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<blockquote data-quote="Griff" data-source="post: 306900" data-attributes="member: 7111"><p>I'd say those are two <em><strong>major, major </strong></em>differences. Just because we are represented by a union, doesn't mean we don't have to earn the difference in the pay gap. The company gets every last red cent out of its drivers. I'll go out on a limb here and say the package car operation at UPS is one of, if not the most heavily scrutinized jobs in the entire industry. Every body movement, every step, every mental decision, every turn, every stop, every back, every DR, every accident, every injury is scrutinized by a team of people on a daily basis and now is moving into the realm of being scrutinized in real time. The job itself in black and white terms is very similar, but the standards to which the job should be performed are quite literally worlds apart. Not to mention the fact UPS is being managed into the ground and the drivers have to pickup the slack in many areas that they shouldn't be responsible for. One of these areas is sales, UPS drivers are "required" to grow the business and submit sales leads.</p><p></p><p>You keep referencing that people are being "silly" and here you are trying to paint things with a 2 mile wide brush and stroke. The whole nonsense about a "delivery job is a delivery job" is rather ignorant. By your school of thought (using your own career as an example), a part-time music teacher working out of his home is the exact same thing as being a college professor. They both essentially are the same thing, they both teach professionally. Don't you find that analogy silly because I sure do. Nobody here is trying to glorify being a UPS driver, there is simply no glory in it. The reason UPS is the leader in the industry is expectations and standards, they are both higher than the field. Union or no union, there is more expected of you as a UPS driver. Yes, there are exceptions to the rule, everything in life can be picked apart one way or another. Comparing someone who flings newspapers out of the moving window of a car to someone who is responsible for delivering things up to 149lbs is amazingly ignorant. The same way it would be stupid for me to claim that we do the same job as professional movers. You can't lump every single job together and string them along by the same general title, there are varying degrees of responsibility and expectations with every job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Griff, post: 306900, member: 7111"] I'd say those are two [I][B]major, major [/B][/I]differences. Just because we are represented by a union, doesn't mean we don't have to earn the difference in the pay gap. The company gets every last red cent out of its drivers. I'll go out on a limb here and say the package car operation at UPS is one of, if not the most heavily scrutinized jobs in the entire industry. Every body movement, every step, every mental decision, every turn, every stop, every back, every DR, every accident, every injury is scrutinized by a team of people on a daily basis and now is moving into the realm of being scrutinized in real time. The job itself in black and white terms is very similar, but the standards to which the job should be performed are quite literally worlds apart. Not to mention the fact UPS is being managed into the ground and the drivers have to pickup the slack in many areas that they shouldn't be responsible for. One of these areas is sales, UPS drivers are "required" to grow the business and submit sales leads. You keep referencing that people are being "silly" and here you are trying to paint things with a 2 mile wide brush and stroke. The whole nonsense about a "delivery job is a delivery job" is rather ignorant. By your school of thought (using your own career as an example), a part-time music teacher working out of his home is the exact same thing as being a college professor. They both essentially are the same thing, they both teach professionally. Don't you find that analogy silly because I sure do. Nobody here is trying to glorify being a UPS driver, there is simply no glory in it. The reason UPS is the leader in the industry is expectations and standards, they are both higher than the field. Union or no union, there is more expected of you as a UPS driver. Yes, there are exceptions to the rule, everything in life can be picked apart one way or another. Comparing someone who flings newspapers out of the moving window of a car to someone who is responsible for delivering things up to 149lbs is amazingly ignorant. The same way it would be stupid for me to claim that we do the same job as professional movers. You can't lump every single job together and string them along by the same general title, there are varying degrees of responsibility and expectations with every job. [/QUOTE]
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