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<blockquote data-quote="Empty Pockets" data-source="post: 5572226" data-attributes="member: 77481"><p>Many years ago, I disliked the folks that bashed the company, but as most folks with five years of service, I believed what I was being told by FedEx. Around the ten year mark, you hear horrible and nearly unbelievable stories of things that have happened to others, but still are a company man. Before the fifteenth year, it has happened to you. You are disgusted, feel like you have been kicked in the nuts, and are just hoping to make it to twenty years. Folks with thirty years have battle scars and PTSD.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and do not forget....</p><p>1. Around 1990, our manager announce that raises were getting cut in half. I had just started and making $7.44 per hour in the hub. My first raise was .45. Around the year 2000, we went to only one raise per year, cutting raises in half again. In 2016, performance reviews were done away with along with night dif and split shift. A standard raise was implemented which was not every year but was only 2% when given. Raises before with a perfect 7 review was 4.5%. Therefore raises were cut to about 30% of what they previously were. Mathematically, 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/3 = 1/12, our raises today are one twelfth what they were in 1990. Two years ago, when top out for RTD was $29.90, we got a .60 raise. Thirty two years ago, my first raise was .45 on the $7.44. That is crap, oh, but wait... we gotta make that raises for the first YEAR so it was about .90 for the first year so I actually got a .30 less raise after 32 freaking years. Thanks Fred</p><p>2. No raises for top out in the 90s and then cutting the raises.</p><p>3. The old pay scale pre 2016 Ten Step Plan would take 17 raises to hit top out.(15.84-24.93). If they just gave the top or range a raise every other year, it would double the time to TOR to 34 years. You have to be 21 years old to get a CDL. You would be no less than 55 years old before ever even being close to TOR.</p><p>4. Most recently, right after Christmas, we had ice and work was canceled both Monday and Tuesday night. Wednesday night, I pulled my trailers into the hub and nothing was processed. Thursday night, we dropped ALL freight PO1, HAZ, station pulls with tissue samples, whatever, into a lot on Rental Road to be processed over the weekend. Friday night, we did the same thing but had to use the old Amazon lot on Pearson Rd. This freight sat there until Sunday. MY POINT, how low do you have to be to keep selling PO1 service to the customers knowing that it was gonna be a week late without telling anyone. FedEx did and claimed "Act of God" for the lates. Well, it was an Act of God for Mon and Tues, however, Wed, Thurs, and Fri was an "Act of FedEx." Folks should have been notified. There were tissue samples picked up from the hospital that sat in a trailer for four days rotting. We got many dead flowers customers refused delivery. OH, and my God, the freaking chickens that we sent all starved to death in a freaking cardboard box. I bet you money they sold every PO1 shipment and grabbed that money like a chicken on a June bug.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In over thirty years, I have never been to a FedEx Christmas party or was given a turkey or ham. We never even got a Christmas Bonus. Ten years ago, the Christmas Party they advertised cost $20 per person and had a dance contest with a $50 prize. Nope, not me</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Empty Pockets, post: 5572226, member: 77481"] Many years ago, I disliked the folks that bashed the company, but as most folks with five years of service, I believed what I was being told by FedEx. Around the ten year mark, you hear horrible and nearly unbelievable stories of things that have happened to others, but still are a company man. Before the fifteenth year, it has happened to you. You are disgusted, feel like you have been kicked in the nuts, and are just hoping to make it to twenty years. Folks with thirty years have battle scars and PTSD. Oh, and do not forget.... 1. Around 1990, our manager announce that raises were getting cut in half. I had just started and making $7.44 per hour in the hub. My first raise was .45. Around the year 2000, we went to only one raise per year, cutting raises in half again. In 2016, performance reviews were done away with along with night dif and split shift. A standard raise was implemented which was not every year but was only 2% when given. Raises before with a perfect 7 review was 4.5%. Therefore raises were cut to about 30% of what they previously were. Mathematically, 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/3 = 1/12, our raises today are one twelfth what they were in 1990. Two years ago, when top out for RTD was $29.90, we got a .60 raise. Thirty two years ago, my first raise was .45 on the $7.44. That is crap, oh, but wait... we gotta make that raises for the first YEAR so it was about .90 for the first year so I actually got a .30 less raise after 32 freaking years. Thanks Fred 2. No raises for top out in the 90s and then cutting the raises. 3. The old pay scale pre 2016 Ten Step Plan would take 17 raises to hit top out.(15.84-24.93). If they just gave the top or range a raise every other year, it would double the time to TOR to 34 years. You have to be 21 years old to get a CDL. You would be no less than 55 years old before ever even being close to TOR. 4. Most recently, right after Christmas, we had ice and work was canceled both Monday and Tuesday night. Wednesday night, I pulled my trailers into the hub and nothing was processed. Thursday night, we dropped ALL freight PO1, HAZ, station pulls with tissue samples, whatever, into a lot on Rental Road to be processed over the weekend. Friday night, we did the same thing but had to use the old Amazon lot on Pearson Rd. This freight sat there until Sunday. MY POINT, how low do you have to be to keep selling PO1 service to the customers knowing that it was gonna be a week late without telling anyone. FedEx did and claimed "Act of God" for the lates. Well, it was an Act of God for Mon and Tues, however, Wed, Thurs, and Fri was an "Act of FedEx." Folks should have been notified. There were tissue samples picked up from the hospital that sat in a trailer for four days rotting. We got many dead flowers customers refused delivery. OH, and my God, the freaking chickens that we sent all starved to death in a freaking cardboard box. I bet you money they sold every PO1 shipment and grabbed that money like a chicken on a June bug. In over thirty years, I have never been to a FedEx Christmas party or was given a turkey or ham. We never even got a Christmas Bonus. Ten years ago, the Christmas Party they advertised cost $20 per person and had a dance contest with a $50 prize. Nope, not me [/QUOTE]
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