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<blockquote data-quote="snackdad" data-source="post: 875353" data-attributes="member: 30266"><p>I used to be a four day float. It was good when we had it and it worked but that was only during really slow parts of the year. It was pretty routine to hear "that we are collapsing the four day" We were often used as swing drivers to cover vacations in the loop or even forced to do routes outside of our loop but never with the benefit of swing pay. One perk was that as a four day, your 5th day was overtime and working Saturday was double time. Our status as four day floats was never respected and our abilities to run four different routes was never appreciated. Another downside was dealing with four different trucks and the habits of the four different drivers we covered for. Some of these drivers kept no supplies in their truck or yesterdays chicken bones still left in the trash. Customers would always say, what are you doing here at 1600? the other driver gets here at 1700 everyday.</p><p> Also when the regular courier knew that tomorrow someone else would be doing the route they would dex3 or dex8 their most difficult stops and dump them on you the next day. We all knew the signs, customers saying they were home all day and no door tag left. This was a real bad way to treat your co-workers. If you brought it up to management it depended wether the courier was in the "good buddy network" if there was any follow up or not. </p><p> Management got rid of the four day to save on overtime thinking it would solve all their problems despite the fact that a majority of the drivers need to vote to adopt or abolish the four day. Operational needs was always the way to get around that and treat us pretty poorly. My life is pretty simple and I do not have kids and a long commute. I really felt for those that so much more responsibilities than me and were forced to work so much and balance kids, marriage, life outside of FedEx. The company cares very little for what we deal with out side of the concrete walls. We are all just a number and an accounting equation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="snackdad, post: 875353, member: 30266"] I used to be a four day float. It was good when we had it and it worked but that was only during really slow parts of the year. It was pretty routine to hear "that we are collapsing the four day" We were often used as swing drivers to cover vacations in the loop or even forced to do routes outside of our loop but never with the benefit of swing pay. One perk was that as a four day, your 5th day was overtime and working Saturday was double time. Our status as four day floats was never respected and our abilities to run four different routes was never appreciated. Another downside was dealing with four different trucks and the habits of the four different drivers we covered for. Some of these drivers kept no supplies in their truck or yesterdays chicken bones still left in the trash. Customers would always say, what are you doing here at 1600? the other driver gets here at 1700 everyday. Also when the regular courier knew that tomorrow someone else would be doing the route they would dex3 or dex8 their most difficult stops and dump them on you the next day. We all knew the signs, customers saying they were home all day and no door tag left. This was a real bad way to treat your co-workers. If you brought it up to management it depended wether the courier was in the "good buddy network" if there was any follow up or not. Management got rid of the four day to save on overtime thinking it would solve all their problems despite the fact that a majority of the drivers need to vote to adopt or abolish the four day. Operational needs was always the way to get around that and treat us pretty poorly. My life is pretty simple and I do not have kids and a long commute. I really felt for those that so much more responsibilities than me and were forced to work so much and balance kids, marriage, life outside of FedEx. The company cares very little for what we deal with out side of the concrete walls. We are all just a number and an accounting equation. [/QUOTE]
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