I left after 25 yrs, 21 in mgmt, five years from technical retirement as it stands today. Why? I was worn out and getting more frustrated and angry every day. This is not the company I started with and I was afraid to stick around for more changes that are not to my benefit. I have paid for benefits that were free when I started and still are to drivers. Company used to care enough to send mgmt for a physical each year knowing most of us are too busy to schedule it on our own and even did it on company time. That all changed with the new health plans and no one in the company cares if you go anymore, at all. Was in B/D and on sales compensation and hated it, nothing voluntary about it. Closed major sales and won business from the competition but did not realize any major income results because of still being below the predetermined plans for the area. That's an incentive? When an incentive was paid it did not affect the MIP at year's end. It is based on base salary alone, incentive? Why is it because newer mgmt personnel are selling their stock right away do I have to prove my loyalty to the company after 25 years and have to wait 5 more years for all my stock now, and lose the growth along the way as well? By the way, what growth, anyway. Growth has been very slow and much below what we were used to before going public. OK, the stock split and doubled in 99 but hasn't moved a lot since, that was seven years ago. And last but not least the job satisfaction was not there anymore. Appreciation has never been heaped on the mgmt team in sufficient doses. The drivers were welcomed back with open arms after the strike to help rebuild, but we were never really thanked or appreciated for crossing the lines each day to try to save business and their jobs that they walked out on. They are very important to the company and our success, but they walked out, we didn't. Who says retirement and pensions are not going to change, either. As we have become more like everyone else I would also bet those will change in short order as well. It was time to go and I don't regret it for a minute. The future is not the same as it was years ago. I have found employment in another field from transportation and am very satisfied, making more money than at UPS and enjoying my family, friends and liesure time much more than ever before. You have to look out for your own self and satisfaction. It is scary making a move and it must be well thought out by you and accepted by you as well, because there is no turning back. But everyone's circumstances are different and you'll have to evaluate your own situation on its own merits. Good luck!!