If we REALLY mattered that much as drivers...

[HEFFERNAN]

Like Photog said, it changed with the strike and going public.
When you grabbed your diad in the morning back then, you walked past the office that ran the center.
You could have a bulk stop taken off, give air to an air driver, or have them take 15 stops off so you can play softball at 5.
The good old days !!!

Now some office in Atlanta has predetermined how many routes can be run, using logarithms that would make Einstein squint at his chalkboard.
Now some computer tells you how many miles you're allowed to drive, a number that affects SERVICE at its core.
You can't make that extra medical package attempt and you can't drive that misload off because it's "too far".
You can't give a favorite pickup extra time because coming back will ruin your milage for the day.
Drivers from the 70's and 80's would laugh at us because that wasn't the company they worked for.

The strike or going public !!!
You can't point the finger at them without realizing it probably was us.

 

[Coldworld]

But the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.

Waking up with a couple D cups in your face....

 

[Number24]

Wut?

What

 

[Brownslave688]

Common slave kids just trying to vent...he's right on most of it

He said his friend is right saying he wouldn't put up with the for $100 an hour.


If that's the case he's being ripped off for less than half that. He's free to walk.

 

[Coldworld]

Cliff notes to the OP? What is he complaining about? Too tired to read that long whatever it is.

He was complaining about upstate....

 

[upschuck]

He was complaining about upstate....

What did he do now?

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

What did he do now?

Something I'm sure

 

[728ups]

I only havea High School Education and i'll knock down around $95,000 this year. I can put up with misloads and not being able to grow a beard.
i really enjoy the job; it keeps me in shape,i'm challenged every day and i have some of the best customers ever.
would the OP like some Cheese to go with that Whine?

 

[scratch]

You could always get a job at McDonalds like they used to tell us!

 

[hellfire]

When you signed the contract, were these things specified to not occur to you.
Like many other said, it's the nature of the job.
If anyone gets tired of being paid $34 an hour ... there are other jobs with less responsibility at $20/hour.

Its venting, and to say we all should have expected our work enviorement to turn into what it is now is wrong. Yes, the money is good, but the odds of new drivers making it 30 yrs and having their bodies hold up is slim. Thats like saying management should have expected to lose their pension , spousal health care, and mip . Silly argument

 

[Dracula]

They don't pay us to worry or fret. Every decent employee has had a good idea or two to help the process, but management isn't interested in good ideas from us. You'll learn you can't give advice to someone who knows everything. Like others have said, just take the money and run. Never kill yourself for this job, because the company only cares if you're dead if they have to cover your job that day.

The quicker you learn to make ignorance pay for retirement, and not good ideas, the happier you will become. Steer into the skid, friend.

 

[Geo926]

Waaaa wa wa. Funny the OP went quiet after the post. Maybe he quit?

 

[UPyourS]

You don't have to shave. I just became a driver and I have a full fledged beard. You just have to bring a doctors note stating you get ingrowns from shaving. That's what I did. I'll be damned if I have to shave my beard. But hey, the good thing about hair is that it grows back ; )

 

[Catatonic]

Its venting, and to say we all should have expected our work enviorement to turn into what it is now is wrong. Yes, the money is good, but the odds of new drivers making it 30 yrs and having their bodies hold up is slim. Thats like saying management should have expected to lose their pension , spousal health care, and mip . Silly argument

What's silly about something that happened?
It's the new reality.
I don't agree with it anymore than you do.
I think it is socially immoral.

 

[olroadbeech]

the op had some valid points but they have been presented here a thousand times before.

 

[bbsam]

Who ever said drivers matter much to the company?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

But the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.

You really need to go back to work.

 

[werenotthepostoffice]

Who ever said drivers matter much to the company?

How many times have you heard"do you know how many people there are waiting to take your job?"

 

[upschuck]

How many times have you heard"do you know how many people there are waiting to take your job?"

213 times plus about 3 times I thought they said it, but wasn't sure.

 

[Cementups]

You really need to go back to work.

I was going to spend some of my time off to take a road trip and hang with you and Rowdy for a weekend. Is this your way of saying no?