That's sad to hear.
I start at my local hub soon and everyone I've told (family and friends) all say "Wow! Really?! I've heard that's a great company and place to work!" Then I come here and browse around to only see that the UPS section and FedEx sections are like night and day. UPS is, for the most part, positive feedback but I see little to NO positive feedback on the FedEx discussions, really kind of disheartening to tell you the truth. (And yes, I know this is a UPS forum essentially but it's all I can find for FedEx discussion)
Yesterday was my last day as a vendor at a beverage company (delivering pallets of drinks all day to grocery stores and stocking c-store shelves myself) and the branch itself is shutting down soon anyways. I've never seen a more poorly managed place to work than this place, truly ran by the seat of your pants day in and day out. The best thing I found to do is just punch in, shut up, do my work, punch out and go home and just let the BS slide past. I can't imagine a more poorly run operation than where I'm coming from. Our company was the laughing stock at every backdoor receiving area, it was a joke! I always did my job well though and most everybody liked me, I'm pretty easy to get along with, there are always a-holes out there though that you will never please.
Every other stop for the past few weeks a manager or clerk would ask me "so where are you going when they shut down?" I'd tell them, "I'm going to drive for FedEx" and never heard a negative word come out of their mouth, and trust me some of these people were loudmouths that would talk crap about other vendors, etc, lol. So that made me feel a little better, they seemed even EXCITED that I was going somewhere better as the words "FedEx" came out of my mouth their eyes would widen like "WoW, Really?!".
So anyways, regardless of what I read online (because you know everything you read online is TRUE right? lol), I'm going to go in with a positive attitude as always, be friendly, do my job the best I can and see what comes of it. Yeah, maybe in 6 months to a year I'll be on here moaning and groaning with the rest of you, but maybe it will just be from my aching back, haha.
Sorry to hear you've lost the Pride to work there OP. For the first 4 or 5 months I worked at my last job I felt that Pride also only to see that it was a joke.