Imagine the kind of employees that would attract...
Raise??
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Imagine the kind of employees that would attract...
Glorifiedpackmule
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Payscale B here. Its a rip off.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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3 years.
hypo hanna
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WOW!
Amen, and the higher payscales pull further away from us every year.
There were originally 4 payscales and over time the lowest 2 of those 4 were discontinued while higher paying payscales were added. FedEx has a philosophy of paying the minimum amount possible that will still attract workers. Thus in extremely expensive regions of the country where everyone has to be paid more they pay more. In cheaper areas of the country they tend to pay the lowest 2 payscales. Which one they pay depends on how competitive the local market is for workers. There are glaring exceptions. In expensive popular small cities in the Southwest and Rockies they tend to pay the lower payscales because there are people in those areas who'd gladly take anything just to live there. And FedEx no longer eliminates lower paying payscales as they've discovered that they can save money by just raising starting pay rather than move everyone on that payscale up to the next one. Thus you have people working 5 years who barely make more than newhires. And on the lowest payscale you have people like me making only $18hr or so after 14 years.
whenIgetthere
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It sure is! Thirteen years and still below stating pay for H, J and L!
I described the new pay system earlier in the thread. Problem is FedEx may try this for a few years and then decide to just give everyone 2% raises or no raise at all. We went through that for 4 years before this new system started last year and in the 90's we went through over 4 years of no raises for topped out couriers and back then pay was considerably less than now. It was the reason I quit, and have been paying for that decision ever since. I'd have gone into truck driving instead of getting rehired if I had known what they were planning for us.
SmithBarney
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You can change this deduction at anytime.
I go from 3-6% during peak, then back to 3% when I make my substandard wage. If I were topped like you goldi, then 10%+ would go in.
SmithBarney
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3 years.
Mr. 7
The monkey on the left.
Yeah,
3 yrs. of driving. what about the ~3 yrs. you start out in the warehouse humpin' frt.?
What about the fact that if you have less than ~6 yrs. of driving that you're the first person "on stand-by"?
So they pay their dues and get greatly rewarded. As opposed to paying your dues, and paying your dues, and paying your dues, and paying your dues, and paying your dues, and paying your dues, and paying your dues, and paying your dues, and paying your dues, and paying your dues, and paying your dues, and paying.........................................................................................................................
SmithBarney
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Dues are 2.5 times your hourly wage for the month, which equals a hell of a lot less than 100/week we pay for benis at fed.
I wasn't talking about union dues but since you brought it up....
MrFedEx
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The pay "raises" are a joke anyway, because whatever we gain is more than taken away by higher insurance rates and worse coverage.
overflowed
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Ups is talkin about strike just for thinking about messing with their medical. More power to them. Wish we could do that.
MrFedEx
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We have been really stupid for a really long time, and we've been paying the price all the while. Now, Fred has dooubled-down, and there's not much we can do but be lousy employees in return for the crap sandwich we're being served.
I figure I cost Fred at least $1,000 per week in potential lost revenue by ignoring new shippers, slowing-down and not helping out, and standing by and watching managers do really stupid things. My goal is $1,500 per week.
