A Carefully Crafted Image Gone Awry

[MrFedEx]

FedEx Express has spent many years skillfully crafting an image that is now being threatened by social media. Not unlike a politician, who acts one way in public, and another in private, FedEx projects an image of precision in motion, where your package is carefully and expeditiously routed and delivered to it's final destination by an army of dedicated, loyal workers. In general, the public has a very positive image of FedEx, and they think we still love good old Fred. Few know what really goes on behind the scenes in the sausage factory.

But all of that is being threatened, and the inner workings and machinations of FedEx and it's leaders are being brought out into the open, via the social media. FedEx is already trying to stop it, but that is like shoveling sand against the tide, because dictating that employees stop being honest about the way FedEx really works is a solution from the past. Sorry Fred, but you're not going to stop Facebook, Twitter, or any of the social media from exposing you. That's something you might have gotten away with 30 years ago when your lame policy memo would have been typed-out on an IBM Selectric.

I predict that there will actually be an increase in revelations about this company and the way it does business. Fred and his upper management clones can no longer keep the genie in the bottle. The market level scam, inequitably-applied discipline, and the rest of the games are rapidly being exposed to he light of day, and many employees are finally becoming aware that Mr. Smith most certainly does not have their best interests at heart.

FedEx can make all the claims it want...and we can expose them for the lies that they are. When they say they are "green", there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of examples of why FedEx is one of the least green companies out there. The same thing goes for the rest of the hype, and we owe it to the public to let them see the way this corporation really operates. It's all one big, fat LIE.

Expose them, and their illegal actions, and let the free market decide where the shipping dollars go. After all, Fred believes in capitalism, right? Never mind that he has rigged the "market" in his favor through political malfeasance. Let's let everyone know what this company is up to and the way they "respect" employees.

[vantexan]

While I don't like a lot of what's happened and is about to, I'm not aware of anything the company does that's illegal. I've seen mgrs do things that could be characterized as fraud, but when the company learned of it those mgrs were removed. It's been my experience that they'll deny to your face and sweep under the rug anything that might put the company in legal jeopardy IF THEY CAN. If not they try to handle the problem as quickly and quietly as possible with little if any admission of wrongdoing if possible. Now you can make a case about ethics IMO, but you might not want to accuse them of breaking the law unless you have knowledge you'd like to share.

[MrFedEx]

While I don't like a lot of what's happened and is about to, I'm not aware of anything the company does that's illegal. I've seen mgrs do things that could be characterized as fraud, but when the company learned of it those mgrs were removed. It's been my experience that they'll deny to your face and sweep under the rug anything that might put the company in legal jeopardy IF THEY CAN. If not they try to handle the problem as quickly and quietly as possible with little if any admission of wrongdoing if possible. Now you can make a case about ethics IMO, but you might not want to accuse them of breaking the law unless you have knowledge you'd like to share.

The number of lawsuits they lose speaks volumes about their adherence to the law.

[UpstateNYUPSer]

The number of lawsuits they lose speaks volumes about their adherence to the law.

Lose or settle?

[vantexan]

The number of lawsuits they lose speaks volumes about their adherence to the law.

But those are civil disputes, not criminal trials.

[MrFedEx]

Lose or settle?

Both. When they settle, it's because they know they'll lose even more when it goes to court.

[LTFedExer]

I'm not aware of anything the company does that's illegal.

The number of lawsuits they lose speaks volumes about their adherence to the law.

I think van is talking about FedEx Corp. The lawsuits filed are mainly due to managers/SM/etc breaking/disregarding FedEx's own policies.

[xfdxgroundmgmt]

The number of lawsuits they lose speaks volumes about their adherence to the law.

Most are not lost but............settled!

[MrFedEx]

I think van is talking about FedEx Corp. The lawsuits filed are mainly due to managers/SM/etc breaking/disregarding FedEx's own policies.

The managers operate according to what MEM tells them to do. These days, they can't do much of anything without running it by Legal. FedEx disregards DOT regs, safety regulations, and OSHA requirements every single day. Eventually, some of it will catch up with them. They also conspire to "reduce" injuries by blaming work injuries on off-duty activities. For example, you tear your rotator cuff at work lifting a heavy box, or just wear it out from repetitive stress. When you go see the Sedgewick/CIGNA?Anthem quack after being quizzed by management, they discover you play golf twice a month. Guess where the blame for the injury will be placed? Illegal as Hell, and happens all the time. There's much more.

[whenIgetthere]

The managers operate according to what MEM tells them to do. These days, they can't do much of anything without running it by Legal. FedEx disregards DOT regs, safety regulations, and OSHA requirements every single day. Eventually, some of it will catch up with them. They also conspire to "reduce" injuries by blaming work injuries on off-duty activities. For example, you tear your rotator cuff at work lifting a heavy box, or just wear it out from repetitive stress. When you go see the Sedgewick/CIGNA?Anthem quack after being quizzed by management, they discover you play golf twice a month. Guess where the blame for the injury will be placed? Illegal as Hell, and happens all the time. There's much more.

This may work in to what MFE is saying. While working the sort back in 2004, courier across the belt grabs a package, brake rotor falls out of package, across the belt, lands on my foot and breaks three of my toes. Fedex calls it PREVENTABLE, said I should have been wearing steel toes! But as a courier, I wasn't eligible for repayment for buying said steel toes! Now, how is that prevebtable on my part?