70 Hour Rule, Merry Christmas

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I grossed $2490.00 this week after 59.97 hours. After 15% in my 401K and 100 bucks in stock I’ll be lucky to clear $1400.00. I can work 47.5 hours and clear 11 and change. Something is wrong with that picture. I’d rather have 12 hours of my life back.

ADJUST YOUR W-4, BUMP UP YOUR 401K, INCREASE YOUR STOCK DEFERMENT, ETC.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Maybe this would make an appropriate avatar since the company doesn’t believe in our health and safety anymore.View attachment 168673

With all due respect to your years of service and your position as a moderator on this forum, your "woe is me" is getting really, really old.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

then why bother

It is nice to have a little extra $$ during the holiday season.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

What’s a good percentage to put away for 401k to retire comfortably? I don’t want to die behind the wheel.

Minimum of 10%, preferably 15-20%.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

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.

Retirement is much more than sitting at home all day posting on Brown Cafe (@oldngray, @rod and @moreluck). @cosmo1 does it right-----he works when he wants and still has time to "play Grandpa".

Jeff, do yourself a favor and seriously evaluate where you are and what you want to do with the rest of your life. I know that you enjoy volunteering at your church. Have you ever thought about taking part in a mission to a foreign country?

There is more to life than delivering QVC to hoarders.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Won't that hurt you really bad on your tax return?

Only if you leave it at 6 for an extended period of time.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Pretty much the same for me.

After peak 2012, it came time for us to pick vacations. My age was right and my attitude was right.

Picked all six weeks in a row, added my sick and personal days and started the paperwork with the pension fund.

Bingo!

I am eligible to retire 6/22/18. 4 personal, 5 sick and 6 weeks of vacation taken all in a row backs that up to 4/30/18 as my last work day. Paperwork is already filed.

 

[Big Package]

So you're saying by May 1st, we will be free from your sheetposting?

 

[jayson Cowden]

I think it’s all about being available to work Christmas Eve....

I've been trying to figure out how they would get us working Christmas Eve and they came out with this. Because we all know there's no way these buildings will be clear by end of day 12/23

 

[badpal]

Bingo!

I am eligible to retire 6/22/18. 4 personal, 5 sick and 6 weeks of vacation taken all in a row backs that up to 4/30/18 as my last work day. Paperwork is already filed.

Would you even consider coming back as an alumni driver next peak? We have a few that came back and really seem to be enjoying it so far. Its really helping our center out. I think they spend most of the day thinking about the exotic vacations they will be able to take next year.

 

[HEFFERNAN]

I've been trying to figure out how they would get us working Christmas Eve and they came out with this. Because we all know there's no way these buildings will be clear by end of day 12/23

I could see that was there plan until the union balked.
I don't think it's going to be a quiet xmas eve for all non-union management and inside employees.
Guarantee, they'll be delivering and we'll have to hear that THEY saved Christmas.
If most are unable to drive, then the union would have no say in who delivers. The only ones that could are T-S for a sixth punch Sunday if they can keep them from delivering Monday 12/18.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Would you even consider coming back as an alumni driver next peak? We have a few that came back and really seem to be enjoying it so far. Its really helping our center out. I think they spend most of the day thinking about the exotic vacations they will be able to take next year.

I am relocating so I would have zero area knowledge.

 

[MAKAVELI]

I am relocating so I would have zero area knowledge.

There's this thing called a map......

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

They're keeping us capped at 58 hours with no mention of 70. center manager has dropped a few mentions about Christmas Eve and "trying to stay ahead of the game" at PCMs, so I'm expecting him to drop the 70 hour bombshell the week before Christmas Eve. No one here seems to know 70 is a possibility.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

They're keeping us capped at 58 hours with no mention of 70. center manager has dropped a few mentions about Christmas Eve and "trying to stay ahead of the game" at PCMs, so I'm expecting him to drop the 70 hour bombshell the week before Christmas Eve. No one here seems to know 70 is a possibility.

Do you currently have Saturday ground?

 

[Brohn Bron]

We were told that they are allowed to do it because of “emergency circumstances” that packages wouldn’t be delivered...so when I’m on hour 68 and I fall asleep at the wheel and drive into a house killing a family we can just tell them it’s ok because I was trying to deliver amazon packages

That’s the really concerning part about all of this. I haven’t heard a peep at my PCMs about the normal hardcore safety messages of the day. Lately it’s been, “don’t go over your hours, no exceptions.” To be honest, every year all of are familiar with this. Volume takes over and every center for themselves. Get the volume through. The rest of the year management bangs the safety drum over the top like they are trying to make up for being so irresponsible during peak. It’s mind numbing and so contradictory.

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

Do you currently have Saturday ground?

No, and its "not on the horizon" from what I've been told. I was just a shade over 58 this week, so I didn't have to work Saturday.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

No, and its "not on the horizon" from what I've been told. I was just a shade over 58 this week, so I didn't have to work Saturday.

If you don’t have SG you won’t be going to 70.

 

[brownmonster]

If you don’t have SG you won’t be going to 70.

We don't and we are.

 

[scratch]

Sounds like a nice spot to do some fishing, I’m mainly on Lanier and Allatonna for hybrids and stripers. I float Buford Dam down to Settles Bridge in the summer for trout when the lake gets too hot/busy.

Sweetwater Creek has some. Trolling motors only since its a city water reservoir.

Man catches 16.56-pound striped bass at Sweetwater