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<blockquote data-quote="AB831" data-source="post: 5472039" data-attributes="member: 80184"><p>That’s unfortunately not how the company thinks. Their goal is to have their workers and/or contractors do as much as possible for as little as possible. Fat Freddy and his henchman subscribe to the pre-Henry Ford philosophy of “work 100 hours a week, and you’ll have a shiny nickel to take home with you.” They’ve been able to get away with it for so long because of the brainwashing they’ve been able to successfully use to manipulate their long-time employees into thinking they’re the recipients of some kind of good deal. I can’t tell you how many times I heard guys say “yeah, this is bulls@!t, but where else are you going to go to make such and such.” It bordered on Stockholm Syndrome. “Yeah, I’m missing Johnny‘s game tonight, but it‘s not like I’m going to just go start over with seniority someplace else.” </p><p></p><p>The problem is they’ve overplayed their hand and anyone who can retire or quit is doing so, while the generation who is supposed to replace them refuses to do backbreaking labor for peanuts. It’s a perfect storm, and they can either do what you said or go under. And history tells us that Fedex usually waits until a year or two too late before admitting a mistake, if they do at all. The lie has run its course.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AB831, post: 5472039, member: 80184"] That’s unfortunately not how the company thinks. Their goal is to have their workers and/or contractors do as much as possible for as little as possible. Fat Freddy and his henchman subscribe to the pre-Henry Ford philosophy of “work 100 hours a week, and you’ll have a shiny nickel to take home with you.” They’ve been able to get away with it for so long because of the brainwashing they’ve been able to successfully use to manipulate their long-time employees into thinking they’re the recipients of some kind of good deal. I can’t tell you how many times I heard guys say “yeah, this is bulls@!t, but where else are you going to go to make such and such.” It bordered on Stockholm Syndrome. “Yeah, I’m missing Johnny‘s game tonight, but it‘s not like I’m going to just go start over with seniority someplace else.” The problem is they’ve overplayed their hand and anyone who can retire or quit is doing so, while the generation who is supposed to replace them refuses to do backbreaking labor for peanuts. It’s a perfect storm, and they can either do what you said or go under. And history tells us that Fedex usually waits until a year or two too late before admitting a mistake, if they do at all. The lie has run its course. [/QUOTE]
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