Whoaa sailor, I thought you previously said he was a she, are you now claiming transtesticle status on DIDO? I stand to be corrected if you didn't say @DriveInDriveOut was a female, I seem to recall it nonetheless. Give my regards to Delacroix, por favor senor.
We aren't talking 2 companies, but thousands. Are you under the impression there's a relative handful of people keeping everything for themselves? Can they pay more? They are to attract workers. Are crop pickers going to make $50k a year? In a state as expensive as yours they'd have to get paid a substantial amount just to have a living wage. Probably not going to happen. And just once I'd like to get an acknowledgement that I'm not talking about the way I want things to be, but how they actually are. Highly doubtful you're ever going to see manual laborers in any back breaking job getting paid well.
Hmmm.
Hmmmm, if UPS drivers started picking produce under the union banner, I don't believe the payscale would be the same. You understand the context of their back and forth. What the hell are you? Cotex or condom?
UPS drivers don't even load their trucks. I'm talking about real manual labor.
Wow.
Wrong. I load my own.
Depends on the route. You'll need years of seniority to get a route with that kind of seat time in most places. And when you're driving it's mental gymnastics for the young guys who run a different route everyday. Sure there's harder jobs but it is manual labor and can be high stress. Plus most drivers loaded for years to get it.
Most drivers load their pickups.
Same reason I live here.
Thanks for the reminder Captain Obvious! LOL
True, rode with a guy for 5 weeks this last Peak. I've had routes with FedEx where after running all day in extreme heat, as in 102-107 with humidity, up to 125 without humidity, I completely stuffed multiple stepvans, some of them 28' long, drove one of them 60 miles, unloaded completely in that heat, went on lunch at 2000, home at 2200 or later after driving back. And I started the day unloading aircraft containers in many locations, often in harsh weather. I'm not saying I always worked harder than UPS drivers, but I've worked just as hard for many years and for much less pay. The DIDO know-it-all's don't know diddly. I was on my knees in the dirt picking weeds at a large plant nursery in the Florida sun when I was twelve. Did that after school, all day Saturday, all day Monday through Saturday in the summer for two years. Went home soaking wet and filthy every day. For a dollar an hour, eventually $1.50 because I was the last kid hanging in there when a bunch of others quit. The only reason I did was my Dad got custody of us. My mom had mental issues, we lived in two rooms of an unfinished house for 5 years, and I was sent to school without lunch money more times than not, and wearing high waters as I grew because she didn't have the money for new clothes. I know harsh, have seen it, have lived it. And yet I didn't expect anyone to pay my way. Be it ever so humble what I have is mine, I earned it, and don't think the government should spend everybody else's tax money to support anyone who is able bodied and can work their way to a better life.
Georgia the country. It's great, totally different world and less than half the costs of the States. And I reserve the right to call a spade a spade!
Cool story bro
Cotex or condom, if cotex cool it with the Bro. Ghetto slang is getting tiresome..... Bro or Trim whichever you are.
I use Bro all the time ... I am a pasty-white 63 year old white male.
I'm chill Amigo, just churning, trying to return some smartassedness, and pissonyou attitude. Get in the sun old man, pasty has a way of turning into a acceptable hue
