What percentage of UPS employees are dedicated overnight air delivery drivers? That's the concern, that FedEx will eventually be primarily a Ground company like UPS, with a much smaller overnight Express division. It may be inevitable, but it's how they've gone about it that makes many angry. They string us along while telling us how much they care, with every indicator telling us they are just using us until they get to the position they want to be in. That may be the way things are in the work world, but when it happens to you it doesn't make you feel better knowing this kind of thing goes on elsewhere. Especially irritating when you work for a company that goes to great lengths to represent themselves as a "people" company that cares. It's all an elaborate PR spiderweb designed to draw in newhires who think they are getting into a great situation but in effect are throwing away their future but don't know it yet. Higher profits at many companies means employees get better pay and other perks. At FedEx it means much more money for corporate officers and big institution Wall Street investors. And constant effort to eke out more profit by taking from the employees. After almost two decades of takeaways we are literally at the can't-get-blood-out-of-a-turnip point, and yet they keep trying. It seems they'd have us all living in slums and taking public transportation if the money they save in payroll will make them that much wealthier. If they are Christians they should remember what Jesus said about the rich. In those times cities were surrounded by walls. At night the city gates were closed, and merchants and traders were required to keep their camels outside the walls. Next to the gates was a small door that allowed people to pass through, known as the Eye of the Needle. Jesus said it would be easier for a camel to pass through the Eye of the Needle than for a rich man to enter into heaven. Just a reminder in the Christmas season that making money is fine, but not taking advantage of others to do it.
I don't disagree with you but really find it hard that you see that, write that and at the same time are a staunch republican. Just because someone maybe liberal doesn't mean they don't believe in responsibility, hard work and God. They just also believe that people are DIFFERENT, live and respect that. That people are not always in an ideal situation and believe in assisting. Probably believe in universal health care because we can do it and why then wouldn't we do it? Now are there slackers? Yes. But it's not totally exclusive and the other side has corporate welfare participants, even though these people are already well to do, they get rained down millions more, with a wink. So make the rich richer and the poor living off food stamps. Not only is Jesus against this, but also Robin Hood and Fonzi. If Darth Vader picked a side, which would it be? So keeping with the Stars Wars theme, there is around 1/2 the population that goes to see Star Wars, in general everyone likes the Rebel Side, Luke, Han and Chewy. But as they leave the theater they don't understand that their actions are supporting the Empire. I'm not saying overthrow, but just being much more group/country focused and a lot less ME focused would be a good start and that would trickle down to your situation at work, instead of takeaways, perks could be handed out once again. We live in a mix of socialism and capitalism (which makes sense and I'm really good with), if you are a person that looks at socialism as some type of disease, think of socialism as group power buying. That it makes sense to have certain things setup like that, because you have leverage to make things that are possible that would not be on an individual basis. That is in many cases Socialism, a good thing, not a bad thing. Mixed in with capitalism and freedom, that gives any one motivated enough to be a success, but everyone cannot be the boss, so we need protections for the workers so it doesn't go back to ancient Egypt.
I can't say for sure, but I've always felt that power likes to separate people not bring them together, because together is what creates power and a rival power is not what the establishment wants. I was all for trickle down if those that trickled understood the fine balance and we did for a while. However, the river dried up and we were thrown out with the bath water... those Yankie Doodle Dandy repubs then farmed our jobs out to commi's, messing the whole balance up and showed their true colors. So whenever they say God and Country, inside me I'd like to go Woody Hayes on them. Whenever at an event I grind my teeth standing for the national anthem, because of the white collar crooks (known as leaders) and sellouts running it. However I will forever stand because of those in the military that volunteered and gave their lives, but at one point I stood for all kinds of other reasons. Today it's such a country of dog eat doggers to the point of sadness and anger. How anyone working 40 per week for the man and being a staunch republican is a head scratcher to me. Hi man, I hate you that you bleed me, but I do ultimately support you by voting for you. Talked about a mixed up signal.
You mention wall street, I do have a strong feeling that is the source of it. In '85 that is when the market really took off (check out historical dow jones indexes) then later in the 90's it hit another level. As I said at one time I stood up and celebrated America, it seemingly goes in line with the rise of wall street and how that bleeds the little man to no end, with consistent pressure to make more, More, MORE! Now if we were rolling with whatever is thrown our way, the sensible thing is to look at WS as ones main job investing and perhaps a PT traditional job on the side, because that is what the numbers are telling us. I wonder if everyone did that what would happen?