Goldilocks
Well-Known Member
Agree, we are all replaceable. But with UPS starting there employees out with a decent income helps keep good workers. It very different at Fedex. Its a revolving door. They dont pay new hires.
Sense of Entitlement
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Agree, we are all replaceable. But with UPS starting there employees out with a decent income helps keep good workers. It very different at Fedex. Its a revolving door. They dont pay new hires.
But your young kids have quite an incentive to work hard and impress management. Not to mention most people are aware that UPS drivers work really hard but are rewarded for it so a young kid pursuing a driving job with you is most likely a quality person to begin with. It doesn't take long for people coming aboard at FedEx to realize FedEx wants hustle and productivity but gives little in return. The philosophy is they should be thankful we give them a job. And the really sad thing for UPS is you charge your customers fair prices that enable you to provide well for your workforce but it's, who else, FedEx that's going to ruin that for you with their cutthroat business ethics. I know in capitalism competition is good for the consumer but the new paradigm is to exploit a large group of people so that management in both FedEx and it's shipping partners benefit. Just because a group of people are willing to take those Ground jobs to have anything in this economy doesn't mean FedEx should see just how little they can get away with in compensation. If you believe we can have a sound economy with a bright future for our kids doing this you are deluded. If people don't have money to spend beyond very basic food and housing then one day you'll wake up and realize this is not the America we were taught to believe was the greatest country on Earth but now is just a shell of it's former self, ruined by greed.
Poor Fred has to eat too!!He cant pay you a good wage and buy food for his family. Have you seen the price of steak and shrinp lately? How would he pay his light bill for that 10000 square foot house? Times are hard. He may have to take a paycut...say only 25 million!!!!Cant live on that.
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
The first part has already been happening for quite sometime.
His days of "rewarding" are well over. He's not about to go giving his workers a bigger slice of the pie especially when it means less for him, his cronies and his polical buddies.
whenIgetthere
Well-Known Member
I was thinking more caviar!
I also forgot about the high price for fuel. Could you imagine how much it costs tp fillup your own private jet,yacht,and limmo.!!!! I dont know how poor Freddieboy makies it! Maybe you all should give back a little more!!!LOL
El Morado Diablo
Well-Known Member
Our stock price is up 20% since the beginning of last year. Our senior manager gave us the 410k lecture and mentioned the generosity FedEx showed us when they paid us the $100-$200 Frontline bonus "even though we didn't make our SQI goal". Wow...then the SM admits the service failures during the summer were due to FedEx "pulling back too much". I know I want to personally thank FedEx's top management for all the late starts, long lunches, end of split shift pay, no scheduled OT, etc which resulted in many of us making thousands of dollars less than we did the year before -- for a $100-200 bonus. You know it's a poor reward when it's so small you don't even notice it on your paycheck.
The best line of the meeting was when the SM said, "The only reason FedEx took on the Amazon.com account was to give us something to do until the economy improved. And maybe make a little bit of money for the company, too."
well, maybe not at Express....
Route 66
Slapped Upside-da-Head Member
sam, I'm convinced you'd toss a drowning guy a life anchor, wouldn't ya?
Disgruntled2
Active Member
Well they don't pay experienced workers either! New hires in Memphis are paid $11.90 for a handlers position. I have been with FredEx for 5 1/2 years and my pay is only $13! So 5 years of experience is worth $1.10/hr more! That is so effed up it makes me sick....especially when the newcomers/kids do as little as possible to just get a paycheck. (Entitlement Mentality) This is a 2nd job for me and I was here mainly for the benefits which now have gone to hell and it is making my decision to leave and take my day job benefits a much easier decision.
hypo hanna
Well-Known Member
Typical FedEx,..... hands you a nickel with one hand while they steal dollars out our you pocket with the other.
I think UPS is trying to hire Fred so he can beat us down too!
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Shhh. Don't reveal the secret formula.
hypo hanna
Well-Known Member
And oh the self congratulating when there is a tiny payout or a raise that doesn't even come close to covering the cost of living. Every exec has to put out a new video crowing about how the company is struggling but we managed to get you those table scraps. You know, because FedEx is a "people company".
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
They come in all ranks of seniority and generations. For every newer hire who is like that, there is a veteran (actually, probably a few) who thinks he shouldn't have to do whatever because he's been with the company for 20 years. Good Lord, there are couriers who think that they should be able to change their route boundaries on a daily basis because they've been on those routes for years and nobody else knows as much about that area and blah blah blah. Of course management coddles those newer slackers... just like they coddle the older slackers.
So to answer your question, yes, we have newer employees like that. They blend in well with the older employees who are like that.
CJinx
Well-Known Member
You have newer, younger people who are just looking for ways to game the system to get a nice paycheck for doing as little work as possible, and you have veterans who feel that the company owes them a lavish lifestyle for unskilled labor and game the system to get a nice paycheck for doing as little work as possible.
Whatever happened to people that just went to work and did their jobs; and if they were unhappy with the work or pay, then they left to do something else?
Whatever happened to people that just went to work and did their jobs; and if they were unhappy with the work or pay, then they left to do something else?
Glorifiedpackmule
Well-Known Member
Here's another way of looking at where you started at and what you make now.. I've been with the company for 8 years. If I take what I make now and subtract what I started at and divide it by 8 it comes out to .34 cents a year. That's HUGE! How could I not be happy with that!? Don't even get me started on Insurance...it only makes it look worse.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
I have worked many jobs before FedEx and I can tell you from experience that there is less of that here than most places. Remember who we work for. Fred wants the last penny he can get out of you. So even the laziest courier works a little hard.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
The unhappy ones realized that they can't get any of the better paying jobs so we're stuck with them.
