I don't profess to know how proficient you are as a courier, but I will say this: Every
ty employee that I have known, during my time at X, has thought they are a good worker and an asset to the company (I bet if you really thought about it, you would agree). I'm not saying that's the case with you for certain, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Let me ask you this; are you thankful that the company took you back? Clearly nobody else will hire you. X has made a commitment to you and you pay them back by trashing the company on a public forum?
Where would you be without the one job you have been able to hold on to?
I'm a decent courier because of the feedback I've gotten from mgrs. I've been in the top 2 or 3 in productivity in most of the stations I've worked in. My first station as a courier my mgr called me superhuman on my review. The following year I delivered 19 stops in 24 minutes in a 36 story building I had never been in. My senior loved me for it. The next year our district mgr asked to meet me. Said he had never heard of any other courier besides me who consistently ran his rt at 150%. Sorry to toot my horn but you brought it up. What I found working really hard is mgrs tried to keep me on the hardest rts because they love the numbers. I've transferred out numerous times to get out of killer rts that had me ragged. And every one of them were broken up because the courier taking over couldn't handle it. Here's a major beef with FedEx: they don't reward hard work. They'll pat you on the back and say atta boy, they may give you a little less grief when you screw up, but you'll never get nothing but more work.
You say I'm trashing FedEx, no, I'm pointing out what they do. They told us we'll top out in 7 to 8 years. Not so. They told us we could choose to go into the new pension or remain in the old one. Not true, and they actually did that to get people to voluntarily go into the new one, then told the ones 40 or over that they didn't get the extra 4% a year for 5 years since they "volunteered" while the rest of us were forced into the new one despite our choosing to remain in the old one.
I've had mgrs completely lie to me about the hours and duties of my rt before I transferred in. Even had one lie about the domiciled city location of the open rt to get me to transfer in and end up in the single worst rt I've done, and as a swing twice and a 4X10 cover driver 3 times I've run over 70 rts on a regular basis. You can't begin to imagine how bad that rt was. And the craziest situation was mgrs putting pkgs in the U.S. Mail to keep me from getting overtime. They had created a huge rt, thought it could be done in 40 hrs, had a director who demanded 0 overtime, when they discovered it was impossible to do they came up with the falsification/mail solution.
So you see, I'm not trashing Boy Scouts. I'm simply reporting how badly many mgrs I've encountered have behaved, and putting me through the wringer in the process.
Of course it probably doesn't matter to you, your posts seethe with hatred for me because we're diametrically opposed politically. But you asked, and I've replied.
P.S. I hung in there for the pension. The year they terminated it the economy tanked. Since then I've had a stent put into a 99% blocked artery. That and diabetes and high blood pressure kept me here. When I was rehired in 2013 I moved 125 miles to take a domiciled rt that they had to cover from that distance for over 6 months because they couldn't find a qualified candidate. Under those circumstances policy clearly states they could have rehired me at my previous percentage of pay range but they lied to me and said I had to start over. HR said too late, you signed the offer letter. So yeah, I have my issues with the company, and yes, I earned every penny of my stunted pension, and am thankful to take it and leave. Good luck with your career.
