What was it like when Jim Casey died

[UnionStrong]

I did throw out a lot more than I saved. We used to get an incredible amount of junk.

I still have a big ass pen I got for my 10th anniversary at UPS. Thing must weigh half a pound

 

[BrownFlush]

Jim was from San Francisco?

No.
He moved to Oakland when the name change happened. Close enough to SF?

 

[Coldworld]

I still have a big ass pen I got for my 10th anniversary at UPS. Thing must weigh half a poundView attachment 457410View attachment 457411

Undercover fleshlight???

 

[Covemastah]

I think it was a spruce.

I planted mine and it promptly died.

I planted mine , was growing good till a pvd drove over it

 

[Thebrownblob]

Who remembers the founders day gift , early 90's. We got a miniature pine tree about a foot long in a box

Yep planted mine at our old house. It’s still there growing well.

 

[Coldworld]

Yep
Dont have that one anymore. @MECH-II cut it down.
I believe the plate was my first founders day gift.
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Interesting…there’s @scratch on there slanging parcels with his daisy dukes on #legend

 

[anonymous23456]

Jim was from San Francisco?

Seattle

 

[Sissy Brown Short Shorts]

Lower seniority drivers like @MECH-II missed out on really really cool stuff like this.
We also had a shindig at a Stadium near a hub. Static Displays,Food, and Brainwashing.

All we get now is a crappy printout in an ugly green box. I got a dumb hero’s pin during Covid and it didn’t even have the clasp on the back of it. Fell off. I usually don’t go to the PCMs so my green boxes sit in the office until someone remembers to give it to me. I just throw it in the trash on the way out the door.

 

[Sissy Brown Short Shorts]

Before he died, they shoved it up your ass.
The day he died, the next morning at the PCM, they had a 60 second moment of silence.
The next day, they shoved it up your ass.

Fitting, because he was gay.

Been on here for a number of years. That’s the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a post. Brought to tears.

 

[Brownwind]

Who remembers the founders day gift , early 90's. We got a miniature pine tree about a foot long in a box

I planted mine at the folks house. Thirty foot tall blue spruce now.
First thing they did right

 

[over9five]

I planted mine at the folks house. Thirty foot tall blue spruce now.
First thing they did right

I remember planting mine, but I don't think it survived.

 

[BaSEless]

I noticed most of you guys have been in UPS before the dinosaurs went extinct and some of you even retired before I was even born. So you guys are the best to ask, what was it like in UPS when Jim died?

Sometimes I will read some old fliers from the early 2000s from desks that have been abandoned in this office for years talking about the legacy of Jim and how he was a hero amongst heroes.

Do you guys really think he was really that great of a founder? if you were around when he died, how did everyone react? was it like kim jong il dying in North Korea where everyone mourned for a week straight? (Just not at gunpoin

I was a PT Sup in the Atlanta Hub at the time and remember my FT Sort Mgr telling us he had passed away - he was actually kind of sad about it. I might have heard of Jim Casey but hadn't at that time been steeped in the whole Founders culture thing so I didn't realize his significance to UPS until a while after that.

With regard to Founders Day - as of now all my trinkets/memorabilia is long gone. I'm a curmudgeon.

 

[moldsporh]

what was it like in UPS when Jim died?

I don't know, but want to speculate the loaders or sups didn't walk on customers' packages when moving through a package car, and they cared for customers more as a whole, and likely treated employees with respect instead of looking at them assuming we all steal time and manipulate the system. Not the ethical humans we are who come to work in a manner to keep our job so we can provide a lifestyle for our families. Instead they treat us like new inmates at a detention center looking for anything to give us a suspension or some type of dirt on our record.

I don't think they (mgmt) treat their friends, family, and neighbors the same. Guilty before innocent. Not all mgmt is that way, but it's a short list.