Totally besides the point. Also a lot of driver facts about Sales and what they offer as discounts vs UPS are very off. I email my reps and they don't know where a lot of this stuff comes from in regards to not selling Express, discounting ground more then UPS ground, they wish they could under-bid them consistently.
The Undoing of Ground
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Totally besides the point. Also a lot of driver facts about Sales and what they offer as discounts vs UPS are very off. I email my reps and they don't know where a lot of this stuff comes from in regards to not selling Express, discounting ground more then UPS ground, they wish they could under-bid them consistently.
Mr. 7
The monkey on the left.
Poster boy!
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
You miss my point, which is that you are a customer, not an employee. Your comments on rates are relevant, but when you start talking about FedEx like an "insider", you're way-off the mark. Nobody knows the games this company plays like it's employees. A lot of us have worked for other companies, and FedEx is unique in many ways, most of them bad.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
Cool, you can multi-task!
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
You mean under the desk and on my knees at the same time like you?
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
No, but if you're the self-proclaimed board legal genius and business guru, why be a courier?
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
Speak for yourself.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
I am. You are a tool. Perhaps you should tattoo "C-R-A-friend-T-S-M-A-N" across your forehead and "Snap-On" elsewhere.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
Reliving the 5th grade, are you?
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
I make no such claim. Not a guru, legal or business. My sideline interests make me my money, not FedEx.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
You only play one on the internet?
So not only do you work for a man you abhor, a company you despise, etc., you do so to earn money you don't really need. DARN, that's intelligent!
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
I only stay because of the medical. When that goes away, I have no further reason to stay.
I don't believe I've ever said that, just argue points I feel strongly about. But your answer proves my point. Why be a courier if you have a modicum of intelligence? Your attitude is representative of a large % of management. You want employees who can manage a route efficiently and productively. But deep down you can't help but feel superior to those who choose to make their living this way. Probably despise us a little too, huh? I know mgrs who actually like their employees and actually believe in the mission of this company. And others who see their employees as adversaries, standing in the way of the bright future that should already be their's. I can see which camp you fall into.
P.S. Happy 4th!!
No you miss the point that you are unhappy and are willing to live with it instead of looking for a way out. I am for improving the common mans living, but it's beyond Fedex. You are very unhappy and instead of taking the bull by the horns and doing something about it, you wallow in it. That has nothing to do with working at Fedex or not. This is a personality trait within you. Their golden days are over, you live in that past. Fedex can or cannot be a good job, for you it isn't. You owe it you YOURSELF to find peace.
ALL ****ING COMPANIES PLAY GAMES. You act like you are 22 and still wide-eyed just figuring this all out. Every job I had, every person I spoken to about employment, same ****, different company for the most part. Surely you have a dream beyond delivering boxes, you should go for it.
He has a mission and is dedicated to openly criticize the corporation he works for. The corporation that made a lot of promises to it's employees but didn't deliver. He has every right to point out their failings. If he uses hyperbole it's to get attention to what has happened to us. The world might not be a very fair place, but do those who make it unfair get to glide through life unscathed while the rest of us pick up the pieces?
To be fair, I can agree with that. He does have the right to. I understand how he feels, I've been there. I will say where he lies blame is more a result of the markets themselves and not the company wanting to have to do these things. A more worldly view on it could help. So thanks, I do agree with a lot of that.
THAT SAID. He owe's it to himself. He's a person and he's not sentenced to Fedex. I can just picture a friend on mine right now, if I were laying all of this out there on him, he would stop me quickly and say "Tut, you owe it to yourself to go somewhere else, you need to leave", simple, on point and correct. It's tough, but 9 out of 10 times, if you follow that, you'd go back and thank that person on the other side and not give two more ****s about a past employer, like the hundreds of thousands that have left Fedex in the past.
But you have plenty of correct thoughts with this one!
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
That answer was directed to one person, and one person only. But anyhow, if he wants to present himself as the one with all the answers to all things legal/business, I'm just saying that he has (or likes to think he has) the ability to write his own ticket. If someone has that ability, why the hell would he or she be here at all?
If he wants to draw that kind of attention to himself, I'll play along.
Your answer was to me, not MFE...
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
In reference to him. You don't act like him, thankfully.
