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September 18, 2009Jon Brooks Comments OffRelated to the previous post, on Wilmington, Ohio and DHL—a thread in response to a Columbus Dispatch story about Wilmington called Hope, Gardens nourish town DHL left, posted on a local Ohio bulletin board:
JOSEPH: People have to reconsider how they live and regions have to reconsider how to make themselves economically viable in a recession. Things will change for the better, but we have to bring new ideas to the table. That’s exactly what these residents are doing.
FRANK: Come on now most everyone that worked for DHL grew up on a farm or had a garden when they were growing up. It’s a good ideal to bring green businesses into the area but we all need to do a lot of changing and I don’t think growing a few vegetables is going to help much. Lets all stop driving our big SUVs and DHL employees have a bunch of them. Because the were spoiled for such a long time…
GENERATION LAZY & DUMB: DHL employees were spoiled for a long time? Are you kidding? I worked there while I was in high school. The people got paid like peasants and drove whatever car they could afford. I don’t know where you’re getting that they all drove SUVs…
Also, for an interesting glimpse into DHL work culture, check out this DHL News and Gossip Jobs Forum. Here’s a post from Jobless in Phoenix:
I KNOW I was meeting expectations. I had excellent reviews every year….Even the few who are left are complaining now about the overload of work, and they’ve changed everyones hours…. There are layoffs all over the US. They were even trying to get us to work with the lights off last year to cut back on the electricity to save money…. which we did… I have lots of friends who are still there. They are also in fear of losing their jobs.
