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<blockquote data-quote="quad decade guy" data-source="post: 5101887" data-attributes="member: 77939"><p>Here we go....</p><p></p><p>I started in 1981.</p><p></p><p>I was paid $11.70 back then! As a part-timer.....insurance....vacation. No progression.</p><p></p><p>There was no Next Day Air.....that came in 1985...we had these little perforated tags you took off the pkg with your clipboard "knife". Turned them in each night. </p><p></p><p>COD money....I had a rural industrial area near a small town. Always kept my COD money in the turn in envelope with the pickup log(brown with clear plastic) between the windshield and heater tower). Never thought twice about it. Safe as could be. Despite the threat of termination....somebody ALWAYS got fired for rolling COD money/COD's. Some places always had cash. Remember the running battles over "cash only" tags. Customers would be enraged....."Let me call the shipper..." "No Sir...gotta go...I'll be back tomorrow".....with their whole operation shut down...waiting on that pkg...</p><p></p><p>Pkgs only "tracked by shipper number". Proof of delivery was matching a shipper number to the records and by weight and when it "should" have gotten there.</p><p></p><p>Pkg cars....wooden shelves and big wheels and tires and narrow side doors. Tall... and twisted many an ankle getting out. No power steering meant Popeye arms and tendenitis in your left elbow(park brake). Automatics a distant dream.....alien technology stuff. Were told UPS WILL NEVER have power steering or auto...."don't need it".</p><p></p><p>I.D.'s....still don't work. Here, you just sign in(if no i.d.).....absolutely no proof you belong there. I see it all day every day. I was forced to upgrade my old original i.d. from 1981. to the modern one. The guards always disinterested and watching videos on their phones.. With sleeper teams circumventing security in plain sight/daylight.</p><p></p><p>Original DIADS.....20x(50 maybe) heavier than paper clipboards......very fragile...if that scanner went out.....you were screwed and back to paper....with the MGT folks having to manually reenter and scan every pkg to upload.</p><p></p><p>True story: Gathered everyone at PCM.....Division Mgr on down. Lined up 20 boxes 2 lines 10 each. Had 1 driver scan one line, 1 the other line on paper. To show how much faster scanning was....they then went on to tell us "We forgot to change the allowances...." "So, from now on the allowances will be different..." . I never "bonused" again....Not one word was ever said about it...ever again. By anyone. </p><p></p><p>A simpler time. Though no shorts but came later. 100+ degree degrees...80% humidity in brown long pants....multiple salt stains all over......having the customer sign your sweaty clipboard after carrying it under your arm...chicks really dug that......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quad decade guy, post: 5101887, member: 77939"] Here we go.... I started in 1981. I was paid $11.70 back then! As a part-timer.....insurance....vacation. No progression. There was no Next Day Air.....that came in 1985...we had these little perforated tags you took off the pkg with your clipboard "knife". Turned them in each night. COD money....I had a rural industrial area near a small town. Always kept my COD money in the turn in envelope with the pickup log(brown with clear plastic) between the windshield and heater tower). Never thought twice about it. Safe as could be. Despite the threat of termination....somebody ALWAYS got fired for rolling COD money/COD's. Some places always had cash. Remember the running battles over "cash only" tags. Customers would be enraged....."Let me call the shipper..." "No Sir...gotta go...I'll be back tomorrow".....with their whole operation shut down...waiting on that pkg... Pkgs only "tracked by shipper number". Proof of delivery was matching a shipper number to the records and by weight and when it "should" have gotten there. Pkg cars....wooden shelves and big wheels and tires and narrow side doors. Tall... and twisted many an ankle getting out. No power steering meant Popeye arms and tendenitis in your left elbow(park brake). Automatics a distant dream.....alien technology stuff. Were told UPS WILL NEVER have power steering or auto...."don't need it". I.D.'s....still don't work. Here, you just sign in(if no i.d.).....absolutely no proof you belong there. I see it all day every day. I was forced to upgrade my old original i.d. from 1981. to the modern one. The guards always disinterested and watching videos on their phones.. With sleeper teams circumventing security in plain sight/daylight. Original DIADS.....20x(50 maybe) heavier than paper clipboards......very fragile...if that scanner went out.....you were screwed and back to paper....with the MGT folks having to manually reenter and scan every pkg to upload. True story: Gathered everyone at PCM.....Division Mgr on down. Lined up 20 boxes 2 lines 10 each. Had 1 driver scan one line, 1 the other line on paper. To show how much faster scanning was....they then went on to tell us "We forgot to change the allowances...." "So, from now on the allowances will be different..." . I never "bonused" again....Not one word was ever said about it...ever again. By anyone. A simpler time. Though no shorts but came later. 100+ degree degrees...80% humidity in brown long pants....multiple salt stains all over......having the customer sign your sweaty clipboard after carrying it under your arm...chicks really dug that...... [/QUOTE]
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