Oldfart, I'd like to offer an opinion on your postings. You seem to be a big fan of FedEx, and I am too. Yet you seem to dismissively in a troll fashion dismiss any legitimate criticisms of the company. Now I am not really talking too much about this situation because as much as I'd like to pretend I care about FedEx ground as long as they are being treated somewhat humanely I don't really lose that much sleep over it (I know it sounds bad but I can't make it my life's mission to fight every injustice in the world), unless it negatively affects my employee stock purchases. But FedEx is far from a perfect company and this is a decent little space for us to discuss wrongdoings/friend ups of our company.
Yes a lot of your posts are justified, and many of the people you usually roast do have a little bit of an entitlement attitude/whininess about them. But I also see you defending the company/policy unconditionally. If we cannot address our short comings/issues then we are doomed in the long run. I've enjoyed a hell of a ride at FedEx, and I know it is a good company (maybe not amazing, but good, and I am grateful) to work for because I know what it is like to work for a bad company. But I have also been affected by FedEx/management decisions which I do not agree with (and sometimes the drivers are dead wrong such as with keeper boards and workday, but especially the boards because we thought those were going to kill us but I think they have been a net benefit). But here is my story: I took over a route, and because I (would like to think) was a very strong driver my stop within a month were raised between 20-25%. Now I acknowledge part of me was looking forward to a little bit of a honey moon period where I would get readjusted/consulted on that status of the area and we would find a more appropriate goal.
That did not happen within a month of taking over I was doing 20-25% more stops just like I mentioned, and to be fair it was a retirement route so I knew that wasn't going to last because we are not that kind of company... everybody should carry their weight. And before I say this I would like to say I respect my management team immensely, but the pressure on them can be quite high. Tell me how was our PSP philosophy followed in this case? Bear in mind there was no discussion regarding this, besides several months later where I was really starting to feel like I was being pushed into an unsafe P1 cycle they said "yeah we juiced your numbers up a little bit." We could have tried to work different pickups around etc (which we did on a courier level) and yeah I probably should have spoke up more. And to be fair as soon as I brought up concerns with my P1 they were adressed pretty well, but the whole process could have been handled a lot well and I really think PSP was not applied (well maybe besides the second P).
I know at this point I am not a huge rant, but I just implore you to be objective and see both sides, yes a lot of the time people here are being cry babies but the way you try to discuss this stuff is like the company can LITERALLY do no wrong and that is why people here attack you. Remember if the company cannot receive critisism we are doomed to fail. Also I'd like to point out a little bit of hypocracy on your end (not pension being topped out etc you earned that). You basically admitted to doing the work of one job classification (courier) and being paid as another (swing/RTD or w/e). Yes this happensat my station too, but this is not really aligned with policy (there is a gray area) and the company did face a law suit over this involving a similar situation except it was a driver doing CSA work 90% of the time, I can't remember the case but it is on the internet somewhere.