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That's awesome Dano, can I bring this great idea up to my manager?Not quite. You are required to be off the road 14 hours after your punch-in. Company policy is you have to punch out after 14 hours.
That's awesome Dano, can I bring this great idea up to my manager?Not quite. You are required to be off the road 14 hours after your punch-in. Company policy is you have to punch out after 14 hours.
So what does overflow mean? I assumed I would have a ton of hours those months because it would be the busy season?
What is LWOP? And how can they waive the minimum? Does it really slow down that much in non peak time?FedEx wants you to work when they need you. When they don't need you, they don't want you. This is critical for anyone new to understand. So, at Peak, they'll happily work you 60 hours per week and pressure you to be FT and part of the "team". After peak, they'll be begging you to work minimum hours or even waive minimums and encourage you to take LWOP.
It's a one-way street named Fred S. This is why you need to learn policy and use their own policies against them when they pressure you...and they will. Remember, Code 43 is your friend, and never bow to them "requiring" you to call a "Weather Line" or some other BS.
Your best move is to find another place to work. Seriously. FedEx sucks in every way possible.
You would have to be a dummy to follow it
What's the pay rate increase from a courier to a swing? I'm wondering if I should wait for the 6% pay bump then take a PT swing. It'll put me in the lower $20's per hour. Or if I took it before the 6% raise would I then just get a rate increase for a swing driver then a 3% because I'll be at bottom rate?
I believe a swing makes about .80 to $1 more an hour. Still not worth it to me. And there are no PT swings, defeats the purpose.
But remember, when and if you 'downgrade' to courier, you will lose much more. I went back to being a swing a few years ago, got and extra 67 cents/hour. Took a FT route 18 months later and lost $2.10/hour!
That doesn't even sound right. Did you have them double check? Something like that happened to me when I stepped down from cover to regular courier years ago and they had to pay me back pay for about a year.
Better yet, I was still being used as a swing on Mondays, doing my new route T-friend till they figured out what route I would get on Saturday, for eight weeks. So they continued to pay me as a swing. Then, I get a letter from hacks crossing road stating I owe THEM pay because I wasn't officially a swing anymore. I told my manager to tell them to screw, then they told me I would be terminated if I didn't sign the letter allowing them to take the pay back. GFT'd it, knowing I would lose, and I did.
That's awesome Dano, can I bring this great idea up to my manager?
And there are no PT swings, defeats the purpose.