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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 145126" data-attributes="member: 1674"><p>Back to Diadlovers original topic. Last Saturday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a big article about the UPS Turkey Tradition. It cost more than four million dollars for UPS to give 325,000 turkeys and 56,000 turkey gift certificates to all its U.S. workforce. Thats about twelve dollars a bird. It takes months of planning, and 55 managers are assigned as "turkey coordinators" to pull off the task of planning the handing out of a turkey as an employee ends their shift at over 1200 UPS facilities. They also mentioned the first UPS Christmas Tradition, when founder Jim Casey would give out the twenty dollar gold coins. This was changed in the 1920s, when employees received <strong>live turkeys. </strong>I can remember back when the P/ters got $500 and the friend/ters got $1000 before taxes. The Teamsters didn't like that, they wanted it spread out as part of a contract raise. That $660 (after taxes) sure was nice to have to go Christmas shopping!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scratch, post: 145126, member: 1674"] Back to Diadlovers original topic. Last Saturday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a big article about the UPS Turkey Tradition. It cost more than four million dollars for UPS to give 325,000 turkeys and 56,000 turkey gift certificates to all its U.S. workforce. Thats about twelve dollars a bird. It takes months of planning, and 55 managers are assigned as "turkey coordinators" to pull off the task of planning the handing out of a turkey as an employee ends their shift at over 1200 UPS facilities. They also mentioned the first UPS Christmas Tradition, when founder Jim Casey would give out the twenty dollar gold coins. This was changed in the 1920s, when employees received [B]live turkeys. [/B]I can remember back when the P/ters got $500 and the friend/ters got $1000 before taxes. The Teamsters didn't like that, they wanted it spread out as part of a contract raise. That $660 (after taxes) sure was nice to have to go Christmas shopping! [/QUOTE]
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