MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Here's "The Plan". Feel free to disagree, but take a minute and consider the following:
1. Only management and pilots really matter. Everyone else is disposable.
2. Create pay and retirement plans that conform with #1 above.
3. Do everything possible to avoid unionization. Buy politicians, create restrictive workplace rules that keep union reps off the premises, and plaster every nook and cranny with company "information" and propaganda. Fred spent $25 million during the past election cycle to save himself hundreds of millions in the long run. That's money straight out of your pocket, or didn't you realize that?
4. Invent a company culture that pretends to be a meritocracy and then shove it down employee's throats at every opportunity that "hard work is recognized" (and rewarded) at FedEx. Not exactly. Your hard work is rewarded with more of the same.
5. Terminate anyone who disagrees with the previously mentioned culture by whatever means necessary....legal or not.
6. Endlessly push the phony ideal of "safety" while knowingly pushing employees to or above their "safe" limits to increase productivity and profits. Anyone happen to notice that serious accidents are way up lately? When you send someone on the road at 25-30% over goal, bad things happen...for a reason. What do a few dead or maimed couriers mean anyway? Profits are all that matters.
7. Eliminate injured or sick employees as quickly as possible. If there is any way the employee can be blamed or charged with fault, do so to save the company money and reduce future liability. If you don't, you will be eliminated yourself as a manager.Conform..or else.
8. Pretend the company has a "people culture", and promote it at every opportunity. In the meantime, do everything possible from a corporate standpoint to cut labor costs and benefits to the bone. Choose an insurance carrier that will do anything to avoid paying a claim, and make employees justify any medical expense by putting them through a maze of voicemail Hell, where the ultimate goal is to deny as much medical, dental, or mental health treatment as possible.
9. Provide the bare minimum of resources possible to train new employees, since most of them will either quit or move to a better job at first opportunity. When they fail, eliminate them quickly instead of wasting time and money re-training them correctly.
10. Promote managers who value political skills and chicanery above operational ability and aptitude. Poor couriers that lie without conscience, yell and scream at others for issues caused by their own incompetence, and are generally not very bright make the best candidates. Blame others whenever possible, and if you protect the maroon that is your senior manager, you will have a bright future ahead of you at FedEx.
11. Tell employees to live a "balanced life", and then create policies and procedures that make it impossible to do so...like "operational necessity".
12. Keep as many employees as possible part-time. Abuse them and keep them hungry so they'll be a flexible and cheap alternative to hiring more full-time workers. Offer the carrot of "future opportunities" if they do good work. If they work hard, give them more to do, but don't create any more full-time positions than necessary.
13. Pretend Fred S didn't slavishly copy UPS at every opportunity.
14. Remember..."We're an airline".
15. Create an army of lawyers and lobbyists who can make all of the above happen every day. WalMart has nothing on these cretins.
And so much more....
1. Only management and pilots really matter. Everyone else is disposable.
2. Create pay and retirement plans that conform with #1 above.
3. Do everything possible to avoid unionization. Buy politicians, create restrictive workplace rules that keep union reps off the premises, and plaster every nook and cranny with company "information" and propaganda. Fred spent $25 million during the past election cycle to save himself hundreds of millions in the long run. That's money straight out of your pocket, or didn't you realize that?
4. Invent a company culture that pretends to be a meritocracy and then shove it down employee's throats at every opportunity that "hard work is recognized" (and rewarded) at FedEx. Not exactly. Your hard work is rewarded with more of the same.
5. Terminate anyone who disagrees with the previously mentioned culture by whatever means necessary....legal or not.
6. Endlessly push the phony ideal of "safety" while knowingly pushing employees to or above their "safe" limits to increase productivity and profits. Anyone happen to notice that serious accidents are way up lately? When you send someone on the road at 25-30% over goal, bad things happen...for a reason. What do a few dead or maimed couriers mean anyway? Profits are all that matters.
7. Eliminate injured or sick employees as quickly as possible. If there is any way the employee can be blamed or charged with fault, do so to save the company money and reduce future liability. If you don't, you will be eliminated yourself as a manager.Conform..or else.
8. Pretend the company has a "people culture", and promote it at every opportunity. In the meantime, do everything possible from a corporate standpoint to cut labor costs and benefits to the bone. Choose an insurance carrier that will do anything to avoid paying a claim, and make employees justify any medical expense by putting them through a maze of voicemail Hell, where the ultimate goal is to deny as much medical, dental, or mental health treatment as possible.
9. Provide the bare minimum of resources possible to train new employees, since most of them will either quit or move to a better job at first opportunity. When they fail, eliminate them quickly instead of wasting time and money re-training them correctly.
10. Promote managers who value political skills and chicanery above operational ability and aptitude. Poor couriers that lie without conscience, yell and scream at others for issues caused by their own incompetence, and are generally not very bright make the best candidates. Blame others whenever possible, and if you protect the maroon that is your senior manager, you will have a bright future ahead of you at FedEx.
11. Tell employees to live a "balanced life", and then create policies and procedures that make it impossible to do so...like "operational necessity".
12. Keep as many employees as possible part-time. Abuse them and keep them hungry so they'll be a flexible and cheap alternative to hiring more full-time workers. Offer the carrot of "future opportunities" if they do good work. If they work hard, give them more to do, but don't create any more full-time positions than necessary.
13. Pretend Fred S didn't slavishly copy UPS at every opportunity.
14. Remember..."We're an airline".
15. Create an army of lawyers and lobbyists who can make all of the above happen every day. WalMart has nothing on these cretins.
And so much more....
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