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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1095008" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>You say fear and paranoia, we say just stating the obvious. FedEx was working on Ground infrastructure long before the economy tanked. This isn't serendipity, having a Ground service in place just as the market turns sour for Express services. Not alluding anything. And if I were a shipper of course I'd go the cheaper route. Just don't tell me, especially when sales people are telling couriers otherwise, that they aren't emphasizing Ground. Why wouldn't they if it's more profitable? I'm not worried about them cannibalizing Express. I'm not upset that they want to make Ground the premiere opco. More power to them. What I get pissed about is all the promises they made about having a good future at Express if we hang in there when all they wanted was as much profit possible to build up an even more profitable division. They had no intention of topping us out, no intention to give us a decent pension. I've worked with more mgrs than most have, and it's obvious that they are told to tell us whatever they think we want to hear in order to keep us hard at it. I've heard mgr B.S. in every corner of the country and it's remarkable how similar it sounds. You want to defend business owners as being honest and decent with special insight that we peons can't grasp. I have no doubt it's fair to describe many business owners as hard working and honest. But when you have a company like FedEx that talks big about taking care of people while everything is geared towards making a relative few wealthier and their policies actually hurt, exploit, and cheat their employees what you have is a corrosive pit that's easy to fall into, hell to get away from unscathed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1095008, member: 24302"] You say fear and paranoia, we say just stating the obvious. FedEx was working on Ground infrastructure long before the economy tanked. This isn't serendipity, having a Ground service in place just as the market turns sour for Express services. Not alluding anything. And if I were a shipper of course I'd go the cheaper route. Just don't tell me, especially when sales people are telling couriers otherwise, that they aren't emphasizing Ground. Why wouldn't they if it's more profitable? I'm not worried about them cannibalizing Express. I'm not upset that they want to make Ground the premiere opco. More power to them. What I get pissed about is all the promises they made about having a good future at Express if we hang in there when all they wanted was as much profit possible to build up an even more profitable division. They had no intention of topping us out, no intention to give us a decent pension. I've worked with more mgrs than most have, and it's obvious that they are told to tell us whatever they think we want to hear in order to keep us hard at it. I've heard mgr B.S. in every corner of the country and it's remarkable how similar it sounds. You want to defend business owners as being honest and decent with special insight that we peons can't grasp. I have no doubt it's fair to describe many business owners as hard working and honest. But when you have a company like FedEx that talks big about taking care of people while everything is geared towards making a relative few wealthier and their policies actually hurt, exploit, and cheat their employees what you have is a corrosive pit that's easy to fall into, hell to get away from unscathed. [/QUOTE]
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