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You're making to much sense. I think its about time for you to get on the, "No one understands how hard my job is," bus.
Why shouldn't we strike?
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You're making to much sense. I think its about time for you to get on the, "No one understands how hard my job is," bus.
How do houses and cars being twice the size equate to being better?
Higher population density = more mental health problems and more crime.
JL 0513
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It just does.
Don't tell me you're another one who thinks everywhere else is better. We have enough America haters.
ManInBrown
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40 hour week. Lol. You'll never work one in your entire career.
PT Car Washer
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We have quite a few drivers that work 40 hours plus bonus 3 or 4 hours every week. Just need to pick up the pace.
CoryAndTrevor
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So basically it's a toss up? Fair enough. I'll just have to see for myself what my center's routes are like when I start driving.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
Apparently I was misinformed. I did some reading around the innernette, and yeah the consensus does seem to be that 9 to 5 is a thing of the past. My dad, with an engineering degree, has worked 9 to 5, sometimes 9 to 6, for the past forty years, so I guess I just assumed it was normal. That plus the Dolly Parton song.
Point being, it'sing stupid to work your life away.
In America, yes it is. Now I'm not saying I'd rather live in Europe (although I may just do that if Trump gets another 4 years), but the tendency to overwork is not a fact of life, it's an American cultural thing. Not the same in Europe.
U.S. Workers Put in Staggeringly More Hours Than Europeans Do
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rod
Retired 23 years
Paid $18,000 for my 1st house. 3 bedroom on a major lake here. Put $10,000 down on it. House payments were $85 a month (included insurance).
CoryAndTrevor
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burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
Faceplanted
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rod
Retired 23 years
CoryAndTrevor
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So I'm pretty sure this thread was supposed to be about just drivers striking? Anyway who cares, I'm going to rant about package handlers, specifically local sort (I haven't done any pre-loading, so I have no idea what the situation is there).
Point is, I have beef with the problem at my center of "not enough and/or not good enough people in local sort." According to management, there are either too many people not being as careful as they should during local sort, or there are not enough people. Sometimes it's people not showing up, sometimes it's "can't find enough good hires."
My beef is, our pay is 10.20 for local sort. Reading around these forums, old heads are saying they made 8 or 9 an hour, like 20 or 30 years ago. So while other jobs went from 4 or 5 to 8 or 9 in that time, I'm talking fast food and washing cars and stuff, package handlers at UPS went from 8 or 9 to.... Wait for it... 10.20.
Now I could be totally wrong about those numbers, it's just hearsay I've gotten from this site.
But what I do know is, for the amount of, I you not, backbreaking labor local sort people put in, whether they have good hustle or not, I think 10.20 is just about peanuts. Honestly, I'm going to be driving come peak. But If I had not been hired as a cover driver, I would at this point consider a SLIGHTLY lower paying job which did not require as much blood/sweat/tears.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not exactly bitching here. I actually don't mind the work all that much, but I don't see it as a workable long term thing, just something for college-age people to do until they have better things to do.
Sorry I'm rambling, but the point is, RAISE THEING WAGE, management, if you want "good hires" or "people to show up for work" or "more staff." Am I just missing something here? I know raising it from 10.20 to, I don't know, 12 to 14, would hurt the bottom line, but I would think that the increase in volume UPS is getting as brick and mortar continue to give way to online sales, coupled with more and better staff at 12 to 14 an hour, would, again I'm speculating here, more than make up for the loss in profits from raising the wage.
Somebody check me here-- Is this totally stupid, or is it plausible?
Oh yeah, I hope it goes without saying that I only know the situation at my center, for all I know everywhere else is all rainbows and unicorn jizz.
Point is, I have beef with the problem at my center of "not enough and/or not good enough people in local sort." According to management, there are either too many people not being as careful as they should during local sort, or there are not enough people. Sometimes it's people not showing up, sometimes it's "can't find enough good hires."
My beef is, our pay is 10.20 for local sort. Reading around these forums, old heads are saying they made 8 or 9 an hour, like 20 or 30 years ago. So while other jobs went from 4 or 5 to 8 or 9 in that time, I'm talking fast food and washing cars and stuff, package handlers at UPS went from 8 or 9 to.... Wait for it... 10.20.
Now I could be totally wrong about those numbers, it's just hearsay I've gotten from this site.
But what I do know is, for the amount of, I
you not, backbreaking labor local sort people put in, whether they have good hustle or not, I think 10.20 is just about peanuts. Honestly, I'm going to be driving come peak. But If I had not been hired as a cover driver, I would at this point consider a SLIGHTLY lower paying job which did not require as much blood/sweat/tears. Don't get me wrong; I'm not exactly bitching here. I actually don't mind the work all that much, but I don't see it as a workable long term thing, just something for college-age people to do until they have better things to do.
Sorry I'm rambling, but the point is, RAISE THE
ING WAGE, management, if you want "good hires" or "people to show up for work" or "more staff." Am I just missing something here? I know raising it from 10.20 to, I don't know, 12 to 14, would hurt the bottom line, but I would think that the increase in volume UPS is getting as brick and mortar continue to give way to online sales, coupled with more and better staff at 12 to 14 an hour, would, again I'm speculating here, more than make up for the loss in profits from raising the wage.Somebody check me here-- Is this totally stupid, or is it plausible?
Oh yeah, I hope it goes without saying that I only know the situation at my center, for all I know everywhere else is all rainbows and unicorn jizz.
CoryAndTrevor
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burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
So I'm pretty sure this thread was supposed to be about just drivers striking? Anyway who cares, I'm going to rant about package handlers, specifically local sort (I haven't done any pre-loading, so I have no idea what the situation is there).
Point is, I have beef with the problem at my center of "not enough and/or not good enough people in local sort." According to management, there are either too many people not being as careful as they should during local sort, or there are not enough people. Sometimes it's people not showing up, sometimes it's "can't find enough good hires."
My beef is, our pay is 10.20 for local sort. Reading around these forums, old heads are saying they made 8 or 9 an hour, like 20 or 30 years ago. So while other jobs went from 4 or 5 to 8 or 9 in that time, I'm talking fast food and washing cars and stuff, package handlers at UPS went from 8 or 9 to.... Wait for it... 10.20.
Now I could be totally wrong about those numbers, it's just hearsay I've gotten from this site.
But what I do know is, for the amount of, I
Don't get me wrong; I'm not exactly bitching here. I actually don't mind the work all that much, but I don't see it as a workable long term thing, just something for college-age people to do until they have better things to do.
Sorry I'm rambling, but the point is, RAISE THE
Somebody check me here-- Is this totally stupid, or is it plausible?
Oh yeah, I hope it goes without saying that I only know the situation at my center, for all I know everywhere else is all rainbows and unicorn jizz.
Where you gonna find a less paying job than $10.20 an hour
Lmao
CoryAndTrevor
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Yeah, I don't really know. Most part time jobs do pay between 10 and 12, my wife actually makes 13 and all she does is drive to grocery stores and Targets and stuff and mess around with their product displays. Lucky bi-- I mean, wonderful lady.
That's why I emphasized "slightly" lower paying. The last part time job I has was washing cars, and it did pay a lot less, but only because I kept trying to do a good job, and it was paid piecemeal. Before that, I hadn't had one for like 6 or 7 years, and minimum wage has changed since then.
1989
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Become an Amazonian they are hiring full time with benefits from day one.
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You've obviously never lived in a studio apartment with my wife.
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