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Originally Posted by regmma123
Fed Ex does the same thing. It was standard procedure to tear down walls of boxes inside a truck and let em all crash to the floor!
When I first started & tried to do the job right I got laughed at, EVEN by the SUPERVISOR
I regret not cashing in on a hidden camera exclusive
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Exactly. I worked at UPS for about three weeks before quitting (actually I quit after two but gave a weeks notice) - hours sucked (5:30 am -9amish) and the work was non-stop and never fast enough. It was a morning pre-load position where a truck is backed up to a dock and you have to unload the truck down a conveyor belt to waiting drivers to load their delivery trucks. The trucks are jam packed to the roof with no room and they are stacked in "walls" of boxes - basically you tip down the wall and they chuck everything on the conveyer. Sure the company had a hand-to-surface rule, but they also wanted you to work at such a speed it was unfeasible. Also fragile boxes were marked with a sticker that could have landed away from my line of sight, so it's getting picked up and chucked like anything else. Of course karma was watching as just as easily as the fragile boxes would go unnoticed, so would the heavy boxes (I believe 7kg+ were marked with a sticker) and some small boxes could be filled with ball bearings or mechanical/auto part and would weight 20lbs+ and when your mindlessly grabbing and chucking it was an easy way to wrench a shoulder or throw out a back.
So I guess the moral of the story is - pay extra to have fragile items packaged well with styrofoam peanuts and such and make sure the boxes are marked fragile on all sides. It still might get chucked, but it has a better chance not to.