BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
Very true. This job is so hard 2 explain to someone....
Why is ups never mentioned
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rod
Retired 23 years
I agree about "the less that know the better". I never told anyone on my route what I made an hour unless they pissed me off and I wanted to rub it in their nose.
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
rod
Retired 23 years
Its been MANY years since the public really supported any strike anyway. Yes there was some support in 97 but not a whole bunch. Being scared is exactly how the company wants the hourlies to feel. Remember "IF" it would be necessary to strike you would be doing it to better yourself or at the very least hang on to what others have gained for you---not to be the publics buddy.
rod
Retired 23 years
When I retired in 2001 I was making just short of 21 bucks an hour. I didn't concern myself with what others made but as a rule I'm sure it wasn't ANYWHERE near 21. When I started in 1971 I was making somewhere around $6.25 an hour and my wife had a good paying (at that time) State job where she made $3.75 an hour.
dookie stain
Cornfed whiteboy
It's so great delivering to some dumpy apartment and the person who answers treats you like a scum bag...at the end of the day you get to go home to your much nicer place...that's when I wish they knew how great our job really was.
Coldworld
Well-Known Member
Once a turd always a stinky turd...
35years
Gravy route
University of Ill study...
Our job is in the top 9% most stressful
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9028437
Stress among package truck drivers.
Orris P1, Hartman DE, Strauss P, Anderson RJ, Collins J, Knopp C, Xu Y, Melius J.
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Abstract
In 1992, a cross-sectional questionnaire study of package truck drivers in one company was conducted at four widely scattered sites throughout the US; 317 drivers participated, representing 82% of those eligible. The package truck drivers scored significantly above the US working population comparison norm on all summary and individual scales derived from the SCL 90-R, indicating a substantial increase in psychologic distress for this group. The Global Severity Index, the best single summary measure of psychological distress in the SCL 90-R, revealed a mean T score for the drivers of 64.20, 91st percentile of the normative population. The group perceived significantly more daily stressful events than the average working adult, and their sensitivity to these events was also increased. Role overload, a component of the Occupational Stress Inventory, was the most consistent factor associated with symptoms of psychological distress on multiple regression analysis. This study suggests that job stress is a psychological health hazard for these drivers.
Our job is in the top 9% most stressful
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9028437
Stress among package truck drivers.
Orris P1, Hartman DE, Strauss P, Anderson RJ, Collins J, Knopp C, Xu Y, Melius J.
Author information
Abstract
In 1992, a cross-sectional questionnaire study of package truck drivers in one company was conducted at four widely scattered sites throughout the US; 317 drivers participated, representing 82% of those eligible. The package truck drivers scored significantly above the US working population comparison norm on all summary and individual scales derived from the SCL 90-R, indicating a substantial increase in psychologic distress for this group. The Global Severity Index, the best single summary measure of psychological distress in the SCL 90-R, revealed a mean T score for the drivers of 64.20, 91st percentile of the normative population. The group perceived significantly more daily stressful events than the average working adult, and their sensitivity to these events was also increased. Role overload, a component of the Occupational Stress Inventory, was the most consistent factor associated with symptoms of psychological distress on multiple regression analysis. This study suggests that job stress is a psychological health hazard for these drivers.
Covemastah
Hoopah drives the boat Chief !!
1997 !!
Ha hah we are getting old Dave
Gear
Parts on Order
I know you guys will get mad for me saying this, but-
Nobody other then UPS drivers and their wives/husbands think its a hard job. As far as people are concerned, you delivery packages. No different then the mailman or the milkman back in the day. This is why I would say its not on the hardest job list.
Normal people do not think about UPS. I hear guys say having UPS on your resume will make a difference, it doesnt.
Nobody other then UPS drivers and their wives/husbands think its a hard job. As far as people are concerned, you delivery packages. No different then the mailman or the milkman back in the day. This is why I would say its not on the hardest job list.
Normal people do not think about UPS. I hear guys say having UPS on your resume will make a difference, it doesnt.
rod
Retired 23 years
Cementups
Box Monkey
I've been doing this for 22 years and I can honestly tell you it's not that hard of a job. Just like any other job, it's only as hard as you make it. Some days I'm overpaid and other days I'm underpaid. It all works out in the end.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
Actually it does.
evilleace
Well-Known Member
I agree completely this job can be monotonous, but is actually pretty easy. The only real stress is stress you put on yourself.
Cementups
Box Monkey
I had a driver one day griping about the stress of the job. I was like, "what stress!??! you deliver packages, you pick up packages, you go home. Its really that simple." I compared my job to my brother's job as a State Trooper. He's a State Trooper 24/7. It's something that you never turn off, even after retirement. We do our jobs, punch out and go home. You only take home what you want to. He thought about it for a minute and eventually agreed with me.
Savvy412
Well-Known Member
Ya but. "The job" is only half the battle . I have never worked at a place that wants to fire you so bad . I have never worked at a place that follows you and expects you to follow every single stupid method to the book . Not to
Mention the "over allowed" that only vets don't care about . It's easy for someone who has been doing this for 10-20 years to say friend the numbers . But for someone who is a year under... How can you say friend the numbers ?
I'm actually in a good place right now. Got my route down. Know I will be ok everyday but when
starts going wrong. And you have a lot of commitments and pick ups. Not to mention peak. The snow, and the threat of at any moments notice. BOOM! crash. Or a injury . It's not as simple as "drop a box off "
Mention the "over allowed" that only vets don't care about . It's easy for someone who has been doing this for 10-20 years to say friend the numbers . But for someone who is a year under... How can you say friend the numbers ?
I'm actually in a good place right now. Got my route down. Know I will be ok everyday but when
starts going wrong. And you have a lot of commitments and pick ups. Not to mention peak. The snow, and the threat of at any moments notice. BOOM! crash. Or a injury . It's not as simple as "drop a box off "
evilleace
Well-Known Member
I never sad it was that simple, I have a very good and smart management team right now. I don't feel like they want to fire me, or that they are out to get me. As far as the numbers, I usually run under but if I happen to be over it isn't a bug deal to me. It's all a mental thing.
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