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12-21-2008, 04:43 PM
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#1 | | aka Grandstug
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Closer to the Equator, than you!
Posts: 4,906
Rep Power: 8530 | Information about BC Members - Getting to know you Just wanted fellow BC'ers to share a little bit about themselves. I mean, when some people post they talk about how it is where they are, but never say where "there" is. Give us a little more info so we know who you are and where you're coming from. Don't need to get too personal. I mean I'm comfortable to tell you that I live in Port St. Lucie, Florida. You can say your state or the quadrant of the state you live in. Same goes with age, length of time on the job, current job, i.e. preload, driver, feeders or supe. Just a little more info like would really be helpful. If you don't want to participate don't, it's okay.
I'll start first and feel free to follow with all or as much info as you like.
Name: Steve
Start Date: Feb 29 96
Sex: M Age:43
Originally from NYC currently reside in PSL, FL
Married: 5 children, all girls
UPS position: Driver since 99
Hobbies: Running, Cycling, spending time with the family and my BC addiction.
BC member since April 2007, though never posted till August 2008
Now it's your turn; Who are you? |
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12-21-2008, 04:45 PM
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#2 | | ModSta in Training
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta - Innoplex
Posts: 4,458
Rep Power: 9523 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Hoke, Hoax, Hold, Hook, Hack, Hulk, Hawk, Holt
Start Date: May 1973
Sex: Rarely Age: 54
Originally from South GA; currently reside in Douglasville, GA
Married: 1 Daughter (34) and 1 Grandson (8)
UPS position: UPS.com User Manager
Hobbies: Tennis, Music, UPS and my BC addiction.
BC member since August 1997, though never posted much until May 2008
__________________ Pay no attention to what people say...observe their actions and above all else remember, "It is what it is". Its a fascinating story, but as the Ferangi say, "A good lie is easier to believe than the truth." |
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12-21-2008, 04:53 PM
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#3 | | LOADED FOR BEAR
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: northern az
Posts: 6,595
Rep Power: 11397 | Re: Getting to know you. I'm Dilligaf or Dilli for short.
AZ
Started May 05
FT Driver Mar 06
3 boys all grown.
Single but living with a wonderful man. (married as far as I'm concerned)
Hobbies- motorcycles and BC and spending time with my honey watching football. That's the only season there is!
I will be 48 in Feb.
__________________ Live as if you were to die tomorrow, Learn as if you were to live forever. Ghandi A true friend is one that reaches out with a hand and touches the heart. anonymous IYQYQR |
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12-21-2008, 05:00 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Indiana
Posts: 566
Rep Power: 712 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: evilleace
Start Date: May 12 08
Sex: M Age:20
I am from southern IN but originally born across the river in KY lived there for 13 years.
Single right now
UPS position: Unloader/Preloader/Spa person and I do tape ups and bulkslide I also have sorted, pretty much anything they need me to do. Just putting in my dues till I can drive.
Hobbies: Basketball, Football, Baseball..well just sports in general, I also like to spend time with my family and play video games when I have free time and it is 10 degrees outisde like it is now. I am also a movie fiend and love to watch all kinds of movies.
I also love to surf BC when I am home.
Merry Christmas everyone
-Eli |
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12-21-2008, 05:02 PM
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#5 | | Box Monkey
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harrisburg, PA
Posts: 1,690
Rep Power: 6947 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Cementups, Cem, Cement, Cementhead, just don''t call me late for dinner.
Start Date: July 29, 1993
Sex: M
Age:33
Originally from WIlliamsport PA, Chicago when i was 3, in Harrisburg since I was 4
Married: 3 yo daughter and 1 due in April
UPS position: Driver since 96
Hobbies: Golf and watching TV while surfing the internet
BC member since 2007 somtime. I forgot to look before I started this
__________________ Who needs family when you've got Brown? |
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12-21-2008, 05:08 PM
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#6 | | intrnt=srsbsns
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: JAX 3229
Posts: 1,244
Rep Power: 3172 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Eric
Start Date: June 19th 2000
Sex:M
Age:28
Location:Born and raised in Jacksonville,FL
Hobbies: Music,Video Games,BC
Member since April 2007
Position: Secondary Sorter
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoaxster If it was flooded they would move packages to adjacent centers and reopen once the water receded. | |
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12-21-2008, 05:11 PM
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#7 | | Mace of Serenity
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 1,885
Rep Power: 10852 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Jones
Start Date: Jun 1992
Sex: M
Age: 43
Lived all over the world, NoVa is home now til I retire or win the lottery
Happily married, no kids and will probably keep it that way
UPS position: Driver since 1995
Hobbies: Running, lifting weights, messing around with my computer/home theater
BC member since 2002 (different name on the old boards)
__________________ Chuck Norris shakes two tylenol from the bottle, every time. |
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12-21-2008, 05:17 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 1,205
Rep Power: 1727 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Rod Brown, AKA The Brown Rod
Start Date: A few years to late, this is my 2nd career
Sex: M 30 something
From: Pacific NW
Unmarried: No children (Very few bills, Lots of money to play with)
UPS position: Driver
I became a UPSER while in college. It was suggested to me that I go to work for UPS back when I was 18 and I sure wish I did. Instead I farted around in another career that made good money but was unfulfilling. I'm one of the few who actually like being a package driver. But when I'm able to go feeder I'm so there. I want that big 60 hour per week feeder pay. I don't think my body will make it to retirement if I work 60 hours per week in package for the next 20 years. |
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12-21-2008, 05:27 PM
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#9 | | Wrapped around her finger
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: here
Posts: 2,147
Rep Power: 10754 | Re: Getting to know you. Cachsux
Age:43 going on 13
Sex: I don`t cry anymore so I must be getting good at it.
Home: the boonies of central Illinois
Married:18 years
Kids: 3 all smarter and better looking than me so I`m questioning if their mine.
UPS: Ptime 3 1/2 years PSC,Package 6 1/2 years out of Palatine,Feeder 13 1/2 years almost all out of the lovely CACH facility.
Hobbies:Cars-mostly street rods and 60-70 era stuff, Woodworking- mainly customizing old furniture or scratch building stuff,Home remodeling.
Chronic smart ass due to shyness.
__________________ I never did anything on tequila that didn`t clear up in 18 years,22 if it goes to college. |
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12-21-2008, 05:32 PM
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#10 | | Nightcrawler
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: North East
Posts: 1,036
Rep Power: 2803 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: chev
State: Confusion
Age: 38
Sex: M .....last time I checked it was still there....
Family: Married 15 years to my HS Sweetheart. 2 kids daughter 14 and son 12.
UPS Position: Feeder Driver. Employed since Oct 1989. Started part time in college.
P/T 4 years. Package 4 years. Feeder - current till retirement I hope.
3 dogs one stupid cat and a bunch of rodents.
Hobbies: P/C gaming. Mountain biking. Love motorcycles. Hope to get another soon.
__________________ If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain |
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12-21-2008, 05:35 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: in a box, under a bridge
Posts: 2,458
Rep Power: 13435 | Re: Getting to know you. YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.Name: Look hard and you will find it
Sex: I wish
Age: 51
Home:Western Massachusetts all my life
3 kids 2 girls, a boy and a son in law
2 grandchildren, 1 of each persuasion
Wife is off doing her own thing 
1 BIG ASS CAT and 1 normal sized cat
Started with UPS: May 31,1978 - quit: Oct 1978
Rehired: March 7, 1979
Driver since July 1, 1987
Hobbies? I've been called the You Tube whore
__________________ Make it idiot proof and they'll invent a better idiot! I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it!
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12-21-2008, 05:51 PM
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#12 | | 30 year driver
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: pacific NW
Posts: 266
Rep Power: 2269 | Re: Getting to know you. Name -Hey UPS guy
Age - Low 50's
Live in pacific N.W.
Package car driver since 1978
Married with two grown children
Like Football, NASCAR, hunting, fishing, spending time with family, restoring old cars and a cold beer after mowing the yard on a hot day. |
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12-21-2008, 05:58 PM
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#13 | | Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 1,387
Rep Power: 8054 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Channahon - Chan
Sex - Female
Age - 57
Home - Illinois
1 husband, 1 daughter, 1 son in law - 1 granddaughter (15) 1 grandson -(12) - 2 cats -3 years old
Started UPS as driver in 1978, retired as division manager in 2006.
Hobbies: golf, gardening, crossword puzzles, and pogo.com |
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12-21-2008, 06:09 PM
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#14 | | golden ticket member
Join Date: May 2000 Location: San Clemente, CA.
Posts: 19,551
Rep Power: 22552 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Joyce
Sex: F
Age:61 and 1/2
Originally from Lemont Furnace, PA. currently reside in San Clemente, CA. Have lived in Utah and Idaho
Married: 3 children (2 girls 1 boy)
Grandchildren: 3 Girl(14) Girl (13) Boy (12)
UPS position: Hubby put in 28 years and left as a div. mgr.
Hobbies: Gambling and hubby golfs
Pet: Toy Manchester Terrier, Mocha, but we call her psycho-bitch.
BC member since 5-4-2000,
__________________ Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, she's up !!" |
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12-21-2008, 06:26 PM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA !!!!!
Posts: 506
Rep Power: 1212 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Ms Spoken, bitch, momma, warden (what my kids call me)
Start Date: May 89
Sex: F 38 and holding
From: Illinois
Married with 2 wild ***** boys
UPS position: Driver with a broken down body
Hobbies: photography, oldest playing baseball, surfing the internet. www.cartersheartandsoul.com
I feel like we need a group hug after all this bonding. |
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12-21-2008, 06:31 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: indiana
Posts: 107
Rep Power: 94 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: John
Start date:Feb.1979
Sex: good -age:53
Southern Ind.
Married 31 yrs.
Kids: 4 boys ages: 26--24--22--20. oldest married-- we have 6 mo. old grandson
3 boys still in college --crap I'm tired
UPS--package driver since day one.
Hobbies: Hanging out with family and friends-- drinking beer: anything outdoors |
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12-21-2008, 07:28 PM
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#17 | | 23 year driver
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Midwest
Posts: 1,109
Rep Power: 8020 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Steve
Location: East central Illinois
Started part time 9-1986
Started full time 2-1989
Originally a pig farmer till I went to college and started at UPS
Age:42 with 22 years invested
Married male for 16 years (to a woman) 4 kids age 21 to 11
I enjoy Nascar, going to church, a very dry sense of humor, and a drink now and then.
BC member since mid 2007 (I think) and enjoy the snide remarks and the comradarie.
__________________ I sure am tired-does that mean I did a fair days work? |
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12-21-2008, 07:29 PM
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#18 | | 32 routes in 3 centers..
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 15
Rep Power: 0 | Re: Getting to know you. Name:dawg
Start Date: 11/13/95
Sex: M Age:36
Originally from
Married: 2 children, all girls
UPS position: Driver since 01'
Hobbies: Cycling, MTB XC, Downhill, Cyclocross, 4x and a little free ride. Watching my wife do the same thing at the top of her class and teaching my girls that they to can be as bad-ass as their mother..lol. |
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12-21-2008, 07:39 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: behind a drum kit
Posts: 1,644
Rep Power: 2490 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Brian
Location: The southern and eastern part of the northern part of the north and east.
Occupation: Idolessworkthanmost
Start date doinglesswork: 2/4/02
Sex: M Married: not far away Age:30
Cats: 1 **Ridiculous Maine Coon**
hobbies/ serious persuits/mindless proprietary: musician, meteorology, cooking, eating, long walks on the beach
most interesting quality: have been struck by lightning and can now see the future (ok, half of that is true)
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12-21-2008, 07:54 PM
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#20 | | retired and happy
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 3,331
Rep Power: 12523 | Re: Getting to know you. Rod
age--a young 60 
married -37 years-she puts up with a lot
2 kids - daughter and her family live in Texas and are expecting twins in April
one Grandson that brings us nothing but joy
son- passed away 6 years ago and we miss him very much
worked -UPS as a full time delivery driver for 30 years
hobbies-fishing both winter and summer, motorcycling, flying with friends,road
trips, playing on the computer, dirt track racing (especially World of
Outlaws), and I still enjoy my beer
location- Minnesota- land of 10,000 lakes and a zillion mosquitos |
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12-21-2008, 08:08 PM
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#21 | | semi-pro
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Somewhere, USA
Posts: 219
Rep Power: 1520 | Re: Getting to know you. Name:Bad Company
Alias: Bad Co, Bad, (Not BC)
Scars/Tattoos: None Known
Sex: Yes Please
Age:23
Original Hire:11/2004
Rehire:02/2005
Rehire:06/2007
Region: Southeast
District: Georgia
Originally from: All over the place, grew up an army brat.
Married: No
Single: No
Divorced: No
Seperated: No
Widowed: No
Kids: None that I know of
UPS position: PKG Driver
Hobbies: Games, Girls (Just one actually, but that's enough. I can barely handle the one), Glocks, Guitar Hero... and Laughing at how bad Scratch's load is every morning)
Only 11,287 days left until retirement! |
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12-21-2008, 08:30 PM
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#22 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: long island
Posts: 82
Rep Power: 1155 | Re: Getting to know you. name: scott
age: 40
home:very happily married for 19 yrs(she's gorgeous and she still thinks I'm funny)
awesome 18 yr old boy who hates me right now and an incredible 14 yr old girl who still loves me very much
work:16 years down 9 to go.
love my route, customers and colleagues......can't stand the nazis running the place
I am a long islander for 38 of the 40 years
love to read a lot, golf when it's over 45 degrees, xbox, fantasy sports,crosswords
we just put down an awesome cat, down to 2 cats(brothers) and the 2 dogs you see.
looking forward to a wonderful christmas and I wish all of you the same. |
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12-22-2008, 03:36 AM
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#23 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 81
Rep Power: 16 | Re: Getting to know you. Name: Christopher Davis
Start Date: Sept 25, 2008
Sex: M Age:32
Location: DFW Area (Dallas)
Single: I have a cat named Miss Daisy
UPS position: Small Sorts
Hobbies: The stuff that lables me immature, LOL --Just Kidding |
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12-22-2008, 05:01 AM
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#24 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 13
Rep Power: 0 | Re: Getting to know you. Name-Big Brown PA Girl Age-34 DOB-2/9/74 Sex-Female Married-3 years but have been with my wonderful husband for 15 years Kids-none and I like it like that Pets-2 cats, Stripe and Boba Fett(we rescued them off the street) 1 dog,Max our 11 year old German Shepherd who still thinks he is puppy Location-PA Start Date-p/t April 1995 f/t July 2002 Things I like to do when not working---- cook,go to my summer home every weekend when the weather is nice and chill out on the beach, spend time with my family,visit my favorite place in the whole world once a year, Universal Orlando,travel the country,go to flea markets in the spring and summer, and spend as much time as I can relaxing at home on my couch because it seems I spend more time at work than I do at my house! |
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12-22-2008, 06:12 PM
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#25 | | Retired Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 923
Rep Power: 2262 | Re: Getting to know you. Name:matt
UPS start Date: 1972
Sex: M Age:56
Still in Pennsylvania
Married: 2 children that grew into adult's while I was working for the Brown Machine.
UPS position: Retired finally
Hobbies: Being a grandfather, baby sitter, gardner, beer drinker, Nascar fan and usually getting in trouble cause I'm home too much now! |
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