Originally Posted by
SaltyDog
In all candor, what was your motivation or reasoning that caused you to choose UPS over SWA? The schedules and night flying certainly were known to you. Since you were offered jobs at both, clearly you had enough information to distingusih the very different lifestyles that each company offered. Since it is not about money, was it security?? Just curious because it seems peculiar that when you were hired, it was mostly to staff ANC. Am sure you must have realized the reality of that choice. Believe many would agree that SWA is about as secure as UPS job since they run a profitable company. Wish you the best in your new career. I would leave if I were that unhappy because I agree, big bucks is not worth losing my family over. Still glad I work at Brown though (FedEx, UPS, SWA were my top three)
Yes, I chose UPS for the stability and of course, the pay.
Well, that sure backfired because I have been threatened with a furlough (stability NOT) and I am on half pay for the next year and half with the threat of furlough still hanging over my head. Oh, and add my displacement to Anchorage Alaska to that list. Hello commuting on reserve at half pay (right before I get furloughed when they integrate the managers.)...
So my 2 reason for coming here are not at all what I planned... Half pay and no security. I would be doing better off pay wise and security wise at SWA and probably at my old legacy job, actually.
For me, UPS was a mistake.