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<blockquote data-quote="toonertoo" data-source="post: 250149" data-attributes="member: 1944"><p>PTIMERS are not stupid. I should know I was one for 8 yrs.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/tongue_smilie.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue_sm" title="Tongue Smilie :tongue_sm" data-shortname=":tongue_sm" /> I think I was stupid when I wanted to work full time. </p><p>Isnt that how it goes, we want to work full time, we want the big bucks. Then when we get full time we want to work less. </p><p>When you get 3.5, you want 10, when you get 10, you want 3.5, we will always want what we dont have.</p><p>From my perspective, yes they should get more, than 8.50. Thats what I started at in 1984. It takes a heck of a person to be on time every day for a job that sometimes starts at 3am, and sometimes you fight through ice and snow and get there. Or in the evenings washing trucks, and your hoses freeze, your pants are frozen stiff, and then you have to drive home<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/mellow.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":mellow:" title="Mellow :mellow:" data-shortname=":mellow:" />. Unloading trailers that are 120 in the summer and your hands freeze to the rollers and boxes in trailers that are 10 degrees in the winter. It aint for everyone. But it gave me the flexibility to go to school, raise my kids, and be on the beach by 11am. And the time to work another job, or start a business. There are multitudes of reasons for wanting to work, or stay PT. But I do not feel UPS ever really wanted most of us to stay. It was explained to me, that "these are pt positions to fill a need in a flexible business, and we should plan to move on, til then this is what you get. Make the most of it." </p><p>The whole entitlement thing is the way of the world, look around.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/w00t.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":w00t:" title="W00t :w00t:" data-shortname=":w00t:" /> I disagree with it, but it is permeating society. At least these part timers are feeling they should get something back besides pay for their efforts, working toward a goal, waiting on their dream job, which is a whole lot better than expecting something for doing nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toonertoo, post: 250149, member: 1944"] PTIMERS are not stupid. I should know I was one for 8 yrs.:tongue_sm I think I was stupid when I wanted to work full time. Isnt that how it goes, we want to work full time, we want the big bucks. Then when we get full time we want to work less. When you get 3.5, you want 10, when you get 10, you want 3.5, we will always want what we dont have. From my perspective, yes they should get more, than 8.50. Thats what I started at in 1984. It takes a heck of a person to be on time every day for a job that sometimes starts at 3am, and sometimes you fight through ice and snow and get there. Or in the evenings washing trucks, and your hoses freeze, your pants are frozen stiff, and then you have to drive home:mellow:. Unloading trailers that are 120 in the summer and your hands freeze to the rollers and boxes in trailers that are 10 degrees in the winter. It aint for everyone. But it gave me the flexibility to go to school, raise my kids, and be on the beach by 11am. And the time to work another job, or start a business. There are multitudes of reasons for wanting to work, or stay PT. But I do not feel UPS ever really wanted most of us to stay. It was explained to me, that "these are pt positions to fill a need in a flexible business, and we should plan to move on, til then this is what you get. Make the most of it." The whole entitlement thing is the way of the world, look around.:w00t: I disagree with it, but it is permeating society. At least these part timers are feeling they should get something back besides pay for their efforts, working toward a goal, waiting on their dream job, which is a whole lot better than expecting something for doing nothing. [/QUOTE]
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