FedEx Freight | Hot Button Topic: How Should Layoffs Be Done

I believe policy is co senority within job class
for some of you , that means, if your laid off as a road driver you can't bump the local board or dock board. you can however bump a part timer but you would get a new job class date and if things picked up and you wanted to go back to your old job
you would get a new job class date there also
 
I believe policy is co senority within job class
for some of you , that means, if your laid off as a road driver you can't bump the local board or dock board. you can however bump a part timer but you would get a new job class date and if things picked up and you wanted to go back to your old job
you would get a new job class date there also
Correct except the new job class date when returning to the board you were laid off from, when you go back you go in your original spot.

FM
 
I totally agree with ya wolfie, It would be nice for that to happen, fedex has has trained us otherwise. The manual states that layoffs start with company seniority bottom up, but as we all know policy is very gray depends on whos interpertation it is and who so it benefits.... American Freightways cared about its people fedex cares about making money bottom line you are a number. hate the game not the players...
 
I say if fedex can sponsor nascar, college football, pro frootball , golf and everything else they sponsor why in the h--- r we having layoff's. Personaly i think it's bull s--- but thats me
 
Muwahhhhahahahahah! Roflmao:hysterical: You know, I have always believed in the whole seniority factor, and I still believe that is the way it should be run. However, I know in some cases, your more senior employees are the ones that have learned how to "hide n slide" and cheat the system. As someone who's parents taught me to put 100% into everything I do, it kills me to watch someone milk the clock in front of me. I do the best I can everyday, and sometimes that causes me to miss out on overtime, or hell, even get my eight somedays. All the while, I'm watching those less willing than me to work hard hit their 40+ everyweek by "laying down" on the job! The selfish side of me would love to see the "slackers" be the first to go. You want to talk about saving money! I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if we all would truly put 100% into the day, we'd all be better off. I've been a quiet observer of this site for sometime now, just thought it was time to put my two cents in!
 
I was told by ccm recently that if and when another round of layoffs were to come, city drivers would be filling these slots indefinitely. I did'nt like the sound of that.
 
Muwahhhhahahahahah! Roflmao:hysterical: You know, I have always believed in the whole seniority factor, and I still believe that is the way it should be run. However, I know in some cases, your more senior employees are the ones that have learned how to "hide n slide" and cheat the system. As someone who's parents taught me to put 100% into everything I do, it kills me to watch someone milk the clock in front of me. I do the best I can everyday, and sometimes that causes me to miss out on overtime, or hell, even get my eight somedays. All the while, I'm watching those less willing than me to work hard hit their 40+ everyweek by "laying down" on the job! The selfish side of me would love to see the "slackers" be the first to go. You want to talk about saving money! I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if we all would truly put 100% into the day, we'd all be better off. I've been a quiet observer of this site for sometime now, just thought it was time to put my two cents in!

My sentiments exactly. They're the main reason we have to sit and listen to the principal tell us how bad we did the day before in meetings.. If, for once, they would just grow up and respond positively to the "motivational" talks, act like adults, and pick up the slack, instead of resisting and finding loopholes and stretching everything they do to the boundries set forth via drivers manuals and such:Rulz:, things would be better. With out a doubt. But no! Thoughts such as these can only come from brainwashed company tools, you'll be told by some here. And instead of looking at what they may or may not be doing as this relates to them, they will instead take what you say and try and throw it back at you in some way. That's most important to them, finding fault with a supposed company tool (or anybody else for that matter) not looking at themselves and reconsidering whether or not it applies to them. All you get is defensive responses. Beating a dead horse is all it is.:stirthepot:
 
well, probably not many will like this post, but length of service shouldn't have
anything to do with it. productivity should dictate layoffs. it's rumored that that's
what decided which dockworkers went and stayed in sbr over the last few weeks.
 
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Here is a thought, keep those that can do more than one job. It makes more sense to layoff a non-cdl carring dockworker than it does a city driver or a road driver. Dockworkers can only do one thing, whereas drivers can do multiple things. The dock is the first to get sent home before any driver goes home, and if you lose the dockworkers, the drivers we got sitting at home can come in and work the dock instead of sitting at home. It's just a thought!
 
The only problem with that is if you're wasting your hours on the dock then when they need someone to run you might not have the hours. So it's really doesn't make any sense to have a driver working the dock. I've seen this happen a lot.
 
Rules change everyday added/ removed updated..
You signed no contract to work here regardless how you word it.You signed a piece of paper acknowledging that you read the paper and will comply until they decide to give you anothore paper to sine to change that paper.


Anyone who has been here more than a minute knows that. They make up/change the rules everyday; I am certain that is why there is not a "hard copy" of the driver manual as once was.
 
Anyone who has been here more than a minute knows that. They make up/change the rules everyday; I am certain that is why there is not a "hard copy" of the driver manual as once was.

We had a rule book before the "change" and the rule book also stated that any of the rule's or policy's set in place could be changed at any time if the terminal manager felt that the change would benefit his terminal. You can imagine how this could have gotten out of control. Meaning, what the manager felt benefited his terminal. That rule book is now null and void.
 
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