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FedEx Freight | If you don't like your job, leave.

I work at a fac in So Cal ( P&D)and was told to leave --there's the door, you're not welcome here any more. 12 years all good performance reviews. I and others spoke out about the pitiful raise and that the TM EXPECTED us to use our own personal cell phones for co use. Five of us refused to answer our phones when dispatch called and tried to file complaints about dispatch giving out personal cell #'s to customers without permission. All Five of us were brought into the office and told to leave...we were not welcome at the company because we were not acting like team players. Corp office was called and they didn't believe any of us stating that Managers would never say or do things like this....
My belief is that the freight industry is changing drastically. It will soon be much lower pay (smaller if any raises) and much shorter hours. Most at our facility are not getting even 7 hours per day (for the last 8 months). Morale is in the toilet and it would appear that policy is to get rid of the squeaky wheels rather than fix the problems in management.
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its starting to get bad at my center as well many changes going on. youngster you bring up some valid points.i have been in p&d for 9 years now and think i may have had enough I.m not 100% sure that i'm leaving but i am definitly looking.we are really starting to get treated poorly and very slowly they are taking things away from us.maybe i'm just having a bad week but i almost ready to say f trucking all together and learn something else.i really did love what i do and probably still do but fx is starting to kill it for me.good thing for trucking boards because soon we will be written up for having an independent thought at work:thumbsdown: :nutkick:
 
Hang in there 14wheeler don't let the Morons run you off it will get better one of these days. They came in and cleaned house in Dotan Al. got rid of all mangement is what we heard.
 
I think it sucks that there will not be any updated Employee handbooks printed for another 2-3 years.(don't believe me, call human resources and ask them.)
They say the reason is because company rules are changing so much, they can not keep up with all the changes week to week.
If you want to know a specific rule or answer they suggest using the intranet to keep up with the any new rules..That and your terminal manager will inform you of any changes..
I think that is FUBR...seems to me a driver could unknowingly break a rule that he did not know about..
I mean really, what driver has time to sit and print out the whole friggin handbook from the intranet a few times a month? You have to go into all the topics and print each one out seperate..Not cool if ya ask me..
They should have an employee internet system to access from home so a driver can do it from home.

But I guess if a driver does not like it he should leave:smirk:
 
That is the way fedex works... Just like nascar now days... No published rule book, If someone doesn't like you, or your number comes up,, you are history.... Sure miss AMERICAN Freightways.... Do your job and you are cool....
 
Gezzzz !!!!!!!!
Get real we make up the rules as we go along ,
there will never be a totally up to date handbook.
Take a deep breath and stand by please.
 
DAREDEVIL you talking about the 1 stack skin getting tore off your knuckles mack you must of drove the old F-model mack? you must have come from OVERNITE....
 
IF fedex could transport freight as fast as info got down the road on the CB they would have the transportation market locked up...........
 
ZZZzzz...

chainsaww said:
Rules?

Say I put a bunch of z's together like this... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.. Whats the rule for that?

Would I be barred from a particular thread?


Just curious.
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I can think of one :sleep: just for you Chainsaw.
 
princess said:
I think it sucks that there will not be any updated Employee handbooks printed for another 2-3 years.(don't believe me, call human resources and ask them.)
They say the reason is because company rules are changing so much, they can not keep up with all the changes week to week.
If you want to know a specific rule or answer they suggest using the intranet to keep up with the any new rules..That and your terminal manager will inform you of any changes..
I think that is FUBR...seems to me a driver could unknowingly break a rule that he did not know about..
I mean really, what driver has time to sit and print out the whole friggin handbook from the intranet a few times a month? You have to go into all the topics and print each one out seperate..Not cool if ya ask me..
They should have an employee internet system to access from home so a driver can do it from home.

But I guess if a driver does not like it he should leave:smirk:
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I know I do not work for fdxf, and I am sorry to hear what you people are going through , we are going through the same currently with big brwn. When it was "O" sure there was plenty of impredictability, but for the most part you did your work and no one bothered you. I can remember when we knew about raises and benifit upgrades as well,and most had a voice in what was happening to them ...Not anymore , need to know basis only, and our rules change on a whim as well. I am not making any suggestion's here so please do not misunderstand me when I say this, and I am not inferring anything iether, but this is the reason for our movement to the union. I hope it works out for you all...... No sarcasm intended. No one should be beaten on or loose for doing thier best regardless as to where you work.....
 
Very well said Accelerator,, Thank You. These big corporations (yours and ours, etc) obviously don't care about indivduals anymore... We are just a number... and easily replaced... Better watch your back, because I have a family to provide for...
 
365Volare said:
Very well said Accelerator,, Thank You. These big corporations (yours and ours, etc) obviously don't care about indivduals anymore... We are just a number... and easily replaced... Better watch your back, because I have a family to provide for...
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You know some thing, everyone must look out for themselves, I will be the first person too say that I wish "O" was never bought out, I had fun there. But times are changin, and it is time to roll with the punches. And that's exactly what we are doing at UPSF.
 
well folks its like this some states are work at will others are right to work either case the employer can do what they want and when they want. only you and the other workers can make a change
 
freightslave said:
In our preshift this morning our ccm was giving us the results from the company survay.The result on job satisfation and management relations was given a low percentage by workers.So the ccm came out and said "If you don't like your job, leave"
He also said six dockworkers were sent home because of there slow performance.
And it could happen to us.If the numbers are not going to change.
Has anybody else had these meetings?

From the Rock in Louisville
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Sounds like ex ccx management.
 
Under the Microscope

Fellas, over at National, Fed Ex National tracks and posts a weekly report on each driver. Hours, Miles, # of Deliveries, # of Pick-ups, Average Bill per hour, average size of suck up knee pads. Dispatchers page us shortly after we get our dispatch, wanting to know if we are still on the yard, and why. The guys from Fed Ex Command have shown up in the parking lot. They are timing us on getting out of the gate after recieving our dispatch. They really stick out in their vehicles They are going to make us faster? They only need to speak with the drivers. We could tell them how to knock 1/2 the time off of clearing the gate. No specialist needed
 
This attitude of the customer/freight being more important than the worker is going to bite FedEx in the legal butt. When you start putting safety below getting the job done, accidents start happening and get more and more serious. We have more than one driver who has almost been killed by a pallet of Borders or Walden books rolling onto and pinning the driver at delivery sites. Telling a driver that a 1400# pallet can be pulled up an inclined ramp (inside a mall) with a standard, non-motorized pallet jack by one driver safely is wrong. OSHA even says so. FedEx doesn't seem to think so and in our driver meetings Numbers, Numbers, Numbers is the first thing we hear followed up by the pep talk of hurry, hurry, hurry, it affects VPEP...
 
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