No different than any franchise, is it? Or can one Mcdonalds change the recipe for the "special sauce"?
FedEX buying back Ground Routes
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59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
That's pretty much exactly the way it is. A guy who owns a McDonald's franchise has LOTS of things dictated to him. For lack of a better way of describing it, a guy who buys a franchise is buying the rights to operate under someone else's name and follow their rules.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
McDonald's has employees. I notice Fred's puppet weighed-in on this.
I have employees.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
FedEx Ground has employees.
The people at my local McDonald's don't work for McDonald's. They aren't paid by McD's. They work for and are paid by the company that operates that restaurant, yet they are still bound by policies and rules that McDonald's sets for the franchisee to abide by.
Maybe they can consult you.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
McDonald's employees get overtime, they have some benefits (like Tuition Refund). Do yours? Your package slaves are really Fred's employees.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Both of my kids worked at Mickey D's. It was very rare for an employee to work more than 8 hours but, if they did, they would get OT.
None of which is required for a company of my size.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Except that it's Fred's company.
My Federal and State Tax ID numbers suggest otherwise.
What type of 'real' business can you start up (that will provide a real income) for only $300,000 now especially in the NY/CT region? And you can't compare FedEx Ground to a McDonalds Franchise. To buy a franchise with the requirements & capital needed you need close to 1 million.
I thought he was being facetious when he said or suggested that not serious
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
If you say so, but it's still Fred's show. Biggest scam in the shipping business. Employees who aren't employees. flat-rate salaries with no OT, and all the rest. A major coup for Mr Smith and a pie in the face of UPS and the Teamsters.
Could be Fred's show, doesn't mean I can't be a well paid actor and doent make it a scam because he doesn't hire from the Screen Actor's Guild.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Not hiring from SAG isn't the scam. It's the whole set-up. Who else gets to have ultra-low labor costs subsidized by the taxpayer because Ground employees don't get benefits? No overtime, and all operating costs except terminals and sort labor outsourced to low-cost providers. You may be legal for now with the ISP, but the degree of control exerted by Memphis and Pittsburgh will eventually bite FedEx in the ass.
You have non-employees who are really employees, which is the biggest magic trick of them all.
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
The whole FedEx foundation is built on misclassification of employees.
Why more people don't see through this sack o' crap is beyond me.
Cactus
Just telling it like it is
And I suppose you believe everything Fred tells you.
