• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Is this one “due to AI”, too, like the one at Amazon?

    This, just before Christmas, is not a good sign. Consumers have run out of “disposable income”, whatever that is. Car payment delinquencies are up, too. Remember, the stock market is not the economy.

  • Hellinabucket@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I worked for ups for about 3 months before they laid off our entire shift. I already knew it was coming, more than half of what I did was unload trucks in Ohio that had been loaded in Texas and reload them for either Georgia or Kentucky. They eventually just started routing them all to the station in Kentucky, where they were already driving within 25 miles of to get to me in Ohio.

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    4 months ago

    According to their last earnings, domestic margins were down due to decreased spending. International margins were up due to increased spending. They might be seeing further decrease in domestic spending coming into the holiday season.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Wait until they start running other services as if they’re businesses. You can talk about the days when some roads weren’t toll roads.