What would you do ?

The majority of my employees average $15 an hour,holidays,paid vacation, monthly bonuses for customer service and safety and bonuses during peak. I have only lost one driver in 6 years.
 

StuffItFred

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The majority of my employees average $15 an hour,holidays,paid vacation, monthly bonuses for customer service and safety and bonuses during peak. I have only lost one driver in 6 years.

Is that 15$/hour before or after they have to get their own health insurance? If not then their wages are not 15$/hr. more like in the $10-$12 range after having to pay for their own benefits.
 

MAKAVELI

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The majority of my employees average $15 an hour,holidays,paid vacation, monthly bonuses for customer service and safety and bonuses during peak. I have only lost one driver in 6 years.

15 an hour isn't **** these days when ups is making 30 and express tops out around 25. You haven't said specifically how many holidays,vacation and bonuses so we can compare. What about pension, 401k , health ins.? Give us some specifics why don't you?
 

STFXG

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It's a lot compared to a pizza boy. Same required skills. Only it's got to be there on time or it gets cold. I guess it takes more skill...
 

DOWNTRODDEN IN TEXAS

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Ack... Drives me nuts that people who work for FedEx still call it Kinkos, haha. But yes, every experience I've had with FedEx Office has been sub-par. I'm always confused about some of the peoples opinions on here, I'm ground so all I see is success all around in my district.

The 3 times I have had to use Fredco Office to blow up pictures, I was pleasantly surprised. Not only did they put my orders on rush at the top of the pile, I also got overprints and mattes for free and done within an hour or so of ordering...it didn't hurt that I did mention these were for my grandparents funerals and I was in uniform when I ordered. Needless to say, I wouldn't use them for much else...lol
 

I Am Jacks Damaged Box

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It's a lot compared to a pizza boy. Same required skills. Only it's got to be there on time or it gets cold. I guess it takes more skill...

Unless pizza boys are delivering up to 150 pound pizzas and your drivers are delivering out of a Ford Escort, I'd say that is one of the worst analogies I have ever heard of.

Not quite sure if it tops Dano's extremely bad sports analogies, but it is certainly up there.
 

MAKAVELI

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It's a lot compared to a pizza boy. Same required skills. Only it's got to be there on time or it gets cold. I guess it takes more skill...

Unless pizza boys are delivering up to 150 pound pizzas and your drivers are delivering out of a Ford Escort, I'd say that is one of the worst analogies I have ever heard of.

Not quite sure if it tops Dano's extremely bad sports analogies, but it is certainly up there.

Yea it just shows what he thinks of his drivers and the respect he holds for them. Kind of like Fred S.
 

overflowed

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Yea it just shows what he thinks of his drivers and the respect he holds for them. Kind of like Fred S.

Fred S would try to pay my husky to pull that 150 lbs box if it would cost less than us. Well, on second thought I need to pay for my health insurance. Hey dog, let's try this harness on. NEVER!
 

STFXG

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It's a lot compared to a pizza boy. Same required skills. Only it's got to be there on time or it gets cold. I guess it takes more skill...

Unless pizza boys are delivering up to 150 pound pizzas and your drivers are delivering out of a Ford Escort, I'd say that is one of the worst analogies I have ever heard of.

Not quite sure if it tops Dano's extremely bad sports analogies, but it is certainly up there.

Yea it just shows what he thinks of his drivers and the respect he holds for them. Kind of like Fred S.

Says nothing of what I think of my drivers. Or any couriers. Simply comparing the required skill of finding an address and walking to the door.

And our drivers actually have to have experience before we can hire them. Can't be hired off the street...
 

MAKAVELI

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It's a lot compared to a pizza boy. Same required skills. Only it's got to be there on time or it gets cold. I guess it takes more skill...

Unless pizza boys are delivering up to 150 pound pizzas and your drivers are delivering out of a Ford Escort, I'd say that is one of the worst analogies I have ever heard of.

Not quite sure if it tops Dano's extremely bad sports analogies, but it is certainly up there.

Yea it just shows what he thinks of his drivers and the respect he holds for them. Kind of like Fred S.

Says nothing of what I think of my drivers. Or any couriers. Simply comparing the required skill of finding an address and walking to the door.

And our drivers actually have to have experience before we can hire them. Can't be hired off the street...

Anybody that read your statement knows exactly what you meant which was too demean and belittle your drivers. It actually takes a lot more skill and fortitude to do what we do than a pizza delivery person.
 
In this area of the country 15 an hr is decent wages. As far as health care most companies health care policies are a joke and very expensive, unless you work for the county, state or government. I'm a small business, my employees understand I can't offer health ins. or pensions ( not that many exist in the private sector) Most people don't make the wages and benefits UPS, GM, Ford and very few other companies offer for non-college graduates. These types of jobs are few and far between, most companies can not offer such or they won't be in business long. That couldn't possible be why the auto industry needed a bailout, no way has to corporate greed and fraud. Everyone deserves 80 to 100k plus benefits!
 

HomeDelivery

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Says nothing of what I think of my drivers. Or any couriers. Simply comparing the required skill of finding an address and walking to the door.

And our drivers actually have to have experience before we can hire them. Can't be hired off the street...

yes, some needs slightly better skills than just finding an address & walking it to the door. you need to have some common sense when doing that job ~ which i only saw in ~50% of the temp drivers this past season. unless you like having a heap of disputed deliveries/claims daily at your mailbox...

the smart contractors will pull from the pool of temp agency drivers to replace the bad apples in their little corps /llc's or whatever FedEx Ground is calling them these days (ISP's oh yea)
 
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