They don't make HALF of what I make. It is more than half. If anyone complains about what I make or the benefits I have, my standard reply is. "Come see me when you have been here over 40 years". Some might call it selfish but like I said, I didn't wake up 1 day and make 28.46.
How long did it take you to get to top wage? I'm not talking about the wage you're at now, I'm talking about top rate when you were hired.
Just to reply to Oldfart's denial that I have coworkers getting assistance from the local food bank. Here's some of the maths:
New courier wage $16.60
$16.60 x 35 hours a week x 52 weeks = $30,248 a year
$16.60 x 40 hours a week x 52 weeks = $34,528 a year
To qualify in the counties around here (pretty high cost of living) for the food bank:
Household size of 3: you must make LESS than $37,296 a year.
To top it off, one of these couriers was injured on the job and was out on short-term disability twice in the last year.
You may not give twos about your coworkers, but I sure as hell do.
18 months and top wage was less than $10 and hour if I remember correctly. Too long ago to remember. I believe $28.46 buys more now than $10 bought then. Not gonna bother figuring the inflation rate.
Yet, earlier you said $8 was equivalent to $30/hour today.
I was using the minimum wage of those days versus the minimum wage of today as a factor. If minimum wage is $1.90 and you make $8, you make 4 times plus some the minimum wage. That was a pretty good salary back then. Today's minimum wage is $7.25. If you make 4 times minimum wage, you make $29. Again, that is a pretty good salary.
No, you're missing the point.
If you say so. If $10 an hour then is equal to $30 today, I will take your word for it. Not worth researching the inflation rate.
You said it, not me.
But you have 2 college degrees and are worth millions of dollars, yet you have the same job title as me. And don't do it anywhere as good as me. How does it feel to be an over educated under performing dumb ole truck driver.
I highly doubt this is correct. Way back when when you guys could have organized FedEx had to be fairly equal in compensation to ups to retain employees. Once fred took away your ability to organize he's been chipping away at your compensation. Pay, health, retirement and vacation. So much so you guys aren't even close to us (ups) now.
Gotta love a man that claims to know what a person makes that doesn't even work for the same company and tell him he is wrong. I might be off by a $1 or so but not much. The 70's were a long time ago. I might have an old paystub some where in my suede leisure suite jacket or maybe in my stack shoes. I will look when I wear them to church this Sunday.
Kinda like a man that claims they are a better worker than another person, yet doesn't even work at the same sta as that other person and very well have never met them in their life other than interactions on a UPS message board?
I'm not saying you didn't make 10 bucks an hour. I'm saying 10 bucks an hour in the 70's went a lot farther then 28 an hour does today. Try to keep up.
Common sense will tell you that as much as MFE whines and bitches about life and work, there is no way he can be a competent and reliable employee. He wishes bad things and financial problems on the company and said he wishes various executives would die. That is not the kind of attitude a good dependable worker has.
