You are too sensitive, I was not slamming you. Don't be so defensive. When I refer to you as company I am not referring to an evil empire.
The company performs a service and pays my wage. We just don't always see eye to eye and when the union hierarchy gets defended by the company it makes me nervous.
I was just stating you obviously have never had first hand experience with state laws involving workman's comp with a company of no integrity.
UPS in general does have integrity and if you can show that the injury was definately caused by work they will not fight it.
Not all companies are so upstanding and when they are not the best you will usually get is a couple of years (with no money coming in while you wait) of court system B.S. with less than a fifty percent chance of it settling in your favor. In some states it is less than twenty percent.
And yep, there are malingerers out there also, some that get away with it. Life ain't fair in either direction.
Drivers don't lift 150 pounds all day. Most don't see more than one or two above 70 in their day and if they are stupid enough not to enforce the contract and injure themselves lifting over 70 without help, they have no one but themselves to blame.
Most drivers wouldn't name badminton as their sport of choice. I would be careful who I admitted that to.
Those that play football, basketball, softball,etc get hernias. You have obviously never been in court. They never laugh. Only the company lawyers do and they do it discretely.
(Message edited by ok2bclever on October 08, 2002)