Because as a contractor your are not really an employee! Sorry to say it but it is the truth!What just drives me crazy about the news coverage of the DHL shutdown, is they only mention figures that include DHL employees and those Astar and ABX employees at the airpark as being the only casualties... I never hear a report that includes the thousands of contractor employees that are out of or will soon be out of work. I saw a chart two months ago that added up all the station closures that occured last year up to those planned closures this week, add in the DHL employees and those in Wilmington, and we're looking at nearly 40,000 people out of work! THAT is the real impact of the DHL shut down. Why doesn't the news report it?
Cmon drew? Your smarter than this post! FedEx and ups are still making profits, might not be as high as they were last year, but profits (Feb 3rd we will see).DHL is dealing with the reality of the world wide of economy, theyve never been profitable here and since theyre subsidised by the German gov't they need to answer the the German people....UPS can afford to wait things out when we expand out we'll lose money for a little while but we have the massive logistics infrastructure DHL doesnt have.
I saw a chart two months ago that added up all the station closures that occured last year up to those planned closures this week, add in the DHL employees and those in Wilmington, and we're looking at nearly 40,000 people out of work! THAT is the real impact of the DHL shut down. Why doesn't the news report it?