Background
Solo
Brasco
35mm film photography
6 x 6 inches
9/8/21
‘Feeling Essential at UPS’ an interview between Solo and Donny Brasco.
Solo: “So COVID sucks, did you feel that working at UPS during quarantine was harder than normal?”
Donny: I didn’t really find it harder to work at UPS during quarantine. It was kind of like a regular kind of experience for me. Same old, same old, you know.
“Did you ever feel like an essential worker or that you were needed?
Donny: I didn’t really feel like I was needed. Just because it was an essential job doesn’t mean I was still needed because I could still get fired and they could find a replacement. So there wasn’t necessarily a need for me to be there.
“How important was that job during quarantine, not only for you but also for the people who just need their mail on time.”
Donny: It wasn’t really important to me, per say. It was more important to the people who I was working with to load packages on and off the truck.
“Would you tell your children about this experience lol”
Donny: I definitely would tell my children about this experience. To shed a little light on, I guess, how important that job is to some people who worked there. I’ll just be honest with my kids and tell them it wasn’t really an important job to me because I have a different end goal than most, so yeah, pretty much.