I don't know what experiences you've had with FedEx, All I know is they get me my packages when USPS doesn't and it takes 24 hours or less to get my s*** from Japan
It isn't a trick, it is an incentive. My job pays me for 8 hours regardless of the time I work. If I finish early, I go home early. If I rush through and mess up because I wanted to go home, I lose money off my monthly bonus.
The way this kid phrased it is such a deceiving way of phrasing what actually happens… the company provides an incentive - and because you want clicks and engagement you’re out here stating “FEDEX EMPLOYEES ARE SO STUPID AND GULLIBLE IDIOTS!! HAHA LOOK AT THOSE STUPID MORONS!! THEY’RE BEING TRICKED BY THEIR EMPLOYER!!! SO STUPID!!”
There’s never an end to work. Being on salary can be harder but you also know what’s in the bank every month. Could it be better, probably but I agree it’s a compromise
It’s 1971, I’m pretty sure it was still legal to hit women, blacks people, and kids in public lol. Forget about kidnappers’ rights. Remember, Jeffrey Dahmer wouldn’t start killing until 7 years after FedEx was made.
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It is a double edged sword. Yes, you are absolutely right. Employees would definitely work faster and more packages would be processed but on the other hand it incentivises the employees to throw packages around and the company to increase the workload without additional pay over time. This is one of the reasons why there are so many transport damages. Most people in transport/delivery chain are under high pressure. And yes, it does not trick employees. They know that they are getting screwed over.
As an ex employee of FedEx, they don’t give a damn they don’t care, and they most importantly do not care about your packages. All they care about is numbers and they really don’t care about the employee safety.
I don't want to be a FedEx employee, I'm scared that my plane is gonna crash and I'm gonna go to a deserted island and paint a face on a ball and name it Wilson. Then four years later, somebody steals my gf when I come back.
I don't know where this guy gets this idea from. It's not true. The workers try to loaf around to get as many hours as they can. The company needs a shake up to get rid of the dead weight (there is a lot of it).
If you're a package handler it's hourly. Yes you go home at the end of the packages. Sometimes it's 2 hours and other times it's 8-10. You'll never know
That's not tricking them, that's incentivizing productivity over time spent. That's how it really should be. I also feel like it's a healthier mindset for the employees themselves
That said, FedEx isn't doing something right, because I never have a good experience with them... Or even UPS. In fact, USPS has been the tride and true service for me over the years, it's hard to believe, prior to selling online, I believed the opposite... I've sent thousands of packages via USPS, and only 2 small parcels got lost. I also used insurance via 3rd party, so I was reimbursed and able to try again. Going private, I've had way more issues at a significantly higher rate, and I've been charged 4-5x the price for the same service USPS offers. The reason people don't use them is because they fancy the idea of private services, they like those services' marketing better, and stigma associated with USPS in the form of jokes and such.
Maybe that's the way it SHOULD be. Probably started that way. The benefit to a salaried position is that you should always know what to expect on your paycheck. Sometimes you'll work more. Sometimes you'll work less. But you'll always get paid the same. In my experience (with several but specifically FedEx) it NEVER works out in your favor. I averaged 60-70 hours every week. I never worked less than 50. Holidays were even worse. I never made a penny more. They ensure that you have more work than can be reasonably done in a single shift by one person.
Based on my experience with FedEx, those employees must really hate going home to their families. No exaggeration, literally 90% of my FedEx packages are a day late. Once in a while, even two days late. Regardless of what he makes leaves with their employees, FedEx sucks.
What I hate is when you work really hard for an employer to get a task done by the deadline and then when your employer sees how hard you worked so now they expect that level every single day and then come to you and be like why haven't you been able to work this hard? Major corporations do not appreciate hard work at all you could be one of the best employees at that job and they will fire you in an instant for the stupidest of reasons
Oh, it is. If they let them do the same amount of work then it would be fine. But they increase your workload as well, making sure you're either staying there the same amount of time or longer than before, while working twice as hard.
The real way they trick their employees is by telling them you get to leave when the trucks are empty, and then bringing in another. By saying you'd be lucky to work twelve hours a week. By saying they were never busy and often had nothing to do. At the place I worked at, they didn't even give us schedules, just a "see you tomorrow". Don't show up? You get fired. Short staffed even past the facility's minimum crew requirement and still expected to move 15k packages a night. 10-12 hour shifts a night, 7 days a week, and no breaks. Try to take a quick sit, catch a breather after hauling your 9th 200lb mammoth box off the belt, the managers accost you before going back to their computers to play minesweeper. That is how Fed-Ex tricks their employees. Still not as bad as Amazon though...
I worked in Fulfilment Centre in Amazon. That sounds way worse. I'm not defending Amazon. They can go fuck themselves. But you were aloud to take breathers and if there were mitigating circumstances slowing you down. Like having to go up and down floors too often there was a lot of leeway in how many items you processed. So if i was expected to process 45 items in an hour. But those items were all on different levels or on opposite sides of the warehouse and i dropped to about 20. That was fine.
when the packages in a plane didn’t arrive in 1997 and 2009, the plane crashed. FedEx 14 (1997) had turbulence while landing and flipped upside down, while FedEx 80 bounced 4 times and flipped upside down. FedEx 80 is the definition of "History repeated itself."
@smilegaming69 Were the contents destroyed? When a truck crashes and there is still saleable cargo, it gets put onto another truck and carries on, the rest gets marked as damaged in shipment.
I worked at FedEx before and it was a nightmare for me. It was too fast paced and stressful. It wasn’t too for my mental health and the pay wasn’t good either.
I was a fedex package handler for years and I can confirm this. We worked the morning shift. The bosses were great and worked with us a lot but the work was grueling. It doesn't matter how high the pay is. The job sucks. It does and you can't argue with me. I quit after a year and got a better paying job for less work.
@@dukecraig2402 And I'm pretty sure you don't want to suck dick for crack. I don't see your point. All jobs are a pain in the ass somehow. No one is lesser just because their job sucks in a way that you think is fine.
@@dukecraig2402 ironworkers get paid about 4 times what a Fed Ex worker makes, right? I would hope so, they have a way higher risk of permanent injury or instant death on the job. Not all of us are physically cut out to do every job...and those who can do them often have their bodies break down on them. ...So even if you can do a skilled trade, it's good to have savings and a backup plan if you become physically unable to do that job.
@@grmpEqweer I wouldn't know, I don't know what FedEx guy's make. But I can assure you that when it's the middle of January and the temperature is around zero ironworkers are earning every penny they're paid, even on days with the most ideal conditions they are, and there is no "As soon as you're done with your work you can go home", but there is a lot of drinking after work. And no one lasts doing it, once you hit about 30 you start looking for an out because the injuries start lasting twice as long and hurting twice as bad, anyone over 40 is either a boss or is working on an ornamental crew putting in stairs and handrail, it's a young man's sport, someone ask me once why I wasn't doing it anymore and I told them "For the same reasons you don't see any 45 year old NFL lineman".
@@brianargo4595 In those cases paid by the job with cuts for sloppy work. You work on cars? You get a percentage from each repair. You try to throw cars out patched but still broken it comes out of your pay. Incentivised to get the job done quickly but done correctly.
@@thegrim418 that still doesn't address work safety issues, the kind of stuff that OSHA and similar organizations are supposed to regulate (admitted, they usually have very dull teeth except in extreme situations). I don't work on cars, but am a mechanic. Many smaller shops and a lot of chains are low base pay plus commission as a percentage of work completed, which is taken away and probably then some for any comebacks. Absolutely does not address safe work practices, though.
I used to work for a delivery company over here in Euroland that did basically the same. It looked like a good deal for the first few months while the planners tried to optimize your route. Days were you got paid for 8 hours, but were done after like 5 and got to go home. But after a while, planning figured your route out and what they felt was doable in 8 hours, would only be doable in 8 hours if there was no traffic and all customers would come to the door within seconds. If you then cut your route short, because they were only paying you for 8 hours, that's when the trouble started. Slowly a backlog would build up and then after 7 months your contract wouldn't be renewed because you had too much of a backlog. Even though they did not pay over time or consider factors like the weather and traffic.
They can't force you to work more than they pay you, and of they only pay you fpr 8 hours that's all they get. They can't expect you to continue because even salary can't work out to less than minimum wage by hours work. That's still illegal.
I still remember the FedEx truck chucking a package that was super beat up in front of my house. Out of the 26 parts in that box, 8 were bent or dented
My dad proposed over night delivery air mail to a professor and the guy who owned the chain of adcom express as he owned a local adcom. He asked the owner to match 20k to get it started. The professor failed him and the owner laughed at him. 5 years later fed ex did it and they're rich af now. Talk about a kick in the nuts.
Depicting Fred as a crazed cartoon character was spot on. This company got so broke at one point they went to a casino to gambled the last 90k they had to make payroll.
It’s not just about you. Many other critical businesses depend on FedEx to deliver packages to keep their operations going. Everything from recycling facilities, to quarries, to construction, to hospitals rely on overnight deliveries to keep them operational. And when one of those breaks down for just a short amount of time it can have long lasting ripple effects. In your mind it’s about your funko pops being delivered in time, but in reality it’s about seal kits and bearings getting to where they need to be so that we can build your roads and rail.
@@frankdevo5715If your business heavily relies on certain supplies being shipped to you, then you should have a stockpile of reserves you can tap into in case your shipment is late. Don't use just-in-time inventory management for critical supplies.
@@ZyroZoro that just isn’t feasible when you have dozens of pieces of equipment with thousands of different parts and components, many of which are unique. You can stock up on every wear part or component that’s known to fail, but you’ll always have unknown points of failure that can halt production.
Sorry about that bud, but speaking from experience, we didn't have time to care. We would have already been working nonstop for the past 11 hours and the managers would decide to bring in another truck and increase the belt speed to try to empty it before 1 pm to meet metrics. I threw everything from TVs and mirrors, batteries and hazmats, car parts and tires, and so much more. I don't condone it and I would have felt bad, except it was such soul destroying work, it was hard to care about anything except getting home and sleeping.
No Steve. The minute they see you going home too many times, they start adding work. It’s the universal corporate law, your good efforts will be rewarded with more work.
@@mightymight365 Let's take a look at that theory. If the employees do the work in 5 hours that took them 8 hours when they were hourly, then they were getting paid for 8 hours but only doing 5 hours of work. Making them do 8 hours work for 8 hours pay isn't punishment, it's getting a fair trade. Now the pay rate is an entirely different issue, of course.
@@theburt112 It's the same work, they just get to knock off when it is done. many jobs are like that. I used to unpack fruit and veges. At a reasonable pace it would take 5 hours. Once it was done I got to go home with 5 hours pay, even if it only took 3 hours.
Is anyone else gonna bring up FedEx flight 14 and 80?If so here’s an entire explanation: FedEx Express Flight 14 was a scheduled cargo flight from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, via Malaysia, Taiwan, and Alaska. On July 31, 1997, the aircraft flying this route crashed during landing on its final segment at Newark International Airport (EWR), inverting and catching fire, injuring all five people on board.[1] Summary Flight 14 crashed while landing on runway 22R at Newark Airport on July 31, 1997. The flight originated in Singapore with intermediate stops in Penang, Malaysia, followed by Taipei, Taiwan, and then Anchorage, Alaska. In addition to the Captain and First Officer there were three passengers on board, including one riding in the jump seat. During the flight, the pilots were concerned that they would have little stopping distance after landing, and the captain said that he wanted to put the aircraft down early on the runway. The aircraft had departed with one thrust reverser (on the left engine) inoperative, and the pilots knew of incidents in the aircraft's maintenance log where the auto-brakes had failed to activate during landings. They had also misinterpreted the runway data, and so believed they had less stopping distance than was actually available.[2][3] 80: FedEx Express Flight 80 was a scheduled cargo flight from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in the People's Republic of China, to Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture (near Tokyo), Japan. On March 23, 2009, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (N526FE)[1] operating the flight crashed at 6:48 am JST (21:48 UTC, March 22), while attempting a landing on Runway 34L in gusty wind conditions. The aircraft became destabilized at flare and touchdown resulting in an unrecovered "bounced" landing with structural failure of the landing gear and airframe, and came to rest off the runway, inverted, and burning fiercely.[2][3] The captain and first officer, the jet's only occupants, were both killed.[4]
Worked for fedex twice now, both times still got paid hourly. It is true though that your shift runs until you’re done with the package load out. Also some locations are better at handling packages than others. First location wanted us to stack packages in the trucks to fit as much as possible whereas the second location just wanted us to fill the truck as fast as possible.
They are not always the best. I've one package that they try to deliver it when I was not going to be home and they start at 8:00 in the morning. There was going to be someone at the house if they did it before 1:00 p.m. anytime in the morning and there was so good to be here but nope they didn't
Well, you see.(as a FedEx driver) Sometimes we have over 200 stops. Your stops can be anywhere within that amount of stops. Meaning your place could be their very last stop. And with (idk about your terminals) having to start loading up their trucks at 8 am, late trucks arriving, and possible meetings. Sometimes the earliest they can start driving is around 10-10:30 in the morning. But hey... there is an option. If you need a package delivered by a certain time you can schedule and appointment. If you do that though be sure to tip your driver because they have to go out of the way of their normal route to get the package to you by that time.
I'm right in-between two so I never know which one it's going to come from same amount of time from both an hour. But my package was normal on a truck by 6 in the morning.
I worked at ups for a few weeks. Our facility had the same idea to encourage you to get it done. I got paid for the 3.5hr evening shift but I only worked less than 2hr so it was a good college job for me
Talk about lucky! I was paid for the 6 hour overnight shift... We never worked less than 10. Management would always wheel in another truck and promise it was the last of the night, but it never was.
the union contracts states that if your sent home before the "shift end" non voluntarily you get paid for 3.5. Its not to incentivize you to work faster. its to keep you getting paid in case something halts the process like a snow storm or a slow night etc. You show up you will get paid 3.5pt/8ft or so said the union rep to me ages ago. Keep in mind management will try to get you to volunteer to leave early so you don't get paid those guaranteed hours. though if say you do show up in a snow storm and don't go home when asked they may make you do dumb tasks like garbage duty or they don't care in and I surf the web on my phone
Bold of you to assume Fed-Ex lets their employees unionize. They wont explicitly tell you you can't, but attempts to unionize will lead to even more unfavorable treatment for everyone, making you the odd man out and turning your co-workers against you. Perhaps not all facilities were like mine, but the place I was at was beyond scummy.
UPS is by far my favourite courrier but FedEx still slaps the shit out of an embarassment like DHL. I would rather not buy something if it is shipped via DHL, meanwhile my last FedEx package went from Malaysia to China, through Seoul then down to Hong Kong, over to Alsaka, down to Memphis and up to Toronto. It arrived at my door the exact second the tracking site said it would and it wasn't destroyed. The one before that had it's shipping label fall off somewhere between Germany and Canada and it still arrived only 1 day late. UPS is still king though. Shoutout to my guy Carl, my main UPS courrier, you're an absolute legend man.
I'm going to wager that every hourly paid worker does something similar. In my case, I'd have several 2- or 3-hour shifts a day. So I started logging in 5 mins early each time, under the guise of checking my system before officially going on "available". Now, 5 mins may not sound like much, but 5 mins 3 times a day? 15 mins. And because I'd work every day of the week, that was 15 × 30.5 = little over 7.5 hrs. And at €12/hour, that was some €90 extra each month. Just for spacing out for 5 mins....
"Trick" is a strong word. It's shifting the incentives. The employee SHOULD want to work fast and get out of there asap anyways, it's dumb to be incentivized to waste more of your own time to get more money. Hourly rates make sense for a position where you are fixed somewhere for a period of time per day like retail or food. Salary makes more sense for jobs that need to get done, where faster is better. Of course, either pay style is best supplemented with incentives for good performance, because people will do the bare minimum either way if there's no reason not to. Hourlies tend to waste more time than necessary, while salaries tend to cut corners in order to speed things up.
FedEx doesn’t get anything to my house fast. They drive by without even stopping and if they don’t see me waiting in front of my house to pick up a package they just leave. The amount of times I’ve had to wait longer for a package cause they don’t knock or ring the doorbell is ridiculous. Worst company
As someone who worked FedEx Ground for years, don’t ever do that job!!! It made me so bitter…the mental toll as well as the physical aren’t worth it… even if you get a fun manager, you’re just a cog in a machine…
This isn't tricking anyone. This is just a restructuring of how they pay their employees. They have a job to be done, and now they aren't incentivized to take their time as they did on hourly pay. This is just more efficiency - which is what logistics is all about.
How is that? Apparently after the employee's got an incentive to get the work done faster it showed they were screwing the company in the first place by slacking off.
Yeah the only counterbalancing force in capitalism is when all the employees strike or just quit. If they do that in America they get shot and that's why wages are so low there
You are factually incorrect. The fixed shift rate does not incentivize cutting employees, you still need the same amount of employees to get the job done, you are simply incentivizing them to work faster so they can go home.
It was very ingenious. Fed ex is headquartered in Memphis. As someone who is from this area, there is work smarter not harder culture that permeates a good chunk of the working class population. It’s just that smarter is get paid the most with the least amount of work exerted. However, that pay rate switches smarter is get paid with the least amount of time spent at work. I have 2 jobs and one of them I’m paid per service rather than time and I sometimes get done 2 hours early pending on others doing their job.
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Why is there a rainbow? This a pride thing?
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@@galaxite779 Rainbows don’t always have something to do with pride
That's why every package breaks when it's delivered by FedEx
You should see the way people be slanging these packages off the belt
What's the point of waiting if you can have a packaging filled with broken glass shards 😀
Never had a problem with my packages shipped with FedEx. Bound to eventually run into some broken packages
I don't know what experiences you've had with FedEx, All I know is they get me my packages when USPS doesn't and it takes 24 hours or less to get my s*** from Japan
*yeet*
No wonder any package either never arrives or is destroyed beyond recognition
@@Sqamp he probably only saved 4 seconds.
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It isn't a trick, it is an incentive. My job pays me for 8 hours regardless of the time I work. If I finish early, I go home early. If I rush through and mess up because I wanted to go home, I lose money off my monthly bonus.
Makes more sense, yes. Cause I kinda work 90% of the time slower than I could
Hour pay of course and can finish the work almost in my Tempo
Stopped being scammed and leave
@@elliottlugo2740 wat
Exactly, you’re paid to be efficient
That's not really a trick, that's just a logical compromise.
The trick is there isn't an end to the work.
Has anyone remembered that "Cast away" movie?
The way this kid phrased it is such a deceiving way of phrasing what actually happens… the company provides an incentive - and because you want clicks and engagement you’re out here stating “FEDEX EMPLOYEES ARE SO STUPID AND GULLIBLE IDIOTS!! HAHA LOOK AT THOSE STUPID MORONS!! THEY’RE BEING TRICKED BY THEIR EMPLOYER!!! SO STUPID!!”
There’s never an end to work. Being on salary can be harder but you also know what’s in the bank every month. Could it be better, probably but I agree it’s a compromise
The work does end for the day. There's only so many packages that need to be moved in a night.
“As soon as you get the job done you can go back to your family “ could have been said so wrong, it could have been said like a hostage situation 😂
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Thats exactly the joke
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It’s 1971, I’m pretty sure it was still legal to hit women, blacks people, and kids in public lol. Forget about kidnappers’ rights. Remember, Jeffrey Dahmer wouldn’t start killing until 7 years after FedEx was made.
If all of this is true, why are my packages still 5 GODDAMN Days Late
Bro Atlist is not a week
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So that's why my packages look like they just went through an industrial grinder and fell into a lake
First thing they did was add more planes to each shift to ensure you might stay late but will never finish early.
They doesn't trick employees.They fix their business
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I was about to say this doesn’t sound like a trick this just sounds like giving someone a valid incentive to work faster
yep
It is a double edged sword. Yes, you are absolutely right. Employees would definitely work faster and more packages would be processed but on the other hand it incentivises the employees to throw packages around and the company to increase the workload without additional pay over time.
This is one of the reasons why there are so many transport damages.
Most people in transport/delivery chain are under high pressure.
And yes, it does not trick employees. They know that they are getting screwed over.
As an ex employee of FedEx, they don’t give a damn they don’t care, and they most importantly do not care about your packages. All they care about is numbers and they really don’t care about the employee safety.
I don't want to be a FedEx employee, I'm scared that my plane is gonna crash and I'm gonna go to a deserted island and paint a face on a ball and name it Wilson. Then four years later, somebody steals my gf when I come back.
You don't have to worry about naming your ball, it comes pre names
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Uh... do you have a gf?
Wilson stole her
@@irrespondible Uh... do you bring Wilson volleyballs on planes with you? Uh... do you even get the reference?
FedEx workers throwing a box full of wine glasses from 2 meters:
why tf u shipping a box of wine glasses, that sounds like a you problem.
@@BillyHudson1 Well, the "fragile" label exists for a reason.
Out of the big Four ,Fed Ex is the only one that consistently misses its delivery date by two or 3 days.
That’s probably Fedex Ground
@@db-rc5fr Fun fact: Fedex Ground is often a third party contractor, and not actually Fedex.
@@calliarcale The contractors are THE WORST. THE W.O.R.S.T.
I don't know where this guy gets this idea from. It's not true. The workers try to loaf around to get as many hours as they can. The company needs a shake up to get rid of the dead weight (there is a lot of it).
@@user-zr6pl6nb6z Most people cannot think for themselves and will believe any narrative presented to them.
I'm literally going through there hire process now lmao they never said shit about this lol 🤣
At least at the FedEx ramp I work out this isn't true, still by the hour pay no matter the shift
You’re gonna quit in 2 months maybe 1
If you're a package handler it's hourly. Yes you go home at the end of the packages. Sometimes it's 2 hours and other times it's 8-10. You'll never know
Your more then likely signing up for ground, Which is hourly
My daughter works in the warehouse for FedEx, and she is paid hourly.
Management: when your done with all the packages you can leave.
Employee: say no more! *yeets package*
That's not tricking them, that's incentivizing productivity over time spent. That's how it really should be. I also feel like it's a healthier mindset for the employees themselves
That said, FedEx isn't doing something right, because I never have a good experience with them... Or even UPS. In fact, USPS has been the tride and true service for me over the years, it's hard to believe, prior to selling online, I believed the opposite... I've sent thousands of packages via USPS, and only 2 small parcels got lost. I also used insurance via 3rd party, so I was reimbursed and able to try again.
Going private, I've had way more issues at a significantly higher rate, and I've been charged 4-5x the price for the same service USPS offers. The reason people don't use them is because they fancy the idea of private services, they like those services' marketing better, and stigma associated with USPS in the form of jokes and such.
Maybe that's the way it SHOULD be. Probably started that way. The benefit to a salaried position is that you should always know what to expect on your paycheck. Sometimes you'll work more. Sometimes you'll work less. But you'll always get paid the same. In my experience (with several but specifically FedEx) it NEVER works out in your favor. I averaged 60-70 hours every week. I never worked less than 50. Holidays were even worse. I never made a penny more. They ensure that you have more work than can be reasonably done in a single shift by one person.
Based on my experience with FedEx, those employees must really hate going home to their families. No exaggeration, literally 90% of my FedEx packages are a day late. Once in a while, even two days late.
Regardless of what he makes leaves with their employees, FedEx sucks.
Well, you could always go with USPS. But may never get your package.
And once in a while, my package doesn't show up at all... Love FedEx
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They just don't have enough people for the job
and then they gradually expect you to process more and more packages per shift
Yep, Good work is only rewarded with more work. Don't even be a good sheep for the corporate owners.
Bingo
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Maybe they should pay you for the number of packages processed :(
What I hate is when you work really hard for an employer to get a task done by the deadline and then when your employer sees how hard you worked so now they expect that level every single day and then come to you and be like why haven't you been able to work this hard? Major corporations do not appreciate hard work at all you could be one of the best employees at that job and they will fire you in an instant for the stupidest of reasons
That's not a trick, that's proper management.
Oh, it is. If they let them do the same amount of work then it would be fine. But they increase your workload as well, making sure you're either staying there the same amount of time or longer than before, while working twice as hard.
And UP goes the quota.
The real way they trick their employees is by telling them you get to leave when the trucks are empty, and then bringing in another. By saying you'd be lucky to work twelve hours a week. By saying they were never busy and often had nothing to do.
At the place I worked at, they didn't even give us schedules, just a "see you tomorrow". Don't show up? You get fired. Short staffed even past the facility's minimum crew requirement and still expected to move 15k packages a night. 10-12 hour shifts a night, 7 days a week, and no breaks. Try to take a quick sit, catch a breather after hauling your 9th 200lb mammoth box off the belt, the managers accost you before going back to their computers to play minesweeper.
That is how Fed-Ex tricks their employees.
Still not as bad as Amazon though...
Sounds also like JB Hunt.
I seen 2 dead people roll out Amazons fulfillment center.when i think of hell i think Amazon but on fire.
I worked in Fulfilment Centre in Amazon. That sounds way worse. I'm not defending Amazon. They can go fuck themselves.
But you were aloud to take breathers and if there were mitigating circumstances slowing you down. Like having to go up and down floors too often there was a lot of leeway in how many items you processed.
So if i was expected to process 45 items in an hour. But those items were all on different levels or on opposite sides of the warehouse and i dropped to about 20. That was fine.
That's why half the packages are destroyed by the time it arrives to you
Half? You mean all?
Thats cause we be smashing them
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when the packages in a plane didn’t arrive in 1997 and 2009, the plane crashed. FedEx 14 (1997) had turbulence while landing and flipped upside down, while FedEx 80 bounced 4 times and flipped upside down. FedEx 80 is the definition of "History repeated itself."
@smilegaming69 Were the contents destroyed? When a truck crashes and there is still saleable cargo, it gets put onto another truck and carries on, the rest gets marked as damaged in shipment.
I worked at FedEx before and it was a nightmare for me. It was too fast paced and stressful. It wasn’t too for my mental health and the pay wasn’t good either.
Thats why my television broke when it was delivered 💀💀
I was a fedex package handler for years and I can confirm this. We worked the morning shift. The bosses were great and worked with us a lot but the work was grueling. It doesn't matter how high the pay is. The job sucks. It does and you can't argue with me.
I quit after a year and got a better paying job for less work.
Isn’t even a hard job. Most people just entitled and afraid of hard work. I work at FedEx and it’s not even hard
You certainly wouldn't like being an ironworker putting up bridges and building's if you think humping boxes is hard.
@@dukecraig2402 And I'm pretty sure you don't want to suck dick for crack. I don't see your point. All jobs are a pain in the ass somehow. No one is lesser just because their job sucks in a way that you think is fine.
@@dukecraig2402 ironworkers get paid about 4 times what a Fed Ex worker makes, right? I would hope so, they have a way higher risk of permanent injury or instant death on the job.
Not all of us are physically cut out to do every job...and those who can do them often have their bodies break down on them.
...So even if you can do a skilled trade, it's good to have savings and a backup plan if you become physically unable to do that job.
@@grmpEqweer
I wouldn't know, I don't know what FedEx guy's make.
But I can assure you that when it's the middle of January and the temperature is around zero ironworkers are earning every penny they're paid, even on days with the most ideal conditions they are, and there is no "As soon as you're done with your work you can go home", but there is a lot of drinking after work.
And no one lasts doing it, once you hit about 30 you start looking for an out because the injuries start lasting twice as long and hurting twice as bad, anyone over 40 is either a boss or is working on an ornamental crew putting in stairs and handrail, it's a young man's sport, someone ask me once why I wasn't doing it anymore and I told them "For the same reasons you don't see any 45 year old NFL lineman".
for whatever reason, USPS actually delivers packages way faster than Fedex in my area 🤣
UPS da goat 🐐
@@andymorin9163 Ups da goat poo
And they don't launch them onto my deiveway, shattering whatever is inside
Same
fedex took 3 fuckin months to deliver an unrecognizeable package that was supposed to have an iphone xr in it. oof
Im the type of guy who believes its okay if my package isnt on time, just treat your employees like humans.
But if you’re not gonna treat your employees like humans, might as well deliver my package quickly.
Definitely not me. Why would I care about something like that?
The FedEx employees: How Many Other Lies Have I Been Told By The Council?
How is it a lie?
@@youtubesucks1499 the lie is they have families
@@user-jo7uy1bg2w Proof?
@@user-jo7uy1bg2w What? They are all single?
@@youtubesucks1499 yup
That’s not a trick, that’s a livable wage that allows you to actually be there for your family
Edit: or was, at least…
Was what , a livable wage . Also I think all jobs should be like that , fixed rate , would be good motivation to work better . And do more .
@@johnboygunsling666 That really depends. Focusing on speed often leads to taking unsafe shortcuts, and not just in blue collar work.
@@brianargo4595 In those cases paid by the job with cuts for sloppy work. You work on cars? You get a percentage from each repair. You try to throw cars out patched but still broken it comes out of your pay. Incentivised to get the job done quickly but done correctly.
@@thegrim418 that still doesn't address work safety issues, the kind of stuff that OSHA and similar organizations are supposed to regulate (admitted, they usually have very dull teeth except in extreme situations). I don't work on cars, but am a mechanic. Many smaller shops and a lot of chains are low base pay plus commission as a percentage of work completed, which is taken away and probably then some for any comebacks. Absolutely does not address safe work practices, though.
@@brianargo4595 Unsafe practices do need to be addressed but OSHA isn't great at it. They tend to ignore problems while addressing non-issues.
I used to work for a delivery company over here in Euroland that did basically the same.
It looked like a good deal for the first few months while the planners tried to optimize your route.
Days were you got paid for 8 hours, but were done after like 5 and got to go home.
But after a while, planning figured your route out and what they felt was doable in 8 hours, would only be doable in 8 hours if there was no traffic and all customers would come to the door within seconds.
If you then cut your route short, because they were only paying you for 8 hours, that's when the trouble started. Slowly a backlog would build up and then after 7 months your contract wouldn't be renewed because you had too much of a backlog.
Even though they did not pay over time or consider factors like the weather and traffic.
Good. Companies like that deserve to fail.
And that’s why they should deliver people instead, because no matter how late the bus is, the driver still gets paid overtime.
They can't force you to work more than they pay you, and of they only pay you fpr 8 hours that's all they get. They can't expect you to continue because even salary can't work out to less than minimum wage by hours work. That's still illegal.
USPS plays the same game.
It's euroland so you can sue them for overtime and for unfair dismissal and win tens of thousands of dollars
Bro completely missed the opportunity to call it Fred Ex
FedEx : we deliver broken packages.
I still remember the FedEx truck chucking a package that was super beat up in front of my house. Out of the 26 parts in that box, 8 were bent or dented
This is why I'm a UPSer baby plus we are Teamsters Union so we got contracts to stop the company from screwing us.
FedEx employees watching this:
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Less of a trick more of a win win
Half a decade later somehow fedex become the only carrier that never delivers on time
Americans are like "listen to this wholesome business story!" *proceeds to describe the most vile ways to treat workers like they're subhuman*
Totally agree. Corporate profit over people IS the American way and such stories are supposed to be wholesome 🙈
🎉🎉🎉🎉 EXPLOITATION!!!! YAAAAAYYYYY!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
making a contract is probably the greatest trick in the history of mankind. amazing....
My dad proposed over night delivery air mail to a professor and the guy who owned the chain of adcom express as he owned a local adcom. He asked the owner to match 20k to get it started. The professor failed him and the owner laughed at him. 5 years later fed ex did it and they're rich af now. Talk about a kick in the nuts.
Crazy how every time I've had a package delivered by FedEx, it's been late by a few days.
That is so smart/ I wish all work would be like this
Basic incentives can have powerful results. The lack thereof is why so many of us feel like wage slaves; selling our souls for hours on a clock.
Yet, the overnight still turns into 3 days at best. I suggest UPS instead.
I used that incentive with my line crews. They were hourly, but it’s amazing how the prospect of getting off work early made them hustle!
Omg the doorbell ring actually got me to check my door😅
Depicting Fred as a crazed cartoon character was spot on. This company got so broke at one point they went to a casino to gambled the last 90k they had to make payroll.
My favorite running gag from the show archer is some variation of “good god what are you? hourly?”
Honestly, if my package is late because workers get better conditions, Im totally good.
It’s not just about you.
Many other critical businesses depend on FedEx to deliver packages to keep their operations going. Everything from recycling facilities, to quarries, to construction, to hospitals rely on overnight deliveries to keep them operational. And when one of those breaks down for just a short amount of time it can have long lasting ripple effects.
In your mind it’s about your funko pops being delivered in time, but in reality it’s about seal kits and bearings getting to where they need to be so that we can build your roads and rail.
@@frankdevo5715
Get ready for the UPS strike this year
@@frankdevo5715If your business heavily relies on certain supplies being shipped to you, then you should have a stockpile of reserves you can tap into in case your shipment is late. Don't use just-in-time inventory management for critical supplies.
@@ZyroZoro that just isn’t feasible when you have dozens of pieces of equipment with thousands of different parts and components, many of which are unique.
You can stock up on every wear part or component that’s known to fail, but you’ll always have unknown points of failure that can halt production.
This feels like wage theft
How? How exactly is it wage theft? They still get paid the same.
So if the employees are being lazy and slow, isn't that wage theft?
They get paid more if they get through more
@@youtubesucks1499 they are not paid for the full time they work also fortunate employees to rush and neglect. Safety is a hazard of its own.
now everybody's happy
the cost? pancaked packages
Sorry about that bud, but speaking from experience, we didn't have time to care. We would have already been working nonstop for the past 11 hours and the managers would decide to bring in another truck and increase the belt speed to try to empty it before 1 pm to meet metrics.
I threw everything from TVs and mirrors, batteries and hazmats, car parts and tires, and so much more. I don't condone it and I would have felt bad, except it was such soul destroying work, it was hard to care about anything except getting home and sleeping.
It didn't trick them, it rewarded them by getting an early finish for the hard work.
No Steve. The minute they see you going home too many times, they start adding work. It’s the universal corporate law, your good efforts will be rewarded with more work.
@@mightymight365 Every other company, yes, but this dude said Fed Ex doesn't do that.
Or at least never used to.
@@mightymight365 Let's take a look at that theory. If the employees do the work in 5 hours that took them 8 hours when they were hourly, then they were getting paid for 8 hours but only doing 5 hours of work. Making them do 8 hours work for 8 hours pay isn't punishment, it's getting a fair trade. Now the pay rate is an entirely different issue, of course.
You think bosses nowadays are going to give them any less work than a normal shift?
@@theburt112 It's the same work, they just get to knock off when it is done.
many jobs are like that.
I used to unpack fruit and veges. At a reasonable pace it would take 5 hours. Once it was done I got to go home with 5 hours pay, even if it only took 3 hours.
Is anyone else gonna bring up FedEx flight 14 and 80?If so here’s an entire explanation:
FedEx Express Flight 14 was a scheduled cargo flight from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, via Malaysia, Taiwan, and Alaska. On July 31, 1997, the aircraft flying this route crashed during landing on its final segment at Newark International Airport (EWR), inverting and catching fire, injuring all five people on board.[1]
Summary
Flight 14 crashed while landing on runway 22R at Newark Airport on July 31, 1997. The flight originated in Singapore with intermediate stops in Penang, Malaysia, followed by Taipei, Taiwan, and then Anchorage, Alaska. In addition to the Captain and First Officer there were three passengers on board, including one riding in the jump seat.
During the flight, the pilots were concerned that they would have little stopping distance after landing, and the captain said that he wanted to put the aircraft down early on the runway. The aircraft had departed with one thrust reverser (on the left engine) inoperative, and the pilots knew of incidents in the aircraft's maintenance log where the auto-brakes had failed to activate during landings. They had also misinterpreted the runway data, and so believed they had less stopping distance than was actually available.[2][3]
80: FedEx Express Flight 80 was a scheduled cargo flight from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in the People's Republic of China, to Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture (near Tokyo), Japan. On March 23, 2009, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (N526FE)[1] operating the flight crashed at 6:48 am JST (21:48 UTC, March 22), while attempting a landing on Runway 34L in gusty wind conditions. The aircraft became destabilized at flare and touchdown resulting in an unrecovered "bounced" landing with structural failure of the landing gear and airframe, and came to rest off the runway, inverted, and burning fiercely.[2][3] The captain and first officer, the jet's only occupants, were both killed.[4]
Worked for fedex twice now, both times still got paid hourly. It is true though that your shift runs until you’re done with the package load out. Also some locations are better at handling packages than others. First location wanted us to stack packages in the trucks to fit as much as possible whereas the second location just wanted us to fill the truck as fast as possible.
This is how employees start to value quantity over quality, which hurts the reputation of the business
They are not always the best. I've one package that they try to deliver it when I was not going to be home and they start at 8:00 in the morning. There was going to be someone at the house if they did it before 1:00 p.m. anytime in the morning and there was so good to be here but nope they didn't
Well, you see.(as a FedEx driver) Sometimes we have over 200 stops. Your stops can be anywhere within that amount of stops. Meaning your place could be their very last stop. And with (idk about your terminals) having to start loading up their trucks at 8 am, late trucks arriving, and possible meetings. Sometimes the earliest they can start driving is around 10-10:30 in the morning. But hey... there is an option. If you need a package delivered by a certain time you can schedule and appointment. If you do that though be sure to tip your driver because they have to go out of the way of their normal route to get the package to you by that time.
I'm right in-between two so I never know which one it's going to come from same amount of time from both an hour. But my package was normal on a truck by 6 in the morning.
The "package is on your truck" is stating that the package has been put on the route. Doesn't mean it's actually on the truck.
Honestly, that's a win win
This is why any job that requires physical labor or any type of “This is your job today” should be paid per task completed, not the hour
This isnt a trick, its a type of salary change to exactly ignore these type of employees
I don't really get this overnight delivery thing my packages arrive the day after tomorrow, and at the wrong apartment smh
That’s a great trick. Works for everybody tbh
I remember a story a few years back about a county doing this with trash collectors. Story doesn’t end well, more accidents resulted.
I worked at ups for a few weeks. Our facility had the same idea to encourage you to get it done. I got paid for the 3.5hr evening shift but I only worked less than 2hr so it was a good college job for me
Talk about lucky! I was paid for the 6 hour overnight shift... We never worked less than 10. Management would always wheel in another truck and promise it was the last of the night, but it never was.
the union contracts states that if your sent home before the "shift end" non voluntarily you get paid for 3.5. Its not to incentivize you to work faster. its to keep you getting paid in case something halts the process like a snow storm or a slow night etc. You show up you will get paid 3.5pt/8ft or so said the union rep to me ages ago. Keep in mind management will try to get you to volunteer to leave early so you don't get paid those guaranteed hours.
though if say you do show up in a snow storm and don't go home when asked they may make you do dumb tasks like garbage duty or they don't care in and I surf the web on my phone
Bold of you to assume Fed-Ex lets their employees unionize. They wont explicitly tell you you can't, but attempts to unionize will lead to even more unfavorable treatment for everyone, making you the odd man out and turning your co-workers against you.
Perhaps not all facilities were like mine, but the place I was at was beyond scummy.
UPS is by far my favourite courrier but FedEx still slaps the shit out of an embarassment like DHL. I would rather not buy something if it is shipped via DHL, meanwhile my last FedEx package went from Malaysia to China, through Seoul then down to Hong Kong, over to Alsaka, down to Memphis and up to Toronto. It arrived at my door the exact second the tracking site said it would and it wasn't destroyed. The one before that had it's shipping label fall off somewhere between Germany and Canada and it still arrived only 1 day late.
UPS is still king though. Shoutout to my guy Carl, my main UPS courrier, you're an absolute legend man.
FedEx doing overnight shipping: "The plane has crashed and we've lost your package."
This is why I wait 3 business days to get my package.
Also keep the great content.
There is nothing worse than when you see your order will be shipped with FedEx….always a problem.
I'm going to wager that every hourly paid worker does something similar. In my case, I'd have several 2- or 3-hour shifts a day. So I started logging in 5 mins early each time, under the guise of checking my system before officially going on "available". Now, 5 mins may not sound like much, but 5 mins 3 times a day? 15 mins. And because I'd work every day of the week, that was 15 × 30.5 = little over 7.5 hrs. And at €12/hour, that was some €90 extra each month. Just for spacing out for 5 mins....
"Trick" is a strong word. It's shifting the incentives. The employee SHOULD want to work fast and get out of there asap anyways, it's dumb to be incentivized to waste more of your own time to get more money. Hourly rates make sense for a position where you are fixed somewhere for a period of time per day like retail or food. Salary makes more sense for jobs that need to get done, where faster is better. Of course, either pay style is best supplemented with incentives for good performance, because people will do the bare minimum either way if there's no reason not to. Hourlies tend to waste more time than necessary, while salaries tend to cut corners in order to speed things up.
They have been doing the work and the waffle is on 😎😎😎
FedEx doesn’t get anything to my house fast. They drive by without even stopping and if they don’t see me waiting in front of my house to pick up a package they just leave. The amount of times I’ve had to wait longer for a package cause they don’t knock or ring the doorbell is ridiculous. Worst company
I worked for express but not at an airport. Never heard of that. Benefits were great.
Yet that vice that I bought is now a jigsaw puzzle
Fun fact his son is Head Coach of an NFL team
His daughter directed the movie P.S. I love you, with Gerard Butler and Hillary Swank
It's a win win win! Consumers get shit faster, workers get paid shit faster, and bosses get more money shit better faster!
Your packages are handle like a battered pitbull after a fight. Might as well take that package out back and give it the old yeller.
@@farmanspickles2753 Well, the box is just the box, but the product is at least 50% intact
WILSON!
The manager rn: "GO 9x BE FASTER! I GOTTA SEE MY BABY BOY AT THE HOSPITAL!"
The Worker: "YES SIR! OORAH"
It actually is a hostage situation, the only difference is you're also getting paid for it 😂😂😂
Your famous line, “But see, there’s a problem” 😅
As someone who worked FedEx Ground for years, don’t ever do that job!!! It made me so bitter…the mental toll as well as the physical aren’t worth it… even if you get a fun manager, you’re just a cog in a machine…
They need to bring that back 😂😂
This isn't tricking anyone. This is just a restructuring of how they pay their employees. They have a job to be done, and now they aren't incentivized to take their time as they did on hourly pay. This is just more efficiency - which is what logistics is all about.
Screw employees for profit. Every company ever.
How is that?
Apparently after the employee's got an incentive to get the work done faster it showed they were screwing the company in the first place by slacking off.
It was a great business opportunity, and no trick!!! You have no idea on how many jobs that I've done with the same system.
Snail mail nuff said MERICA
So, that's why you order a machine and get machine parts 💀
Then they just cut staff and add more packages per staff member. The employee is ALWAYS screwed over. Always.
Yeah the only counterbalancing force in capitalism is when all the employees strike or just quit. If they do that in America they get shot and that's why wages are so low there
You are factually incorrect. The fixed shift rate does not incentivize cutting employees, you still need the same amount of employees to get the job done, you are simply incentivizing them to work faster so they can go home.
That explains why the mailman stays in his truck and kicks the package out of the window
lies!! my packages always arrives in 5 days🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Such a simple solution just makes me wonder why wasn't this solution implemented earlier
Taco bell has found it's new janitor
Taco bell has found its new janitor
Taco Bell has found it’s new janitor
No fed ex has found it's new CEO
I always thought of FedEx is the wine truck
Thats a big W from Fedrick Smith.
That's not a trick, that's fixing your business model
Employees in production always get squeezed for every ounce of production, even if it’s faster than federally legally allowed. Murrica 🇺🇸
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It was very ingenious. Fed ex is headquartered in Memphis. As someone who is from this area, there is work smarter not harder culture that permeates a good chunk of the working class population. It’s just that smarter is get paid the most with the least amount of work exerted. However, that pay rate switches smarter is get paid with the least amount of time spent at work. I have 2 jobs and one of them I’m paid per service rather than time and I sometimes get done 2 hours early pending on others doing their job.
Even better solution: you get paid by how fast you delivered a package
That's actually very smart