Good place for underachievers - Operations Manager FedEx Employee Review

3.0
Oct 27, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent benefits, fair pay considering you only need a high school diploma to be hired. They offer tuition reimbursement, but good luck finding time to use it! There are some opportunities to move into other positions. Reduced airfare on airline travel (until someone screwed it up for everyone else, then all are punished and the privilege suspended.)

Cons

Micro managed to the Nth degree. Packages per hour, stops per hour, tracking not only every stop a courier makes,but gaps in time- one hour vs half hour lunch. And that is nothing! Prepare to put in a 12 hour day and get calls all hours of the day and night from employees for call offs and personal problems. If you are not a member of the "boys club" you will not be in the circle of those promoted. Got a number of call offs- get ready to cover for every missing employee. Jump in the can and unload those packages! Get in those trucks and deliver packages- or make pickups. Hey, don't forget the office work you need to get done, even though you are on the road-no excuses! Late freight, so meet your couriers on the road and pray they give you a service disruption. Oh, and God forbid you get a sick relative. My mother was in the hospital and told she had cancer, but our managing director said "I can't let you take any time off- you are a MANAGER" and this even though I was DUE vacation...this was in April and our fiscal year ended June 1. I bled purple until the bruises I had out numbered my pain threshold.

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Cons

Fellow employees will unionize to get you out of your route. Employees will make up stories to pit employees against one another. Fellow employees will threaten other employees for being friendly to one another. The management is willing bend over backwards to give you a bad review if leaving for another job. Co-workers are extremely bored and in most cases workload differs dramatically depending on where you are on the sort.

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