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<blockquote data-quote="quadro" data-source="post: 785694" data-attributes="member: 12850"><p>You say typo, I say intent to mislead.</p><p></p><p>It appears that your intent was to bolster your claim about PT employees. You didn't even come close to saying they seldom get OT. That's not a typo.</p><p></p><p>My mistake, there's a ton of work to do for RTD's during the day. <strong>Newgirl </strong>pretty much spelled it all out so perhaps you can enlighten us on what she missed.</p><p></p><p>PT employees are by definition part time. There is one difference between a FT and PT employee at FedEX, disability. Most employees fortunately don't use disability. At UPS if I'm not mistaken, the pay rate is different for PT employees. Every PT employee uses a pay rate. How is that being on the short end of the stick?</p><p></p><p>Calling the numbers theoretical doesn't change the fact that there is a substantial cost to FedEx if it were to change all employees to PT and then hire enough employees to cover all the open routes. If FedEx has to coerce and bait PT employees to work, then they probably don't want to work full time anyway. Not in all cases but most part timers that want full time want it for the additional hours so why would you need to coerce and bait them?</p><p> </p><p></p><p>I'll ask once again, show me a company that builds a work schedule based on the number of hours that the employee wants to work. Schedules are always on the employer's terms. I know you don't like Fred but you are really reaching here. Every part timer in the company isn't going to refuse to work their regular schedule. Every peak there are plenty of part timers that want to work and are happy to do so. They just wish they could work those type of hours more often. I would love to see those that want FT get it. If you are willing to work and want to, then fantastic. Many, many PT'ers would be ecstatic. The reality of the situation is that there is only so much work to go around. You start making too many PT'ers FT and you take away hours from the FT employees who would then be much less than ecstatic. As for having a flexible workforce, you've already explained why FedEx needs it.</p><p></p><p>Fair is somewhat in the eye of the beholder. There are things that FedEx does that may not seem fair to some but are designed to ensure equal treatment. There are things that FedEx does that seem fair but may not actually be depending on one's point of view. There are things that I absolutely disagree with but understand that they're done to try to ensure things are fair. I never said FedEx was perfect. I just disagree that it's the evil empire you make it out to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quadro, post: 785694, member: 12850"] You say typo, I say intent to mislead. It appears that your intent was to bolster your claim about PT employees. You didn't even come close to saying they seldom get OT. That's not a typo. My mistake, there's a ton of work to do for RTD's during the day. [B]Newgirl [/B]pretty much spelled it all out so perhaps you can enlighten us on what she missed. PT employees are by definition part time. There is one difference between a FT and PT employee at FedEX, disability. Most employees fortunately don't use disability. At UPS if I'm not mistaken, the pay rate is different for PT employees. Every PT employee uses a pay rate. How is that being on the short end of the stick? Calling the numbers theoretical doesn't change the fact that there is a substantial cost to FedEx if it were to change all employees to PT and then hire enough employees to cover all the open routes. If FedEx has to coerce and bait PT employees to work, then they probably don't want to work full time anyway. Not in all cases but most part timers that want full time want it for the additional hours so why would you need to coerce and bait them? I'll ask once again, show me a company that builds a work schedule based on the number of hours that the employee wants to work. Schedules are always on the employer's terms. I know you don't like Fred but you are really reaching here. Every part timer in the company isn't going to refuse to work their regular schedule. Every peak there are plenty of part timers that want to work and are happy to do so. They just wish they could work those type of hours more often. I would love to see those that want FT get it. If you are willing to work and want to, then fantastic. Many, many PT'ers would be ecstatic. The reality of the situation is that there is only so much work to go around. You start making too many PT'ers FT and you take away hours from the FT employees who would then be much less than ecstatic. As for having a flexible workforce, you've already explained why FedEx needs it. Fair is somewhat in the eye of the beholder. There are things that FedEx does that may not seem fair to some but are designed to ensure equal treatment. There are things that FedEx does that seem fair but may not actually be depending on one's point of view. There are things that I absolutely disagree with but understand that they're done to try to ensure things are fair. I never said FedEx was perfect. I just disagree that it's the evil empire you make it out to be. [/QUOTE]
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