New Hires Done at 4:00

[fedex_mafia]

I work at Express and we just had a group of new hires start recently. These people have in their contracts that they are not obligated to remain working after 4:00 p.m. I'm pretty sure this is the first group at our hub that has this in their contract and I was wondering if FedEx is doing this for everybody.

It's a real pain for the group I work in because there are many days when we're not done working until 4:15-4:45. I'm worried a year from now when a third of our group isn't obligated to stay after 4:00 and the rest of us are picking up their slack.

 

[Route 66]

What contracts?

 

[no lates today]

Who the hell doesn't have to work past 4? If any route is back at my station before 4, they have had a cake walk of a day. Must be nice!

 

[Purplepackage]

I'm always back by 4:30-5

One guy in ever loop works a 4/10 week and does the pups for the loop.

Unless it's Christmas I'm back by 5 at the latest. But not having to stay past 4 is strange and will change quickly during peak

 

[dezguy]

What contracts?

Maybe being able to hire and hold onto people has gotten so hard, FedEx is starting to allow people to dictate their working terms?

 

[fedex_mafia]

Maybe being able to hire and hold onto people has gotten so hard, FedEx is starting to allow people to dictate their working terms?

That's what I heard the reason was. When I got hired on a few years ago they told us we'd be working in the 9:00am-4:00pm range. I guess they're guaranteeing people that now.

 

[Mr. 7]

I work at Express.

It's a real pain for the group I work in because there are many days when we're not done working until 4:15-4:45. I'm worried a year from now when a third of our group isn't obligated to stay after 4:00 and the rest of us are picking up their slack.

What do you and your group do at Express? Handlers at a hub? Couriers? Agents?

 

[overflowed]

That's what I heard the reason was. When I got hired on a few years ago they told us we'd be working in the 9:00am-4:00pm range. I guess they're guaranteeing people that now.

People are leaving weekly at my locale. I really wouldn't be surprised if they are doing this. Sounds more like a cost cutting measure to make sure people don't milk to me though. They will just change the language and say you read it wrong.

 

[Operational needs]

People are leaving weekly at my locale. I really wouldn't be surprised if they are doing this. Sounds more like a cost cutting measure to make sure people don't milk to me though. They will just change the language and say you read it wrong.

I'm sure there is a sentence in their offer letters about the possibility of it changing due to "operational needs". That's always their way out.

 

[Purplepackage]

This is basically like someone getting hired part time to work say a 7-11am shift and that is what the offer letter states.

But when freight is late or there is bad weather operational needs to take over they are working 7- whenever they are done helping people

 

[Cactus]

Of course management will lie straight-faced all about this. Anything they type up is subject to change once the ink dries.

 

[fedex_mafia]

What do you and your group do at Express? Handlers at a hub? Couriers? Agents?

We're handlers at the Indy Hub

 

[no lates today]

We're handlers at the Indy Hub

Well that explains it. I thought he meant couriers. I was gonna transfer to that station.