Pros
- Decent starting pay and benefits considering how easy it is to get hired - Pretty casual environment, people are generally cool and helpful - Easy and rewarding work once you get your footing, that you don't have to take home - Good sense of camaraderie and working towards a common goal - Co-workers often notice and appreciate hard work (even if the supervisors don't)
Cons
- Depending on the schedule they give you, you could end up working mornings one day then nights the next. Keeps your sleeping habits constantly in flux - High turnover, so you're often picking up the slack from new people who are having to learn as they go thanks to inadequate training - Disconnected leads who will remove people from an area and send them somewhere else if the volume happens to be low for a moment, then when it picks back up you're undermanned - Very little chance for upward mobility, despite what the recruiters say - Top pay for a package handler is pretty low, and in the amount of time you have to stick around to reach it you could go to college and get a better job