30 years of service...big whup.

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

some day you will achieve this honor hobo

I hope not.

 

[Jkloc420]

I hope not.

you need knee braces

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

you need knee braces

Not yet.

 

[WTFm8]

"Here's your 30 years of service plaque. For someone with 30 years, maybe you can explain to me why you were so far over allowed yesterday!?"

“Expect the unexpected, also the union doesn’t recognize UPS metrics so expect an art 37 grievance if you ask me again”

 

[Oak]

Always nice to get a pat on the back while they are kicking you in the butt.

That wasn't their foot!

 

[Necropostophiliac]

@Necropostophiliac

Hello I still appear once in a while.

 

[RealEdwilliams]

23 years at ups .. lost my mind last year. Lol literally, I ended up in VA hospital Mental health ward for 7 days. I think I died in there... I don't remember much beyond like it was a bad dream.. but I digress. My mind, after 18 months separated from the PTSD crisis I went thru mentioned above, is coming back.. I have found my voice, my therapist thinks speaking my opinions on Twitter is good for me. Did you know that ups does not support your disability claim if they think your PTSD was caused by combat. Did you know they want proof that my father raped me as an infant into childhood after my mother abandoned myself and 3 brothers and 2 sister? I submit statement from VA mental health doc stating my PTSD was NOT caused by combat(after my youth weirdly, combat was, a bit too calm) but they still decline appeals, all of them. End result? They tell me decision final, no more appeals allowed, and, please sue if you disagree, you have X time to do that. Need more context I think, so when I got home from the funny farm, and got my shoestring and belt back, I dont remember much, but i vaguely remember helping me oh wait, "helping" me with the orig claim and then the fast appeals... I look back at the appeals and orig and am a but stunned how, basic the docs were filled out like a 12 year old did it... *18 months later now my memories of this area are improving daily..

I digress, go look at my new voice that I found on twitter... 23 years at ups 2 years from retirement.

@RealEdwilliams is me, I'll discuss anything with anybody now

 

[Poop Head]

23 years at ups .. lost my mind last year. Lol literally, I ended up in VA hospital Mental health ward for 7 days. I think I died in there... I don't remember much beyond like it was a bad dream.. but I digress. My mind, after 18 months separated from the PTSD crisis I went thru mentioned above, is coming back.. I have found my voice, my therapist thinks speaking my opinions on Twitter is good for me. Did you know that ups does not support your disability claim if they think your PTSD was caused by combat. Did you know they want proof that my father raped me as an infant into childhood after my mother abandoned myself and 3 brothers and 2 sister? I submit statement from VA mental health doc stating my PTSD was NOT caused by combat(after my youth weirdly, combat was, a bit too calm) but they still decline appeals, all of them. End result? They tell me decision final, no more appeals allowed, and, please sue if you disagree, you have X time to do that. Need more context I think, so when I got home from the funny farm, and got my shoestring and belt back, I dont remember much, but i vaguely remember helping me oh wait, "helping" me with the orig claim and then the fast appeals... I look back at the appeals and orig and am a but stunned how, basic the docs were filled out like a 12 year old did it... *18 months later now my memories of this area are improving daily..

I digress, go look at my new voice that I found on twitter... 23 years at ups 2 years from retirement.

@RealEdwilliams is me, I'll discuss anything with anybody now

That's effed up

 

[RealEdwilliams]

Agreed.. last few years, before my mental health, um, snap, was 3 years on the Orion team, Orion Support Special...

Honestly, had I not experienced the mental health break, on April 23rd 2017, i would never have been able to guess at the power of the brain.. it's made me sick for my entire adult life, off and on... oh, over 23 years i think 12 disability cases for various things related to my doctor diagnosed severe #PTSD, all approved, took days sometimes, other times months, but I was ALWAYS a high performer , just hella bad attendance during my issues.. then i have the worst break of my life, on the day i was supposed to report to my new FEEDER DISPATCH SPECIALIST, which I was forced to pick, or take pay reduction and plop me in HR. oh everything bad hit me all at once when my Aunt died. I ended up in a ball, knees pulled up in fetal position, rocking back and forth just sobbing and wanting to die. They took me to VA ER, where I was admitted to mental health ward for 7 days.. tip of iceberg, sorry, I gotta stop typing, getting worked up. Therapist (Phd) has admitted me into a new Cognitive Processing Therapy clinucal trial program at the VA, it is very intensive, and reserved for extreme severe cases. It took 18 months of failed treatments to get to the CPT program, they said typically it's 6 months to 2 years of intense therapy, they say I'm not supposed to think about ups because of how angry it makes me. It took me a long time to gain the balls to bring this to my fellow Upsers. Please help?

 

[RealEdwilliams]

Just realized I should probably make my own thread, didn't mean to kill your thread, PTSD is hard for people to engage about, still a taboo in some ways, trust me, I've watched my family and friends just melt away, unfollowing my SM profiles, so polite, and easy society makes it to ignore mental health issues. Pfft I'd rather be angry than suicidal again.

 

[RealEdwilliams]

Anyone have an idea for a subject line that wont send people screaming to the exits? For creating a new post for my "issue" Such a hard topic, but, 3 months ago my life savings finally dried up, ups took my income and my health care (retroactively to last day wirjed!!!!) 18 months ago but my bills never stopped. I tried GoFundMe a year ago,raised 1800, it helped my morale immensely, at that moment in time..but just delayed my inevitable financial disaster by a couple months. Closed the GoFundMe account long ago, did not think this would just keep dragging on.. Here I am now though lol the va has now classified me 50% service connected disabled so I get 855 a month now, which is almost exactly equal to my min payments. Top ramen it is, been poor before, just never thought I'd revisit. My brain is on fire... sleep comes infrequently

 

[Rick Ross]

Just realized I should probably make my own thread, didn't mean to kill your thread, PTSD is hard for people to engage about, still a taboo in some ways, trust me, I've watched my family and friends just melt away, unfollowing my SM profiles, so polite, and easy society makes it to ignore mental health issues. Pfft I'd rather be angry than suicidal again.

Have you tried EMDR therapy?

 

[RealEdwilliams]

Have you tried EMDR therapy?

Honestly the first 6 months was like a dream, not sure what I went thru, last 6 months has been getting me into thus program. I will say, my "toolbox" is huge and I have apps for every mood lol April 23rd 2017, another man's lifetime ago.

 

[Coldworld]

Not yet.

You have your knee pads...lol

 

[Sissy Brown Short Shorts]

It’s depressing realizing I won’t retire from this place until at least 2050, and that my part time years don’t count towards my retirement even though I work full time, and that my pension will be insolvent in the mid 2020’s.