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<blockquote data-quote="BrownSyndrome" data-source="post: 1581717" data-attributes="member: 44147"><p>As a driver, I'm obviously a big supporter of the pay and benefits but I do wonder how we continue to compete with Fedex if they never unionize. Naturally, the company will always be looking for ways to cut costs (and you can't fault them for that, that's how corporations work) but hopefully they will find better ways than cutting employee wages.</p><p></p><p>This is just a drop in the bucket of corporate waste, but it makes no sense to pay a driver on overtime to deliver an amazon misload so that management's service numbers will look good. ORION pushes back against that a little bit but we all know ORION comes with a whole 'nother set of problems that I don't think were ever anticipated. There are a lot of relevant factors to creating the ideal route that the current version of ORION is not designed to even contemplate, let alone act on. But I digress...</p><p></p><p>Also, there are a lot of jobs in the hub that could probably be done by robotics. It's a matter of time before the company decides to invest in that technology and therefore eliminate some of those jobs. </p><p></p><p>Drones are in the future for sure, but probably considerably further down the road than most people think. Aside from the legal problems with drones, there are countless hurdles for making their use efficient. I'm not worried about them taking our jobs any time soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownSyndrome, post: 1581717, member: 44147"] As a driver, I'm obviously a big supporter of the pay and benefits but I do wonder how we continue to compete with Fedex if they never unionize. Naturally, the company will always be looking for ways to cut costs (and you can't fault them for that, that's how corporations work) but hopefully they will find better ways than cutting employee wages. This is just a drop in the bucket of corporate waste, but it makes no sense to pay a driver on overtime to deliver an amazon misload so that management's service numbers will look good. ORION pushes back against that a little bit but we all know ORION comes with a whole 'nother set of problems that I don't think were ever anticipated. There are a lot of relevant factors to creating the ideal route that the current version of ORION is not designed to even contemplate, let alone act on. But I digress... Also, there are a lot of jobs in the hub that could probably be done by robotics. It's a matter of time before the company decides to invest in that technology and therefore eliminate some of those jobs. Drones are in the future for sure, but probably considerably further down the road than most people think. Aside from the legal problems with drones, there are countless hurdles for making their use efficient. I'm not worried about them taking our jobs any time soon. [/QUOTE]
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