This guy is delusional. This is nothing but pure lip service. NOTHING is going to change. The people with a little bit of control aren’t going to magically start being interested in what those that don’t, have to say about anything.
The entire corporate culture at FedEx is designed to foster animosity and distrust between everyone. From the lowest skin bag dock worker getting “the good forklift” before the guy that worked there two days longer gets it, to supervisors jealous of drivers making more money and working less hours, drivers rummaging through a pile of pallet jacks, looking for the nicest piece of trash before anyone else gets it. Operations managers that ignore daily freight damages caused by incompetence and laziness but counsel a driver for the slightest infraction. It’s all misery by design, which makes it easier to control people. All this “Hey team! We’re in this together!! One FedEx!!” nonsense is just words. Never forget that.
wHY dOnt YoU gO WOrK sOMEwhERe eLsE tHen?!.
I’m not giving up the crumbs I’ve accumulated over the years to start all over again somewhere else without any crumbs. If I could take my crumbs with me, I’d leave so fast that all you’d see is a dust outline where I was standing. But this industry doesn’t work that way. So you stay, and tolerate it for as long as you can detach yourself from your feelings while you are there.
“Safety Above All”, unless you’re running a liftgate, then we don’t care if you kill yourself, just get the freight that we’ve packed to the door and left no room to safely maneuver the 3000lb pallet off the truck, we’ve got pickups to do.
