I'll have to ask him for specifics when I see him again because I wouldn't want to regurgitate inaccurate information, but it's not nearly as bad a job as you m

I'll have to ask him for specifics when I see him again because I wouldn't want to regurgitate inaccurate information, but it's not nearly as bad a job as you might think, and nobody's making near minimum wage. Everybody has hefty pension plans. The drivers tend to make more than the web developers working for startups in my area. Way more. Nobody gets a promotion based on competence. It's pure seniority. The people that are there the longest get first dibs on better positions. And if somebody can't hold their own and doesn't contribute, you can forget about letting them go. It's almost impossible to fire someone who isn't worth the union wages they're making. Now that's fine and dandy, I hope lots of folks get nice retirements after working at UPS their whole life. But Amazon is more efficient and will replace these high-wage manual laborers with robots and algorithms, and the union guys will try and use the power of government to stop them.