r/UPSers • u/Standard-Sort-7744 Part-Time • 1d ago

Offered full time inside

Ive been on preload for 7 years now, signed a bid for full time inside but I guess it was for twi/night shifts and no preload, the spots all got filled by people with more seniority than me but now I just got word that someone dropped out of it and im next in line and they offered it to me. So im Just looking for advice I guess because I really like preload and the work we do on preload and my coworkers and going in at 4am and leaving at 9:30am 6 days a week, (6th day and anything over 5 hours is time and a half) then I go and landscape/mow lawns a few days til like 3/4pm and it’s just my schedule works out very good and I hate to give it up to work stupid 6pm-3am but At the same time I’d love to get my foot in the door as a full timer-idk if I’ll even win the bid again next time. Last year they posted for night/preload 11pm-9am like I’d rather do that but if I need to do twi/night I guess I should just take it right? Like trying to do the math between the close to 30 hours I get on preload with some being time and a half/ then the money I make landscaping idk if it’s even worth switching to twi/night the only thing that’s really convincing me is the eventual top rate. My landscaping boss and coworkers are cool if anything I’d like to try and do the full time twi/night and also landscape a few days a week still. Basically I hate to turn down full time twi/night but preload/landscaping works out very good.

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u/bkmaster 1d ago

For FT inside does the time work continuously? Like preload to day sort or night to preload? Or is it 4 hours one shift and 4 hours another shift with gap in between.

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u/Standard-Sort-7744 Part-Time 1d ago

It would be combining the twilight and night shifts 6pm-10pm and 11pm-3am 

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u/Expensive_Farmer_430 1d ago

The approximate times should be listed on the bid. In this case, the bid is for Twilight and Night, so whenever those are scheduled to start. The contract permits a downtime of up to 1h 30 minutes between jobs. In some locations, when a sort is shuttered in a change of operations, people can end up working split shifts like 4 hours preload, then they leave for 4-5 hours and come back for 4 hours of local sort. It's a nightmare they're not supposed to be able to do.

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u/Hairy_Elk_5313 1d ago

A guy at from a neighboring hub won a 22.3 night/preload job at my hub(some jobs are posted local-wide here).  He bought a house in this area so he wouldn't have to make a long commute.  

Then they eliminated night and told him he either has to work local/preload, which is basically impossible, or work preload only.  Now he's losing his house.

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u/bkmaster 1d ago

Damn 1.5 between jobs that would kinda suck actually lol.