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Originally Posted by burnin_vernon
At the gas station were you carrying significant weight for your whole shift? Did you have to stay outside for the entire shift without any breaks from the weather? Were you never off your feet? Did you have to run from dogs? Did you walk up steep hills and slippery staircases? Did you have to conserve your water in the heat?
Look, I'm not saying letter carriers are superhuman and worked like mules but don't assume all walking is walking.
I've worked as a waiter in a busy restaurant where tables were sometimes 1 min apart from each other for 9 hour shifts without breaks and I probably put more miles on there but no way was it anyway near as physical as being a letter carrier.
How long did a pair of shoes last you at your job?
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Hey man, I'm just saying that the amount of walking involved isn't necessarily greater than that of tons of other jobs, and therefore, it's not exactly emphasis worthy.
I'm not denying that you walk. A lot. In shiddy weather. Often. But there are LOTS of other jobs that are just the same. No, a squeegee isn't as heavy as a mail bag, but then again, a gas jockey makes about a third what you make.
AFAIC, letter carriers can just stop with the sympathy search over how horrendous their working conditions are, because it's simply not a big deal. OMFG, you walk 15km per day and have to go up hills and up slippery walks and run from dogs.
No, I'm not sympathetic. I have to walk on construction sites all day and worry about hammers falling from higher levels, and slipping in mud and landing on a piece of rebar sticking out from a deck pile, or falling off a ladder. Woe is me.
