Indecisi0n
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I don't
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Themanthatdid
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FT Feeder driver here, at the bottom of the list on seniority. Did you guys go days without working ?!
Indecisi0n
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Right now the work will slow a bit and we still have casuals. Once they leave it should pick up a bit.
ManInBrown
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Guaranteed 8 every working day in the 177. Ive heard of locals where you can get bumped back to package, during the slow months. That’s crazy. I’ve heard some locals you are on call. That’s also crazy. Not here. Once you’re in feeders that’s it. You work every day M-friend, T-S, or S-T.
Indecisi0n
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These high trailers are really getting old. When are these Wookies gone again?
Indecisi0n
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Could you imagine getting a phone call “yea you’re in package next week”!? I’d hang myself.
ManInBrown
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Exactly
not only that, I physically would not be able to do it. If I had to do my old route, in the rich neighborhood. Where I never pulled in a driveway and walked everything off, so they didn’t blow my stop count up, I wouldnt last a half a day. The only reason most drivers can even do package, is because you are in the rhythm of doing it everyday. You don’t think about it, you just know it has to be done, and you do it. When I would go on vacation and take two weeks off in package, those first couple days back were murder.
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Indecisi0n
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I could do it physically but I gave up on it mentally. I just hated going into work everyday. There was no way I was going to be miserable for the remainder of my career like that. I told myself if feeders didn’t work for me then I would just leave the company. I survived without ups before and I could do it again.Exactly
Indecisi0n
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God bless you.
I am a casual feeder. I sit around all day waiting for the call. It kind of sucks but the benefit is it's going to get slow and when all the full time guys are out fighting the elements I will be sitting in my nice warm house collecting unemployment plus the current 300 dollar a week handout the government will be giving away till March. I figure the next 2 months I will be making the same amount as if I was working. I work about 2 days a week.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
Nice plan
But, when it snows the seniority boys will be calling in So guess who will be out in the elements
I'm going to say the guy below me or a supervisor
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
I'm going to say the guy below me or a supervisor
Name fits
SaladTosser
Kill me now
Damn, that's the one I had last week..
Themanthatdid
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is it easy for feeders to go to sleepers ?
ManInBrown
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Here it is. We have eight runs and three are covered by drivers that have been on the jobs since we got sleeper jobs last year. The other five jobs constantly need the bottom forced onto them. Most drivers here don’t want anything to do with feeders. I could never do it.
Indecisi0n
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After a 14 hour day I go to sleepers just fine.
