de727ups

Been there, done that, have the T-shirt!! I was hired at UPS in 95, 3 days into basic indoc I turned down United. I did my $26,000 the first year, it sucked, had to sell my Vette....then second year rolls around and I think it was around $44K and we started negociations...the same crap as now except in my opinion alot more rhetoric from both sides. I began to take the companies positions personally, To me it seemed as though the company was insulting me at each low ball proposal. My buddy at United was hired the same time frame I would have been...He was flying out of New York (Home for me) making $85K and He had stock options from the ESOP valued at over $78K!!!! I was very ****ed! Here we were just trying to make industry standard, and the company was ****ting on us. Then I flew with an old wise Captain and He shed some light on the situation.
UPS doesn't hate us, Management does'nt despise us...Its just business...let the negociators work it out and in the end we'll get most of what we want, and go back to work! Fred Smith bluffed his pilkots last time and they folded bad. UPS is not your friend or buddy, you work for them, as long as they pay me well and treat me fairly I'm OK with that. If you want to go to work and sing "Kum-Bai=Ya" go to Southwest or Jet Blue. I'm positive FED-EX is not a whole lot different. I'm in the reserves and alot of my friends fly for all of the majors, and they all ***** and moan about their employers, and think the grass is always greener. Good Luck with your decision...either way you chose its a winner...