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<blockquote data-quote="FXManager" data-source="post: 796360" data-attributes="member: 32842"><p>FedEx "CAN" be a great company to work for. I love the company, I truly do, but something's gotta give. I see it across the divisions and opcos. There are a lot of BAD decision makers in a company with a protect the people below you mentality which leads to some good hearted people allowing bad people under them to generate chaos. I'll never bad mouth the company, only ignorant decisions that were made to protect the bottom line at the cost of the work force and perchance a co-worker or two. The company has fed my family for many years and I am grateful but I've seen it go from great to mediocre during my tenure there. I don't think all is lost and I'm not against Fred S. I just think that some up the chain have lost sight of the bottom of the chain.</p><p></p><p>I wish that from my position I could do something but I've been around long enough to see how well our talk it out with superiors works for the people that do it. Again, BAD decision makers. Not everyone is bad, not everyone is good, I don't claim to be either. I care about the company and my team and the teams around mine. I care about my boss and I care about the customer. I could go on and rant for hours on the merits of FedEx and spend just as long telling of all of the tragedies I've seen as well. I know the solution to this that would satisfy all parties involved but I also know it's not going to happen. Two things would fix most of the issues we have today. 1. Liaisons, NOT UNIONS, LIAISONS. People set up that report to themselves as an autonomous unit inside the Corporate umbrella who are protected via policy to accumulate information from employees and make suggestions to corporate for changes across opcos or in a single unit. This information could be things like gathering data on how employees feel about their pay to how co-workers feel about that one trouble maker that's killing team morale. 2. Profit Sharing (ope, did I say a bad word?) Give US something to really work for. If I am invested in my company to the point that I make more when it makes more I want to give 1000000000% so I can get more money and have a better life and know that my hard work is what got it for me and for my company.</p><p></p><p>This of course causes more issues with the Independent Contractor Model for Ground because as a driver with the name FedEx on the side of your truck you want profit sharing too. Well, there's nothing for it, you're either your own employer or you work for a company that FedEx contracts out to. Best I think you could get is if a bonus program was created based on individual merit, how many routes you run and packages you deliver, miles driven safety maintained and such. It would have to be something that your companies agreed to accept from FedEx on your behalf and split as FedEx meant it to be which would require your employers to be honest as well. It could work. I'm not the answer guy but it's time for me to shut the crap up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FXManager, post: 796360, member: 32842"] FedEx "CAN" be a great company to work for. I love the company, I truly do, but something's gotta give. I see it across the divisions and opcos. There are a lot of BAD decision makers in a company with a protect the people below you mentality which leads to some good hearted people allowing bad people under them to generate chaos. I'll never bad mouth the company, only ignorant decisions that were made to protect the bottom line at the cost of the work force and perchance a co-worker or two. The company has fed my family for many years and I am grateful but I've seen it go from great to mediocre during my tenure there. I don't think all is lost and I'm not against Fred S. I just think that some up the chain have lost sight of the bottom of the chain. I wish that from my position I could do something but I've been around long enough to see how well our talk it out with superiors works for the people that do it. Again, BAD decision makers. Not everyone is bad, not everyone is good, I don't claim to be either. I care about the company and my team and the teams around mine. I care about my boss and I care about the customer. I could go on and rant for hours on the merits of FedEx and spend just as long telling of all of the tragedies I've seen as well. I know the solution to this that would satisfy all parties involved but I also know it's not going to happen. Two things would fix most of the issues we have today. 1. Liaisons, NOT UNIONS, LIAISONS. People set up that report to themselves as an autonomous unit inside the Corporate umbrella who are protected via policy to accumulate information from employees and make suggestions to corporate for changes across opcos or in a single unit. This information could be things like gathering data on how employees feel about their pay to how co-workers feel about that one trouble maker that's killing team morale. 2. Profit Sharing (ope, did I say a bad word?) Give US something to really work for. If I am invested in my company to the point that I make more when it makes more I want to give 1000000000% so I can get more money and have a better life and know that my hard work is what got it for me and for my company. This of course causes more issues with the Independent Contractor Model for Ground because as a driver with the name FedEx on the side of your truck you want profit sharing too. Well, there's nothing for it, you're either your own employer or you work for a company that FedEx contracts out to. Best I think you could get is if a bonus program was created based on individual merit, how many routes you run and packages you deliver, miles driven safety maintained and such. It would have to be something that your companies agreed to accept from FedEx on your behalf and split as FedEx meant it to be which would require your employers to be honest as well. It could work. I'm not the answer guy but it's time for me to shut the crap up. [/QUOTE]
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