Actually I'm the guy who for a number of years had volunteered for every bit of OT he could get, working at least 40 Saturdays as a sixth day for several years. I told my mgr in 2007 that since he needed help but couldn't work me 6 days without paying double time, to convert me to a 5X8 those weeks he needed me to work 6 days. I'm the guy who has been tops in productivity in every station I've worked. I'm the guy my first mgr called superhuman in my review. I'm the guy who once delivered 19 stops in 24 mins in a 36 story bldg I'd never been in before to make service, helping another courier. I'm the guy who a director asked to meet because, he told me, he never heard of another courier who consistently ran his rt at 150%. I'm the guy who used to train couriers, who's mgr used to tell them to do just like he does and you'll never go wrong.
I'm also the guy who's been cheated by bad mgrs, who went to the company a couple of times about it only to have it swept under the rug. I'm the guy who was raised to believe that if you worked hard for someone they would reward you for your efforts. Some people deal with stress by drinking, I eat. I've got diabetes, high blood pressure, a stent to keep an artery open, and take 10 pills a day. All I want to do is survive FedEx at this point, have nothing left to prove. But I guarandamntee you I'd never go into mgmt for this company, as I was encouraged to do over the years. I don't have it in me to exploit others for money, and FedEx has gotten more and more exploitive. I'm not the world's smartest person, but my I.Q. was once measured at 150. I can see the writing on the wall.
