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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 2705803" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>You say you don&#039;t want to start something then you do.&nbsp; You say I bring up my personal life, then you do.&nbsp; I can say until I&#039;m blue in the face that I made a mistake quitting in &#039;97.&nbsp; You will still use it against me.&nbsp; What you can&#039;t seem to grasp is it isn&#039;t about me.&nbsp; I use myself as an example, but the fact is I&#039;m one of 10&#039;s of thousands of couriers that FedEx told we&#039;d top out in 7 to 8 years but they had no intention to do so.&nbsp; Oldfart wants to talk about our choices, you want to make it about my choices.&nbsp; But fact is 10&#039;s of thousands of couriers never had the choices Oldfart had.&nbsp; And believe me I&#039;m thankful that I managed to at least get a traditional pension that allowed me to leave at 55.&nbsp; You can talk poverty all day but I have a decent roof over my head and I eat well.&nbsp; And my choices in the near future will allow me to live in eternal spring weather and every bit as well on my $22k a year as a topped out employee making $55k in a cheaper area of the U.S..&nbsp; My anger stems from the many years I struggled to make ends meet on my pay while the company assured me over and over better pay was just around the corner.&nbsp; And people like Oldfart saying it&#039;s our fault because we didn&#039;t sacrifice like he did, we were lazy, we&#039;re just bad people.&nbsp; Worked too hard for too long to stand for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 2705803, member: 24302"] You say you don't want to start something then you do. You say I bring up my personal life, then you do. I can say until I'm blue in the face that I made a mistake quitting in '97. You will still use it against me. What you can't seem to grasp is it isn't about me. I use myself as an example, but the fact is I'm one of 10's of thousands of couriers that FedEx told we'd top out in 7 to 8 years but they had no intention to do so. Oldfart wants to talk about our choices, you want to make it about my choices. But fact is 10's of thousands of couriers never had the choices Oldfart had. And believe me I'm thankful that I managed to at least get a traditional pension that allowed me to leave at 55. You can talk poverty all day but I have a decent roof over my head and I eat well. And my choices in the near future will allow me to live in eternal spring weather and every bit as well on my $22k a year as a topped out employee making $55k in a cheaper area of the U.S.. My anger stems from the many years I struggled to make ends meet on my pay while the company assured me over and over better pay was just around the corner. And people like Oldfart saying it's our fault because we didn't sacrifice like he did, we were lazy, we're just bad people. Worked too hard for too long to stand for it. [/QUOTE]

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