UPS Employee Reviews for International Air Freight Agent

What do you like about working at UPS?

"I like the challenging work, and the ability to help customers get the quality transportation they are seeking. I like the mutual respect amongst all employees across the globe."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared to have work piled on you once you prove that you are able to do it. The old-timers don't get any additional work, yet make the sweet rate. By the way, speaking of rate, my pay is so low, it wasn't even on the pull-down on the previous page. I ended up having to select 30,000-40,000/year when in essence my annual salary before taxes is $28,574.00. Barely enough to keep my head above water. I've had to take a 2nd job to cover expenses since weekly hours have been reduced to 35/week since January of 2011. That means I'm down $400.00 per month."

What don't you like about working at UPS?

"They cross-trained me after being called back from layoff. Now I am expected to know and execute, without mistakes, imports, exports, dispatch and data entry. They also make me work 2nd shift which starts at 5 p.m. until whenever the data entry is completed to cover whenever a 2nd shifter is out or on vacation. Management is always saying that family comes first, but when I tell them that I am a single parent of a 14-year-old teenage boy and need to be home at night to keep tabs on what my impressionable child is doing, they told me that if I didn't like working 2nd shift that maybe I should go work somewhere else. Family first, yeah, right. They say one thing and do another."