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<blockquote data-quote="Braveheart" data-source="post: 130622" data-attributes="member: 5831"><p>Sure anyone who is out of work would do our job for less until they do it. So because the people, the corporations and the government have allowed jobs to go overseas, we that are left should work for less. Any time you wish to do our job please try it. You will find that the working conditions are hell. The physical manual labor, the heat with no A/C, the rain, the snow, the humidity, the mandatory overtime, the difficulty getting time off, dog bites, being told your faking a herniated disc or tendenitus, all the twisted ankles, pulled and torn muscles, strained knees, pinched nerves, and the lovely traffic jams and crazy drivers, the unrealistic break neck pace your expected to maintain all while delivery 300 boxes to 100 plus customers, and doing pick ups at 20 to 40 accounts with another 200 to 300 boxes. We have the worst worker's comp problem in the country. For every driver to make retirement there is another 5 who did not due to permanent knee, ankle, or back injuries. We are human forklifts. Is the fill in driver younger? Is the fill in driver trying to get into management? We older wornout drivers don't skip our lunch or sort our truck during it. We older drivers have seen all the permanently injured workers sent packing and unable to find work. Are we to work for less so the CEO can make more? I bet I can find someone to do your job for less too. Does not mean you should work for less. Is the doctor who complains about the lack of nurses, and conveyer belt patient qouta, and HMO BS, angry about his high paid job? Or is he or she just pissed off that corporate greed has taken importance over patient care. We as drivers are pissed that UPS has put production and profit over the customers needs and employee safety. Our raises by the way are well within the norm. The raises are pre-negoitiated in a contract and are between 3% and 4%. We do not get cash, holiday or stock bonuses of any kind. Managers do. We do not get 401K matching funds. Managers do. We are not allowed to do lite duty for off job illnesses or injuries but are forced to do lite duty for on job injuries. I have a driver who hurt his back and has been forced to do lite duty from day one with zero time off to heal, no MRI, no physical therepy yet now for over a month, and all the while he and the doctor hand picked by UPS are wondering why? We earn every penny of our pay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Braveheart, post: 130622, member: 5831"] Sure anyone who is out of work would do our job for less until they do it. So because the people, the corporations and the government have allowed jobs to go overseas, we that are left should work for less. Any time you wish to do our job please try it. You will find that the working conditions are hell. The physical manual labor, the heat with no A/C, the rain, the snow, the humidity, the mandatory overtime, the difficulty getting time off, dog bites, being told your faking a herniated disc or tendenitus, all the twisted ankles, pulled and torn muscles, strained knees, pinched nerves, and the lovely traffic jams and crazy drivers, the unrealistic break neck pace your expected to maintain all while delivery 300 boxes to 100 plus customers, and doing pick ups at 20 to 40 accounts with another 200 to 300 boxes. We have the worst worker's comp problem in the country. For every driver to make retirement there is another 5 who did not due to permanent knee, ankle, or back injuries. We are human forklifts. Is the fill in driver younger? Is the fill in driver trying to get into management? We older wornout drivers don't skip our lunch or sort our truck during it. We older drivers have seen all the permanently injured workers sent packing and unable to find work. Are we to work for less so the CEO can make more? I bet I can find someone to do your job for less too. Does not mean you should work for less. Is the doctor who complains about the lack of nurses, and conveyer belt patient qouta, and HMO BS, angry about his high paid job? Or is he or she just pissed off that corporate greed has taken importance over patient care. We as drivers are pissed that UPS has put production and profit over the customers needs and employee safety. Our raises by the way are well within the norm. The raises are pre-negoitiated in a contract and are between 3% and 4%. We do not get cash, holiday or stock bonuses of any kind. Managers do. We do not get 401K matching funds. Managers do. We are not allowed to do lite duty for off job illnesses or injuries but are forced to do lite duty for on job injuries. I have a driver who hurt his back and has been forced to do lite duty from day one with zero time off to heal, no MRI, no physical therepy yet now for over a month, and all the while he and the doctor hand picked by UPS are wondering why? We earn every penny of our pay. [/QUOTE]
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