I don't eat that crap and never will. I'm
usually in the sleep room the IPA won for me at that time if I'm doing a hot. I live in SDF and bid RSVA or turns so I'm rarely there anyway.

Shaggy likes to complain about time off yet chooses to commute. It's a good to great job but you have to prepare yourself for it differently than other jobs.

The sad thing is you self-centered babies take it personally. UPS isn't out to screw pilots. They don't build the lines to make it suck for Shaggy. We are a nameless cog in their operation and I prefer it that way. Call fatigued if you're too tired to operate. The cimplant and IPA are both stressing that. And if it's too miserable why not apply at Delta? They're hiring tons. American, United too. You could be making comparable pay pretty soon and upgrade sooner! Lol.

Are you really that clueless, assuming to know me? You don't know anything about me or what makes me happy or miserable. I suggest you stay off the forums cause all you do is ruin your own credibility with every post. I guess thats pretty standard for you though. Maybe you should seek professional help.

The sleep Room that has windows next to every loader and Van Honking as they drive by every 20 seconds? Wonderful. Yes, I like the sleep rooms better than the lazy boys, but they should ALL be inside rooms. But since your doing Hot, your special. But you still have to live in Louisville with the awesome pot holed streets and two Malls built a mile apart from each other in 1970. What were they thinking? Oh yea, it's Kentucky they weren't.

Shaggy and L'ill - so opposites do attract after all?! ;)

As far as working here - I don't think it's as great as some describe it but neither do I think it's as awful as others make it out to be. So I guess I've resigned myself to cheerful misery or I'm miserably content? I'm not sure which?

PS. Don't live in Kentucky but I think it's a good place to raise a family.

It is my understanding and what I've witnessed that when UPSS announces a hiring number that is for IPA pilots. Just recently we hired 40 IPA pilots after the company said they would hire 40. Yes, they are hiring some NURPs overall but they are not part of the announcement. In fact, I'd look for about 6 to be hired this year. Thankfully, our contract is restrictive enough on their flying that it wouldn't make sense for UPSS to hire gross amounts of them.

I can find plenty to fault UPS on but the sleep rooms!? No way. They're as good as possible.

Louisville is an awesome town. To each his own. I'll keep the time off at home rather than commuting any day though.

We've hired 3 for ANC this year already. A new 'wunder' captain I recently jumpseated with said they (manglers) were told ANC has been approved for 5 more X-picket-line trainees.

I guess "gross amounts" is a relative term. To me even 1 single person who gets hired off the street and goes straight to the left seat is as "gross" as it gets.

Disrespectful and unethical behavior considering thousands of IPAers, pilots with hands-on experience, qualifications and knowledge of operations have been waiting years and years, decades in fact, for an upgrade. :-(

L'il - sleeping rooms are "as good as possible"? Really?! C'mon, let's get real.
Your hearing must be different than mine. Whenever I renew my medical I'm being told my hearing is very good and apparently that's NOT a good thing around here.. :(
If I get a sleeping room facing the sort I get no sleep whatsoever. All I ever hear is the ridiculous honking every 30 seconds or so. Cars, trucks, busses, honk, honk, honk, honk, honk...
I sleep with earplugs and have a white-noise app on my phone.... honk, honk, honk... "Hopefully", one day when I go deaf I'll be able to get some sleep there... honk, honk...

Sleep rooms are as good as possible ?

Louisville is an awesome town ?

As far as your second point, yes, I think Louisville IS a good citi to live in. I think the issue of what makes a city awesome or awful boils down to our backgrounds and regional preferences. Many if not most Northerners, Californians, etc. have a somewhat negative, prejudiced opinion of the South in general and no matter what you say, if it ain't in Jersey, Brooklyn or Orange County they'll always hate it. Of course, the same can be said about Southerners who get based in Ontario, California.

Is it the best place on earth? Of course not, however Louisville is a clean, safe and very hospitable city. In general it's cheap to live there and people bend over backwards to be kind to you. Now, if you happen to have allergies you won't like it. ..and if you're an uncompromising Yankee, you'll probably develop allergies just so you can hate it. ;)
As always, YMMV.

Not as great as a hotel room, but for Gods sake man, get some earplugs! Beats the crap out of what we had before.