Very good point! I appreciate other UPSers trying to 'warn' us - the junior guys - that we might be getting furloughed so we have more time to "prepare". However, I get confused when people blame the union or the company for not being honest with us regarding this "Armageddon" to come...

It's a tad insulting to think that we, the youngens, are semi-intelligent Kool-aid drinkers who don't know any better and therefore need to be warned by other, somehow wiser brown drivers.

Many if not most of us have been through other furloughs before and most are still paying off credit cards from the probationary year. What are those warnings gonna do for us? The doom and gloom hysteria does not make us prepare faster instead it gives ulcers...

Having said that, I'll be back here in the next few hours trying to learn my fate from other, much wiser fellow APCers...