DontThrowPackages
Well-Known Member
RUNNNNNNN as fast as you can away from this company.
I started with express in 2003, I was in college, needed extra money and was hired as a casual off loader w/ 8-10 hrs a week no bennies. From off-loader to working the ramp, then to part time courier, to full time swing. 2010 I got into Aspire management program. If you have the opportunity to get into the program, DON'T. I could not believe the crap this company wanted me to believe. I didn't want to drink the kool-aid nor pass the pitcher around. I was now the guy asking questions in the meetings that never got answered, I stuck up for a lot of people I worked with. I have no kids, no wife, no house payment, just a small apt I share with my girlfriend, typical bills and a car payment. Basically, what I'm trying to say is I was doing fine. I know a lot of other co-workers weren't, and I wasn't afraid to speak my mind in their favor. I was liked and respected by my fellow drivers, management hated me. Ended up with 3 letters in a short time. I moved up fast, but when I started to ask question fedex didnt like then the hammer fell. Took then 6 months. 3 letters in 6 months, Ihad 7 lates one summer day after breaking down = warning letter, GFT denied, missed 11 pod scans, after the cons tag wasn't done right, had to van and then pod but no lates missed 11pod scans but did get the other 1109, warning letter gft = denied the last I went to a stop, he needed more time got a walked up went on break only to find out he lied to dispatch saying I was rude and refused to wait so I got fired. Now the *******s are contesting my unemployment. Thankfully, and this is the WOW factor, a former customer I picked up at when I was part time is a unemployment compensation lawyer, I called, he remember me and told him what happened and he is gonna help. So, after 11 yrs Im gone. I will say, I have never be happier.
What a perfect example. So true. If you dare to question, even after they BEG for your thoughts, you will be looked at as a problem. Things that other employees have done in the past, which only received a "Hey what happen yesterday", suddenly turn into warning letters for a "marked" person. Ever wonder why they're so quite when they fire someone. Its not for their privacy. It's because some courier in the past did the same thing the fired courier did but didn't even get so much as a talk listen to. I've seen very dirty things. Treat them like they flush Tiffany cufflinks or go golfing with them and you can get away with totaling a truck. But question them and you could be gone for a scratch on the side panel.