UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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That same contract also lists Black Friday as an operational holiday, so your point is moot.
Good bye to the Friday after Thanksgiving
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That same contract also lists Black Friday as an operational holiday, so your point is moot.
TooTechie
Geek in Brown
http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/ship/imp_exp/operation.html
The contract simply states what the paid holidays are--it doesn't state we can't be forced to work. There are a handful of supplements that do state they can't be forced to work.
Hellobrown2000
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at some point in time the idea that at the end of the day the union doesn't really dictate what ups does has to set in.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
Consistency is an admirable attribute!
browniehound
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I think it really stinks. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday times 10 and I look forward to this 4 day beer, food, football, family, friends fest (all without buying or receiving gifts) all year long. I have the entire week off this year because we picked vacations before this announcement. Next year I won't be able to sniff this week. But, it is what it is. I'll take the approach that we will be paid a lot of money to work a relatively easy day.
Honestly, I'd rather work on Christmas than the day after Thanksgiving. Seriously. My kid is grown and X-mas means nothing to me anymore.
Honestly, I'd rather work on Christmas than the day after Thanksgiving. Seriously. My kid is grown and X-mas means nothing to me anymore.
TooTechie
Geek in Brown
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OPTION3
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Just call in? New option days January 1st
upsbeernut
Sometimes i feel like a nut sometimes i dont
I do too I have the same feelings exactly, a real family friendly company as the big boys in corporate enjoy a day on the golf course to relax at home while their wives go black Friday shopping with the grand kids and look for a sat and Sunday of family fun. It was my time to relax before ah hell breaks loose and look back and reflect on what to be thankful for. I too would rather work Xmas day. Maybe that's next. Or why not work thanksgiving we don't get a turkey anyway.
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ZQXC
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I use that time to overcome the turkey coma.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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It's amazing how quickly the lines at the register disappear when they realize you are packing heat.
upsbeernut
Sometimes i feel like a nut sometimes i dont
I'd love to drive in the country, little different where we are. I wouldn't mind signing up then.
scooby0048
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I cheated once and packed heat...albeit I was also in a full police uniform and a marked crusier and entered the store before the doors opened to take a report of vandalism. Conveniently for me this particular year, a certain laptop was being given away for only $150 and really convenient for me, I happened to finish my report and be almost exactly next to the laptop display when the doors opened. What the heck, I'm here might as well pick me up a laptop to complete this report! There was so much chaos no one even paid me much mind.
UnconTROLLed
perfection
No, it is a holiday, but UPS made it a regular workday. It was on a UPS'ers PCM a few months ago and we had a workgroup PCM on it.
soberups
Pees in the brown Koolaid
Last week I saw a guy openly "packing heat" on his belt at the local Costco. He was waiting in line like everybody else and no one even gave him a second look. Not everybody gets their panties in a knot and runs away screaming at the sight of a firearm. That sort of panicked behavior is more of a California/Chicago/New York kind of a thing.
Karma is a bitch
Be careful what you say
Haven't worked the day after thanksgiving in 30 years. No reason to start now. Its been a holiday since I started
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I have taken that week as a vacation for the past 5 years or so but I used to work it-----it was such easy money.
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ZQXC
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There's more to life than easy money.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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I treated myself to dinner at 99 last night. Had the guy sitting next to me had a visible firearm I would have moved to the other side of the bar or perhaps left altogether. This is not the Old West where you amble in to a saloon and expect to see gunslingers.
