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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 421724" data-attributes="member: 12508">Like I said before, FedEx will do essentially the same thing, by slashing hours and forcing people out the door. Maybe you still have a job, but it isn&#039;t a very good one. I&#039;m starting to see part-timers be sent home with just 2 hrs on the clock regularly, and full-timers requested to go home early. I find it fascinating that we still have couriers quitting, even as the economy goes down the toilet, because FedEx is such a lousy place to work. The biggest method of hours-cutting occurs by doubling couriers up...making them do 1.5 times the work for the same amount of money. After they send all the &quot;extras&quot; home, the remaining couriers get the shaft by more than making-up the difference in extra stops.As far as the issue of donating 727&#039;s, here we go. The 727 is an obsolete aircraft, and most companies will try and donate them to either a flight museum or an aircraft-oriented technical school to get the positive PR and a tax write-off. It&#039;s more profitable than just selling them for scrap or trying to pawn them off to some Third World cargo airline. It&#039;s smart business for FedEx because it helps to train the next generation of aircraft mechanics, and makes them look good at the same time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 421724, member: 12508"] Like I said before, FedEx will do essentially the same thing, by slashing hours and forcing people out the door. Maybe you still have a job, but it isn't a very good one. I'm starting to see part-timers be sent home with just 2 hrs on the clock regularly, and full-timers requested to go home early. I find it fascinating that we [I]still[/I] have couriers quitting, even as the economy goes down the toilet, because FedEx is such a [B]lousy[/B] place to work. The biggest method of hours-cutting occurs by doubling couriers up...making them do 1.5 times the work for the same amount of money. After they send all the "extras" home, the remaining couriers get the shaft by more than making-up the difference in extra stops. As far as the issue of donating 727's, here we go. The 727 is an obsolete aircraft, and most companies will try and donate them to either a flight museum or an aircraft-oriented technical school to get the positive PR and a tax write-off. It's more profitable than just selling them for scrap or trying to pawn them off to some Third World cargo airline. It's smart business for FedEx because it helps to train the next generation of aircraft mechanics, and makes them look good at the same time. [/QUOTE]

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