hypo hanna
Well-Known Member
Oh they don't give a crap about the people with banners either. All hourlies are now seen as liabilities. Payrolls and insurance eat into the bottom line.
Good one!my manager asked me to take sfa today....i told him i was going to defer it until october....
my manager asked me to take sfa today....i told him i was going to defer it until october....
Excellent answer!! Not taking the SFA is the best choice, but if you DO feel compelled to take it, just slam them...all of them. "Protecting" a good senior or ops manager isn't going to do you any good, or any of your fellow employees. If they are a decent manager, they'll do just fine anyway, and it's their other numbers that FedEx really cares about...not the SFA.
Memphis needs to know we are very unhappy, and unlikely to cooperate in terms of productivity and service. That's the message they need to hear, and when you give your manager good scores they figure you're not that unhappy after all. If everyone who actually does take it slams everything, then they get the picture. Not even being willing to take it sends a much louder message.
No matter what, they're never going to release the true results anyway. Do you really think MT3 or whomever is going to go on Frontline, UpClose, or any other corporate medium and apologize for what they've been doing? No way. If anything, they will spin-it to look like we are unappreciative of all they've been doing for us and for the corporation.
One of the longest running BS excuses is that "we have to re-invest in the company to protect your career long-term", or "we're thinking of your future". Crap, crap, and more CRAP. You see, that's why they are investing so much in Ground...it's all for you. You're just too dumb to understand how much they care about you.
I fully expect them to engage in another round of back-slapping and self-congratulations when SFA results are announced. Any "areas of concern" will be given the usual treatment...a useless "discussion", a BBQ, and an equally useless "feedback session" where they will show you how your concerns will be addressed, which means a chart on the wall outside your manager's office listing everything he will promise to do but actually never do in order to improve things.
First, this is where my economics teacher's saying "lies, damn lies and statistics.." The Ivory Tower dwellers almost definitely have "spin doctors", just like any politico worth his salt. All they do is take a negative and spin it into a positive and then concoct the corroborating story to add credibility and believablity.
Second, my current manager being the useless lump that he is, scored one of the lowest (possibly THE lowest) scores in the district last year, never even bothered with a feedback meeting, notes or otherwise. He truly is as useless as teats on a crowbar.
I don't care how much they beg, and they will, how much they threaten and some will, I resolutely REFUSE to take part in the SFA, simply because it has absolutely, positively no meaning.
Then he/she isn't doing their job. Ours tells us his score and we all go over the lowest sections. But, normally you just hear crickets when he asks why this part was low.The required follow up meetings are a joke.
With only a half an hour allocated, our manager hogs the whole thing, never reveals his (obviously low) score and only selects a few topics he wants to talk about and very little time for any questions.
The follow up meetings are a joke. With only a half an hour given, our manager hogs the whole meeting and only picks a few topics that he wants to talk about. Fred's too cheap to give us adequate time.