#192 Jim Casey (Founder of UPS)

#192吉姆·凯西(UPS创始人)

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2021-07-19

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What I learned from reading Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS by Greg Niemann.

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  • UpS was half a century old in 1957.

  • In June of that year, I was a 17 year old Californian right out of high school and had already secured morning employment.

  • Still, I complained to a neighbor, who always wore a brown uniform, that I needed an afternoon job, too.

  • Why don't you go down to United Parcel?

  • They always need guys to load and unload in the afternoons.

  • So in June I became a upserving, even though I wouldn't be 18 until July.

  • Close enough, they said.

  • And I was assigned to load a trailer in downtown Los Angeles, starting at $1.62 an hour.

  • In August, the company gave us free cake and pamphlets commemorating the company's 50th anniversary.

  • In December, we moved into a new, state of the art facility next door, where men in suits were always around checking things out.

  • Another upser gave me the heads up that one of them was company founder Jim Casey.

  • From the very beginning, I had heard stories about the company's tireless founder.

  • He was a living legend, Jim Casey, the son of irish immigrants, working from the age of eleven to support a family of five.

  • In 1907, in a basement beneath a bar, he conceived the American messenger company, which eventually became UpS.

  • I drove for UPs for five years and two weeks, and then, in 1966, I entered management.

  • All the stories I heard about the company's origins and history took on a new clarity as I met and got closer to the great men who were leading ups.

  • Great men, including Jim Casey.

  • Though retired, he was still a presence.

  • I was fortunate enough to meet him on numerous occasions.

  • His unwavering insistence on strong values kept ups and its employees on course.