4X10 weeks for everyone at Express plan

[I Am Jacks Damaged Box]

...or the action phase begins before the planning is fully thought out.

 

[Turdferguson]

They cut so many route on Monday. It's sickening. Atleast start us early.

 

[Route 66]

^ THAT ^ thing is going to give me nightmares

 

[Artee]

Anyone else hear of this plan? Our ops mgr told us of this plan this morning. Said in planning stage now.

They have been trying it for 20 years and it still hasn't worked yet. All it takes is a couple people to quit, transfer, get hurt.....and the whole plan falls apart and they are asking you to come in on your day off. They then announce they are getting rid of 4/10's except for a couple routes because overtime is through the roof and we are back where we started. I have seen this movie more than a few times.

I thought the latest rumor over the past 5 years was they were going to make everyone part time. What happened to that? The only thing I would count on at FDX are declining benefits and little to no raises.

 

[I Am Jacks Damaged Box]

They have been trying it for 20 years and it still hasn't worked yet. All it takes is a couple people to quit, transfer, get hurt.....and the whole plan falls apart and they are asking you to come in on your day off. They then announce they are getting rid of 4/10's except for a couple routes because overtime is through the roof and we are back where we started. I have seen this movie more than a few times.

I thought the latest rumor over the past 5 years was they were going to make everyone part time. What happened to that? The only thing I would count on at FDX are declining benefits and little to no raises.

This.

Absolutely, positively not doable at my station.

 

[Yozh69]

Anyone else hear of this plan? Our ops mgr told us of this plan this morning. Said in planning stage now.

They told us the other day that they want to increase productivity and reduce overtime so that noone works over 50hrs

And that they had a req in to hire 10 new drivers - LOL!

 

[I Am Jacks Damaged Box]

And that they had a req in to hire 10 new drivers - LOL!

 

[I Am Jacks Damaged Box]

They told us the other day that they want to increase productivity and reduce overtime so that noone works over 50hrs

And that they had a req in to hire 10 new drivers - LOL!

Ladies and Gentlemen of Express, I present you our new batch of couriers if this idiot idea ever sees the light of day.

Hope our collective backs are strong, because we're gonna be doing a lot of carrying.

 

[*****cleared*****]

My station is mostly full of 4x10's. Didn't realize that wasn't normal

 

[upsbeernut]

Don't worry, you guys will get 4 x 10s when Brown figures out they need free Saturday ground service to keep up.

Id work a saturday to give up Monday.

 

[upsbeernut]

Good luck Fed X. I see you guys running all over each other on my route with your Roads system that probably was a wasteful thing to buy.

 

[Operational needs]

Good luck Fed X. I see you guys running all over each other on my route with your Roads system that probably was a wasteful thing to buy.

The biggest waste is DRA. It is pretty much like ORION.

 

[upsbeernut]

I heard that UPS is going to a 3 X 11 hour work week Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with Monday and Friday as 9 hour day, oh wait a minute they already did.

 

[El Morado Diablo]

This looks like my Sr Mgr.....

 

[MrFedEx]

They have been trying it for 20 years and it still hasn't worked yet. All it takes is a couple people to quit, transfer, get hurt.....and the whole plan falls apart and they are asking you to come in on your day off. They then announce they are getting rid of 4/10's except for a couple routes because overtime is through the roof and we are back where we started. I have seen this movie more than a few times.

I thought the latest rumor over the past 5 years was they were going to make everyone part time. What happened to that? The only thing I would count on at FDX are declining benefits and little to no raises.

This company is truly run by morons. How it survives is amazing.

 

[dezguy]

4x10 would be awesome so long as my days off were Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Just because they call you in on your day off, doesn't mean you have to go.

 

[Brownslave688]

I just don't understand why we can't get out of the building early on Monday?
All of the freight is there ready to roll.

We usually roll by 8:30

 

[MrFedEx]

This looks like my Sr Mgr.....

Imagine a huge fancy boardroom, with exotic furnishings and décor. Now, envision Matt, Dave, and Fred sitting there with all of their VP and MD yes men and women. A "task group" makes a presentation on reducing OT, with charts, an exotic computer presentation on Powerpoint, and lots of projections showing how hours can be reduced by going 4x10 system-wide. There are lots of nods and approving smiles, and then...it's time for an expensive catered lunch.

In the afternoon, everyone kisses the butts and rings of the Big Three, and around 1500, Fred announces that "The Plan" is a go. Everyone leaves for more ass-kissing and "career building". Maybe there will also be a presentation on Effective Leadership Principles.

Meanwhile, the entire system is burning to the ground, and most stations are short on both sides of the operation.

Utter cluelessness.

 

[MrFedEx]

We usually roll by 8:30

Our CTV might arrive by 0830.

 

[Cactus]

Imagine a huge fancy boardroom, with exotic furnishings and décor. Now, envision Matt, Dave, and Fred sitting there with all of their VP and MD yes men and women. A "task group" makes a presentation on reducing OT, with charts, an exotic computer presentation on Powerpoint, and lots of projections showing how hours can be reduced by going 4x10 system-wide. There are lots of nods and approving smiles, and then...it's time for an expensive catered lunch.

In the afternoon, everyone kisses the butts and rings of the Big Three, and around 1500, Fred announces that "The Plan" is a go. Everyone leaves for more ass-kissing and "career building". Maybe there will also be a presentation on Effective Leadership Principles.

Meanwhile, the entire system is burning to the ground, and most stations are short on both sides of the operation.

Utter cluelessness.

The big three must have memories each one inch long. This makes how many times now this has been tried? Geez all that has been missing is the necessary ingredient called manpower. And not one of them can figure that out?