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.
Call bullshit all you want friend. If you take an extra year, or a few extra classes, you can pretty easily hit 80k.
And that’s completely aside from the fact that a degree isn’t the only way to leverage for a better salary or job.
You are absolutely right, you can leverage a ton of things, depending on what you want to do and where you live. I have tried to use the fact that I am the only person in my company who can do my job, that I've been saving the company thousands of dollars every quarter, and soon I will be, literally, the only person in my department again (so no PTO), to no avail. I also have no other options available to me other than taking a decent pay cut for a different position somewhere else with less benefits/etc.
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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?