Fed Ex Weather Diversions

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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This is cool!

http://makeashorterlink.com/?N4DC52E0D

This really makes you appreciate the kind of crap weather that most of
us have the luxury of avoiding.

Way too funny!

I couldn't help but notice that most of them did not look to be obeying the
"20 miles away from the thunderstorm" rule.

I'm sure they were all being safe. It must have been a very clean break,
from storm to clear. A wall cloud, perhaps?

Jay, do you know of anyone with recent wall cloud experience?

g Sorry. "The devil made me do it."
--
Jim in NC

I would not want to HAVE to work for any of the delivery services in
any capacity - pilot, driver, loader, etc. - Indentured servitude
reinvented..
I have all three major services deliver packages to us almost daily...
The drivers, while pleasant, are twitchy, driven people operating under
enormous time pressures... My job is demanding of my time, attention,
and energy but not in the same magnitude of theirs where every rotation
of the wheels, every time the door opens, every time the engine starts.
is recorded, measured, evaluated, and held against them...
As an old warrior on the automobile assembly lines, when I look at the
truck delivery services I am reminded of that old saying of Walter
Reuther - The world's largest, glorified, goldplated, sweatshop...

denny

Denny wrote:
I would not want to HAVE to work for any of the delivery services in
any capacity - pilot, driver, loader, etc. - Indentured servitude
reinvented..

As an old warrior on the automobile assembly lines, when I look at the
truck delivery services I am reminded of that old saying of Walter
Reuther - The world's largest, glorified, goldplated, sweatshop...

....and every employee is a volunteer.

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"Denny" wrote in message
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The drivers, while pleasant, are twitchy, driven people operating under
enormous time pressures... snip

I've got to tell you about one particular delivery guy that we had... he
was so grumpy, so pressured it was absolutely hilarious to watch him...
always rushing, fumbling, complaining, and getting further behind... never a
nice thing to say.... always an exasperated sigh on the tip of his tongue...
until one day...

Phone rings and it's him... he had just left our office after our daily
delivery... in a real quiet but frazzled voice he says.... "hey Jim, I
really need a favor, I'm south of town a couple miles at the pickle plant
and I'm stuck, can you come give me a pull?"

Ok, this is in the middle of the summer, no rain, no mud, no nothing to get
stuck in... So I asked, "what are you stuck in and what kind of a truck or
tractor will I need?" and he proceeds to explain how as he was leaving, he
backed across a loading ramp and his rear axle fell off the side. His truck
was sitting on the frame. Talk about embarrassed...

from that day on he always had a smile.

Our current guy and I have a deal....he tells me when he delivers things to
my wife at the bank, and I try to prevent her from ordering junk to make his
job easier.

Jim

In article .com,
"Denny" wrote:

As an old warrior on the automobile assembly lines, when I look at the
truck delivery services I am reminded of that old saying of Walter
Reuther - The world's largest, glorified, goldplated, sweatshop...

I worked the subassembly lines (instrument clusters, seats, unloading
boxcars) for six years while I was in college. Once I had fulfilled my
daily quota, I was told to go hide for the last couple hours of my shift.

Once I had fulfilled my
daily quota, I was told to go hide for the last couple hours of my
shift.
************************************************** ****************************

Yeah, part of what killed GM, etc... AC Delco parts factory in Flint
was famous for that... A shirt tail relative worked there for 30 years
- she was TOLD by union reps what days she was not to show up, they
would punch her in and out...
OTOH, the final assembly lines were/are demanding... You have to be
there, every minute is monitored, have to have relief to go to the can,
etc...
Anyway, from what I see the package delivery folks are rode hard and
put away wet...

denny

denny

"Denny" wrote in message
ps.com...
Once I had fulfilled my
daily quota, I was told to go hide for the last couple hours of my
shift.
************************************************** ****************************

Yeah, part of what killed GM, etc... AC Delco parts factory in Flint
was famous for that...

You could say that about every unionized industry in the past 100 years.

The teacher's unions are the newest idiots-at-work.

A shirt tail relative worked there for 30 years
- she was TOLD by union reps what days she was not to show up, they
would punch her in and out...
OTOH, the final assembly lines were/are demanding... You have to be
there, every minute is monitored, have to have relief to go to the can,
etc...

When you have to make up for all the lost/stolen (and it's A LOT) time...

Anyway, from what I see the package delivery folks are rode hard and
put away wet...

And yet they stay on, year after year. We have family friends where the
husband just completed his 30th year with UPS...still a delivery driver.

"Matt Barrow" wrote

You could say that about every unionized industry in the past 100 years.

The teacher's unions are the newest idiots-at-work.

I feel sorry for you, and the educational institution that has made you feel
this way about teachers.

Where I live, and teach, the vast majority of teachers are hard working,
dedicated professionals. They teach for the love of it, because the crap
pay and respect tossed our way is not enough reason to stay in it.
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote

You could say that about every unionized industry in the past 100 years.

The teacher's unions are the newest idiots-at-work.

I feel sorry for you, and the educational institution that has made you
feel this way about teachers.

If the shoe fits...

But, hey...I've been following the goings on at Chapel Hill down there.


Where I live, and teach, the vast majority of teachers are hard working,
dedicated professionals. They teach for the love of it, because the crap
pay and respect tossed our way is not enough reason to stay in it.

First: nationally, teachers are coming from the bottom quartile of their
class. Second, only a small fraction are teaching classes in areas for which
they have their degrees.

As for the unions, check this and follow the trackbacks:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/...ves/004943.php

And this: http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=7185

I'm sorry for you they did exactly what they intended, which is to make so
many people naive.
(See" Thomas Mann and the beginnings of public education in the US)

You've hit upon the great paradox. The unions protect the wildly
incompetent and undermine the respect we have for the profession. In NYC,
they have only fired one teacher in the last few years. It is so time
consuming and expensive to fire a teacher, they simly reassign the
incompetent to places where they don't have to teach. Were it not for the
unions, teachers would be more highly regarded because they would be more
highly qualified. There is little or no issue of qualification in private
schools, and the teachers command more respect from students and parents.
Of course, in order to go to a private school, one has to pay even more than
the $10,000 per year per student they extract from us in taxes for each
government school pupil.

"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"Matt Barrow" wrote

You could say that about every unionized industry in the past 100 years.

The teacher's unions are the newest idiots-at-work.

I feel sorry for you, and the educational institution that has made you
feel this way about teachers.

Where I live, and teach, the vast majority of teachers are hard working,
dedicated professionals. They teach for the love of it, because the crap
pay and respect tossed our way is not enough reason to stay in it.
--
Jim in NC