Delivery Drivers

[49994]

This is a great video 5min. video. I have noticed more and more people I believe to be 60plus working at Fleet Farm, Lowe's, etc... for reason explained in the video.

 

[ORCUS DEMENS]

People are tired of dealing with the public because everyone has become a-holes. If you get your delivery driver fired, don't complain if you don't get deliveries at all anymore because they can't replace him.

Older people are just saying to heck with it and retiring and not working a part time job anymore. Younger people are getting better jobs because of it and not needing to work in the service industry. The service industry basically needs immigrants at this point to keep it going.

Very good observations. Boomers are getting out of the workforce, leaving gaps in the corporate brain trusts. Companies used to push out older (read more expensive)workers. About 10 years ago they realized these were the workers who would pull the company through the difficult times. They were the ones who would mentor the younger workers in how to work through problems.
At the other end of the spectrum is the problems with the entry level job market. Traditionally, immigrants took the low skill low pay jobs as others moved up the economic chain. Curtailed immigration and a society that is trending toward intolerance of those not like us and now those jobs go unfilled.
As to this is becoming a socialist country, haha. Corporations and the very wealthy have been the biggest recipients of government largess in the last 40 plus years. Why was 45's tax cuts for corporations permanent, yet the individual tax breaks had a definite short time frame?

 

[JayKay]

The schools and teachers today are to busy teaching the next popular perversion to bother with basic math. I was in Taco Bell in Bismarck with five other people. I decided to buy a dozen of those frosting filled donut hole type desserts. I ordered a dozen and the guy about 22 or 23 years old says " we don't have a dozen we only have two, four, or twelve".

It's "too" busy. Not "to". Basic English.

I have friends who are teachers, and while they're nowhere near perfect, I don't blame a lot of the shit-show that kids come up with, on teachers. Kids are often entitled little dictators, long before they even go to school. Time to start looking at a lot of the parents.

You have parents who can't bother to even try to stay together. You have parents who are immature, because THEY never had to grow up. You have parents (more than ever) hobbled with addictions. Parents who can't decide, or even VOTE to decide, which bathroom to use, or how many genders there are.

Don't blame teachers, for everything. A lot of kids are screwed up before kindergarten.

 

[johnr]

maybe we as a society could pay people to not work.
I hear in Minnesota a fella can make upwards of $98,000 living off the government tit.
WTF work, you rubes.

 

[Zogman]

This is a great video 5min. video. I have noticed more and more people I believe to be 60plus working at Fleet Farm, Lowe's, etc... for reason explained in the video.

Agree. Thanks for sharing. Wife finally gave up working part time 15 hours a week at 75 yo.
The sad thing is she did more work in 15 hrs that most of the 30 somethings did in their 40 hrs.

 

[Zogman]

Don't blame teachers, for everything. A lot of kids are screwed up before kindergarten.

This is very sadly TRUE.

 

[Davey Crockett]

It's "too" busy. Not "to". Basic English.

I have friends who are teachers, and while they're nowhere near perfect, I don't blame a lot of the shit-show that kids come up with, on teachers. Kids are often entitled little dictators, long before they even go to school. Time to start looking at a lot of the parents.

You have parents who can't bother to even try to stay together. You have parents who are immature, because THEY never had to grow up. You have parents (more than ever) hobbled with addictions. Parents who can't decide, or even VOTE to decide, which bathroom to use, or how many genders there are.

Don't blame teachers, for everything. A lot of kids are screwed up before kindergarten.

For sure . A lot of babies are addicted to drugs before they are born too. Sad to see how parenting skills have gone downhill.

 

[wjschmaltz]

Tale as old as time, people bitching about the generation that they raised......

Part of the why has already been covered. High school and most college kids don't have to work. That's because of their parents and not them. I sure as shit wouldn't have worked through college if my parents were footing the bill. Would anyone here have chosen flipping burgers or waiting tables over parent-sponsored partying in their early 20s?

The second part is that starting with Millennials, people are putting experiences over things. My hunting mentor died 10 years ago this month and hammered into my head that "the best things in life aren't things." I'm 36 and I calculated it last night and I will work 179 days in 2023. That's 3.4 days a week. My wife hasn't seen a patient since May when our baby was born. She will start seeing patients two days a week starting next week. We live comfortably, frugally, within our means financially, and save plenty for retirement. We camp, we hunt, we fish, we ski, and we spend a substantial amount of time together as a family. As we keep getting raises, we both plan on working less and less. I'd rather do all those things listed above than double the size of my house, buy a fancy boat, or upgrade our 20 year old vehicles. No problem with people that think the opposite of me, but don't call me or my generation lazy because we have a different set of priorities. My brother is ten years younger than me and just earned captain at his airline job in under a year. He took the raise and dropped his hours by 25%. Some would call that lazy, but I bet 99.9% of those people couldn't do the backpack camping trips that he does on his extra off time.

 

[Ericb]

Felt the way this thread was going this fit in perfectly.

 

[Ericb]

As a delivery driver I'm silently watching this thread. Don't think any complaints have been about myself but am patiently waiting!

 

[AR-15]

The UPS, FEDEX, SPEEDY Drivers in our area are all good

 

[Hunter58301]

Local grocery store. My purchase came to $10.25. Handed the young cashier $20.25. She had to call a manager because I short circuited her math skills. Five people behind me in line.

 

[AR-15]

Hunter, that's fun to do, a few years ago I did it in McDonalds it screwed the till up and it started printing receipts, fun as hell

 

[Davey Crockett]

As a delivery driver I'm silently watching this thread. Don't think any complaints have been about myself but am patiently waiting!

Just curious what are your hours ? We've had UPS deliveries as late as 7:00 PM here.

 

[Ericb]

Just curious what are your hours ? We've had UPS deliveries as late as 7:00 PM here.

13 and a half hours. Start time has been 10am lately, so punch out at 11:30.

 

[scoop]

As a delivery driver I'm silently watching this thread. Don't think any complaints have been about myself but am patiently waiting!

same here. no matter how good you think you are doing, and right decisions you think your making, your probably wrong.

 

[Maddog]

Local grocery store. My purchase came to $10.25. Handed the young cashier $20.25. She had to call a manager because I short circuited her math skills. Five people behind me in line.

Thinking less than 50% of the young tellers can count your change back for you. Over a handful of times I had to help them when they either shortchanged me or gave me too much. I was talking with a friend and jokingly (?) said the next time they gave me too much money back I would just keep it.

 

[Maddog]

The UPS, FEDEX, SPEEDY Drivers in our area are all good

X2 All of ours are awesome.

 

[johnr]

My FedEx guy is a good friend, he is however still a mongoloid...haha
Just kidding buddy.

 

[weakstream]

maybe we as a society could pay people to not work.
I hear in Minnesota a fella can make upwards of $98,000 living off the government tit.
WTF work, you rubes.

Those people Iin Minn. you refer to must be committing fraud them. Did you pull that stat out of you azz? GEEZ