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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 1887476" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>Exactly. Actually, the 10-step plan is for new hires only. Here's how it works.</p><p></p><p>Day 1: Welcome to FedEx. We love you and FedEx Cares. You're happy to be on-board with a first-class company.</p><p></p><p>Day 2: Ride with a Purple Promise courier who blows smoke up your butt. Everything is great.</p><p></p><p>Day 3: Ride with a real courier, who gives you the straight story about the job and FedEx. You go home that night concerned and talk it over with the spouse.</p><p></p><p>Day 4: Surprise!! "We're short-handed and need you to run a route...blind. No worries though. We have DRA, but you don't have any training. Somehow, you make it through the day. More talk with the spouse.</p><p></p><p>Day 5: Late CTV and 10 sick calls. On the road again, but, ooops, no trucks or PowerPads. You wait until the FO drivers gets back and ride with one of them on "overflow P1". The courier tells you more truth about FedEx and informs you that your industry-leading benefits are worthless and that you'll never top out. A very serious talk with the spouse. You call the FO driver at home and he backs up what he said earlier in the day with his own story.</p><p></p><p>Day 6: More late freight, and a second sort. Lucky you. Back on the road with a rental van, and your manager tells you need to stay for the pickup cycle because we're "short-handed". They assign you a full route you've never done before. Don't worry, there will be "help", which never arrives. At 1630 you've done 5 pickups and you tell the dispatcher you're still delivering. Then you're told to go straight to the ramp with your outbound. Where's the ramp? You miss your afternoon college class and your daughter's dental appointment, which costs you $75.</p><p></p><p>Day 7: You tell your manager you can only work your assigned PT hours. He tells you that you need to be part of the team at FedEx. BTW, we're short-handed again and we need you to work this afternoon. When you say you can't, the manager huffily tells you he'll see you tomorrow early because the sort is scheduled that way.</p><p></p><p>Day 8: You show-up at 0615. "You didn't call the recorder? We aren't starting the sort until 0900 due to bad weather in MEM and a late aircraft". "Take a break until 0855 and don't clock-in until then." You're put to work unloading cans and then sent out on a "flex route with 65 stops". At 1430 you're still delivering, and then the pickups start coming across your PowerPad, which you barely know how to use. You call your manager on their cell phone and tell them you can't work late...no answer. Dispatch says they don't know what to tell you, and that your manager scheduled you to do pickups. You get home at 2000 and head straight to the liquor cabinet.</p><p></p><p>Day 9: Another late freight day. Once again, you arrive on-time only to be told to go on break until 0830, when the CTV is supposed to arrive. They hand you an Egg McMuffin. Everyone is pissed-off. The FO courier looks at you knowingly. Today, you leave after your deliveries, and the PM manager glares at you as he says "we have uncovered PM routes!" You go home and tell your spouse that FedEx sucks and that you're done.</p><p></p><p>Day 10: You quit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 1887476, member: 12508"] Exactly. Actually, the 10-step plan is for new hires only. Here's how it works. Day 1: Welcome to FedEx. We love you and FedEx Cares. You're happy to be on-board with a first-class company. Day 2: Ride with a Purple Promise courier who blows smoke up your butt. Everything is great. Day 3: Ride with a real courier, who gives you the straight story about the job and FedEx. You go home that night concerned and talk it over with the spouse. Day 4: Surprise!! "We're short-handed and need you to run a route...blind. No worries though. We have DRA, but you don't have any training. Somehow, you make it through the day. More talk with the spouse. Day 5: Late CTV and 10 sick calls. On the road again, but, ooops, no trucks or PowerPads. You wait until the FO drivers gets back and ride with one of them on "overflow P1". The courier tells you more truth about FedEx and informs you that your industry-leading benefits are worthless and that you'll never top out. A very serious talk with the spouse. You call the FO driver at home and he backs up what he said earlier in the day with his own story. Day 6: More late freight, and a second sort. Lucky you. Back on the road with a rental van, and your manager tells you need to stay for the pickup cycle because we're "short-handed". They assign you a full route you've never done before. Don't worry, there will be "help", which never arrives. At 1630 you've done 5 pickups and you tell the dispatcher you're still delivering. Then you're told to go straight to the ramp with your outbound. Where's the ramp? You miss your afternoon college class and your daughter's dental appointment, which costs you $75. Day 7: You tell your manager you can only work your assigned PT hours. He tells you that you need to be part of the team at FedEx. BTW, we're short-handed again and we need you to work this afternoon. When you say you can't, the manager huffily tells you he'll see you tomorrow early because the sort is scheduled that way. Day 8: You show-up at 0615. "You didn't call the recorder? We aren't starting the sort until 0900 due to bad weather in MEM and a late aircraft". "Take a break until 0855 and don't clock-in until then." You're put to work unloading cans and then sent out on a "flex route with 65 stops". At 1430 you're still delivering, and then the pickups start coming across your PowerPad, which you barely know how to use. You call your manager on their cell phone and tell them you can't work late...no answer. Dispatch says they don't know what to tell you, and that your manager scheduled you to do pickups. You get home at 2000 and head straight to the liquor cabinet. Day 9: Another late freight day. Once again, you arrive on-time only to be told to go on break until 0830, when the CTV is supposed to arrive. They hand you an Egg McMuffin. Everyone is pissed-off. The FO courier looks at you knowingly. Today, you leave after your deliveries, and the PM manager glares at you as he says "we have uncovered PM routes!" You go home and tell your spouse that FedEx sucks and that you're done. Day 10: You quit. [/QUOTE]
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