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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 757894" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>I find it hilarious that someone tells us how stress free this job is and then it comes out that he is a foot courier handling mostly documents. Want to talk stress? Back in '92 was sent out in a tropical storm that had just been downgraded from a hurricane, told to do the best we could. Had to drive 70 miles to delivery area, looked like midnight at noon except for the lightning, power lines and limbs down. I've been on mountain passes at 9000' in Colorado, 300' drop-offs next to road with no railings, snow falling so hard couldn't see more than a few feet in front of my hood. I've made it a point to transfer to an area with mild winters. Once had a flat tire 2 days before Christmas in 70 below windchill factor. Had to change it myself, truck slipped off jack twice due to being on ice. I can't begin to imagine what couriers in the upper midwest and other hard winter areas go through every day with blizzards, etc. And that's just the weather. I've found transferring around that the rt that's open is severely heavy. FedEx mgrs will look you in the eye and tell you all rts are equal. Couriers know better. Every station has alot of roughly equal rts but there are always super easy rts, usually held by very senior employees who took those rts as others retired or quit, etc. And there's always a few rts where one must run like a dog. Some real fine coworkers seem to take delight in rubbing it in that I'm working twice as hard as they are. In situations where it appeared it could be 5 years or more before I could get a better rt I've transferred. Those same couriers looked awfully stressed when they realized they were going to have to help on my rt until a replacement came in. And then of course there are the many wonderful mgrs who believe in their hearts that it's their right to screw over their employees. I've known some great people in mgmt over the years, but they weren't the ones causing stress. You never really get over being put through the ringer, especially when at the corporate level they are terminating your pension and telling you that your work will never be worth what the topped out couriers' are worth. Yeah, there's no stress in this piddling little job. Hell, we should be paying FedEx for the privilege of working for them. Unbelievable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 757894, member: 24302"] I find it hilarious that someone tells us how stress free this job is and then it comes out that he is a foot courier handling mostly documents. Want to talk stress? Back in '92 was sent out in a tropical storm that had just been downgraded from a hurricane, told to do the best we could. Had to drive 70 miles to delivery area, looked like midnight at noon except for the lightning, power lines and limbs down. I've been on mountain passes at 9000' in Colorado, 300' drop-offs next to road with no railings, snow falling so hard couldn't see more than a few feet in front of my hood. I've made it a point to transfer to an area with mild winters. Once had a flat tire 2 days before Christmas in 70 below windchill factor. Had to change it myself, truck slipped off jack twice due to being on ice. I can't begin to imagine what couriers in the upper midwest and other hard winter areas go through every day with blizzards, etc. And that's just the weather. I've found transferring around that the rt that's open is severely heavy. FedEx mgrs will look you in the eye and tell you all rts are equal. Couriers know better. Every station has alot of roughly equal rts but there are always super easy rts, usually held by very senior employees who took those rts as others retired or quit, etc. And there's always a few rts where one must run like a dog. Some real fine coworkers seem to take delight in rubbing it in that I'm working twice as hard as they are. In situations where it appeared it could be 5 years or more before I could get a better rt I've transferred. Those same couriers looked awfully stressed when they realized they were going to have to help on my rt until a replacement came in. And then of course there are the many wonderful mgrs who believe in their hearts that it's their right to screw over their employees. I've known some great people in mgmt over the years, but they weren't the ones causing stress. You never really get over being put through the ringer, especially when at the corporate level they are terminating your pension and telling you that your work will never be worth what the topped out couriers' are worth. Yeah, there's no stress in this piddling little job. Hell, we should be paying FedEx for the privilege of working for them. Unbelievable. [/QUOTE]
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