I went paintballing about a month ago. A friend from UPS invited me to go with him one weekend early in October. I couldn’t go, but I told him that I was interested and that I’d definately go with him at some point within the month. It ended up being November so I decided to go the first weekend of the month.
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I put my two weeks in at UPS in the middle of last month. I have been wanting to write about that, but I’ve had severe blogger’s block lately. Now it’s been so long that I am actually done with UPS. This Friday was my last day there.
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Well, after three to four months of being on the sort aisle I seem to have moved up into the ranks of the experienced and well established. There are a few sorters who have been here much longer than me still, but I am just about on par with them in terms of speed and ability now.
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I’ve been sorting for a few months now, and I pretty much have the hang of the job. The supervisors and management are leaving me alone about the petty things, and the other day I was even congratulated because I was really close to hitting this big arbitrary benchmark number for speed for the whole night. That was kind of cool, because I hadn’t really thought of myself as a fast sorter.
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Today on break at UPS…
Nate (supervisor): Well guys, it looks like we’ll be getting that new load on Monday, which means we’ll probably be getting another new hire this Friday.
John: Great. Well, let’s all hope he’s not black!
{Everyone stares/glares at John}
John: What!?! …
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