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I feel like i should be making more as a part timer of 9 years.
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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1129866" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p>"These people"?</p><p></p><p>"GO TO WALMART!!"?</p><p></p><p>Some solidarity there, brother. When I was first hired at UPS, we were promised the opportunity to go full time within 10 years. Some of the PT'ers I work with were told that 15+ years ago -- many people want to go FT but are <strong>unable to do so</strong> with the company refusing to fill vacated 22.3 jobs and add more package car routes. Simply put, UPS rarely hires package car or feeder drivers off the street anymore like they did during the expansion in the late 1970's/early 1980's. </p><p></p><p>And at least those 50 hours in package cars are at $32/hr and $48/hr as OT and all for the same company. I watch PT'ers struggle to get through their shift and grind themselves into dust, day after day, after working 8+ hours somewhere else (likely non-union and with far lower pay) until the Twilight sort finishes, just so they can keep food on the table and eke out a living until they can go FT. </p><p></p><p>I don't have many complaints as a PT employee, other than supervisors stealing work from us across every sort and refusing to work double shifts (except in my area on my shift, where they know they'll get crucified if they do bargaining work) when they're short-staffed and the backlog of people in my hub trying to go FT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1129866, member: 42270"] "These people"? "GO TO WALMART!!"? Some solidarity there, brother. When I was first hired at UPS, we were promised the opportunity to go full time within 10 years. Some of the PT'ers I work with were told that 15+ years ago -- many people want to go FT but are [B]unable to do so[/B] with the company refusing to fill vacated 22.3 jobs and add more package car routes. Simply put, UPS rarely hires package car or feeder drivers off the street anymore like they did during the expansion in the late 1970's/early 1980's. And at least those 50 hours in package cars are at $32/hr and $48/hr as OT and all for the same company. I watch PT'ers struggle to get through their shift and grind themselves into dust, day after day, after working 8+ hours somewhere else (likely non-union and with far lower pay) until the Twilight sort finishes, just so they can keep food on the table and eke out a living until they can go FT. I don't have many complaints as a PT employee, other than supervisors stealing work from us across every sort and refusing to work double shifts (except in my area on my shift, where they know they'll get crucified if they do bargaining work) when they're short-staffed and the backlog of people in my hub trying to go FT. [/QUOTE]
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