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<blockquote data-quote="TUT" data-source="post: 1007303" data-attributes="member: 29298"><p><strong>*</strong> I haven't even read further and I'm already liking the honesty and calling the times the way there are in this post. EVERY Company. Meaning you have to follow suit or you are left behind. Employees are a liability now. Via wage, via medical, via law suit. So that is what we are fighting for, to make the employee an asset again and not a liability and not on businesses terms.</p><p></p><p>I get Express wants to focus on Express, but you/we have to aim higher, because Express is being pulled by greater forces they cannot stop. So yes it goes up to government and to me only one side gives us any hope at creating or restoring rights to protect Americans, because an American is an American worker. I do not know how you run a country with so much outsourcing and selling out. That to me this is a country with a For Sale sign on it (name me another country like that of size?) and I don't recall the majority of Americans ever "ok-ing" this. So some force on their own decided to take action and I believe that source is the power of big business, they need to be regulated by a gov't just like the rest of us. </p><p></p><p>I would love to live in a world that doesn't need gov't, that an owner can be satisfied with just a handsome reward and not an obnoxious one (Forefathers warned us of this), where a speculative market dominates decisions it has no right to, where we all get along and get a fair living wage, things like being able to raise college graduates without massive debt, be able to afford a nice mind relaxing vacation once per year and all of that. Why? Because we can if we didn't want to be so selfish. "He who dies with the most toys" are poison, there is no compassion in it, just greed.</p><p></p><p>But we can't wait on that ideal and give everything else up along the way. We could even be getting close to not being able to get it back without bloodshed (simply reviewing history) and that is sad panda stuff.</p><p></p><p><strong>* </strong>As for the "broken promises stuff", I believe your Fedex again gets squeezed in having to be a follower. It's one of the reasons why I do not like Wall Street, if you took it out of the equation you now have something like 500 million in profit per quarter, that could be used on making a better working life for everyone in the company. BUT NO, that 500 million is to entice people to buy stock so it goes up and thus people outside the company (as if we should give 2 cents about them) make money and those at the top. That is why it looks so unfair, because the Wall Street promise or how it works to me has no business with mature companies, its reason for being should be to get new companies the capital if one chooses to invest in it off the ground. I don't think you fix any of this without making new Wall Street rules and that would be tricky.</p><p></p><p><strong>* </strong>I also agree with the cold reality of this, even in good times... "You are given a salary/wage and when you are paid in full, you and the employer are square. No whining. No further expectations." Now it's up to you to be the good employee to be a person they want to continue to compensate for as long as one can see. Now would it suck being let go? Sure, but if you are let go because you are not a good employee, see mirror. If you are let go because of tough times, we all know this can happen and we have all seen major industries die all around us, so we know we aren't invulnerable. Assuming anything more then that is what Disney is for. The world is still competitive to a point.</p><p></p><p><strong>* </strong>As for "Fred keeps shills around to break solidarity", I don't buy into that one. I think that is human nature, you hire 100,000 people, hell hire a hundred and you just built a little political eco-system in your company with varying views that break solidarity all on its own, no owner intervention needed at all. That's the part of respecting the one thing we all agree upon "Everyone is different", now respect that and you find all your answers.</p><p></p><p><strong>* </strong>Another way to rock the boat is being a political activist at some level, that is the part that can trickle down to any and all companies. You are totally given an equal right to have a voice in that arena if you are passionate enough to follow through. As for the Express Employee that feels trapped, as stated it's simple. Deal with it (most will because it's still the path or least resistance), organize (gamble on winning something back or losing your job) or plan outside of Fedex, believe me Fedex isn't the world. </p><p></p><p>Personally I would take a step back and think... Is being a person that moves boxes from A to B a plan where one should think of that as a career? 20-65. I do believe it is an important job for certain that could very well be compensated nice enough. But who at 14 years old says "When I grow up I want to move boxes?". Who raises children with the hopes they want them to move boxes from A to B for their lives work? What I'm getting at is you sold yourself a bit short on your dreams at some point. Use your current job as a springboard to another career.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TUT, post: 1007303, member: 29298"] [B]*[/B] I haven't even read further and I'm already liking the honesty and calling the times the way there are in this post. EVERY Company. Meaning you have to follow suit or you are left behind. Employees are a liability now. Via wage, via medical, via law suit. So that is what we are fighting for, to make the employee an asset again and not a liability and not on businesses terms. I get Express wants to focus on Express, but you/we have to aim higher, because Express is being pulled by greater forces they cannot stop. So yes it goes up to government and to me only one side gives us any hope at creating or restoring rights to protect Americans, because an American is an American worker. I do not know how you run a country with so much outsourcing and selling out. That to me this is a country with a For Sale sign on it (name me another country like that of size?) and I don't recall the majority of Americans ever "ok-ing" this. So some force on their own decided to take action and I believe that source is the power of big business, they need to be regulated by a gov't just like the rest of us. I would love to live in a world that doesn't need gov't, that an owner can be satisfied with just a handsome reward and not an obnoxious one (Forefathers warned us of this), where a speculative market dominates decisions it has no right to, where we all get along and get a fair living wage, things like being able to raise college graduates without massive debt, be able to afford a nice mind relaxing vacation once per year and all of that. Why? Because we can if we didn't want to be so selfish. "He who dies with the most toys" are poison, there is no compassion in it, just greed. But we can't wait on that ideal and give everything else up along the way. We could even be getting close to not being able to get it back without bloodshed (simply reviewing history) and that is sad panda stuff. [B]* [/B]As for the "broken promises stuff", I believe your Fedex again gets squeezed in having to be a follower. It's one of the reasons why I do not like Wall Street, if you took it out of the equation you now have something like 500 million in profit per quarter, that could be used on making a better working life for everyone in the company. BUT NO, that 500 million is to entice people to buy stock so it goes up and thus people outside the company (as if we should give 2 cents about them) make money and those at the top. That is why it looks so unfair, because the Wall Street promise or how it works to me has no business with mature companies, its reason for being should be to get new companies the capital if one chooses to invest in it off the ground. I don't think you fix any of this without making new Wall Street rules and that would be tricky. [B]* [/B]I also agree with the cold reality of this, even in good times... "You are given a salary/wage and when you are paid in full, you and the employer are square. No whining. No further expectations." Now it's up to you to be the good employee to be a person they want to continue to compensate for as long as one can see. Now would it suck being let go? Sure, but if you are let go because you are not a good employee, see mirror. If you are let go because of tough times, we all know this can happen and we have all seen major industries die all around us, so we know we aren't invulnerable. Assuming anything more then that is what Disney is for. The world is still competitive to a point. [B]* [/B]As for "Fred keeps shills around to break solidarity", I don't buy into that one. I think that is human nature, you hire 100,000 people, hell hire a hundred and you just built a little political eco-system in your company with varying views that break solidarity all on its own, no owner intervention needed at all. That's the part of respecting the one thing we all agree upon "Everyone is different", now respect that and you find all your answers. [B]* [/B]Another way to rock the boat is being a political activist at some level, that is the part that can trickle down to any and all companies. You are totally given an equal right to have a voice in that arena if you are passionate enough to follow through. As for the Express Employee that feels trapped, as stated it's simple. Deal with it (most will because it's still the path or least resistance), organize (gamble on winning something back or losing your job) or plan outside of Fedex, believe me Fedex isn't the world. Personally I would take a step back and think... Is being a person that moves boxes from A to B a plan where one should think of that as a career? 20-65. I do believe it is an important job for certain that could very well be compensated nice enough. But who at 14 years old says "When I grow up I want to move boxes?". Who raises children with the hopes they want them to move boxes from A to B for their lives work? What I'm getting at is you sold yourself a bit short on your dreams at some point. Use your current job as a springboard to another career. [/QUOTE]
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