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<blockquote data-quote="FedEx2000" data-source="post: 787568" data-attributes="member: 13621"><p>I agree 100% with what you said here, and I think I said about the same thing in a previous post. It should definitely be optional if you were asked/mandated to work and then asked to go home, if you want to go home fine, or if you want to stay and organize supplies/clean out a few trucks that's fine too....whatever there is besides cleaning bathrooms etc....can't/wouldn't ask hourlies to do that.</p><p></p><p>The post you were quoting here was more in response to MFE about how FedEx requires employees to be flexible, which we absolutely do...nature of our business. But it's a two way street, FedEx is flexible in that we allow EE's to call in sick or take a personal day up to an hour before their start time, at which point we have to find someone else to cover that open route......so I guess part of my point is that it's not always just FedEx, sometimes it is your fellow couriers that are causing mgmt to ask you to change routes/plans at the last minute. Also, I can count on one hand the number of time off requests that I have denied and the times that we have not been able to work out getting some P2 covered for a Dr.'s appt that I was told about the morning of or a kid's ballgame etc. We almost always find a way to make it work....even if it means I personally deliver the pkgs or run a PM. </p><p></p><p>I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen at UPS, since their mgrs aren't allowed to touch boxes as it takes work away from the hourly employees.......I understand the intent of that rule, but in reality it makes no sense. Sometimes we are the only body available to get it done. Unless that rule has changed there.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FedEx2000, post: 787568, member: 13621"] I agree 100% with what you said here, and I think I said about the same thing in a previous post. It should definitely be optional if you were asked/mandated to work and then asked to go home, if you want to go home fine, or if you want to stay and organize supplies/clean out a few trucks that's fine too....whatever there is besides cleaning bathrooms etc....can't/wouldn't ask hourlies to do that. The post you were quoting here was more in response to MFE about how FedEx requires employees to be flexible, which we absolutely do...nature of our business. But it's a two way street, FedEx is flexible in that we allow EE's to call in sick or take a personal day up to an hour before their start time, at which point we have to find someone else to cover that open route......so I guess part of my point is that it's not always just FedEx, sometimes it is your fellow couriers that are causing mgmt to ask you to change routes/plans at the last minute. Also, I can count on one hand the number of time off requests that I have denied and the times that we have not been able to work out getting some P2 covered for a Dr.'s appt that I was told about the morning of or a kid's ballgame etc. We almost always find a way to make it work....even if it means I personally deliver the pkgs or run a PM. I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen at UPS, since their mgrs aren't allowed to touch boxes as it takes work away from the hourly employees.......I understand the intent of that rule, but in reality it makes no sense. Sometimes we are the only body available to get it done. Unless that rule has changed there..... [/QUOTE]
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