I remember the day I walked in at FedEx. So proud, so anxious and so eager. We had a good management team at our terminal. The thought of organization was furthest from anyone's mind. How times have changed. Those managers have moved off long ago to be replaced by inept and the incompetent.
We now have tow motors at full throttle to meet what what management deems as his bph. We have drivers who truly bust their hind ends, or rather, allow themselves to be pushed, while others sit back and skate out the day.deliberately avoiding doing any more work than they have to, and when you mention it, they say they know, and again do nothing.
We have a dispatch that is reluctant to accept any ideas that drivers have. His ideas are better. But yet ask him where stops are in relationship go one another, he hasn't a clue. Instead he just pawns it off onto to a driver that he knows he can depend on, and let the others collect their checks for doing the least amount of work.
Then we can address our scm, who as one driver, is reinventing the wheel. Who changes policy midstream, goes against company policy, and does exactly what he thinks is best. How things have truly and honestly changed. We have become just a center now, standing alone, when at one time we would be recognized over and over again for our efforts.
I have been in enough union places. I don't believe union is the whole answer. We have our surveys. Corporate knows where the problems are. However they are slow to do anything or reluctant to do anything. I'm not sure that a union vote will solve the issues at our center, but, if it would make FedEx wake up and truly address the issues, and if by joining, will hold management responsive and responsible, then sign me up.