Posted on 06/04/2013 11:22:20 AM PDT by Former Fetus
Here's a bit of advice real "safety experts" are giving kids — and parents. It's poisonous. But first, the back story:
The other day, a blogger named Lisa Flam wrote on a popular parenting website that her seventh-grader came home one day and announced he "didn't do it." Didn't do what? He and his friend were walking home from school (points for that!), when a white-haired lady stood in her doorway and requested the boys' help. "She asked them to move a medium-size package from her front step into her house," Flam wrote. "On the sidewalk, the boys wondered what to do."
At first, they did absolutely nothing, knowing that they "shouldn't." After all, they didn't know this woman, making her a stranger, making this fall into the dreaded category of "stranger danger." But then, after the woman said she's 84 years old and couldn't move it herself, the other boy did the dirty deed:
He helped an old lady.
The blogger's son did not. So — torn between gratitude that her son understands that the world is full of danger and doubts as to whether his refusal to help actually constituted good judgment — the mom called (who else?) the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Those are the folks who put the missing kids' pictures on the milk cartons and neglected to mention that the vast majority were not taken by a stranger.
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That’s not why they sprint back to their truck. They leave quickly because they are being timed. There is a GPS on them and their managers know exactly where they are at all times. They are timed from point A to point B. It is recorded when the truck stops and how much time is spent at each place. Very little time is given them and they are penalized when spending too long at a house, even down to the seconds.
Disclaimer: I do not work for a delivery company, nor do I know anyone who does. I have just seen various delivery people clicking a clock on their equipment.
IOW, like doctors these days.
My doctor doesn’t follow a time clock, he listens to his patients.
I knew some UPS guys who mentioned that at some point they all had nightmares about their deliveries - timing, wrong package, can’t find the address, etc. Kind of like dreams about needing to take an exam but you can’t find the exam room. : )
There are few things more gratifying than doing the right thing and getting shit for it. I #ing love pissing off scumbags.
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