Really? I think you’re exaggerating because every year at Thanksgiving when people talk to me about my job and hear that I have seven weeks of vacation and half a dozen days holidays off as well as a couple personal days they almost choke on their turkey.
Have you ever been to your local union, ever been to a meeting? Maybe your local isn’t as active as some but I can assure you there’s a lot going on all five years of a contract.
And these same people get how many weeks of vacation paid at 45 hours or 50 hours an option week (at least where I am)?
I should have clarified that I was talking about Holidays as that what the conversation was about. I agree when it comes to vacations, we have it pretty good. Unless all of your family works in retail or restaurants, I bet they get just as many or more Holidays off. I bet they have today off while we are working.
Not talking about vacations.
Just pointing out that the vast majority of us would prefer having more time off overall than some stupid day like Columbus Day off. Some people just like to find something to complain about. You know very well UPS would never give us all those extra holidays without taking a week of vacation away.
My wife owns her own business, one kid is a nurse, The other physical therapist all working today for regular pay. The only people I personally know who have more time off than I do are people who have government jobs.
Ha! You don’t have a family, do you?
Nurses are pretty much the only ones who would make the same as us in the medical field. This cracks me up truck drivers think they make as much money as “those in the medical field” like they’re eluding to drs or something. No, you might make the same as SOME nurses, everyone else in the medical field makes at least twice we do.
Yeah, there’s a lot above them too. And a lot folks like to make it sound as though we make as much as the “medical field” NO, you make as much as some nurses, and I guess the janitors below them
I agree. I'd take the extra week vacation too. I know UPS needs to operate on "minor" Holidays because of the nature of the business. I was merely pointing out that many jobs exist that get indeed get every holiday on the calendar off.
We do actually make more than many young lawyers though! People think all lawyers are making a killing but it's actually not true until you put the years in and especially make your own practice.
I have three good friends whose wives are nurses as well as my mom. They all make 110-120k a year. Yes us truck drivers are close to that, but we’re also working a lot of hours to get there as well. And odd hours.
Ok, but when they do become part of a firm or get their own practice they will blow our salary out of the water.
And sorry.. 100k a year is the new poverty level, or is about to be. Pretty soon with the way inflation is going, you won’t be able to raise a family on 100k a year.
