OptimusPrime
Well-Known Member
The only issues I have with helpers are the one that come on BC and complain about what the driver does and having to actually do a little work. the kicker is that they signed up for the job...
Pay has little to do with helper complaining most helper (not all ) are chronically unemployed because they have no work ethics. They want the paybut don't want to work....
I started out on the inside making $8.50 and I worked my way up to a $31.785 job I didn't complain about the low starting pay. I got another FT job (4 ten hr days ) to go along with my PT UPS gig until I got a FT UPS job. That how the life works you want something you work for it.
Some of you old timers could use some perspective. Don't know when you started, but I figured you probably have 25 years in. In comparison of 1987 to 2011(that is the last year the calculator uses) something costing $8.50 is now around $16.50. Gas was around .95 a gallon. It's now 4X that. A new worker could easily use 2 gallons getting to work. (Not unlikely they have a crappy car with bad mileage) So roughly five of the hours a week they work just go to gas. And the clunker probably burns/leaks oil as well.
This whole idea that somehow this generation is just some lazy "whipper snappers" is asinine. Minimum wage back then was $3.35. You were making over double that. You aren't some Clint Eastwood curmudgeon type badass who roughed it through some tough times. The exact opposite. You were getting paid extremely well.