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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1092193" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>I wouldn't call them the worst employer ever. My dad worked for Minute Maid in Florida in the early 60's. They had him do some crazy things and he hurt his back routinely. Later on working for Sears they started laying off commissioned salesmen in favor of low paid hourly workers. Some salesmen literally had to be carried out after fainting when told they no longer had a job. Just a couple of examples I know. Certainly thousands of examples out there, it's a tough world. FedEx is certainly doing it on a mass scale but are they at the level of Walmart yet? What sets FedEx apart from many is the effort made to portray themselves as a corporate good citizen that cares about both it's employees and the communities it serves. They have to keep the newhires coming in, and the starting pay is attractive to many coming from nowhere McJobs. But the belief is there that if they land a job at FedEx they'll have a prosperous and secure future. FedEx then tries to get everything they can from them before they wise up and quit, or come to some midway understanding that if they continue to be pushed this way they will quit. Our ranks are full of people who do a competent job but won't go out of their way to do more like most newhires will. It's corporate detente, doing the bare minimum for the little I get in return. There is no future here, and you'd think people would do their due diligence in the Internet Age to find out the truth before subjecting themselves to this disappointing "career". But people usually have to find out for themselves, which makes many bitter when they realize they should have listened to so-and-so, and now are trapped paying on their car or whatever because they can't find anything else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1092193, member: 24302"] I wouldn't call them the worst employer ever. My dad worked for Minute Maid in Florida in the early 60's. They had him do some crazy things and he hurt his back routinely. Later on working for Sears they started laying off commissioned salesmen in favor of low paid hourly workers. Some salesmen literally had to be carried out after fainting when told they no longer had a job. Just a couple of examples I know. Certainly thousands of examples out there, it's a tough world. FedEx is certainly doing it on a mass scale but are they at the level of Walmart yet? What sets FedEx apart from many is the effort made to portray themselves as a corporate good citizen that cares about both it's employees and the communities it serves. They have to keep the newhires coming in, and the starting pay is attractive to many coming from nowhere McJobs. But the belief is there that if they land a job at FedEx they'll have a prosperous and secure future. FedEx then tries to get everything they can from them before they wise up and quit, or come to some midway understanding that if they continue to be pushed this way they will quit. Our ranks are full of people who do a competent job but won't go out of their way to do more like most newhires will. It's corporate detente, doing the bare minimum for the little I get in return. There is no future here, and you'd think people would do their due diligence in the Internet Age to find out the truth before subjecting themselves to this disappointing "career". But people usually have to find out for themselves, which makes many bitter when they realize they should have listened to so-and-so, and now are trapped paying on their car or whatever because they can't find anything else. [/QUOTE]
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