2022 step increase

[NC man]

If you want a raise then slow down and get OT everyday.Retired in Dec after no raise for the top.if I could not would still be there but I could so I did and that no raise was the tipping point.
Hope you guys and gals get a decent raise but would not count on it.Fed will find any excuse not to.

 

[Aquaman]

Service should not be based upon compensation.

This isn’t MY company. My quality of work is directly related to pay. I take no pride in being an ant in someone’s ant farm. You pay me well, I work harder. Pay me less, I work less. If I was an entrepreneur I’d be incredibly proud of even a $30,000 salary. Because it’s my own company. But if I’m working for someone else, my quality of work/service is directly related to my wage. There’s no pride in this company.

 

[Fred's Myth]

Service should not be based upon compensation.

"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work."

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work."

Absolutely! Now, please define both.

 

[Cactus]

Service should not be based upon compensation.

And I’m sure you turned down multiple raises while you were with UPS while giving 100%. Right.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

This isn’t MY company. My quality of work is directly related to pay. I take no pride in being an ant in someone’s ant farm. You pay me well, I work harder. Pay me less, I work less. If I was an entrepreneur I’d be incredibly proud of even a $30,000 salary. Because it’s my own company. But if I’m working for someone else, my quality of work/service is directly related to my wage. There’s no pride in this company.

Are company pride and personal pride one in the same?

 

[Fred's Myth]

Absolutely! Now, please define both.

The market determines what is fair.
UPS has set the standard for what is not only fair but sustainable.
FedEx has created an unsustainable system in order to avoid paying equivalent wages, and is reaping the harvest of what they’ve sown.

 

[Serf]

I just wish the Ground ppl well. Shift everything to them. Make express a premier overnight company. That’s it. With good benefits. 30$ hr no more than 30 hrs a week. Have a smaller PM crew on the back end to grab bulk stops, reg pu, & dropboxes.

 

[fdxsux]

Service should not be based upon compensation.

Kind of like saying a Rolls Royce and a Ford Escort should be the same quality car even though the prices are different. Nonsense.

 

[MassWineGuy]

You all saw how FedEx won’t bargain collectively with ground contractors? They’re so petrified of the tiniest hint of union.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The market determines what is fair.
UPS has set the standard for what is not only fair but sustainable.
FedEx has created an unsustainable system in order to avoid paying equivalent wages, and is reaping the harvest of what they’ve sown.

Perhaps "fair" falls somewhere in the middle.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Kind of like saying a Rolls Royce and a Ford Escort should be the same quality car even though the prices are different. Nonsense.

When I started in 1989 I believe I was in the $10-12/hr range.
When I retired in 2018 I believe I was in the $30-32/hr range.
Using your "logic" my level of service should have tripled. It didn't----I provided the same level of service on my first day as I did on my last. Now, I will admit that those who took care of me at Peak or throughout the year did receive an increased level of service.

 

[Fred's Myth]

When I started in 1989 I believe I was in the $10-12/hr range.
When I retired in 2018 I believe I was in the $30-32/hr range.
Using your "logic" my level of service should have tripled. It didn't----I provided the same level of service on my first day as I did on my last. Now, I will admit that those who took care of me at Peak or throughout the year did receive an increased level of service.

Did you have the same volume of freight in 2018 as you did in 1989?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Did you have the same volume of freight in 2018 as you did in 1989?

Not even close.

 

[fedx]

This isn’t MY company. My quality of work is directly related to pay. I take no pride in being an ant in someone’s ant farm. You pay me well, I work harder. Pay me less, I work less. If I was an entrepreneur I’d be incredibly proud of even a $30,000 salary. Because it’s my own company. But if I’m working for someone else, my quality of work/service is directly related to my wage. There’s no pride in this company.

Yup. This sums it up:

 

[Fred's Myth]

Not even close.

So your service as a function of your workload did NOT remain static. You therefore did not provide the same level of service.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

So your service as a function of your workload did NOT remain static. You therefore did not provide the same level of service.

I provided the same base level of service regardless of whether they tipped or not; however, I did step it up for those who did tip, such as putting their deliveries in to two or more locations or coming back for a pickup if they had a late order.

 

[yadig]

When I started in 1989 I believe I was in the $10-12/hr range.
When I retired in 2018 I believe I was in the $30-32/hr range.
Using your "logic" my level of service should have tripled. It didn't----I provided the same level of service on my first day as I did on my last. Now, I will admit that those who took care of me at Peak or throughout the year did receive an increased level of service.

Hey goob, cost of living kinda went up to. Did Fredx raise the shipping rates?

 

[Aquaman]

Are company pride and personal pride one in the same?

It is when you take personal pride in making someone else money that spends it on everything but you. I’m about $13 away from UPS top out at Express, after 15 years at FedEx. This place isn’t getting anywhere in the same galaxy as UPS, as far as work ethic from me. It was different when Express didn’t expect 12 hour days out of its drivers. Employees were a little more “okay” with the pay because the trade off was getting to go to your daughters dance recital. Pick your kids up from school. Getting to sit down for dinner. All the things UPS guys sacrificed for the higher wage. But now Express wants you to work a UPS day for FedEx money. And ITS. NOT. HAPPENING.

 

[Fergus Mahoney]

Are company pride and personal pride one in the same?

We aren't in Japan.