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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1025077" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>With talk of Dynamic ROADS not being fully implemented until the end of 2013 looks like the October announcement is just about discussing plans and timetables. No massive changes right away that will freak out customers. Just keeping Wall Street analysts apprised and on the hook in anticipation of better future profits. Analysts were saying in July articles that major changes weren't likely for 18-24 months with some saying sooner rather than later. So it could be a full two years before everything is implemented and even then there's nothing beyond speculation saying we will lose our jobs. The biggest indicator IMO will be the hiring of part-timers. If they go through the normal process then the new PTers won't come online for several months after the hiring starts. See a big spike in JCATS PT openings or a bunch of people being interviewed at the station then most likely big changes are imminent. 2 years will give them plenty of time to thin the ranks through attrition. I don't believe they are looking to get rid of people, just control and eliminate OT. Most extended area rts will still require a FTer. Might not get OT, but rts will probably be restructured to handle larger areas since there will be less freight if we are strictly overnight. The single biggest fallacy I'm reading here is that FedEx is going out of it's way to hurt us. We get hurt collaterally. Yes, they should take that into account in their plans and yes they know they are hurting us financially. I don't however think it's done gleefully with malice. They just want what they want and we get run over in the process. Shortly after I got hired in '86 a mgr told my workgroup the only thing FedEx promises is things will change. They have reneged on promises, they have exploited us. But as some say here it's just business. The only true power we have if they don't cross a legal line is to quit. But that most likely will just compound our financial problems for most of us. So just play it through for the endgame, give it a chance to unfold. It may be the bitter hell some here suggest, it may just be roughly 40 hrs a week in a very different Express.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1025077, member: 24302"] With talk of Dynamic ROADS not being fully implemented until the end of 2013 looks like the October announcement is just about discussing plans and timetables. No massive changes right away that will freak out customers. Just keeping Wall Street analysts apprised and on the hook in anticipation of better future profits. Analysts were saying in July articles that major changes weren't likely for 18-24 months with some saying sooner rather than later. So it could be a full two years before everything is implemented and even then there's nothing beyond speculation saying we will lose our jobs. The biggest indicator IMO will be the hiring of part-timers. If they go through the normal process then the new PTers won't come online for several months after the hiring starts. See a big spike in JCATS PT openings or a bunch of people being interviewed at the station then most likely big changes are imminent. 2 years will give them plenty of time to thin the ranks through attrition. I don't believe they are looking to get rid of people, just control and eliminate OT. Most extended area rts will still require a FTer. Might not get OT, but rts will probably be restructured to handle larger areas since there will be less freight if we are strictly overnight. The single biggest fallacy I'm reading here is that FedEx is going out of it's way to hurt us. We get hurt collaterally. Yes, they should take that into account in their plans and yes they know they are hurting us financially. I don't however think it's done gleefully with malice. They just want what they want and we get run over in the process. Shortly after I got hired in '86 a mgr told my workgroup the only thing FedEx promises is things will change. They have reneged on promises, they have exploited us. But as some say here it's just business. The only true power we have if they don't cross a legal line is to quit. But that most likely will just compound our financial problems for most of us. So just play it through for the endgame, give it a chance to unfold. It may be the bitter hell some here suggest, it may just be roughly 40 hrs a week in a very different Express. [/QUOTE]
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