It's never made sense why they would pay couriers to do handler work in situations where they could cover the work with handlers, but that manager shouldn't have hired them without a plan in place to properly use them.
It's becoming clearer and clearer how some couriers are milking it. It's worse in some places than in others. One of my old stations was small and a been-there-forever (of course) employee would always volunteer to stay and assist with the reload. All he wanted to do is scan docs and would just stand around waiting on more docs if he didn't have any to scan. He would usually finish the docs 15 minutes prior to the end of the reload and hang around doing nothing. He was getting 8 hours of OT a week pulling that crap. He's probably the worst I've ever seen. His buddy was pretty bad, too, and both were replaced on the reload with a handler.
You can't blatantly do that kind of crap and expect it to go on unabated. The abuse of in-station OT has prompted closer scrutiny of couriers' in-station hours and is a big reason that we're seeing more handlers brought in to replace couriers.
Yep.
A year or so ago the head of a hedge fund who is also a large stakeholder in FDX met with Smith. Much of his time was spent talking about Express and let's just say that he is not fond of our 'peopleness.' He doesn't believe in minimum pay but he does believe in laying couriers off during slower parts of the year. Once someone else controls a majority of the stock, hope for a long term guy. The pain won't be as bad. A short term guy will slash everything, drive up the stock price, and then sell. He won't show any mercy because he won't be around to deal with the fallout. A long termer will.
There you go. Right out of the corporate shatpile. I love the generalization that many people are "milking it", and I really love the insinuation that Fred is somehow protecting PSP. LOFL!!
Smith is long-term because it's "his" company, and he's still extracting major cash from it. Please note his recent 12% raise. Think we'll be getting a 12% hike?
The Express business model is part-time, low pay, high turnover, and pushing people constantly for more work with no commensurate incentive. In other words, work harder and faster, but expect nothing in return. As someone else has pointed-out, Fred will gladly hire 20 new part-timers rather than upgrade existing PT people. Why is that, Dano?
You know why. It's because Express is built on a foundation of employee exploitation. Everyone should slow down to the point where what they are getting paid equals their productivity.
MT3 says he needs another Brazilian wax. Better get on that right away, lackey.