screamin chicken
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I would go for it, right now I get 35 hrs. a week with a 5 hr. guranteed pay, and 5 hrs. bonus.
"Well after you are long gone."I will retire when I choose. You sound too much like a pushy manager we used to have, every time I would see him, he would say, when are you ever going to retire? The answer to him turned out to be, "well after you are long, gone."
I work 4-10 in feeders now for several years and it is a cut in pay. But I enjoy my time off. It ends up being 12 hrs total minus 1 hr lunch for a 44 hr paycheck.
Two of my fellow feeder drivers retired 2 yrs ago at ages 51 and 53 with 30yrs in and take home more pension than if they were working. Everyone has different financial situations and can make retirement at a young age work for them. People are amazed and jealous that they are retired at that age. I will be 52 when I reach my 30 yrs of service and can't wait to do other things.
The Monday and Friday off wouldn't work. Would have to rotate all days of the week equally. For me personally it wouldn't work, my wife would miss the 10 hours of overtime.
I'm happy for you if you are happy being retired, 2000, but it's really none of my business how many years you put in, or when or why you chose to retire. It was yours. I'm 53 and a young man. For me, that is too young to retire, I do my job well, and enjoy being at the point in my career where I am, near the top of the list. I work for the best center manager and management team that I've ever seen in my 30 plus years. I drive the best package car in our fleet. My customers love me, I've been on the same route for 29 years. So, you see, I have a lot of reasons to stay for awhile. I like to think that I deserve a little respect from those waiting for me to drop.
Interesting ending comment. Before I retired my wife was the same about overtime. Starts me thinking that maybe many of the people complaining about overtime really want and need it.
Dusty,Luckily for those of us in the Central States fund, our pension plan has been guaranteed by the new UPS-Teamster plan, which provides that if the Central States plan becomes insolvent, then all members who were enrolled as of Jan. 1, 2008 will have their pension shortfall from the Central States plan guaranteed by the new UPS-Teamster plan. So, for the lucky folks who were still active when the new UPS-Teamster plan came into being, our retirement is now guaranteed by UPS.
I stand corrected, satelitte. I suppose that is because I do plan to leave before 2013, so I didn't really consider too much what changes might occur in the future contracts, after I retire. I can't get too worked up over wording in a contract that hasn't even been written yet. For drivers who have the full 30 in or more, now or before the end of the current contract, it's not a bad deal. So, satelitte, no worry, you left no rain on my Central States parade, it seems to be moving along just fine.
Cool,Satellite, I have a rather specialized retirement plan. I married up.
Souns like a good idea, but, the company wont try it. You see, the contract calls for overtime after eight, therefor you would get 32 straight time hours and 8 overtime hours. Sign me up!