I worked a seasonal position at UPS once. They don't expect you to hang around so you are generally treated like garbage anyway, aside from the fact that the work sucks and you go home covered in cardboard dust.

Good times.

What if people don't feel like buying crap this holiday season? Oh, who am I kidding?

The UPS hub in Louisville hires 800 seasonal employees every year. So long as you show up on time every day you'll keep your job after peak season.

CarnySaur: What if people don't feel like buying crap this holiday season? Oh, who am I kidding?

We don't all buy crap for people during the holiday season, but we all ship things. But, then again, I'm very choosy on what I buy people. One first condition Kipling novel in decent condition is worth a lot more to a person than a metric ton of cheap, plastic products. It makes the season so much better when you get someone a gift they'll love rather than spend enough money to 'prove' you love them.

Still need to be able to get that book there at the end of the day, though.

/generally use USPS instead of UPS or FedEx
//the FedEx and UPS locations in my area tend to lose a lot and deliver a lot of 'accidentally' opened boxes though

If the US economy didn't have temp jobs and seasonal jobs, the jobless rate would be...Oh fark, I don't want to think about that. It's too scary.

Fedex is seriously starting to piss me off. Been having wine shipped through them for ten years without a problem; until I moved to Texas.

The local knaves don't know their policies worth a damn. Refuse to leave the packages with my secretary or office manager, claim they are only allowed to leave it w/ the recipient. But the stupid thing is they have yet to ONCE ask to see an ID here, not once.

pjbreeze: If the US economy didn't have temp jobs and seasonal jobs, the jobless rate would be...Oh fark, I don't want to think about that. It's too scary.

The unemployment rate is "seasonally adjusted", whatever that means.

As someone who used to work for FedEx at a major air hub, I'm getting a kick, etc.

Even though FedEx has seasonal jobs, they also make sure that every department is fully staffed for the Christmas season, with maybe even an extra person or two just to be safe. During the year, my department was usually under staffed by about 4-8 people. A normal staff number was 55. It always varied. But around September, we'd always get huge groups of new people (%50 would quit with in the first week, which said a lot about this country's work ethic to me) to boost our numbers. And these people weren't seasonal.

I wouldn't worry about any of those OWS folks going for these jobs. Such manual labor is beneath their college-educated ways.
Of course, the fact that most of them shouldn't have gone to college (and on expensive student loans, to boot) is besides the point.

\end the college loan racket by ending federal government subsidies & guarantees. Colleges will find a way to get their costs back on track with inflation and ordinary incomes.

Are you kidding me? Seasonal work is awesome!! You can STEAL tons of great goods, and THEN get back on unemployment for months and months. It's a libtards dream come true!

devildog123: I had a temp job with UPS one Christmas. One condition of employment was I had to join the Teamsters, so my first check was $75 light for my union dues. We temps also got paired with full time employees. Not so that they could show us the ropes, but so they could make sure we worked as hard as they did, and no harder. We could have worked about twice as fast without any trouble, but to do that would mean that once all us temps left, the regulars would be expected to work that hard.

Well I would imagine that if you were to work 20 hours and expect to retire, you wouldn't want to go all-out to match someone under 40 in terms of speed, even if you do have one hell of a health insurance once you screw your back you'll spend the last 30 years of your life miserably rotting away in a wheelchair

We need to stop calling seasonal jobs, jobs. How low are our standards?

Good luck in that 8 buck an hour job.

mrlewish: Good luck in that 8 buck an hour job.

It's Fedex, not your mom.