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Pushing 30 year old rule!
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<blockquote data-quote="Dracula" data-source="post: 3126325" data-attributes="member: 42691"><p>No disagreement. It's a personal choice. But in general, package car is a young man's job. I never had any serious problem with my knees, but the years of hopping in and out of those steps, hundreds of times a day, I feel, makes walking up and down my stairs in the morning tougher than it should be. My other issue is carpal tunnel. I thought it might be arthritis, but my doc said arthritis makes your joints swell noticeably. I don't have that, just soreness and numbness in my hands on occasion. Probably, I should get surgery on it, but as of yet, it's not debilitating, just irritating at times.</p><p></p><p>As for seniority, I'll never get pissed about that. Seniority is earned, one day at a time, and if you're mad about someone with more seniority, you're mad at the wrong thing. Where I'm at, you carry your package car seniority with you when you go to feeders. It drives some of the guys towards the bottom of the list crazy, because of the package car drivers who come back with more time than them, but those are the rules. I'm high enough on the list where not too many drivers who come back anymore are above me, but that hasn't always been the case, obviously. But I've never understood why I should be mad because I get bumped down a few slots by someone who has put in more time than me. </p><p></p><p>I understand most feeder divisions have to reset their time when they get to feeders, but that's not here. And to me, our way is the best way to do it, because it respects full-time seniority.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dracula, post: 3126325, member: 42691"] No disagreement. It's a personal choice. But in general, package car is a young man's job. I never had any serious problem with my knees, but the years of hopping in and out of those steps, hundreds of times a day, I feel, makes walking up and down my stairs in the morning tougher than it should be. My other issue is carpal tunnel. I thought it might be arthritis, but my doc said arthritis makes your joints swell noticeably. I don't have that, just soreness and numbness in my hands on occasion. Probably, I should get surgery on it, but as of yet, it's not debilitating, just irritating at times. As for seniority, I'll never get pissed about that. Seniority is earned, one day at a time, and if you're mad about someone with more seniority, you're mad at the wrong thing. Where I'm at, you carry your package car seniority with you when you go to feeders. It drives some of the guys towards the bottom of the list crazy, because of the package car drivers who come back with more time than them, but those are the rules. I'm high enough on the list where not too many drivers who come back anymore are above me, but that hasn't always been the case, obviously. But I've never understood why I should be mad because I get bumped down a few slots by someone who has put in more time than me. I understand most feeder divisions have to reset their time when they get to feeders, but that's not here. And to me, our way is the best way to do it, because it respects full-time seniority. [/QUOTE]
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