70 Hour Rule, Merry Christmas

[el blanco]

Be 62 in a couple weeks and glad to hear there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Life just gets better as you get older.

oh there is baby, hang in there

 

[JL 0513]

r u a veteran, and if not, why not?

Busy getting 2 degrees. Not that it's any of your concern.

 

[el blanco]

Busy getting 2 degrees. Not that it's any of your concern.

so u have no desire 2 serve ur country?

 

[scratch]

Scratch started this thread. Could this possibly be his 75th and final Peak?

This is only my 43rd............at this point, I know that I can walk away from this job tomorrow and sit at home and do nothing for the rest of my life if I really want to. Peak has always been hard, but its only temporary for a little while. When I started driving in '84, Peak was Thanksgiving until Christmas Eve. Now I have a Helper from mid-October until the second week of January.

I'm starting to get fed up with the constant stupid decisions made in day-to-day operations. The company doesn't have to make it so difficult to simply deliver boxes. The technology sounds good in the Boardroom, but on the front lines is poorly implemented. I have been on a mostly residential route that gets clobbered the last 21-22 years at Peak. I get a Helper, the last five years a golf cart route, and they also have to put in a temporary peak route that takes about a third of my area off. I might hit 60 hours only one week a year. This is the last year on my current route, I'm eyeing one that is closer to home with less stops and a lot of windshield time.

I'm in good physical shape for a 59-year-old man. I still enjoy getting out of the house and making some decent money. I like my customers and they like me. So that is where I am at now. I think about my options every day. The Company has changed so much since I started stacking boxes in a trailer as a 17-year-old kid back in 1975. It used to fun, it's not anymore.

 

[JL 0513]

so u have no desire 2 serve ur country?

I love my country but like most, it wasn't for me to serve.
Totally off topic, sounds like you're trying to bait me into something.

 

[cosmo1]

This is only my 43rd............at this point, I know that I can walk away from this job tomorrow and sit at home and do nothing for the rest of my life if I really want to. Peak has always been hard, but its only temporary for a little while. When I started driving in '84, Peak was Thanksgiving until Christmas Eve. Now I have a Helper from mid-October until the second week of January.

I'm starting to get fed up with the constant stupid decisions made in day-to-day operations. The company doesn't have to make it so difficult to simply deliver boxes. The technology sounds good in the Boardroom, but on the front lines is poorly implemented. I have been on a mostly residential route that gets clobbered the last 21-22 years at Peak. I get a Helper, the last five years a golf cart route, and they also have to put in a temporary peak route that takes about a third of my area off. I might hit 60 hours only one week a year. This is the last year on my current route, I'm eyeing one that is closer to home with less stops and a lot of windshield time.

I'm in good physical shape for a 59-year-old man. I still enjoy getting out of the house and making some decent money. I like my customers and they like me. So that is where I am at now. I think about my options every day. The Company has changed so much since I started stacking boxes in a trailer as a 17-year-old kid back in 1975. It used to fun, it's not anymore.

In no way would I presume to tell you what you should do, Scratch. But there is no feeling in the world quite like walking out that door for the last time. Talk about weight being removed from your shoulders.....

And, a dumb little no-pressure part-time retirement job can still get you out of the house a few days a week, and you get to see how relaxed others have lived.

Good luck.

 

[Box Ox]

I know that I can walk away from this job tomorrow

I'm starting to get fed up with the constant stupid decisions made in day-to-day operations.

It used to fun, it's not anymore.

In before @UpstateNYUPSer smells all that red meat!

 

[el blanco]

it wasn't for me to serve.

so let someone else do it, right

YWPOS

 

[scratch]

In before @UpstateNYUPSer smells all that red meat!

Yeah, I took him off Ignore, but I might need to rethink that.

 

[el blanco]

I love my country but like most, it wasn't for me to serve.
Totally off topic, sounds like you're trying to bait me into something.

u love it as long as someone else is protecting it, is that correct?

 

[cosmo1]

Yeah, I took him off Ignore, but I might need to rethink that.

He might have learned his lesson.

 

[burrheadd]

I guess. Still leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

TWSS

BOOM!!!

 

[el blanco]

Busy getting 2 degrees. Not that it's any of your concern.

what u gonna do with those 2 degrees? sling cardboard?

 

[Box Ox]

what u gonna do with those 2 degrees? sling cardboard?

Worked for me!

 

[burrheadd]

Does a single black man with no kids get more back?

C’mon @MAKAVELI its Saturday night don’t embarrass this kid

Your above this!!

 

[burrheadd]

Whites get taxed at higher rates?

This gonna be good

@MAKAVELI

 

[JL 0513]

what u gonna do with those 2 degrees? sling cardboard?

$100K to sling cardboard. Cool gig.

 

[burrheadd]

So you don't work at UPS, what are you bothering us for?

Spreading Knowledge my friend that’s what we do

 

[burrheadd]

Hire more employees! This company can't get any good, qualified management personnel because they are taking away their retirement. Nobody in their right mind would go to the dark side. Center Managers are quitting and they hire people off the street, with no delivery driving experience, to train new drivers. WTF! 34 years ago, without going public, this company was strong.

Calm down Kobi

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

so u have no desire 2 serve ur country?

You seem to have a desire to make yourself out to be better than everyone else. What's up with that?