Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
I'm not insinuating this is what UPSmistake or anyone else did, but, when looking for a job, you gotta look past the $$$. Sure, it's important, but you gotta make sure you don't drive yourself miserable. You need to learn about the employee group you're going to be working for. You really need to know what your day to day life is going to be like.
I know a co-worker who absolutely hates where we work and wishes they took a job at a lower paying airline. Whereas, I love it and have no regrets coming here.
Fatboy,
In this industry, the accepted norm is to take the first job offered. By your post, I'll assume that you had a bunch of simultaneous offers and that you choose wisely. Most of the rest of us took what came along. I know I did, and when I went to UPS it took me exactly 2 hours to determine that I'd made a mistake. I think it was the hour-long briefing from the guy in Loss Prevention, telling us what they'd do to us if we were caught stealing, that made me have immediate second thoughts. Not that I planned to steal anything, but it was just that I had always considered myself a professional, and as such, should have been treated that way. That first day, during the first break, I remember calling my previous employer and asking if I could come back to work. Of course the answer was "NO", and so I stuck it out for a year, being miserable and hating the place. Thankfully I received a job offer from FedEx, but that was about 3 months after I had left UPS. You see, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. It had nothing to do with the crew force, which I thought were just great, but everything to do with how the company treated us.
JJ