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Me and some of my fellow co-workers were recently talking about a good friend of ours who up and quit the company about a year and a half ago after 10 years of employment with Fedex Freight. He was a full-time dock associate and a real good one at that, maybe the best. He quit because our manager decided to cut him down to 15 hrs a week and give his time to the bottom city drivers who wasn`t getting their 40. Some of these drivers had only been with the company a couple of months. One of them was a former terminal manager in another state who transfered in to become a city driver. This looked suspicious and we all feel that our friend, was done unjustly. Has anyone else ever heard of something like this? Do city drivers have senority over full- time dock associates regardless how many years the dock associate has been with the company? We had drivers with only a couple of months experience pushing the 10 year veteran on the dock out the door! I can`t see that this is right. What are your thoughts?
 
thats not right at all, the job classification does not provale over senority. If you have 10 years with the company you earn that right to work more than others that have only a few months time in. i mean that's what senority is all about. everybody has to start at the bottom and do things that don't want to do and not work as much, but that happens everywhere,you just have to tough it out.
 
Full time dock worker? I thought the east used road drivers to work the dock. From a business standpoint, it makes more sense to keep the underemployed city driver happy than a dock worker as the class A driver is harder to replace. This is by no means a slam at the dock worker, just a fact.
 
Hello, Any Full Time Driver has the right to work the dock at my center to obtain there hours for that given day, However in your friends case, He is a full time employee and has the same rights as a driver.....To work his 40 hours. As far as senority... If my city run is cut due to a lack of work I can force out a part time dock worker to obtain my hours. Company policy is any full time worker has the right to take dock time over a part timer to obtain there 40 hours. But your friend was a full time employee , He should have the same rights as any full time driver. in m y opinion he was treated unfairly and was burned.:poster_oops: The
Me and some of my fellow co-workers were recently talking about a good friend of ours who up and quit the company about a year and a half ago after 10 years of employment with Fedex Freight. He was a full-time dock associate and a real good one at that, maybe the best. He quit because our manager decided to cut him down to 15 hrs a week and give his time to the bottom city drivers who wasn`t getting their 40. Some of these drivers had only been with the company a couple of months. One of them was a former terminal manager in another state who transfered in to become a city driver. This looked suspicious and we all feel that our friend, was done unjustly. Has anyone else ever heard of something like this? Do city drivers have senority over full- time dock associates regardless how many years the dock associate has been with the company? We had drivers with only a couple of months experience pushing the 10 year veteran on the dock out the door! I can`t see that this is right. What are your thoughts?
 
That sucks, the problem is, Fedex doesn't care about how many years you have been with the company, your loyalty doesn't matter to them, thats how I felt about it, I am sure they look at your friend as un-skilled labor, they figure anyone can move freight, not true, a skilled dockworker is worth alot as far as I am concerned, especially when I ship something, the fact is they can do anything they want, they were probably trying to get rid of him for some reason be it personal or otherwise, their tactics worked, he moved on. Its not right, not by a longshot.
I know everyone says, city drivers have a CDL, someone who has been at the company for a month or even a year, hasn't earned the right to override someone who has been there for 10 years, CDL holder or not, just my thinking, like I said mgmt. probably had there reasons for stripping his livelyhood away like that, its sad.
 
There's no way to justify that. It's wrong any way you slice it.

Since I am about to repeat the same statement for at least the fifth time, (because I feel it apply's to this situation), I now decree the following as my personal motto:

"Taking Care Of Your People" was a Sheridan Garrison philosophy. :3dflagsdotcom_usa_2
 
At FXNL its suppose to go by department senority by terminal. Dock is separate from P&D and separate from line haul etc, but from what we here that could change due to the fact that Fed Ex wants all drivers to be dock qualifies and all full-time dock workers to be driver qualified. The full time dock workers at FXNL who don't want to become driver qualified feel that they may be pushed out of their job.
 
This is exactly what is going on. Where i used to work at least 5 10+ yr full time dockworkers were either treated like trash by management untill they quit or economically terminated or just out right fired for no reason. As we speak all full time dockworkers that can't get a class A or won't get it will be fired or forced to quit. FedEx does not like full time dockworkers. "They are a liability to them if they don't have a class A." These are the exact words I heard a "service center manager". I guess if they want it that way its FedEx's business. Just shovel more sh%t onto the driver. This is a shame because the top dog in the LTL business looks highly upon full time dockmen. FedEx should learn something from the top co. Not everyone can do the job a dockworker does the right way.
 
FedEx does not like full time dockworkers.

It's true. Having a dock worker with a CDL and/or a a driver who's dock qualified gives them an enormous amount of flexibility.

Alot of these guys don't want to adapt. I hear some drivers saying "I hired on to be a driver not to bust out a trailer." Then you hear dockworkers say "I don't want nothing to do with driving truck."

I was one of the first drivers to get dock qualified because nobody else wanted to. Then when freight slowed to a crawl, I was (am) able to work the dock for a couple of hours to get my 40 and even an hour or two of OT here and there while guys with more seniority are getting only 35-37 and *****ing up a storm.
 
This is exactly what is going on. Where i used to work at least 5 10+ yr full time dockworkers were either treated like trash by management untill they quit or economically terminated or just out right fired for no reason. As we speak all full time dockworkers that can't get a class A or won't get it will be fired or forced to quit. FedEx does not like full time dockworkers. "They are a liability to them if they don't have a class A." These are the exact words I heard a "service center manager". I guess if they want it that way its FedEx's business. Just shovel more sh%t onto the driver. This is a shame because the top dog in the LTL business looks highly upon full time dockmen. FedEx should learn something from the top co.
Not everyone can do the job a dockworker does the right way
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You have something there Tundra, I always felt, given a choice most drivers don't want to work the dock, more often than not, it shows, I knew lots of full time dock workers that took alot of pride in their jobs, even when the company would treat them less than favorable.
 
If someone is willing to put up with the dock for ten years or more then for petes sakes keep him on the patio ridin that steel horse. It's very hard to find a loyal dockworker let alone a loyal worker these days! FedEx should know this! Its not easy to restack 8 plts of steel that has tipped over in transit because some knuckle head on the other end decided to stack it 4 high to the ceiling with no bracing. Then, at the same time, trying to dig out 1 box in the nose that is appt for that morning all while the red shirt is breathin down your back. Then when you are finished for the day, getting no recognition and just a pissed off look from the redshirt because you wont stay extra and bust out another 50 bill trailer with 500 loose cartons that all have to be wrapped up for delivery to some angry customer that will refuse the order if the matching po numbers arent on the same pallet and then getting a letter because 1 box wasnt marked up damaged. I guess FedEx is shakin the dockworkers off of its purple penny loafers. What a shame.....
 
why am i not suprised.fedex could care less about its people and its familys just so long as pencil pushers make their money.two things i learned at fedex in the past month

1.if you don't like it here to bad leave people first is only in place to sound like fedex cares
2.we are getting screwed today so we have a job 20 years now from now.
it was made quite clear to me by hr and a regional mgr that deal with fx policy or quit stay and make trouble and have a public opinion other than thiers and you are a trouble maker and you will be watched closely.
 
cross training

I wonder if sales will have to get billing clerk training. Clerks get dispatch certified. Dispatch get C.D.L.s and Terminal mgr, and assistant get dock certified, and supervisors get T.M. training. No just dock /drivers
 
This is exactly what is going on. Where i used to work at least 5 10+ yr full time dockworkers were either treated like trash by management untill they quit or economically terminated or just out right fired for no reason. As we speak all full time dockworkers that can't get a class A or won't get it will be fired or forced to quit. FedEx does not like full time dockworkers. "They are a liability to them if they don't have a class A." These are the exact words I heard a "service center manager". I guess if they want it that way its FedEx's business.
wtf ??????????

That is total bullshit, we had numerous FT dockworkers that had no desire to drive and they have been working for 10 plus years with no issues.
 
This is exactly what is going on. Where i used to work at least 5 10+ yr full time dockworkers were either treated like trash by management untill they quit or economically terminated or just out right fired for no reason. As we speak all full time dockworkers that can't get a class A or won't get it will be fired or forced to quit. FedEx does not like full time dockworkers. "They are a liability to them if they don't have a class A." These are the exact words I heard a "service center manager". I guess if they want it that way its FedEx's business. Just shovel more sh%t onto the driver. This is a shame because the top dog in the LTL business looks highly upon full time dockmen. FedEx should learn something from the top co. Not everyone can do the job a dockworker does the right way.

this is exactly true of what is happening. the philosophy is: "Oh Well, If They DON'T Like it they can QUIT!!!!" I see this everyday.
 
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