UPS workers secure $170K year salary

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 1   UPS drivers projected to earn $170K year 📦

A huge win for UPS drivers. 🤝 Under a tentative new agreement with the Teamsters union, UPS announced its full-time drivers will soon earn $170K a year in pay and benefits after five years of service.

Considering switching career paths? You’re not alone. “UPS driver jobs near me” has been a top trending search on Google these past two weeks, and job sites like Indeed saw a 50% bump in “UPS” searches.

But with great pay comes great debate. Tech workers—who’ll now earn roughly the same wage as UPS drivers—had mixed feelings about the news.

 2   Do you have what it takes to become a Chief UNO Player? 🃏

On a scale of one to 10, how would you rate your UNO skills? If you responded with anything above an eight, you should know Mattel is hiring a “Chief UNO Player” to promote its new UNO Quatro game. The list of responsibilities includes hosting live streams, challenging strangers to UNO, and creating content in NYC.

Let’s get into the juicy stuff (the 💰). UNO will pay $4,444.44 a week, for four weeks, for four hours a day. In case you don’t want to pull out your calculator, that’s $227 an hour to play UNO. 🤯

 3   New workplace trend just dropped: Loud laborers 📢

The noisier cousins of the quiet quitters are here. Say hello 👋 to the loud laborer, AKA employees who care more about vocalizing how hard they’re grinding than actually doing the job itself.

How to spot a loud laborer: They’re chatty about the work they’re “doing” and unusually active on professional social networks (*cough* Linkedin *cough*), but they lack tangible outputs.

Loud Laborers = Debby Downers. Having a loud laborer in your workplace unfortunately isn’t doing you any favors. A recent study found that heavy self-promoters tugged down the performance of the entire group.

“There’s not a day where I go home where I feel like I didn’t impact someone’s life positively.”

That’s one of the many upsides of nursing, a profession that (quite literally) keeps our communities afloat. And there’s a whole world of nursing specialties out there, from jet-setting travel nurses to ICU nurses to nurse anesthetists.

But how much do nurses actually earn? 🧑‍⚕️

In today’s video, we interview dozens of nurses about their paychecks, backgrounds, and career pros (and cons). If you’re curious about what it takes to join the medical field, you’ll learn a ton from these interviews.

• Going with the flow: Flo Health App introduced period emojis on Slack to normalize menstrual cycle discussions at work. 🩸

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• Google is offering an on-campus hotel “$99 special” to encourage RTO, but its employees aren’t convinced.

• Here’s the exact script this marketing director used to negotiate an additional $15K to her salary.

• Taylor Swift gave a $100,000 bonus to each of her 50 Eras Tour truck drivers (and her total tour bonuses for her team added up to a cool $55 million 🤯).

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Thanks for reading! Before we part ways, check out this 3,200-year-old work attendance sheet from ancient Egypt. Some of our favorite reasons why people were absent:

• 🍺 “Brewing beer”

• 🦂 “The scorpion bit him”

• 🧪 “With Khons making remedies”

Normalize taking time off for any and all reasons. See you next Tuesday!