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UPS Work Ethic - IS America Losing It?
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<blockquote data-quote="PiedmontSteward" data-source="post: 1699566" data-attributes="member: 42270"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: rgb(30, 24, 18)">This line of thought doesn't generate any traction with me and I'll explain why. There's some very valid and very isolated criticisms of my generation (millennials) that I witness every day when I hash out "3 day no call no shows" and warning letters for attendance with managers but -- for the most part -- Rowe's statement is bull<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: rgb(30, 24, 18)"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: rgb(30, 24, 18)">The "jobs" climate now is completely reprehensible and Mike Rowe (who has happily taken Walton family money shilling for Walmart) is pointing the finger in the wrong direction. It's hard to cultivate a "serious" work ethnic when the 40 hour work week (even for the fortunate few full time Teamsters) has been annihilated and labor in this country has suffered a serious epidemic of casualization (ie. the rise of the low-paying part time job.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: rgb(30, 24, 18)"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: rgb(30, 24, 18)">I've watched my mother and father get utterly <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />ed by the fallout from NAFTA and the modern economy we "enjoy." When I was a kid, my dad had a pretty solid job in middle management at a local copper plant and my mom worked for Iomega (remember the Zip drive?) NAFTA saw Iomega relocate to Mexico immediately after Clinton slammed it through Congress and she (as a working class women that went to college for a few years and then went to work instead of graduating) was laid off and couldn't find work for almost two years. When someone's identity and culture is intricately tied into working for a living and providing for a family and that ability is taken away for purely economic reasons, the results are traumatic and I'll leave it at that. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: rgb(30, 24, 18)"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: rgb(30, 24, 18)">The copper plant lost more and more business to China and my dad jumped ship to a major computer manufacturer before being laid off right when I started working at UPS before I graduated high school. This guy straight up bled Dell Blue and they thanked him by moving his job to Malaysia after 6 years of service. He went back to school to learn a new trade and no found out one wants to <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />ing hire a 60+ year old man so he's busting his nuts in a <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />hole warehouse for $10/hour, no benefits, and no vacation time after getting a second college degree </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: rgb(30, 24, 18)"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: rgb(30, 24, 18)">The system we have now is inherently unfair. The deck's been stacked since the 1960's and Mike Rowe isn't doing us any favors by perpetuating the myth that people simply aren't working hard enough. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiedmontSteward, post: 1699566, member: 42270"] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=rgb(30, 24, 18)]This line of thought doesn't generate any traction with me and I'll explain why. There's some very valid and very isolated criticisms of my generation (millennials) that I witness every day when I hash out "3 day no call no shows" and warning letters for attendance with managers but -- for the most part -- Rowe's statement is bull:censored:. The "jobs" climate now is completely reprehensible and Mike Rowe (who has happily taken Walton family money shilling for Walmart) is pointing the finger in the wrong direction. It's hard to cultivate a "serious" work ethnic when the 40 hour work week (even for the fortunate few full time Teamsters) has been annihilated and labor in this country has suffered a serious epidemic of casualization (ie. the rise of the low-paying part time job.) I've watched my mother and father get utterly :censored:ed by the fallout from NAFTA and the modern economy we "enjoy." When I was a kid, my dad had a pretty solid job in middle management at a local copper plant and my mom worked for Iomega (remember the Zip drive?) NAFTA saw Iomega relocate to Mexico immediately after Clinton slammed it through Congress and she (as a working class women that went to college for a few years and then went to work instead of graduating) was laid off and couldn't find work for almost two years. When someone's identity and culture is intricately tied into working for a living and providing for a family and that ability is taken away for purely economic reasons, the results are traumatic and I'll leave it at that. The copper plant lost more and more business to China and my dad jumped ship to a major computer manufacturer before being laid off right when I started working at UPS before I graduated high school. This guy straight up bled Dell Blue and they thanked him by moving his job to Malaysia after 6 years of service. He went back to school to learn a new trade and no found out one wants to :censored:ing hire a 60+ year old man so he's busting his nuts in a :censored:hole warehouse for $10/hour, no benefits, and no vacation time after getting a second college degree The system we have now is inherently unfair. The deck's been stacked since the 1960's and Mike Rowe isn't doing us any favors by perpetuating the myth that people simply aren't working hard enough. [/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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