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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 801495" data-attributes="member: 12508">Interesting that FedEx (the corporation) makes the rules, not the contractor. You sound exactly like an employee to me. Also, if there was any &quot;chewing-out&quot; to be done, shouldn&#039;t it have been done by the contractor? What an absolute scam. FedEx pretends not to have any &quot;employees&#039; but deals with workers exactly as if they were real employees. By having you come-in early, you essentially provide free labor, and your hypothesis sounds 100% correct.&nbsp;A truly &quot;independent&quot; contractor sets their own hours. Using the example of a contractor on a house under construction, nobody cares what time they are on the job, as long as it gets done by the agreed-upon time. You said you were still finishng on-time, even though you were starting later. Doesn&#039;t that meet the contractor standards as per the FedEx logic that you are non-emplyees who work for an &quot;independent&quot; contractor?&nbsp;By starting you earlier, FedEx gets both your &quot;free&quot; labor, and earlier delivery times to customers. FedEx rules, FedEx start times. FedEx managerial discipline= FedEx EMPLOYEE!!!&nbsp;GROUND IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER SCAM. I have no idea why UPS doesn&#039;t begin legal proceedings against FedEx, nor why the Class-Action type lawyers aren&#039;t all over this like flies on you-know-what.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 801495, member: 12508"] Interesting that FedEx (the corporation) makes the rules, [B]not [/B]the contractor. You sound exactly like an [B]employee [/B]to me. Also, if there was any "chewing-out" to be done, shouldn't it have been done by the contractor? What an absolute scam. FedEx pretends not to have any "employees' but deals with workers exactly as if they were real employees. By having you come-in early, you essentially provide free labor, and your hypothesis sounds 100% correct. A truly "independent" contractor sets their own hours. Using the example of a contractor on a house under construction, nobody cares what time they are on the job, as long as it gets done by the agreed-upon time. You said you were still finishng on-time, even though you were starting later. Doesn't that meet the contractor standards as per the FedEx logic that you are non-emplyees who work for an "independent" contractor? By starting you earlier, FedEx gets both your "free" labor, and earlier delivery times to customers. FedEx rules, FedEx start times. FedEx managerial discipline= [B]FedEx EMPLOYEE!!![/B] [B]GROUND IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER SCAM. [/B]I have no idea why UPS doesn't begin legal proceedings against FedEx, nor why the Class-Action type lawyers aren't all over this like flies on you-know-what. [/QUOTE]

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