A few years ago when management was in such a huge hurry to get people out of their trucks and off the clock within 5 minutes of returning, they nearly escorted one of our drivers to the time clock. He said that he had a large signature required delivery that was still on his truck and he felt responsible to lock it in the cage himself. This was when people were getting OLCC's for not doing a location scan into the overnight cage. The manager told him get off the clock and don't worry about it, he would do it.
I used to audit the pre trip/post trip compliance and checked every truck at the end of the night. Sometimes I would find overlooked outbound or send agains. The manager was in his office probably working on his fourth soda of the day. I think he drank a case of soda a week and not the diet stuff. In the couriers W700 I found a pile of very heavy boxes, that were COD and signature required and were going to go out again the next day. The manager neglected to even remember to put the boxes away and they sat in the open truck in an empty warehouse, unattended, even with the roll up doors open to the employee parking area outside.
I looked at the shipping information on the boxes and it was a shipment of about 140 assorted Glock pistols from Smyrna, GA. meant for our local gun dealer. The codes for each gun were written on each box with quantities, G21, G23, G26, G19.........etc.
I went into the manager's office to interrupt his corn syrup fix and he passed it off like it was nothing. He said "oh yeah, could you put those away for me".
Just the though of even one case of these guns walking out of the warehouse is very scary. Laptops and iPods do not kill people but people with Glock's do. We have such a huge problem with theft. Whole cases of iPhones walk out the door. Somewhere between getting scanned in at the shuttle and the end of the belt they vanish. And here is this manager worrying about 4 minutes on his employees timecard and dropping the ball completely. Do you ever wonder why most senior managers and operation managers have never a more than a high school education. Does Fedex deliberately hire weak feeble minded managers with little career hope outside of FedEx, because they know that these desperate, dysfunctional mercenaries will blindly follow orders and never question the morals of the corporation.