Potential FedEx Courier,I was offered a position today.

[Jgd131]

I was told to come here for advice. Hello, I was offered a courier position with FedEx Express today. I was offered a starting rate of $16.00 per hour and 4, 10 hour shifts. I will not have my own route. A little background information: I have been a state employee for a year now who makes $14.00 per hour with free insurance besides eye and dental. I have a Bachelor's degree in Occupational Health and Safety as well as a minor in Business Admin. Should I accept the position? How is the insurance? I hear raises are few and far between. Thanks.


Justin

 

[Operational needs]

Stay where you are. Your chances of moving up are much better being a state employee. I am a 20+ year Express employee. Our insurance sucks, you will never reach top pay and there is no pension, despite what FedEx might tell you.

You may get paid $16 an hour at FedEx, but by the time you pay weekly for insurance and pay the 20% for any medical, I'm sure it will eat up the difference. Plus, you will never have a normal Christmas again.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Come work for brown They pay more and screw you harder!

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Come work for brown They pay more and screw you harder!

For free insurance....they can screw me as hard as they want...lol

 

[MAKAVELI]

For free insurance....they can screw me as hard as they want...lol

Be careful what you wish for.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

Be careful what you wish for.

We're used to it...we get a free tube of lube and bagels every Friday.

 

[bbsam]

I was told to come here for advice. Hello, I was offered a courier position with FedEx Express today. I was offered a starting rate of $16.00 per hour and 4, 10 hour shifts. I will not have my own route. A little background information: I have been a state employee for a year now who makes $14.00 per hour with free insurance besides eye and dental. I have a Bachelor's degree in Occupational Health and Safety as well as a minor in Business Admin. Should I accept the position? How is the insurance? I hear raises are few and far between. Thanks.


Justin

Go ahead and take the job. Just use it as experience and a resume builder. About the only less certain future than an Express courier is a job 8n the public sector.

 

[MAKAVELI]

We're used to it...we get a free tube of lube and bagels every Friday.

I wish we got bagels.

 

[bleedinbrown58]

I wish we got bagels.

Ehh...they can keep their weekly bagels and give us our turkeys back instead.

 

[MAKAVELI]

Ehh...they can keep their weekly bagels and give us our turkeys back instead.

They could keep the turkeys at Christmas time I'd rather have the $10 that they spend on the turkey and by six pack of beer and a couple lottery tickets.

 

[!Retired!]

I was told to come here for advice. Hello, I was offered a courier position with FedEx Express today. I was offered a starting rate of $16.00 per hour and 4, 10 hour shifts. I will not have my own route. A little background information: I have been a state employee for a year now who makes $14.00 per hour with free insurance besides eye and dental. I have a Bachelor's degree in Occupational Health and Safety as well as a minor in Business Admin. Should I accept the position? How is the insurance? I hear raises are few and far between. Thanks.


Justin

You came to the wrong place to ask.

 

[MAKAVELI]

You came to the wrong place to ask.

Would you quit a government job for FedEx?

 

[bbsam]

Would you quit a government job for FedEx?

If it's a state run by republicans slashing government, hell yeah!

 

[bleedinbrown58]

They could keep the turkeys at Christmas time I'd rather have the $10 that they spend on the turkey and by six pack of beer and a couple lottery tickets.

My Xmas tips is my extra beer money. Every year i got a turkey, I donated it to a food pantry anyway...but it was something. And free ups tshirts...I'd take those over bagels too. I hate buying clothes to destroy at work.

 

[MAKAVELI]

If it's a state run by republicans slashing government, hell yeah!

He didn't say his job was being cut. He's still better off where he is.

 

[bbsam]

He didn't say his job was being cut. He's still better off where he is.

He's better off building his resume. With both public and private experience and a degree, he's well on his way.

 

[MAKAVELI]

My Xmas tips is my extra beer money. Every year i got a turkey, I donated it to a food pantry anyway...but it was something. And free ups tshirts...I'd take those over bagels too. I hate buying clothes to destroy at work.

My customers are very generous at Christmas time and it makes for a very nice bonus. What do I get from FedEx? A rock hard burrito and a frozen turkey.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

My customers are very generous at Christmas time and it makes for a very nice bonus. What do I get from FedEx? A rock hard burrito and a frozen turkey.

So th's where,our xmas turkeys went? Freddy stole them off of us!

 

[bleedinbrown58]

So th's where,our xmas turkeys went? Freddy stole them off of us!

Yeah really...Give us back our turkeys! I'll give stopsperhour my Friday bagel...lol

 

[Operational needs]

So th's where,our xmas turkeys went? Freddy stole them off of us!

Don't get all excited. That's not company-wide. It's been many years since I've gotten a turkey.