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<blockquote data-quote="sortaisle" data-source="post: 1117262" data-attributes="member: 17605"><p>I always hear the argument that we're paid better than teachers, engineers, some doctors, and construction workers. But here's what we actually are and what we do...We're walking advertisements...we are the face of the company...we deliver time sensitive documents, parts, and medicines...if we don't deliver our packages on time, people don't work...we keep the country running. If we weren't there, someone else would pick up the slack I'm sure...but they wouldn't do it as well as we do it. When we get to retirement time, our bodies (for a lot of us anyways) are broken down. Most of us have had at least one surgery. A lot have to replace a knee or a hip...both. We have put up with traffic, some of us have guns pulled on us, vicious dogs, ugly naked women/men, sweaty ass summers, and frigid icy winters. We retire at 58-65 but reality for our bodies is probably closer to 70-75...management have a conference call/emails causing them ulcers and stress...we have families that depend on us and our income...some of us have had to endure the pain of our job wearing at their relationships and marriage until they're gone...yet most of us pick up the pieces and put on our game faces and do our jobs. Most of us love our jobs, some of us put up with it, others don't appreciate what they have, and still others just aren't cut out for the job. It's a hard job. Yes we are lucky to have the good stuff...yes it sucks to have the bad stuff...kind of like life. The outside world is ignorant of how they get their stuff and like most ignorant people, think we're overpaid and greedy. I'm proud to work with the fellas at UPS. I'm proud to be part of a community of drivers and warehouse workers the world over that can hump cardboard like no one else. We deserve every penny and more as far as those of us in the know are concerned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sortaisle, post: 1117262, member: 17605"] I always hear the argument that we're paid better than teachers, engineers, some doctors, and construction workers. But here's what we actually are and what we do...We're walking advertisements...we are the face of the company...we deliver time sensitive documents, parts, and medicines...if we don't deliver our packages on time, people don't work...we keep the country running. If we weren't there, someone else would pick up the slack I'm sure...but they wouldn't do it as well as we do it. When we get to retirement time, our bodies (for a lot of us anyways) are broken down. Most of us have had at least one surgery. A lot have to replace a knee or a hip...both. We have put up with traffic, some of us have guns pulled on us, vicious dogs, ugly naked women/men, sweaty ass summers, and frigid icy winters. We retire at 58-65 but reality for our bodies is probably closer to 70-75...management have a conference call/emails causing them ulcers and stress...we have families that depend on us and our income...some of us have had to endure the pain of our job wearing at their relationships and marriage until they're gone...yet most of us pick up the pieces and put on our game faces and do our jobs. Most of us love our jobs, some of us put up with it, others don't appreciate what they have, and still others just aren't cut out for the job. It's a hard job. Yes we are lucky to have the good stuff...yes it sucks to have the bad stuff...kind of like life. The outside world is ignorant of how they get their stuff and like most ignorant people, think we're overpaid and greedy. I'm proud to work with the fellas at UPS. I'm proud to be part of a community of drivers and warehouse workers the world over that can hump cardboard like no one else. We deserve every penny and more as far as those of us in the know are concerned. [/QUOTE]
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