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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 580133" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>Thank you for the complement (that is how I read your statement).</p><p> </p><p>Given the nature of what is happening in Express right now, giving any personal information like you requested could end up providing enough crumbs of information to FedEx management (district) to make my remaining time with Express a nightmare. I do my job, I do it professionally; but I'm not happy with the circumstances. </p><p> </p><p>I actually get along with my local management rather well. I respect them, they respect me. They have an idea of how I feel, but I don't express what I think at work like I do on BC. One could call it some sort of a "truce". They leave me alone and I don't stoke the flames of discontent - wouldn't do much good at my location anyway, very anti-union location. However, that doesn't apply when I'm on my time and off company property... </p><p> </p><p>In many ways, they (local mgt.) are in the same boat as I. The difference is that they already made the plunge into management while I held off sensing something wrong with the company. I'm glad I did. They all know FedEx has changed for the worse. Some have decided that they have "already sold their souls to Fred" and dispense KoolAid and others are making quiet preparations to leave when the economy improves. It is the ones that have made the decision to leave (locally and in MEM), that I get my information from. I place some trust in one group, and don't turn my back on the other (I'll let you figure which is which). </p><p> </p><p>I do all of this out of principle. In the greater scheme of things, the money that I'm being "shafted" out of from FedEx isn't worth worrying about, I'll make it up in the future. For those who made FedEx a career, they won't make it up. </p><p> </p><p>What drives me is the hypocracy of a company stating one thing publically and then doing the exact opposite to its employees while trying to keep a straight face about it. I know that even if FedEx gets classified under the NLRB, I'll never see a penny out of it. But knowing there are good people that made a decision years ago to give their all to a company, then have that company slowly pull the rug out from under them (smiling the entire time) drives me and many others to do what we can before departing. </p><p> </p><p>I never thought that I'd ever be advocating for a union, not in all of my lifetime. Having worked at FedEx for the time I have, my eyes have been opened to the need of some sort of union to balance out what I see as predatory treatment of employees in the current economy, especially by FedEx. I've gained almost as much education experiencing FedEx as I have in my graduate program. </p><p> </p><p>I describe my self as Libertarian politically, desiring goverment to say out of peoples' lives to the greatest extent possible (that includes the current health care debate). I have no delusions about unions and their political leanings. But what I do see is a situation that has deteriorated to the point where employees have no other choice but to resort to a union to offset the abuse of power that FedEx has engaged in. </p><p> </p><p>If FedEx would've chosen to maintain the philosophy it possessed some 20 years ago, none of this would be necessary. FedEx started a gradual and what I and many others believe to be a deliberate change, about 10 years ago with the decision to expand outside of the core Express business model. There was nothing inherently wrong with expanding the business. What WAS wrong, was the seemingly simultaneous decision to begin to erode employee compensation to fund that expansion. </p><p> </p><p>Many retired FedEx employees that have been out for more than 5 years don't have a good grasp of what is going on right now. They remember the FedEx they worked for and assume it still exists. When I try to tell someone that retired in the mid-90s about the current situation, they won't believe me. They see the same white trucks, the same CEO and the same uniforms they wore and insist that nothing could've changed. It has been a deliberate and planned process of change to transform FedEx from what it was to what they want it to be. That process of change is occurring at the expense of current and future employees and should be fought. Not because change is inherently bad, it is necessary. It is because the type of change that FedEx is engaging in is predatory to its employees.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 580133, member: 22880"] Thank you for the complement (that is how I read your statement). Given the nature of what is happening in Express right now, giving any personal information like you requested could end up providing enough crumbs of information to FedEx management (district) to make my remaining time with Express a nightmare. I do my job, I do it professionally; but I'm not happy with the circumstances. I actually get along with my local management rather well. I respect them, they respect me. They have an idea of how I feel, but I don't express what I think at work like I do on BC. One could call it some sort of a "truce". They leave me alone and I don't stoke the flames of discontent - wouldn't do much good at my location anyway, very anti-union location. However, that doesn't apply when I'm on my time and off company property... In many ways, they (local mgt.) are in the same boat as I. The difference is that they already made the plunge into management while I held off sensing something wrong with the company. I'm glad I did. They all know FedEx has changed for the worse. Some have decided that they have "already sold their souls to Fred" and dispense KoolAid and others are making quiet preparations to leave when the economy improves. It is the ones that have made the decision to leave (locally and in MEM), that I get my information from. I place some trust in one group, and don't turn my back on the other (I'll let you figure which is which). I do all of this out of principle. In the greater scheme of things, the money that I'm being "shafted" out of from FedEx isn't worth worrying about, I'll make it up in the future. For those who made FedEx a career, they won't make it up. What drives me is the hypocracy of a company stating one thing publically and then doing the exact opposite to its employees while trying to keep a straight face about it. I know that even if FedEx gets classified under the NLRB, I'll never see a penny out of it. But knowing there are good people that made a decision years ago to give their all to a company, then have that company slowly pull the rug out from under them (smiling the entire time) drives me and many others to do what we can before departing. I never thought that I'd ever be advocating for a union, not in all of my lifetime. Having worked at FedEx for the time I have, my eyes have been opened to the need of some sort of union to balance out what I see as predatory treatment of employees in the current economy, especially by FedEx. I've gained almost as much education experiencing FedEx as I have in my graduate program. I describe my self as Libertarian politically, desiring goverment to say out of peoples' lives to the greatest extent possible (that includes the current health care debate). I have no delusions about unions and their political leanings. But what I do see is a situation that has deteriorated to the point where employees have no other choice but to resort to a union to offset the abuse of power that FedEx has engaged in. If FedEx would've chosen to maintain the philosophy it possessed some 20 years ago, none of this would be necessary. FedEx started a gradual and what I and many others believe to be a deliberate change, about 10 years ago with the decision to expand outside of the core Express business model. There was nothing inherently wrong with expanding the business. What WAS wrong, was the seemingly simultaneous decision to begin to erode employee compensation to fund that expansion. Many retired FedEx employees that have been out for more than 5 years don't have a good grasp of what is going on right now. They remember the FedEx they worked for and assume it still exists. When I try to tell someone that retired in the mid-90s about the current situation, they won't believe me. They see the same white trucks, the same CEO and the same uniforms they wore and insist that nothing could've changed. It has been a deliberate and planned process of change to transform FedEx from what it was to what they want it to be. That process of change is occurring at the expense of current and future employees and should be fought. Not because change is inherently bad, it is necessary. It is because the type of change that FedEx is engaging in is predatory to its employees. [/QUOTE]
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