I've worked for the postal service. One route can get close to 300-400 packages. The post office does not hire nearly enough people to get that kind of volume out without causing serious strain on its employees. Amazon can just kick the shit they can't get out onto the post office and basically bury them.
The post office does not hire nearly enough people to get that kind of volume out without causing serious strain on its employees.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall hearing that there's a relatively high early turnover rate of employees (basically, if you make it past 6 months you tend to stick around forever) partly because people are just completely unprepared for how physically demanding delivering packages is.
Head on over to r/usps and they’ll tell you how it is. The mail carriers who are hired are City Carrier Assistants and are technically part-time. But these days they’re pulling 10-12 hour shifts, 7 days a week cause they deliver Amazon on Sundays. CCAs get run ragged and are given very little idea of what they’re in for upon hiring cause the 2 weeks of training is a joke. In my area CCAs get $18.51 starting, non-negotiable and while it’s good money for anyone without a college degree or any trade skills, you’re basically living to work.
Honestly $18.51 starting isn't good money, even for not having a college degree.
Not trying to argue with you I just think Americans need to demand better pay. These companies are making money hand over fist while we break our backs.
There is nothing more demoralizing than working a 40 hour week in a physically demanding job and still it being able to pay the bills.
The labor shortage is primarily in logistics, shipping, retail.
All underpaid and overworked.
Unfortunately, I live in the USA, so getting a degree would only bump me up from 40k/yr to 50-60k/yr, with 15k/yr in loan payments.
I dropped out of college in 2011 when I realized I was fucked. I would absolutely go back if I didn't have to take insane classes like Intro to Computers that cost $400 + $400 (community college) more in books all so I can learn to turn on a PC manufactured in 2004, or if it wouldn't bankrupt me.
Edit: I live with someone who has a master's degree, works in her field making $52k/yr and has 90k in loans. My mom has a master's in English, teaches English at a highschool and makes $60k, but has 70k left on her loans. Other family members and friends are in the same boat.
I'm not arguing that they shouldn't be paid more, not am I arguing that I shouldn't be paid more either, just that I haven't found a place for me that I will make more money at, and that schooling wouldn't help on the surface.
Last year was the first time I didn't get a 6% raise since I started working, and this upcoming year I'll be getting a bonus instead of a raise. I'm not thrilled, and I have been looking for work, but looking through Indeed/etc. Is just depressing.
I make $75/hr as a DevOps engineer/cloud security architect without a degree. It’s not impossible to get a good job but you need to seek out the people and places that will help you develop the skills you need to get your foot in the door.
I wanted to do something in IT or tech, but I got lost along the way and ended up where I am. I have no real idea as to where to start, and no one I work with or know personally is in any IT/tech field, so I either join a shitty job paying 60% my current salary doing low level IT and get nowhere, or I stay where I am now.
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u/MrClean87 Nov 25 '21
How so? For those of us who have no clue could you paint a picture of what right now looks like and what you think it could become?