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No Christmas Turkey, No Incentives, No Measly Shirts YET UPS Wants Us To Concede! No!
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<blockquote data-quote="upswife75" data-source="post: 1152163" data-attributes="member: 43413"><p><strong>Re: No Christmas Turkey, No Incentives, No Measly Shirts YET UPS Wants Us To Concede!</strong></p><p></p><p>And honestly, like I have already said, complaining about something as trivial as a turkey with the amount that UPS pays it's employees (mainly talking FT here, since yeah, PT pay isn't the greatest, but still more than a lot of people make at other PT jobs), is really freaking silly. There are still people losing jobs left and right. While the economy is getting better, there are still people hurting, so I count myself and my family pretty damn lucky to be getting the kind of income we are. Our county just laid off 261 education employees, including 160 first year teachers. Half of the art/music/PE instructors were cut, all of the teachers aids, and a few other positions. In place of all those teachers, we will now have full time certified substitutes teaching our kids. People working for $18k/year with no benefits, even though they have bachelors degrees. So, to complain about losing a turkey while getting paid what UPS employees get paid (with benefits), at a job that doesn't even require a high school diploma, is just funny to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="upswife75, post: 1152163, member: 43413"] [b]Re: No Christmas Turkey, No Incentives, No Measly Shirts YET UPS Wants Us To Concede![/b] And honestly, like I have already said, complaining about something as trivial as a turkey with the amount that UPS pays it's employees (mainly talking FT here, since yeah, PT pay isn't the greatest, but still more than a lot of people make at other PT jobs), is really freaking silly. There are still people losing jobs left and right. While the economy is getting better, there are still people hurting, so I count myself and my family pretty damn lucky to be getting the kind of income we are. Our county just laid off 261 education employees, including 160 first year teachers. Half of the art/music/PE instructors were cut, all of the teachers aids, and a few other positions. In place of all those teachers, we will now have full time certified substitutes teaching our kids. People working for $18k/year with no benefits, even though they have bachelors degrees. So, to complain about losing a turkey while getting paid what UPS employees get paid (with benefits), at a job that doesn't even require a high school diploma, is just funny to me. [/QUOTE]
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