Show me an offer letter that doesn't say the standard "subject to the operational needs of the company" language and does say that your workday hours are set in stone and that you'll never have to work beyond them.
Sounds like you want ME to make YOUR job easier at the expense of my outside obligations. Everything everyone does revolves around their work schedule genius. Picking up my kids, soccer practice, helping with homework, dinner. It all revolves around my scheduled hours. My loyalty is to my family. I work for them, not for FedEx. You can “operational needs” yourself to death but managers hold zero power at this company now. With the way express pays employees, fast food has just about caught them lol. You know what this “operation needs”??…. To keep its drivers happy.
I just love offer letters. Like the one that didn't mention it was a 4X10 cover driver position. I used that to transfer out after finding something I wanted elsewhere. The fact is that the company wants to hold couriers to what the offer letter specifies but then puts in it that it's, what's the language, no guarantee of employment or some such. Offer letters are nothing but a company CYA.
Ok.
First offense, give the courier the benefit of the doubt and issue an OLCC outlining expectations. Second offense, WL. Third offense, BYE.
"My kid has soccer practice, therefore I don't have to do my job."
More like, "I'm scheduled till 5pm and my kids soccer practice is at 6. I'll just grab dinner when we get home from practice."
Easy solution is to send routes out with 8 hours of work and hold them accountable for completing the task.
I definitely think you should make plans and be there for your family. It should come first. I also think that just bringing back unattempted freight shows poor character. It's OK if stops are blown out or freight is late to talk to the manager honestly and say you have a commitment in the AM before taking the stops on-road. Nearly every manager I know would work that out.
Yep.
I've worked for plenty of managers who believe once the freight is out the door, it's no longer their problem. If I'm scheduled 830-5, I'm working 830-5. If I'm sent out over stop count, that's on the manager.
Are managers totally ignorant of stop counts? Or is it purposely ignorant.
It happens DAILY at my station. We are so short staffed and poorly managed that our managers will let entire routes sit on a truck in the station for the entire day, unattempted. Couriers bring back packages all the time. This is a different company. Fortunately, I have one more work week to go then its on to retirement and a career change. I am looking forward to a new life where I can succeed and be happy at my job once again. Its just not possible for me to do that here.
Fedex Express is irreparably broken all the way around and everywhere in all ways.
If you have a family with young kids… you have a commitment every single day. There’s always a reason to be off when you need to be off.
Correction. “My kid has soccer practice AFTER my scheduled hours, therefore I already did my job.. see ya tomorrow”.
I think you’re in CO. One of the stations there is the worst performing station in the Mid-West and probably the country. I would have hired Wave 2 as FT and they’d be expected to deliver all their stops too. Anything less is frankly ridiculous.
Yep. Can’t pick up the kids. Can’t make dentist/doctor appointments. Can’t make dinner. Can’t help with homework. Can’t be relied on for anything in my family sorry guys…. FedEx needs me for 8 hours, or maybe 12. I have to have 4 hours of flexibility every day hahaha
