What's funny is out where im located west coast ramp, a few drivers are worried as am I, but what amazes me is the amount of people that are in denial and actually attacking fellow coworkers for bringing any of this up as being negative, I swear its like fedex is a cult anymore...
FedEx Express has always been a cult. In the Federal Express days, it was the cult of Fred S, who had built a richly undeserved reputation as the CEO who knew how to treat employees with respect and thereby build loyalty and create excellence and dedication. Maybe a bit of the "legend" was true in the very early days of the company, but by the mid-80s, most of it was already gone, stripped out benefit by benefit as profit became so much more important than people.Smith has always been a human shell game, who is a "stellar" CEO under the first shell, a philanderer and cheat under the second, and a master political manipulator under the third. Underlying the whole facade is a weasel of the highest order, who cares only about increasing his profits and power and building stronger legislative alliances in order to maintain them.
Today, the cult lives on, but in a much weaker state. There remains a core group of employees who bleed purple and still think FedEx "cares". But there is a much larger group of the fearful long-term Express workers who know the way the company really works and are deathly afraid to stand-up against it. They sell each other out to curry favor with management, and would never dare to question the almighty P&P lest the system terminate them. They work injured, fake lunches, and generally do everything possible to make the dysfunction work for them personally. Collectively, they will do nothing but complain and live in denial of their own miserable reality.
