I hit the top of their pay scale for my level at $11.50 and they told me I would not longer get raises so I decided to go back to college.

HTH

 

[amp078]

<--- You start at $8/hr with 3.5 hr min. per day. Qualified preloaders/sorters make $1/hr more.

I started at $8 an hour back in 1993 when I was hired!! That was almost double minimum wage at the time. I can't believe that is still the pay rate 14 years later!!! WOW!

 

[disnutt]

How did you find out about that job being available? I went to the UPS site and did not see any info there. Thanks for the info.

Once you get on their site look for a little link that says: UPS Web Sites it is on the right under the Welcome to UPS line. Then scroll down to the Corporate Information section and UPS and UPS Employment and click there.

I had a hard time finding it, too. Good luck.

 

[Gillian]

I hope they call you! My SIL worked for UPS, but I think taking in packages during the day.

My BIL worked for UPS for a long time, eventually as a driver. When he moved to FLorida he was not able to transfer his job at the same level (union rules, I believe). It was disappointing, but he is happier doing what he does now.

 

[ricktib]

My cousin has done this for almost ten years - runs his owns business and then works at UPS part-time for the medical and retirement benefits.

 

[MrsPete]

I knew a number of people in college who had this job -- and, yes, some were women.

It was considered a hard-to-get job; since I didn't work there myself, I don't really know why. I do remember that one important requirement was that you could lift 75 pounds . . . again . . . and again . . . and again.

Among college students, it was also a very well-paying job; people who had it and were good at it stayed in it for years.

 

[We_Love_Disney]

You do the grunt work. You unload the trucks, not the route trucks, the over the road big 18 wheeler truck. You will also load these trucks, and it isn't as easy as one would think. The packages come in on a conveyor belt, and the supervisors like to throw in boxes that don't belong, just to see if you are paying attention. To load you must build a wall - to maximize the space and load integrity. It is tough!

They work these poor employees to the bones! You are given a 15 minute break? and its done by a whistle, every worker stops, runs to the lunch room to wait in line for a drink, and by the time you take two sips the warning bell rings, and you have to run back to your station.

Very few people, if any, last longer than the trial period, systematically people are let go for a variety of reasons, too slow, bad packing, too many mistakes.

They used to pay very well for the grunt work.... $15.00 per hour, but that was 20 years ago!,

 

[4greatboys]

I knew a number of people in college who had this job -- and, yes, some were women.

It was considered a hard-to-get job; since I didn't work there myself, I don't really know why. I do remember that one important requirement was that you could lift 75 pounds . . . again . . . and again . . . and again.

Among college students, it was also a very well-paying job; people who had it and were good at it stayed in it for years.

The package weight limit now is 150.

 

[Scraper]

Seems like the less you make the harder you work. I have been self employed property manager/owner for the past 20 years. I did get a part time job like I said before at JO Anns just for fun. I don't make but 7 an hour but I did not take it for the money. I love working there and do not work very hard most the time I am on the cutting table. I like sewing and scrap booking so this was perfect for me. I wish you the best of luck at what ever job you get. Make sure this is not to much for you. I ruptured a disk 2 years ago and had to have surgery. I was very active healthy and strong at the time.

 

[ZanneMarie]

Once you get on their site look for a little link that says: UPS Web Sites it is on the right under the Welcome to UPS line. Then scroll down to the Corporate Information section and UPS and UPS Employment and click there.

I had a hard time finding it, too. Good luck.

Thanks! Found it! Now to decide if it would work for me.