A former UPS employee is burning up the blogs Monday after participating in a picket line of DHL pilots at UPS' Sandy Springs corporate headquarters, then quitting his job last week.

Antony Bordoli, a 36-year-old married father of six who lives in Snellville, has been defending his decision to quit the world's largest package carrier on blogs like the financially focused Motley Fool. He had worked at UPS for 10 years.

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He said he quit his job even though he didn't know about the pending deal between UPS and DHL until he saw the picket line.

The proposed deal would make DHL one of UPS' largest clients. Valued at $1 billion per year, it would put about 10,000 Wilmington (Ohio) Air Park pilots and other staff out of work, including the pilots for two air cargo companies, ASTAR and ABX. About 50 ASTAR pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association union, picketed in front of the UPS headquarters Thursday. UPS stands to gain the cargo flight contracts, which would be operated out of UPS' Louisville, Ky., air hub.

Bordoli, a software engineer, said he analyzed financial data such as overtime hours. Bordoli said that he got upset when he saw the signs the pilots were holding, such as "UPS/DHL destroying 10,000 American jobs." He related it back to his job, which was auditing expenses to make sure there was "no fluff, no extras, no overtime, no bonuses" for UPS' Southeast region.

He was in the middle of running the same software for the entire U.S. work force, he said Monday.

"I was drilling down to find out who were the repeat offenders of this excess cost," he said.

He quit after realizing that what he was doing could affect other workers' livelihoods, he said.

UPS spokesman Norman Black said that he cannot comment on the employment of an individual worker.

Several bloggers on the Motley Fool weren't buying Bordoli's rationale that he quit his job for ethical reasons.

One poster, "36anddone," called it a "bunch of bull." Another poster named "bibbucks," wrote, "The anti-worker giant who you talk about apparently was OK by you for the last 10 years. I know since 1907 [UPS] has taken care of hundreds of thousands of good hard working people both hourly and management. ... I feel honored to have been an active employee for 32 years and a very happy retiree thanks to UPS."

Another poster, "rshoe4056," added: "I'm curious as to why you are not directing your 'conscience' toward DHL as they apparently are the culprits. UPS is simply stepping up to the plate and responding to a need. I see absolutely no connection between you leaving UPS and what has happened in Ohio with DHL."

One blogger on the other hand, "jdgee2," defended Bordoli, saying he had "back bone" for reminding upper management that they employ "actual people, not numbers."

Bordoli wrote seven posts on the Motley Fool and said he was monitoring a total of five blogs to defend his reputation and decision.

In another blog, it was noted that Bordoli had a verbal altercation with a corporate chef on Thursday, which Bordoli confirmed. Bordoli said he earned between $50,000 and $60,000 a year at UPS and is now looking for another job.