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<blockquote data-quote="FedEx2000" data-source="post: 292621" data-attributes="member: 13621">What exactly are the poor working conditions that you refer to? The stations that I have worked in have been clean, safe, and well maintained. If your&#039;s were otherwise, then I put that on the local SCIT team and management, but I would hardly describe that as a company-wide issue. How many locations did you work at, 1 or 2? You, an ex-employee, and a current employee that is a friend of yours doesn&#039;t really qualify as &quot;many current employees&quot; that are unhappy. If it is so, I encourage them to look for a job elsewhere, it&#039;s not a job for everyone. If they are not happy there, of course their performance/service will suffer, how is that different than any other job? In my 8 yrs with Express I have not seen any proof that FedEx &quot;fires people left and right&quot; rather than laying people off. I have been at a large station with 100+ employees for 4 yrs and maybe 4 or 5 people have been fired. I haven&#039;t been given a single letter or negative OLCC in my 8 years. Sure, many have moved onto other jobs, but not because they were fired. I think your claims, as an ex-employee, are a bit exaggerated....but maybe that&#039;s just me. As far as the union chatter goes, I for one, have no desire to unionize. What can they get me? A couple extra bucks an hour? At what cost to me? I have a good relationship with management and would prefer it stay that way rather than having a management vs. union atmosphere. Benefits? It&#039;s not like ours are terrible, we have a 401k with match, pension, cheap insurance, and many other discounts and perks. Sure the ins. isn&#039;t free, but it&#039;s pretty darn cheap, $36/mo. Sure the pension has changed, due to laws that are designed to prevent another &quot;Enron&quot; scenario, but again it&#039;s not like they took it away and blew all the money on other things. The union pension that UPS was in was holding them back until they finally paid what, $2 Billion to get out of it!! That $2 Billion could have been spend a whole lot of other places had they not been in the union plan to begin with, like directly funding the pension or raises perhaps. I guess I am just not one of the unhappy non-caring employees that you describe, and maybe you are one of the few rather than the many. JMHO</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FedEx2000, post: 292621, member: 13621"] What exactly are the poor working conditions that you refer to? The stations that I have worked in have been clean, safe, and well maintained. If your's were otherwise, then I put that on the local SCIT team and management, but I would hardly describe that as a company-wide issue. How many locations did you work at, 1 or 2? You, an ex-employee, and a current employee that is a friend of yours doesn't really qualify as "many current employees" that are unhappy. If it is so, I encourage them to look for a job elsewhere, it's not a job for everyone. If they are not happy there, of course their performance/service will suffer, how is that different than any other job? In my 8 yrs with Express I have not seen any proof that FedEx "fires people left and right" rather than laying people off. I have been at a large station with 100+ employees for 4 yrs and maybe 4 or 5 people have been fired. I haven't been given a single letter or negative OLCC in my 8 years. Sure, many have moved onto other jobs, but not because they were fired. I think your claims, as an ex-employee, are a bit exaggerated....but maybe that's just me. As far as the union chatter goes, I for one, have no desire to unionize. What can they get me? A couple extra bucks an hour? At what cost to me? I have a good relationship with management and would prefer it stay that way rather than having a management vs. union atmosphere. Benefits? It's not like ours are terrible, we have a 401k with match, pension, cheap insurance, and many other discounts and perks. Sure the ins. isn't free, but it's pretty darn cheap, $36/mo. Sure the pension has changed, due to laws that are designed to prevent another "Enron" scenario, but again it's not like they took it away and blew all the money on other things. The union pension that UPS was in was holding them back until they finally paid what, $2 Billion to get out of it!! That $2 Billion could have been spend a whole lot of other places had they not been in the union plan to begin with, like directly funding the pension or raises perhaps. I guess I am just not one of the unhappy non-caring employees that you describe, and maybe you are one of the few rather than the many. JMHO [/QUOTE]

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