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<blockquote data-quote="ok2bclever" data-source="post: 53762"><p>Proups, yep, I thought you'd like that.</p><p></p><p>I ripped up my back for the final time in '91.</p><p></p><p>After repeated therapy and work hardening attempts the medical decision was my back could take the lifting , but would not hold up to the pounding of sitting on the steel post .</p><p></p><p>At that point UPS tried to throw me away, but the union interceded and got me into a TAW position that allowed me to hang on long enough to use my seniority to get to my current clerk classification.</p><p></p><p>I was incredibly lucky in that the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) had just been passed the year before and was in it's powerful heyday where the courts were ruling overwhelmingly against companies and UPS saw the wisdom of the Teamster's and my suggestions of what to do with me. </p><p></p><p>I credit this primarily to the ADA and the Teamsters and to a small, but significant part to a valiant center manager who went to bat for me and has since quit the company.</p><p></p><p>Certainly, any driver, with the court's more company favorable interpretations of the present climate, with similar limitations to those I was diagnosed with back then would be "let go" today and would have to proceed with whatever recourse their state's workman's compensation offered.</p><p></p><p>I am safely in a non-driving classification with the top seniority in the building for it so I am indeed lucky in this way.</p><p></p><p>Between the back damage that initially goes back as far as 1979 and cartilage damage diagnosed in both knees (I did drive for 16 years after all) back to 1987 (I tell the young ones not to "jump" out of the package cars and off of docks as it will catch up to them, but they don't listen any more than I probably would have back then)and the <em>wonderful</em> career extension that the current pension situation is forcing the prognosis of being able to "walk" away from the job is still in limbo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ok2bclever, post: 53762"] Proups, yep, I thought you'd like that. I ripped up my back for the final time in '91. After repeated therapy and work hardening attempts the medical decision was my back could take the lifting , but would not hold up to the pounding of sitting on the steel post . At that point UPS tried to throw me away, but the union interceded and got me into a TAW position that allowed me to hang on long enough to use my seniority to get to my current clerk classification. I was incredibly lucky in that the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) had just been passed the year before and was in it's powerful heyday where the courts were ruling overwhelmingly against companies and UPS saw the wisdom of the Teamster's and my suggestions of what to do with me. I credit this primarily to the ADA and the Teamsters and to a small, but significant part to a valiant center manager who went to bat for me and has since quit the company. Certainly, any driver, with the court's more company favorable interpretations of the present climate, with similar limitations to those I was diagnosed with back then would be "let go" today and would have to proceed with whatever recourse their state's workman's compensation offered. I am safely in a non-driving classification with the top seniority in the building for it so I am indeed lucky in this way. Between the back damage that initially goes back as far as 1979 and cartilage damage diagnosed in both knees (I did drive for 16 years after all) back to 1987 (I tell the young ones not to "jump" out of the package cars and off of docks as it will catch up to them, but they don't listen any more than I probably would have back then)and the [I]wonderful[/I] career extension that the current pension situation is forcing the prognosis of being able to "walk" away from the job is still in limbo. [/QUOTE]
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