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Dick Dastardly said:
You're welcome. But seriously, is your spouse still working at her Union job?
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Redracer3136 said:
You obviously have me and my wife (not that she's any of your concern) confused with someone else...
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Dick Dastardly said:
No, but I don't want to jeopardize your anonymity on here. I'll just assume that's a yes.
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Redracer3136 said:
Assume if you choose but in this case it will make an ass of you...just sayin'
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Dick Dastardly said:
Red, I hate to pick on you but I can't having you lying to the members here.

Page 15 of the Congress passed pension cuts thread you stated:

"My wife works for a union company, since I have insurance available to me through FedEx if I chose to go with her insurance, they'd charge us a fee of $100 a month/$1,200 a year on top of her existing cost!!!"

You also stated on the same page of the same thread just below the above post:

"I've never denied that my wife works for a union company...just another one of the many reasons why I'd NEVER vote yes!"

Here's a link to save you the trouble of looking it up.

http://www.truckingboards.com/bb/threads/congress-passed-pension-cuts.64404/page-15#post-891781

Tell me Red, who looks like the ass now?
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Checkmate. Now stop embarrassing yourself.
 
Ahhhh in fighting, just what this company thrives on. Let's face it, some of us chose this career, whether out of desperation or necessity and we need to make the best of it. It's not exactly a glamorous lifestyle where many of us try to function on 4 hours of sleep per day and work a 12-14 hour shift on a half hour lunch and put up with their silly demands especially if your forced to work the dock. The end goal here is to try to not die behind the wheel
 
FedexLube said:
Ahhhh in fighting, just what this company thrives on.
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Nah, Red and I are old friends. We're just having a little banter for old time's sake. It was getting a little stale around here. I like to push his buttons sometimes. I agree with the rest of your post though. Now then, please allow me a moment to address the board.

The company pays me not for my service, but for giving them time from my already too short life. I don't know about you all, but my life is worth more than inferior pay and or benefits while the executives make off annually with more money than the next three generations could spend.

Something changed in this country in the last thirty years. I'll tell you what it was. It's when the companies lobbied Congress to pass right to work and we allowed it. In doing so, they realized they could cut workers benefits and line their own pockets while the workers would just kneel down in gratitude for the crumbs. It's plain old greed is what it is.

Not only have they lobbied Congress, but they've brainwashed fools into believing it's the only way. They should call the law what it is: Right to work in ignorance. They say ignorance is bliss, but I say knowledge is power. That's what scares them.

The choice is yours. Some of you can choose to remain in sincere ignorance, and the others who are knowledgeable can choose to remain in fear and not take action. Martin Luther King sums up both types perfectly in his quote.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

MLK
 
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Dick Dastardly said:
Nah, Red and I are old friends. We're just having a little banter for old time's sake. It was getting a little stale around here. I like to push his buttons sometimes. I agree with the rest of your post though. Now then, please allow me a moment to address the board.

The company pays me not for my service, but for giving them time from my already too short life. I don't know about you all, but my life is worth more than inferior pay and or benefits while the executives make off annually with more money than the next three generations could spend.

Something changed in this country in the last thirty years. I'll tell you what it was. It's when the companies lobbied Congress to pass right to work and we allowed it. In doing so, they realized they could cut workers benefits and line their own pockets while the workers would just kneel down in gratitude for the crumbs. It's plain old greed is what it is.

Not only have they lobbied Congress, but they've brainwashed fools into believing it's the only way. They should call the law what it is: Right to work in ignorance. They say ignorance is bliss, but I say knowledge is power. That's what scares them.

The choice is yours. Some of you can choose to remain in sincere ignorance, and the others who are knowledgeable can choose to remain in fear and not take action. Martin Luther King sums up both types perfectly in his quote.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

MLK
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Excellent post, Dick. My best to you! Stay strong!
 
Redracer3136 said:
Technically you're correct...but the drivers like yourself, Hootowl, and others who pushed, campaigned, and voted for representation and the right to bargain cost the city drivers money every time they take a week's vacation (or single day) and cost the road drivers opportunities to earn more money every time we bid!! Perhaps you guys will start a fund to help offset the loss of compensation that you've cost your fellow (and former) associates!!

This one is on the hand's of those who wanted representation...thanks for less!!
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Id pitch in on that fund, i don't know how you all are surviving down there, maybe we should start a food drive.
 
Dick Dastardly said:
Nah, Red and I are old friends. We're just having a little banter for old time's sake. It was getting a little stale around here. I like to push his buttons sometimes. I agree with the rest of your post though. Now then, please allow me a moment to address the board.

The company pays me not for my service, but for giving them time from my already too short life. I don't know about you all, but my life is worth more than inferior pay and or benefits while the executives make off annually with more money than the next three generations could spend.

Something changed in this country in the last thirty years. I'll tell you what it was. It's when the companies lobbied Congress to pass right to work and we allowed it. In doing so, they realized they could cut workers benefits and line their own pockets while the workers would just kneel down in gratitude for the crumbs. It's plain old greed is what it is.

Not only have they lobbied Congress, but they've brainwashed fools into believing it's the only way. They should call the law what it is: Right to work in ignorance. They say ignorance is bliss, but I say knowledge is power. That's what scares them.

The choice is yours. Some of you can choose to remain in sincere ignorance, and the others who are knowledgeable can choose to remain in fear and not take action. Martin Luther King sums up both types perfectly in his quote.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

MLK
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You F'n nailed it!!
 
Redracer3136 said:
I understand quite well, although admittedly I may have confused volume with economy, and I'll continue to stand by my original statement that the loss of some economy freight isn't that big of a deal...

1) although economy does have a longer transit time than priority, I've witnessed first hand the sitting on economy freight that was due the day before, a region away, in order to move priority freight that was due in two days...reason given, "its economy, it'll get there when it gets there..."

2) again, I'll have to disagree...ATL-P is one of the largest and primarily an economy hub and almost everything that goes into that center gets put into a rail can...that's correct, economy freight into a rail can...

Points 3 & 4 are somewhat of a contradiction...you say "MOST economy freight never see the rail" and then you claim that "the higher revenue comes from longer average distance..."....it's this economy freight that has the "longer average distance" that's put onto the rail which produces "higher revenue"...
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The loss off "some" economy freight is not THAT big of a deal? You may be loosing clarity of mind, if you really believe that. But then again, you did state that "economy" was just what was left from the Watkins acquisition...

1) "its economy, it'll get there when it gets there..." Simply nonsense. Do you really believe we handle nearly 1/3 of our customers freight in such a lackadaisical manner? Red, you must know that "economy" is not hugely cheaper than priority. In many lanes, it's only a few bucks difference. Clearly NOT revenue willing to be sacrificed. Sure, it may sit on occasion, but there is still a commitment (promise) of timely service.

2) Most locations are not positioned geographically to fit the timeline.

3-4) No contradiction. Just because economy has a longer average distance/weight metric does not mean it's 1000+ miles, and suitable for rail. Rail doesn't go every where.

Not sure where you're getting your info lately, but I would consider the source to discredited, at this point.
 
Dick Dastardly said:
That's what it is, but wanted him to say it. It's ironic isn't it? He condems everything union for everyone here while his spouse is a poster child of success at a union company.
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If unions are so great why did you go to work for a non union carrier when you "left" Fedex Freight. Perhaps you should change your avatar to Flip Flop, since you constantly change your position as to unions being good or bad.
 
Dick Dastardly said:
Nah, Red and I are old friends. We're just having a little banter for old time's sake. It was getting a little stale around here. I like to push his buttons sometimes. I agree with the rest of your post though. Now then, please allow me a moment to address the board.

The company pays me not for my service, but for giving them time from my already too short life. I don't know about you all, but my life is worth more than inferior pay and or benefits while the executives make off annually with more money than the next three generations could spend.

Something changed in this country in the last thirty years. I'll tell you what it was. It's when the companies lobbied Congress to pass right to work and we allowed it. In doing so, they realized they could cut workers benefits and line their own pockets while the workers would just kneel down in gratitude for the crumbs. It's plain old greed is what it is.

Not only have they lobbied Congress, but they've brainwashed fools into believing it's the only way. They should call the law what it is: Right to work in ignorance. They say ignorance is bliss, but I say knowledge is power. That's what scares them.

The choice is yours. Some of you can choose to remain in sincere ignorance, and the others who are knowledgeable can choose to remain in fear and not take action. Martin Luther King sums up both types perfectly in his quote.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

MLK
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Agreed, we're just having a little fun, no biggie...old friends?? We've never met...

I'll disagree with the rest of your post...the company does in fact pay us for our service. When you came in for the interview, the company offered you an opportunity to provide a service in exchange for a compensation package and guidelines for which you must adhere, to which you agreed...you sought out the company, they didn't come looking for you.

Sorry but the changes in this country go back further than this....back to the 60's with the dope smoking hippies and their socialist movement wanting free this and free that, that was the turning point, or the beginning of the downfall, for our society...the entitlement movement!!

From there, people wanted something for free and didn't want to work for it anymore which led to Americans becoming lazy!! This then morphed into a whole society that wants to sit down with their hands out saying gimmie, gimmie, gimmie!!

Now we have the majority of those who think like Dick, those who are wealth envy and believe they should get the same as the execs even though they didn't work as hard to get there. Not saying Dick is lazy by any means, he's not, but he was brought up like most people, after years of brainwashing, to believe that everyone is entitled to what someone else has and it's this whole entitlement thing that has ruined our great country!!

You said it, knowledge is power...If you want the perks that the execs enjoy, perhaps you should return to school, get a degree in economics, business, finance, etc and start a new path to becoming an exec...or start your own business to where you call the shots, either way I'm quite certain you'd have a whole different outlook...or you can just grab another gear and keep trucking!!
 
Dick Dastardly said:
That's what it is, but wanted him to say it. It's ironic isn't it? He condems everything union for everyone here while his spouse is a poster child of success at a union company.
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Who taught you how to backpedal so well...Micheal Jackson??

What's ironic is that yes, the union did contribute to her success...within six months of taking the job the union threw her under the bus, ran over her, and left her for dead. She saw real quick what a huge waste they were so she revoked her membership and shortly there after she received her promotion to management...some 25+ years later she's almost to the top of that corporate ladder. Just think, had the union not wronged her those many years ago, she would still be stuck at the bottom of a dead end union job or more than likely have been laid off!!

Thanks to the union!! :1036316054:
 
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SwampRatt said:
The loss off "some" economy freight is not THAT big of a deal? You may be loosing clarity of mind, if you really believe that. But then again, you did state that "economy" was just what was left from the Watkins acquisition...

1) "its economy, it'll get there when it gets there..." Simply nonsense. Do you really believe we handle nearly 1/3 of our customers freight in such a lackadaisical manner? Red, you must know that "economy" is not hugely cheaper than priority. In many lanes, it's only a few bucks difference. Clearly NOT revenue willing to be sacrificed. Sure, it may sit on occasion, but there is still a commitment (promise) of timely service.

2) Most locations are not positioned geographically to fit the timeline.

3-4) No contradiction. Just because economy has a longer average distance/weight metric does not mean it's 1000+ miles, and suitable for rail. Rail doesn't go every where.

Not sure where you're getting your info lately, but I would consider the source to discredited, at this point.
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Now you're playing with words and simply blowing everything I said out of proportion to meet your argument...nice :poke:

"Economy was what was left from Watkins" meaning a majority of the freight we received from them after the merger was long haul or economy freight, never did I imply that all of the economy freight we currently move is what was leftover from Watkins.

1) do you really believe that was the way I meant it...seriously?? Economy freight has a service window as well but when it comes to priority or economy making service, we'll move the priority freight first every time.

2) Economy revenue per shipment is higher than priority because it has a much longer length of haul (and no, I never implied that every shipment was 1000+ miles) and the average economy shipment size is slightly larger (takes up more space).

3,& 4) 50% of economy freight moves by rail

I'll continue to trust my sources, in the meantime I'll remember to proof read every reply to you to make sure I'm speaking in generalizations so you won't take everything so literal. :poke:
 
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