socalfusions
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So after making this post: About to start job at Fedex ISP looking for insight. and getting a lot of good advice I just finished up my first week of training at the Fedex ISP. Almost everything mentioned in that thread was scary accurate.
My training was done by a former route owner who has given me a lot of inside information surrounding Fedex and the state of the game as it is. From what I gathered so far, USP dislikes Fedex and I can understand why. Fedex seems to have adopted a belief in a "focus of the bottom line," as a poster stated in my previous thread, the fact that my trainer mentioned that Fedex ISP's are routinely suing Fedex for multiple millions of dollars over bad business practices and that Fedex settles instantly in most cases where ISP's band together is a little disturbing. They mentioned how Fedex pays the ISP bottom dollar for each package while they charge the customer top dollar and keep most of the profit for themselves.
Going into how UPS maintains a union and that they are able to maintain higher quality work conditions because of it while Fedex just doesn't really care was very surprising to hear. They said that Amazon essentially copied Fedex's business structure on focusing on the bottom line since it was netting them so much profit and I believe that entirely after working there. Frankly it seems like the majority of thriving corporations are adopting this bottom line strategy. It makes sense that UPS would harbor ill will at the idea of their high quality of life work conditions being reduced to what Fedex is now.
Someone in my previous thread mentioned and I quote "Today with the introduction of the investor class they're focus is completely on the bottom line. Any slug they could get to work for nothing will do just fine. Any old piece of smelter bait is good enough for a truck. One that no single route guy would leave the terminal in and the investor himself would be scared scatless if he had to go out in it. But then again this is what X wanted.Let's just hope that they will continue to be blessed with an inexhaustable supply of it and the investor class goes broke."
It's a bit shocking how accurate that is. The vehicles are in very poor condition, the particular one I've been training in for the past week has a obvious exhaust leak which vents into the cabin from the shroud just between the driver and passenger, I'm a bit concerned for my health to be honest and although I casually mentioned it was causing me to feel light headed, there simply isn't another vehicle to train in as the one other that could be used is in the shop for repairs (which coincidentally also leaks fumes into the cabin). Should I be more concerned about this?
There's no gps, only a map which I'm sure can get the job done but probably not as efficiently as a gps. You have to either provide one yourself or use your phone. The truck I've been training in has no reverse camera which I'm not sure is legal.
Maybe this is part of the reason why the guy I'm replacing put in his two weeks within one month of working at this ISP? Yeah that was comforting to hear the first day of training. This guy apparently found higher paying work elsewhere and put in his two week notice just like that. To be honest I can't blame him from what I've experienced so far.
The work is essentially the same as what I was doing at Amazon except you're driving a real junker that is maintained with the lowest possible criteria. The pay looks like it will be lower than what I was making at Amazon. My health looks to be put at more risk if my ISP takes no action to put me in a vehicle with no exhaust leak which I'm unaware of how big of a deal I would have to make for them to take action. From my brief research it looks like sucking down diesel fumes is not beneficial to your health.
All in all this job was everything everyone in my previous thread said it would be and a bit more on top of that. Although I'm hard pressed to bring some income in at the moment and really can't consider leaving until I first secure another job I can't help but this my quality of life will be reduced the longer I stay here. I really want to work hard and make the most out of this situation but from what it sounds like is that it doesn't matter because there's always a warm body ready to take your place. It's just a real shame that such a well known company such as Fedex has built their increasing reputation on such a low end strategy. At one point does bestowing the minimum quality of life upon your workforce bite you in the butt?
My training was done by a former route owner who has given me a lot of inside information surrounding Fedex and the state of the game as it is. From what I gathered so far, USP dislikes Fedex and I can understand why. Fedex seems to have adopted a belief in a "focus of the bottom line," as a poster stated in my previous thread, the fact that my trainer mentioned that Fedex ISP's are routinely suing Fedex for multiple millions of dollars over bad business practices and that Fedex settles instantly in most cases where ISP's band together is a little disturbing. They mentioned how Fedex pays the ISP bottom dollar for each package while they charge the customer top dollar and keep most of the profit for themselves.
Going into how UPS maintains a union and that they are able to maintain higher quality work conditions because of it while Fedex just doesn't really care was very surprising to hear. They said that Amazon essentially copied Fedex's business structure on focusing on the bottom line since it was netting them so much profit and I believe that entirely after working there. Frankly it seems like the majority of thriving corporations are adopting this bottom line strategy. It makes sense that UPS would harbor ill will at the idea of their high quality of life work conditions being reduced to what Fedex is now.
Someone in my previous thread mentioned and I quote "Today with the introduction of the investor class they're focus is completely on the bottom line. Any slug they could get to work for nothing will do just fine. Any old piece of smelter bait is good enough for a truck. One that no single route guy would leave the terminal in and the investor himself would be scared scatless if he had to go out in it. But then again this is what X wanted.Let's just hope that they will continue to be blessed with an inexhaustable supply of it and the investor class goes broke."
It's a bit shocking how accurate that is. The vehicles are in very poor condition, the particular one I've been training in for the past week has a obvious exhaust leak which vents into the cabin from the shroud just between the driver and passenger, I'm a bit concerned for my health to be honest and although I casually mentioned it was causing me to feel light headed, there simply isn't another vehicle to train in as the one other that could be used is in the shop for repairs (which coincidentally also leaks fumes into the cabin). Should I be more concerned about this?
There's no gps, only a map which I'm sure can get the job done but probably not as efficiently as a gps. You have to either provide one yourself or use your phone. The truck I've been training in has no reverse camera which I'm not sure is legal.
Maybe this is part of the reason why the guy I'm replacing put in his two weeks within one month of working at this ISP? Yeah that was comforting to hear the first day of training. This guy apparently found higher paying work elsewhere and put in his two week notice just like that. To be honest I can't blame him from what I've experienced so far.
The work is essentially the same as what I was doing at Amazon except you're driving a real junker that is maintained with the lowest possible criteria. The pay looks like it will be lower than what I was making at Amazon. My health looks to be put at more risk if my ISP takes no action to put me in a vehicle with no exhaust leak which I'm unaware of how big of a deal I would have to make for them to take action. From my brief research it looks like sucking down diesel fumes is not beneficial to your health.
All in all this job was everything everyone in my previous thread said it would be and a bit more on top of that. Although I'm hard pressed to bring some income in at the moment and really can't consider leaving until I first secure another job I can't help but this my quality of life will be reduced the longer I stay here. I really want to work hard and make the most out of this situation but from what it sounds like is that it doesn't matter because there's always a warm body ready to take your place. It's just a real shame that such a well known company such as Fedex has built their increasing reputation on such a low end strategy. At one point does bestowing the minimum quality of life upon your workforce bite you in the butt?
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