Attempted smartass joke would be more accurate, I guess.

The Black one goes to jail, the furrin looking one is fired, and the White one will be back on the job soon, or at worst forced to retire with full benefits.

Parts of the North East and maybe Chicago? That’s all I’ve got.

It’s easier to say than “less irresponsibly sourced electricity”. 

You may have just been getting ungreyed by someone. It’s a load of BS. A friend of mine has been on Jalopnik for years, and I still have to ungrey his responses here. He ungreys mine on a website or two, and then there’s several websites here we are both grayed on, even though I’ve probably been here at least 15 years.

No reason to lessen the use, however.

It was a sarcastic joke, but I knew the way I worded it left it open to interpretation, I just couldn’t think of a better way to word it.

They’re not so nearly hardcore at my hub, at least on my shift. But, we do a lot less volume at a shittier time (3-8 am) that they’re just happy to get done with enough employees.

I’m certainly not justifying what the driver did, but that’s the quality of person you get for the wages paid unfortunately.

Naw, that’s pretty extreme, even for the hub. At the hub, it may be dropped or thrown a few feet, not winged 50 ft at a doorway.

Yup. A UPS driver can easily make over $100,000/yr with overtime. With the low cost of living in the St. Louis area, most drivers live in St. Charles county, including the black drivers. That’s significant in that St. Charles is white flight country.

FedEx suffered staffing shortages because they are cheap. At my UPS hub, we had the easiest peak season in my 21 years because were overstaffed. Why where we overstaffed? Simple, UPS bit the bullet and paid more than the Union contract required. Now, they are paying, at my hub at least, a $150/wk attendance bonus. The…

I haven’t been there in decades, but when I was growing up in Westminster, it wasn’t uncommon to see oil well pumps in people’s back yards in Huntington Beach.

Responsible gas production is easy, just eat at some hipster farm to table restaurant.

What, Auto Zone won’t deliver to you? 

I would think with modern technology, a lot of people can create their own energy in wheat farm land. A wind generator, some solar cells, and some big batteries sounds like it could work, at least in some parts of the country.

Hey, my great uncle drove a Morris Minor around his farm. Both he and the Morris are both long gone. He also had a Studebaker that hadn’t run in forever in the barn.

I don’t think he can find room for it in his yard.

I hope it was something more exciting like burning down the ancestral home.

Not as exciting as wondering if today is the day your mail truck catches fire or simply disintegrates.