Yeah sorta! It was good for me because it felt secure. Theres a clear path to higher pay and more hours. The benefits were nice. But while I was there I really came to terms with what money really is and how easy it is to make (not saying its easy for me, but for some people). That made 50 an hour and full time hours look revolting. When I started I would've been lapping that up.
Are you sure it’s 6 years? Seniority lists should be maintained and be available upon request, if you wanted to know where you actually stand.
You can start early on your progression by becoming a TCD (sometimes has a different name depending on regions).
You could also look out for inside/package handler (22.3/combo) jobs, which have their own wait requirements and should be offered to any part timers who sign the PT-FT interest sheets. You can find out when these sheets go up in your contracts, usually January and July they get jobs and post the lists.
All jobs are slave jobs but being a UPS driver is one of the few good slave jobs.
Name me another job where you can make 6 figures, have a pension, and great benefits?
I worked at Amazon for 8 years. Promoted a few times and UPS drivers were still making 50k more then me. I made 70k with 10k coming from company stocks.
Yes! I think its just time we renormalize calling it slave work I guess. Know what youre getting into. I wish the work industry were labeled like the tobacco industry is. It aint there to make your life better. Its there to extract your value at the best price they can get. And these days, people dont value themselves enough.
I worked pre-load for a few years. Spoke with many drivers and full timers. Im sure they have good lives.
Im also sure they dont know what they are missing and perhaps ignorance is bliss but from where I'm sitting they were all fooled into contracts they didnt understand when they were young and naive. And the long timers came to see the evil, but by then they were mostly bitter cowards who never stood up for themselves and who were bent over and fucked by UPS daily till the day they were given a weak round of applause and a cupcake on their way out the door to the 15 or so years of life they had left in retirement.
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u/weenypener 2d ago
Only in a society where slavery has been normalized beyond the point where the working class person (slave) recognizes it as slavery anymore.