How Bad Will Peak Be?

[Cactus]

We lost Graeme Edge last week He was 80 . All that leaves is Hayward and Lodge. Never was and likely never will be a rock band that could play to and with an orchestra like the Moody's.

I rode on the same plane with those guys (minus Justin Hayward) to Cincinnati back in 1992 when I went there for FedEx courier school. Should have asked those guys if they were moody.

 

[Operational needs]

Parcel chaos as FedEx locks out drivers

FedEx has dramatically escalated a pay dispute with the TWU, locking out striking workers for up to two days just weeks away from the peak Christmas period.

www.afr.com

As bad as Peak will be here, it’ll be nothing like in Australia. I hope these drivers win everything they’re striking for.

 

[Fred's Myth]

Parcel chaos as FedEx locks out drivers

FedEx has dramatically escalated a pay dispute with the TWU, locking out striking workers for up to two days just weeks away from the peak Christmas period.

www.afr.com

As bad as Peak will be here, it’ll be nothing like in Australia. I hope these drivers win everything they’re striking for.

Interesting. How did they manage to unionize in Australia? Oh, yeah, they don't have their government colluding with the company against them!!!

 

[burrheadd]

We lost Graeme Edge last week He was 80 . All that leaves is Hayward and Lodge. Never was and likely never will be a rock band that could play to and with an orchestra like the Moody's.

As far as how bad peak will be? If you noticed the discount retailers are saying that they will have plenty of inventory before and after the holidays. I wonder if what they're thinking is that a lot of Santa Claus junk won't make it into the pipeline in time and for discounters and closeout sharks it might be easy pickings.

Not a full orchestra but certainly that sound

 

[bacha29]

Not a full orchestra but certainly that sound

It was "light" all right. The bigger worry is that Lynn, Young, Clapton, Knopfler, Gilmore, Page, Frampton etc. are all in their seventies.

 

[bacha29]

Interesting. How did they manage to unionize in Australia? Oh, yeah, they don't have their government colluding with the company against them!!!

All comes down to what Australian labor law does and does not permit them to do.
Here in the states, we'll see how things are shaping up peak wise in a couple of weeks.
What's interesting at Ground is that each contractor has been ordered by management to hire X number of additional drivers based on what G says they'll need.

Aren't they supposed to be...."independent contractors"?.....Never have been....Never will be.

 

[falcon back]

All comes down to what Australian labor law does and does not permit them to do.
Here in the states, we'll see how things are shaping up peak wise in a couple of weeks.
What's interesting at Ground is that each contractor has been ordered by management to hire X number of additional drivers based on what G says they'll need.

Aren't they supposed to be...."independent contractors"?.....Never have been....Never will be.

Shouldn't you be enjoying retirement instead of worrying what Ground is doing. If you are even retired.

 

[Fred's Myth]

Aren't they supposed to be...."independent contractors"?.....Never have been....Never will be.

Only indisputable thing you consistently post.

 

[vantexan]

Shouldn't you be enjoying retirement instead of worrying what Ground is doing. If you are even retired.

He's paying big taxes every three months so must still be working at something. Somebody has to pay for the exponential growth in your pension.

 

[falcon back]

He's paying big taxes every three months so must still be working at something. Somebody has to pay for the exponential growth in your pension.

Maybe someone will explain to you that his taxes and my pension are in no way related. Do you here that sound? That is the sound of my pension growing every day. LOL

 

[bacha29]

He's paying big taxes every three months so must still be working at something. Somebody has to pay for the exponential growth in your pension.

You still don't get it do you? As a contractor which I no longer am you pay all operating costs , fund your own pension, buy your own health insurance and pay both the employer's and the employees share of Social Security. Beginning in 1978 I began saving for retirement buying farm Co op debt and 100 shares of utility stock at $16 a share which came along with a DRIP. Today that 100 shares is now 3200 shares and the price per share is much higher. Today with the help of a fiduciary dividends and cap gains requires me to pay estimated taxes every quarter. Disciplined saving combined with a fiduciary beginning in 1983 has resulted in a retirement that is by no means luxurious but I don't have much to worry about. Now do you get it?

 

[falcon back]

You still don't get it do you? As a contractor which I no longer am you pay all operating costs , fund your own pension, buy your own health insurance and pay both the employer's and the employees share of Social Security. Beginning in 1978 I began saving for retirement buying farm Co op debt and 100 shares of utility stock at $16 a share which came along with a DRIP. Today that 100 shares is now 3200 shares and the price per share is much higher. Today with the help of a fiduciary dividends and cap gains requires me to pay estimated taxes every quarter. Disciplined saving combined with a fiduciary beginning in 1983 has resulted in a retirement that is by no means luxurious but I don't have much to worry about. Now do you get it?

Sure you did.

 

[vantexan]

You still don't get it do you? As a contractor which I no longer am you pay all operating costs , fund your own pension, buy your own health insurance and pay both the employer's and the employees share of Social Security. Beginning in 1978 I began saving for retirement buying farm Co op debt and 100 shares of utility stock at $16 a share which came along with a DRIP. Today that 100 shares is now 3200 shares and the price per share is much higher. Today with the help of a fiduciary dividends and cap gains requires me to pay estimated taxes every quarter. Disciplined saving combined with a fiduciary beginning in 1983 has resulted in a retirement that is by no means luxurious but I don't have much to worry about. Now do you get it?

And you bitch every day about how FedEx did you wrong. Wah wah.

 

[falcon back]

And you bitch every day about how FedEx did you wrong. Wah wah.

Is that the pot calling the kettle black.

 

[bacha29]

And you bitch every day about how FedEx did you wrong. Wah wah.

Look who's talking about having been done wrong? Mr. Quit And Go Storming Off Anytime Somebody Looks At You Crooked LMAO. BTW I didn't make the same mistake you did and that was to marry for the first time too late in life. I just can't see how any man could do that believing he would be better off...Going in and cleaning up the mess Mr.. Wonderful walked off and left and deal with the problems of the kids whose parentage their mother would have never consider you worthy of. Some will do it...that's fine but for me it was a headache I didn't want or need.

 

[vantexan]

Is that the pot calling the kettle black.

Have you seen me bitching lately? I've tried to talk some sense into you about your pension but some people have to find out the hard way.

 

[vantexan]

Look who's talking about having been done wrong? Mr. Quit And Go Storming Off Anytime Somebody Looks At You Crooked LMAO. BTW I didn't make the same mistake you did and that was to marry for the first time too late in life. I just can't see how any man could do that believing he would be better off...Going in and cleaning up the mess Mr.. Wonderful walked off and left and deal with the problems of the kids whose parentage their mother would have never consider you worthy of. Some will do it...that's fine but for me it was a headache I didn't want or need.

You're a strange little man. Who can't control others but desperately wants to.

 

[falcon back]

Have you seen me bitching lately? I've tried to talk some sense into you about your pension but some people have to find out the hard way.

LOL. I will find out the hard way. Cold HARD pension growing at 10% a year. Sweet

 

[vantexan]

LOL. I will find out the hard way. Cold HARD pension growing at 10% a year. Sweet

Good luck!

 

[falcon back]

Good luck!

Don't need luck. Facts back up my post. You kept asking for proof, it was presented by someone other than me and you refuse to accept it.
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