Ground and Express Drivers are EXACTLY Alike!!

[MrFedEx]

bbsam says so, and Fred and his minions think so too, so I guess it must be TRUE!! And since we're "equivalent", let's all start being like Ground, kind of like the old Nike campaign "Be Like Mike", except ours can be "Be Like Igor". So, from now on, please do the following:

1. Leave your vehicle running...all the time. I don't care if you're in South Central, Harlem, or East LA...keep it running.

2. Straightline everything. Ground can only do things in a continuous pattern. None of that fancy thinking and reasoning required!

3. WAD like mad. You are not capable of multiple service levels, working-in pickups, or doing anything "out of the box". Be like Igor. Unnghh!! Igor load box. Igor throw box at door. Igor get back into running truck and drive to next stop. Light cigarette, drink beer, it all be OK! Unggh..must take dump in yard because have no time to make poo-poo. Igor good...save money and time.

4. Grow that ZZ Top beard you've always wanted. Get a tattoo of Adolf Hitler on your forehead and wear your motorcycle boots with your shorts and bandana. In the summer, bring out those comfy Ground flip-flops.

5. Drive an unsafe vehicle. Bad brakes, bald tires? Who cares, as long as it runs?

6. Slow it down...way down. You don't need no stinking service levels. It gets there when it gets there.

Yep, we're just the same, Sammy.

 

[Brownslave688]

I was going to start a new thread but this seems like the perfect place. I actually saw a ground feeder driver cruising at 70 down the interstate with dome light on reading a book.

 

[MrFedEx]

I was going to start a new thread but this seems like the perfect place. I actually saw a ground feeder driver cruising at 70 down the interstate with dome light on reading a book.

Was he smoking a joint with one flip-flopped foot up on the dash?

 

[bbsam]

bbsam says so, and Fred and his minions think so too, so I guess it must be TRUE!! And since we're "equivalent", let's all start being like Ground, kind of like the old Nike campaign "Be Like Mike", except ours can be "Be Like Igor". So, from now on, please do the following:

1. Leave your vehicle running...all the time. I don't care if you're in South Central, Harlem, or East LA...keep it running.

2. Straightline everything. Ground can only do things in a continuous pattern. None of that fancy thinking and reasoning required!

3. WAD like mad. You are not capable of multiple service levels, working-in pickups, or doing anything "out of the box". Be like Igor. Unnghh!! Igor load box. Igor throw box at door. Igor get back into running truck and drive to next stop. Light cigarette, drink beer, it all be OK! Unggh..must take dump in yard because have no time to make poo-poo. Igor good...save money and time.

4. Grow that ZZ Top beard you've always wanted. Get a tattoo of Adolf Hitler on your forehead and wear your motorcycle boots with your shorts and bandana. In the summer, bring out those comfy Ground flip-flops.

5. Drive an unsafe vehicle. Bad brakes, bald tires? Who cares, as long as it runs?

6. Slow it down...way down. You don't need no stinking service levels. It gets there when it gets there.

Yep, we're just the same, Sammy.

Wow. MFE's panties are all bunched up thong style tonight. I think he's going to have a long, long peak. Lol.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I was going to start a new thread but this seems like the perfect place. I actually saw a ground feeder driver cruising at 70 down the interstate with dome light on reading a book.

Are you sure it was Ground? According to MFE most Ground drivers can't read.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Wow. MFE's panties are all bunched up thong style tonight. I think he's going to have a long, long peak. Lol.

MFE likes to overcomplicate what is basically a very simple job.

 

[Cactus]

MFE likes to overcomplicate what is basically a very simple job.

No, FedEx likes to over complicate what is basically a very simple job. MFE is just fighting back and rightfully so.

Carry on.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The sad part about MFE is that some poor kid will read his advice, follow it and lose his job for having done so.

 

[bbsam]

The sad part about MFE is that some poor kid will read his advice, follow it and lose his job for having done so.

Even worse would be if a 50 year old took his advice and got fired for it.

 

[ManInBrown]

You forgot, Pulling nose first into every single resi driveway regardless if it's 20 ft long or 2000 ft long.

 

[MrFedEx]

The sad part about MFE is that some poor kid will read his advice, follow it and lose his job for having done so.

Words of "wisdom" from a UPS employee who has a great deal where he's at, and has no idea what we're talking about. Carry on, clueless Brown man.

 

[MrFedEx]

You forgot, Pulling nose first into every single resi driveway regardless if it's 20 ft long or 2000 ft long.

Sorry. It also needs to be the wrong house.

 

[MrFedEx]

MFE likes to overcomplicate what is basically a very simple job.

Your job is a lot closer to the Ground position than an Express courier. Most (not all) package car drivers deliver a dense area, straightline, and don't have to do a whole lot of juggling. Yes, you have a simple job. It's very physically challenging, but not so much on the mental side of the equation. A "good" Express courier is juggling a lot, and the fact that you don't realize this means you do not understand the Express side of FedEx.

I'll go a step further. You generalize from a few observations of Express couriers who work around your area. I could take you to numerous Express facilities where the Express courier is working much harder than the average UPS package car driver. You'd have a very tough time doing the job.

 

[Doc Sorting Dude]

The Ground driver in my area loves to drive with his back door wide open. Not only that, the space between the windshield and dashboard is filled with trash, add to that a boombox that's playing an ear shattering decibel...yeah I want to emulate that.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

You'd have a very tough time doing the job.

 

[DinkyDog]

Don't forget to drive with both doors open

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Don't forget to drive with both doors open

I always do-----both driver and passenger.

 

[bbsam]

Your job is a lot closer to the Ground position than an Express courier. Most (not all) package car drivers deliver a dense area, straightline, and don't have to do a whole lot of juggling. Yes, you have a simple job. It's very physically challenging, but not so much on the mental side of the equation. A "good" Express courier is juggling a lot, and the fact that you don't realize this means you do not understand the Express side of FedEx.

I'll go a step further. You generalize from a few observations of Express couriers who work around your area. I could take you to numerous Express facilities where the Express courier is working much harder than the average UPS package car driver. You'd have a very tough time doing the job.

I wouldn't. I'd have every Express route around here mastered in three days. Of course that would require working harder than I do for less money so I think I'll pass.

 

[Brownslave688]

Your job is a lot closer to the Ground position than an Express courier. Most (not all) package car drivers deliver a dense area, straightline, and don't have to do a whole lot of juggling. Yes, you have a simple job. It's very physically challenging, but not so much on the mental side of the equation. A "good" Express courier is juggling a lot, and the fact that you don't realize this means you do not understand the Express side of FedEx.

I'll go a step further. You generalize from a few observations of Express couriers who work around your area. I could take you to numerous Express facilities where the Express courier is working much harder than the average UPS package car driver. You'd have a very tough time doing the job.

The fact that you believe the average ups driver does juggle a lot or it isn't a mentally taxing job shows that you have no clue about the job. We essentially do the job of express and ground.

 

[bbsam]

The fact that you believe the average ups driver does juggle a lot or it isn't a mentally taxing job shows that you have no clue about the job. We essentially do the job of express and ground.

Don't forget the job of the HD driver as well.