I love youth and smarts, you have one. You should work with the people that I do that can walk away financially but don't simply for the medical insurance reason. I have the same dilemma, the man made the right choice for him and his family. If he is 61 he has until 66 1/2 to get medicare, a program he has paid into his entire working career. Grow up.The only factor is after 40+ years he can't retire. Ttku.
Not gonna wait that long. The retiree medical payment they give us will pay my premiums for little over 2 years. Gonna do this a year or so and see what happens. Hopefully someone will do something about the medical insurance crisis the country is facing and premiums will magically drop. I doubt that happens but you never know.
Just shut up a minute.
Some peoples entire argument is the retarded insult they can hurl. Consider the source and ignore their ignorance.
I did not retire. Going part time and giving up RTD pay. They offered. I took it. I dont analysis it, I just jumped on it. Our FO drivers normally only work about 15 or so a week anyway working 5 days.
We have topped out Couriers who run regular FT rtes getting 50hrs a week, who leave work and go deliver food at night.. Doesn't make sense to me, either you've made some horrible financial choices and are forced to work extra jobs, or you really are a workaholic(if you are there are plenty of hours at FDX,) it can't be greed because well food delivery is peanuts, maybe they hate their families? Honestly I can't find a good enough reason to want to keep working til midnight every night.So after 40+ years and all that financial savy you still can't retire. Lmfao!
I don't make the routes, I don't write the offer letters, I don't analyze the reasoning. We have other FO drivers that only work bout 15 hrs in 5 days. The offer was made and I jumped on it. Just like when my MD asked me to sit in on courier class, REDS classes and defensive driving classes to give my input. I rarely put in 5 days on road and enjoying the heck out of it. Not my doing. I am just a dumb ole truck driver.
because his wife purchased 50k in shares of a company her husband was doing business with just before their stock spiked, how do you think that turned out? Bear in mind this is not some sort of threat or anything, you as an hourly employee at worst if hit the fan be (GASP) forced to work your 20 hours or whatever. Whoever signed off on the arrangement however, would maybe be canned. So this isn't really an attack on you, but more so your manager... especially with the lackluster earnings report today we shouldn't be doing stuff like this. And @SmithBarney, some people are just hustlers... (and probably a lot of people like you said that are not financially savy at all)... Been keeping a mental list of people like this of people I meet if I ever start my own business...FO couriers start very early. A lot of regular couriers don't want to do it because they get back to their trucks late to sort their freight. If they have someone willing it's one less headache to cover.
Don't be so quick as to make assumptions. Delivering food might not pay the mortgage, but you might make enough to pay for your gas, water bill, electric bill, buy groceries for the week. Or maybe just to put it into a retirement account.
Our FO drivers punch in at 6:50, late starters punch in 7:50. FO get back from delivering at about 8:00 (depending on the route and volume). Add in stretch/flex and pre-trip time, late starters and FO drivers start sorting their trucks at about the same time.
Spot on.
Delivering food isn't necessarily "peanuts".
I did FO's for awhile along with running a 4/10 route but not by choice. There were quite a few days where I'd get back later than I liked and I'd be trying to sort my freight while others are leaving the building. That sucked.
That does suck. We pretty much start at the same time, give or take 15 minutes. Nothing like finding a stop that isn't yours after everyone else has left the bldg.
That kind of situation was always met with a blind eye by management.
