only the essential please

[over9five]

With all the folks out of work right now I guarantee you UPS would have no problem finding someone to do your job if you want to sit this out.

Agreed! So if your families health is more important than work, take a few weeks off like everyone else.

 

[Wontmake9.5]

I meant, just in case there IS a national or state lockdown.

I’m sure then you will get a letter.

 

[over9five]

Has UPS given y’all anything like this to carry around, just in case?

I think as long as you're in uniform you'll be all set.

 

[Overpaid Union Thug]

With all the folks out of work right now I guarantee you UPS would have no problem finding someone to do your job if you want to sit this out.

The volume drop should allow some UPSers the opportunity to take voluntary layoffs. Some might be forced though. It really depends on the individual personalities in each building. Some seniority drivers can’t afford it. Some would work one day a week if permitted. LOL

 

[Dumbperson]

This is the one time when I actually hope people order all the meaningless crap they can. If they only ordered the "essentials," there would be way more layoffs than there are already going to be.

Every job I have ever been in I have been in this stage where I hate the work Etc. Restaurants, retail, construction. Like I just hate everything. And then I settle in and just take the work for what it is. And I can tell you that ever since this corona started I have been seething. But I also don't want to get laid off. Maybe I just like to bitch.

 

[Dumbperson]

The volume drop should allow some UPSers the opportunity to take voluntary layoffs. Some might be forced though. It really depends on the individual personalities in each building. Some seniority drivers can’t afford it. Some would work one day a week if permitted. LOL

I'm still too new to take unpaid time. I'd rather not work but unlike a lot of our older guys I'm not living in a paid off house or have a large nest egg. Otherwise I'd work just enough to keep my insurance for a few months

 

[rod]

I'm still waiting for my two 150 pound anvils I orders from Harbor Freight.

 

[Dough99]

 

[Dumbperson]

I'm still waiting for my two 150 pound anvils I orders from Harbor Freight.

Make sure when it comes and the guy is struggling to get it to you, to stand in your doorway with no socks on. That's every heavy residential delivery I had this week

 

[BadIdeaGuy]

One of the drivers I load for delivers to me.
We have an agreement.
He doesn't complain about the load, and I don't order cases of water.

 

[burrheadd]

These will be like gold when martial law is initiated. Anyone caught out after curfew will be shot on sight without a safe passage declaration from their corporate sponsor.

does this start before or after we start welding doors shut

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

Make sure when it comes and the guy is struggling to get it to you, to stand in your doorway with no socks on. That's every heavy residential delivery I had this week

With a cig hanging from his mouth, saying he “just had surgery” so he can’t help.

 

[Poop Head]

These will be like gold when martial law is initiated. Anyone caught out after curfew will be shot on sight without a safe passage declaration from their corporate sponsor.

Welcome to the new America

 

[allahuakbar]

Stay home man or volunteer to be laid off. You ain’t built for this.

 

[detmaintainer]

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Has UPS given y’all anything like this to carry around, just in case?

Ups hopes we get locked up for 3 days. That way they can terminate older employees and stop their pensions from accruing and keep the unvested pensions of younger employees.

 

[Fenris]

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Has UPS given y’all anything like this to carry around, just in case?

NVM

 

[iowa boy]

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Has UPS given y’all anything like this to carry around, just in case?

I can guarantee that UPS will not waste all the paper to print these out for employees.

 

[clean hairy]

I've said it before but as long as the Taco Bell drivethru is still open, I can continue to function normally.

You have taco bell on a regular basis?
Now we know who HAS to hoard all the toilet paper!!!

 

[tramtwo]

After Katrina there was a great sense of pride in spending what money we had, in the community, to get the pipe primed again. Sure thare was some government help but we spent our way back!! I can still remember the 'we're open for business' campaign.

What I'm finding difficult to understand is how people who believe so much in capitalism; free market, supply and demand and collective bargaining... all of a sudden want these socialist policies. Really don't need somebody else telling me or deciding for me what it is that I need.

 

[Dumbperson]

After Katrina there was a great sense of pride in spending what money we had, in the community, to get the pipe primed again. Sure thare was some government help but we spent our way back!! I can still remember the 'we're open for business' campaign.

What I'm finding difficult to understand is how people who believe so much in capitalism; free market, supply and demand and collective bargaining... all of a sudden want these socialist policies. Really don't need somebody else telling me or deciding for me what it is that I need.

Ok so I support direct cash payments, I am nominally republican. I support direct payments as long as they are only distributed in extreme cases like this. If the government orders you not to work that's extremely damaging. I do not support a massive open ended program. I do not support UBI for the rest of time. I do not support taking a red cent and dumping it into already failing government bureaucracies, cut all that out and just give direct payments until this is over. Extreme times, bold actions.