And then the company becomes a shell of itself.
Your problem is you only know what you've experienced at Ground. There was a time when couriers had a two week class, had to have a cdl, were trained in handling haz and international shipments, had to write out airbills,, had to know others routes enough to run a sort, and so on. That was on top of having our day put on hold while waiting for freight, often having everything disrupted and having to run a fire drill to compensate. And we, as I pointed out before, drove the big vans delivering all the bulk along with meeting deadlines all day. Depending on the station we ran at least the morning sort but in some stations had to do the reload too.
07-08 We probably overlapped if you've been there the whole time. Sorry you guys are getting hit with this so soon. Hope everyone is doing well. Probably not too many familiar faces left(I'll have to look online and see who's left)
It’s a job that you can be hired off the street with no experience or skill and it doesn’t lead to advancement within the company. It’s literally the definition of entry level.
I’m not sure why you think the job requirements from 40 years ago are relevant.
I transferred to LGUA in 08 so probably just missed you. We’ve had so many people quit since the announcement that we are actually going to have to hire a couple part timers. One full timer will have to downgrade to part time but that’s it. Right now they are sending up drivers from OGDA to fill all the open routes until we merge.
That was the job pretty much 20 years ago too. The point being you seem to think that being a FedEx courier was always an easy entry level job with Express employees having too high an opinion of themselves. Didn't deserve better pay and benefits. As the company combines the opcos and more is required of your drivers you may develop a greater appreciation of what Express does now and of those who put up with the job for decades.
What the job required decades ago has no bearing on what it’s worth today. It’s a low skill, high turnover job. You can train a person up to decent within a few weeks, a few months and they’re basically an expert. That type of job isn’t going to command super high wages.
That’s because back then we did things right and the customer received value for the higher prices. Nowadays the service has cheapened to a throw and go operation.
Contractors should expect hauling air box to be a low margin business. Many will be fortunate just to cover their costs while at the same time opening themselves up to many more numerous and far more punishing penalties for failing to fulfill those "contracting standards" Raj keeps bragging about, leaving contractors to ask themselves...."why do I continue to do this"?
Good luck with it then. I never expected "super high wages." I only wanted them to top me out in a reasonable time which they weren't. I'm betting with the demands of making deliveries, pickups, time commitments, you're going to experience more turnover. A lot of people will settle for less pay rather than do this for $18hr. That's why it'll eventually command better pay than you think it should. And with the turnover you're going to have to compete with your fellow contractors for new employees.
I always felt the same. Top out was good enough for me. It just never made sense why the company never wanted me to get there. They set the pay. It wasn’t negotiated as part of a union contract. They have complete control over what the pay is. If you don’t want me making $33/hr…. Don’t set top out at $33/hr lol.
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UPS ? Remember Walmart, Target , Sams , Fast food places , these jobs all used to make very low wages. Guess what , they couldn’t hire anyone and now they start out 15 bucks.
