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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 861505" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>You caught me before starting work for the day...</p><p></p><p>Routes such as yours in rural areas shouldn't be affected too much. You drive more than you run packages. If you re-read the post regarding full-timers, if Express follows through, it will be forced split shifts for those who can get split shifts in (typical urban/suburban rtes). Rural rtes won't be affected as much. If they used forced split shifts and depend on attrition (people like me pulling the trigger and getting out) they won't have to pay a penny in unemployment compensation. This has been all carefully thought out in Memphis regarding the cash flows. </p><p></p><p>Time frame.. right now the biggest determinent is the US Congress. If they pull the plug on the RLA, your head will spin as to how fast the changes will come. If Express manages to dodge the bullet again, then the changes will be incremental - as not to raise too much alarm. I said well over a year ago, think of the proverbial frog in a kettle of water. Turn up the heat slow, most frogs will adjust and slowly cook, turn up the heat too fast, most frogs will jump before they cook. I personally reached my tolerance and found a better pond to play in.</p><p></p><p>"Stand there like a deer in the headlights and wait to get run over..." - why do you think I and others spent so much time in 2009 and 2010 trying to raise awareness? I got out, you should too. If you really want to stay, you should've taken some risks at your station and gotten some people to sign union cards. Most Couriers played it safe in 2009 and 2010 - and will pay the price in the coming months/year. </p><p></p><p>Now that car is coming around the corner and you're looking at a pair of fast approaching lights, what should you do? You and every other Express employee are faced with the issue of determining just how fast that car is coming around the corner and how much time you have till its too late. From my perspective, it is already too late. You have no control over your career, you are along for the ride/impact. You have to take control of your career and either jump ship or get behind a concrete barrier (unionization) to avoid becoming roadkill. </p><p></p><p>With respect, you have a propensity for wishful thinking which has cost you dearly over your life (I read that string on 401k's). No one is going to take care of you in this life with the exception of yourself and close family. Signing a union card is the first step in taking care of yourself when you are faced with a highway full of vehicles coming at you intending on turning you into roadkill. When I got information regarding Express, I tried to paint a big picture without revealing too much which would be detrimental to the individuals in Express which pass the information on. It is up to the reader to "connect all the dots" and come up a conclusion upon which they feel is correct. </p><p></p><p>"People who've worked failthfully.... are they really that uncaring". After all of this time, do you think that a major corporation which has engaged in the practices which it is famous for, actually "cares" for individual employees? Again with respect, you need a reality check. FedEx has had no problem with having drivers work in Ground getting paid the equivalent of $10 and hour with no benefits. As far as FedEx is concerned, your getting $17 and hour with benefits and a PPP is chrome plated compensation. </p><p></p><p>If you want "caring", you need to try working for a small business where the person you report to is more often than not the owner or part-owner in the business. In a large corporation, busting your ass for them while they attempt to minimize your compensation at every turn is akin to taking a mid-ocean swim without a life preserver and raft nearby. You are a number, a list of characters on a personel roster, an expense which they attempt to minimize by every means possible while staying within the limits of legality. </p><p></p><p>You have demonstrated a repeated confusion regarding morality and legality. That which is illegal is immoral (vast majority of cases). Everything that is moral is (usually in a free society) legal. There is that overlapping middle ground between varying shades of immoral behavior yet absolute legality. FedEx exists in that middle ground. They maintain legality, but morality is only coincidental to a situation if it creates a profit. Do you call the situation with the Ground drivers moral behavior on the part of FedEx - I don't. It is in that middle ground, bordering between immoral behavior and illegal behavior. Why the change to ISP model? To make sure they stay one step outside the line between legality and illegality. Being on the wrong side of the illegality line hurts profits. Being on just the other side of that line though is usually quite profitable for a large corporation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 861505, member: 22880"] You caught me before starting work for the day... Routes such as yours in rural areas shouldn't be affected too much. You drive more than you run packages. If you re-read the post regarding full-timers, if Express follows through, it will be forced split shifts for those who can get split shifts in (typical urban/suburban rtes). Rural rtes won't be affected as much. If they used forced split shifts and depend on attrition (people like me pulling the trigger and getting out) they won't have to pay a penny in unemployment compensation. This has been all carefully thought out in Memphis regarding the cash flows. Time frame.. right now the biggest determinent is the US Congress. If they pull the plug on the RLA, your head will spin as to how fast the changes will come. If Express manages to dodge the bullet again, then the changes will be incremental - as not to raise too much alarm. I said well over a year ago, think of the proverbial frog in a kettle of water. Turn up the heat slow, most frogs will adjust and slowly cook, turn up the heat too fast, most frogs will jump before they cook. I personally reached my tolerance and found a better pond to play in. "Stand there like a deer in the headlights and wait to get run over..." - why do you think I and others spent so much time in 2009 and 2010 trying to raise awareness? I got out, you should too. If you really want to stay, you should've taken some risks at your station and gotten some people to sign union cards. Most Couriers played it safe in 2009 and 2010 - and will pay the price in the coming months/year. Now that car is coming around the corner and you're looking at a pair of fast approaching lights, what should you do? You and every other Express employee are faced with the issue of determining just how fast that car is coming around the corner and how much time you have till its too late. From my perspective, it is already too late. You have no control over your career, you are along for the ride/impact. You have to take control of your career and either jump ship or get behind a concrete barrier (unionization) to avoid becoming roadkill. With respect, you have a propensity for wishful thinking which has cost you dearly over your life (I read that string on 401k's). No one is going to take care of you in this life with the exception of yourself and close family. Signing a union card is the first step in taking care of yourself when you are faced with a highway full of vehicles coming at you intending on turning you into roadkill. When I got information regarding Express, I tried to paint a big picture without revealing too much which would be detrimental to the individuals in Express which pass the information on. It is up to the reader to "connect all the dots" and come up a conclusion upon which they feel is correct. "People who've worked failthfully.... are they really that uncaring". After all of this time, do you think that a major corporation which has engaged in the practices which it is famous for, actually "cares" for individual employees? Again with respect, you need a reality check. FedEx has had no problem with having drivers work in Ground getting paid the equivalent of $10 and hour with no benefits. As far as FedEx is concerned, your getting $17 and hour with benefits and a PPP is chrome plated compensation. If you want "caring", you need to try working for a small business where the person you report to is more often than not the owner or part-owner in the business. In a large corporation, busting your ass for them while they attempt to minimize your compensation at every turn is akin to taking a mid-ocean swim without a life preserver and raft nearby. You are a number, a list of characters on a personel roster, an expense which they attempt to minimize by every means possible while staying within the limits of legality. You have demonstrated a repeated confusion regarding morality and legality. That which is illegal is immoral (vast majority of cases). Everything that is moral is (usually in a free society) legal. There is that overlapping middle ground between varying shades of immoral behavior yet absolute legality. FedEx exists in that middle ground. They maintain legality, but morality is only coincidental to a situation if it creates a profit. Do you call the situation with the Ground drivers moral behavior on the part of FedEx - I don't. It is in that middle ground, bordering between immoral behavior and illegal behavior. Why the change to ISP model? To make sure they stay one step outside the line between legality and illegality. Being on the wrong side of the illegality line hurts profits. Being on just the other side of that line though is usually quite profitable for a large corporation. [/QUOTE]
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