There's a reason there's the stereotype of the fit gay UPS guy (if you didn't know this stereotype, now you do). Walking around all day and carrying heavy shit makes you FIT
The stereotype isn't that all UPS guys are gay, it just came from a time when there weren't a lot of legal protections in the US for gay employees and UPS had a good nondiscrimination policy for the time. So a lot of queer people ended up working for UPS for a while in, I want to say the 90s and 00s? Just basing this off personal memory. Same reason there's the stereotype of the gay flight attendant, Delta was another company that had a good nondiscrimination policy back in the day.
Definitely counts. I've never had my calves look this good until I started carrying mail 10 years ago. All that stepping in and out of the truck and walking up steps. Can you believe that they pay me to do it?? It's like I'm scamming them
My current pursuit is to become a receptionist and the local YMCA is always hiring. I never got a call back from them and I've been applying for years.
cool. i will try that. i need to volunteer somewhere anyway. i feel lost not helping people in some way. my anxiety gets the best of me, but i am working on it.
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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 47 pts · 14d
There's a reason there's the stereotype of the fit gay UPS guy (if you didn't know this stereotype, now you do). Walking around all day and carrying heavy shit makes you FIT
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 14d
But why does that make you gay?
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 51 pts · 14d
The stereotype isn't that all UPS guys are gay, it just came from a time when there weren't a lot of legal protections in the US for gay employees and UPS had a good nondiscrimination policy for the time. So a lot of queer people ended up working for UPS for a while in, I want to say the 90s and 00s? Just basing this off personal memory. Same reason there's the stereotype of the gay flight attendant, Delta was another company that had a good nondiscrimination policy back in the day.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 13d
Plus all that walking makes for great calves and ass.
Doesn't make you gay. Certainly gives you options.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 13d
Options, you say? Go on...
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 13d
Pioneers in nondescrimination.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 13d
Thanks, I had no idea about that stereotype.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 13d
Damn. I didn't know what brown could do for me.
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 13d
It's fitting.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 13d
Definitely counts. I've never had my calves look this good until I started carrying mail 10 years ago. All that stepping in and out of the truck and walking up steps. Can you believe that they pay me to do it?? It's like I'm scamming them
SuiXi3D@fedia.io · 7 pts · 13d
Now do it with 150 pound packages every day with no help. I quit that job so damn fast…
BurgerBaron@quokk.au · 5 pts · 13d
Username checks out.
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 14d
He probably gets his steps in anyway!
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 14d
Usually postmen are very fit people because of that
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 13d
And he does lift, bro.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 14d
Enough steps for 10 people.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 13d
10 times for me. There is a gym I have to go through on my way to and from work.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 13d
...Drive thru gym? 🤔
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 13d
Well I ride my bike across their car park
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 13d
Wow, exercising at the gym 10 times a week!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d
I mean it's a class 2 so I'm really just exercising my thumb most of the time
Jesusaurus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 14d
Thought it was going to be greeter or cashier (at the gym)
nycvin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 14d
Janitor
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 14d
Is his name Anatoly?
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 13d
My current pursuit is to become a receptionist and the local YMCA is always hiring. I never got a call back from them and I've been applying for years.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 3 pts · 13d
That might be one of the few positions where applying in person would be a good idea.
It seems like a lot of the staff at my local Y are volunteers, and the paid people probably let the volunteers know when there's an opening.
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d
cool. i will try that. i need to volunteer somewhere anyway. i feel lost not helping people in some way. my anxiety gets the best of me, but i am working on it.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d
My brother in-law became a postman and lost a bunch of weight. Guy walks like 5 miles a day.
Chev@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13d
Working 6/7 days a week sounds tough.