It’s pretty hard to drive kids to school or take the guys at the office to lunch with the standard cab, and since most of these are used for commuting, you got to start at the 4-door. Also, no Real ‘Murican who drives a truck would buy 2WD because you’d have to be scared of losing traction in a little bit of rain or…

The KIA Soul still has a base MSRP under $20K in the US. It’s all the car most anyone actually *needs*. Anything beyond that is a want. KIA even has cheap financing and some small discounts. 

Why unsustainable? UPS can obviously afford it. Of course we should pay teachers more, but UPS doesn’t rely on property taxes to pay their employees. As a vet tech, I’m in charge of administering and monitoring anesthesia. Nurses who do that for human patients make well over 6 figures but if your patient is not human,…

I worked there a hot minute back in the day when I was mainly living off contract gigs after the dot-com implosion. Unless things have changed (and they may have given the general worker shortage), they followed the standard union progression. You had to start out as a part-timer and get a degree of time-served and…

Not quite sure what your point is. Anyone can walk in off the street and rent a massive U-Haul that dwarfs the UPS PCs. No training, no background checks, nothing. Just provide your license, credit card, sign some forms and off you go. While UPS drivers don’t need a CDL, but they do go through training, etc. Now which…

UPS has always had consistently better service than FedEx in my area. Probably because UPS drivers are actual W4 employees while FedEx Ground drivers are low paid contractors that could give less shits about doing the bare minimum of their job.

Inherit 2.42 million dollars and collect 7% annual returns from the S&P of ~$170,000

he doesn’t have a head injury in so much as chewymilk *is* a head injury

lol they’re talking about Amazon drivers- which is a horse of a different colour

Do you have a head injury? They’ve been unionized for ages. What articles are you talking about?

I don’t recall that having been said about UPS in the past. Also, UPS has been unionized for a very long time. They’re one of the examples of how you can manage a difficult job, pay well, and still have a profitable business. They’re still a business, though, and they need that reminder that these things need to be…

Benefits aren’t free.

The $170K figure includes the non-monetary benefits... AWESOME Heath Coverage, 401(k), excellent vacation time. This is about $50K of the value in the overall wage.

UPS has always had consistently better service than FedEx in my area. Probably because UPS drivers are actual W4 employees while FedEx Ground drivers are low paid contractors that could give less shits about doing the bare minimum of their job. If they get fired, they get replaced by an equally crappy driver. If FedEx…

Agreed. The people just starting out have it rough. High rents and low starting level salaries. Crappy public transportation in this area and expensive used cars. I’ve done what was in my power to get those that report to me the maximum raises these last two years, and even managed to get a few of them promoted to high…

It doesn’t even really effect BMW and Mercedes, et al.

$1.5 trillion divided by 100 million is $15,000......

I sold cars 20 years ago...people wanted “loaded” then too despite the fact they had no down payment and their owed more than their trade was worth.

That’s my modus operandi right now too. Buy cash or choose to defer the purchase. Don’t borrow unless absolutely necessary. Build savings and equity.

They ran an article the other day on here about how so few cars have starting prices under 30k, then one on how used car prices have exploded. They aren’t buying anything crazy, everything has gone up in price while wages remain flat so it’s not a great combo.