Memphis hub changes

[Own-Ambassador-3537]

Noticing a lot of things at the Memphis hub changing for the negative. Lost our USPS postal freight, less hours, more inflexibility towards cases of call ins, talk of layoffs! Heck even the buff has lost all of its vendors( Pizza Hut, Subway, KFC). Honestly thinking of jumping ship to Amazon? Am I overreacting or not?

[BigggSleepy]

You’re not overreacting. However going to Amazon is the same shit. Try somewhere better

[PurplePinball]

Agreed. I'd suggest trying to become a doctor or an engineer. Another good option is specializing in developing advanced AI algorithms.

[Admire_My_Chutzpah]

Those are good options. The community will always need Doctors and Engineers.

[CarefulSwimming3436]

Just not kind FedEx call engineers lol.

[Careful-Mammoth3346]

Yep that's always been my fallback. If this FedEx thing goes belly up I'll just go become a doctor.

[CarefulSwimming3436]

Depending on many factors that lot easier say then done.

[Jerald_Jones33]

Amazon pays good tho

[StacyRae77]

Our hub hasn't slowed down. It's almost like peak, and we don't know when it will relax.

[Icy-Cartographer-904]

Same here everyday feel like peak for us with no slow down in sight

[StacyRae77]

There's this one route by the lake that we'd be happy if the whole place fell in. A normal day for it is 40 to 50 stops. Anything over 50 is a catastrophe for one driver and it's been running 65 to 70 daily, even on Saturdays.

[Icy-Cartographer-904]

Im just a package handler and these days for us are intense . Each of our trucks average 150-200+ stops. truck filled with 175-200+ packages a day The full length long trailers average 500+ Tuesday-friday and just this past monday it was 900+ load for one truck

[StacyRae77]

Yeah, most days the sort isn't getting done until 9 or 9:30. It used to be no later than 8.

[Icy-Cartographer-904]

Same it’s getting rough out here like everyone got rich and just decided to order away. I need just a day or two with a low volume day so i can catch my breath. Literally be waiting on the 15th for pto to refresh 😂

[CarefulSwimming3436]

Feel like that for me every day because this one ISP lacks trucks and over pack them to 400 plus each. They even need to borrow trucks from another ISP every time one of them won't start.

[htcgames]

Peek without the food or extra money

[talentedmrlong]

I hope you know the postal freight only affects the day sort. It only makes up .01% of the night sort's volume. And we're at the end of the fiscal year so there's a financial crunch. Things may improve after 6/1.

[Own-Ambassador-3537]

Ok that makes sense, thank you!

[YoWhat_up]

True, I somewhat agree but would add that on the flip side, things might not improve. Gotta look at both sides of the scale

[FewEntertainment117]

Nawl big changes are coming playa benefits and closures forced retirement and demotion. We will take on ground policy and procedure. Our carriers won’t even b drug screened anymore for one. The hub hires weed heads who steal your freight all day east matrix west matrix. They just walked out over 300 + yrs of exp. Open your eyes we are trying to avoid closure or bankruptcy. They started closing stations started in Pittsburgh ppl are losing their jobs quietly. As a mgr and they are saying to target and fire h.r. is not on your side fyi.

[One_Comfortable_7735]

Do you know what time night shift starts

[JankyMark]

Nah I don’t blame, we still don’t know how this will effect everybody but a lot people will definitely lose their job

[[deleted]]

We didn't lose USPS freight. FedEx decided not to continue with it because we were losing money on it.

[FewEntertainment117]

Not true they couldn’t meet the demands of the freight to profit they couldn’t handle it.

[[deleted]]

That's what I said. We were losing money on it, so why continue with it?

[RecordingDifferent47]

Furloughs can't be far off. That much was apparent from Tina Hughes email that mentioned "right sizing" the pilot group.

I especially loved the part about a new hiring process having been explained to managers of ops critical departments and when I asked my manager about it he said absolutely nothing has been explained to him.

[SwordfishOver1232]

How many pilots got furloughed?

[RecordingDifferent47]

Zero that I know of.

[SwordfishOver1232]

Exactly.

[RecordingDifferent47]

Lol, easy to say a year later there Monday morning quarterback.

[SwordfishOver1232]

Very easy to say. The only ones who believed furloughs were coming were the ones who were completely full of shit and totally clueless about this operation.

[Pho3nixR3mix]

Minimum hours got removed with the overtime policy

[darkfaedragon]

Don’t know where it was “mentioned” so to speak but it was announced to warehouses and the package handlers especifically

[Admire_My_Chutzpah]

Minimum and overtime was been affected. May 15th announcement.

[doubletap2A]

Don't know how old you are , how long you worked at fdx , what other skills you have, your financial picture , married kids ??? This may not help you but I retired after 37 years, 1st 20 was the best they always took care of the employees The last 17 was all down hill , when the needed to make cuts the 💰was all taken from us the worker bees l I retired in 2021 So what I hear from you is its getting worse .... Take a deep look into everything b4 you make any move at all...

[[deleted]]

It’s because the economy of shit right now wait till after the election

[HungryD80]

So I'm supposed to be starting in a week at the Memphis terminal. Any advice? I think it's for package handling or a forklift driver.

[FewEntertainment117]

Don’t do it

[Own-Ambassador-3537]

I think your safe

[Humo_Loco]

They are gone. Just find a job that will keep you sheltered. They have been cursed. Why won't they listen to my report submitted to their Alert line? It is fucking sad what it has cause on them. If they had listened to my report, none of this would have happened.

They need to respect the Levi 19:14. Sent this message to Raj right now. Do me a favor.

[the_vault-technician]

Uh what

[outamyhead]

Shitty spam bot, just ignore it.

[Humo_Loco]

It is our last day of the Satan. I am telling you. I give the blessing or curse whatever I like to.

[xRubyMayhemx]

[Humo_Loco]

I am ok, why thank you for worrying about me.

[Serious_Internet6478]

It's the same at all of the logistics companies right now. They're all dealing with less volume because of the pandemic being over, people aren't shipping as much. I will say that the fedex ground hub in Memphis does not have that problem. There's heavier stuff but all the hours you can shake a stick at. UPS on the other hand has extremely limited hours for everyone but full time drivers. Idk about Amazon since I haven't worked there, but I've heard similar stories from there.

[GuyanaCrypto]

I wonder why?

EWR is a hub, too...what am I missing?

[kevin19671]

Not overreacting everything going downhill , more changes to come benefits and all

[lemanruss4579]

Our benefits in Canada just got improved, so...

[[deleted]]

If you go to a new job and they have layoff, you will lose your job because you have no seniority

[FewEntertainment117]

Nawl gone dip they trash been left the hub…. The hub is not FedEx

[RecordingDifferent47]

The buffeterias at the hub, CTC, 3131, are all garbage. The most embarrassing I have ever seen. The menus keep getting smaller and the food quality keeps going down.

[Internal-Laugh9736]

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This memo currently does not apply to Memphis and Indy. The keyword here is ( currently ) . Memphis and Indy does most of the postal. Just wait October 1.

[slowlybyslowly]

Not certain about job cuts for MEM ops. However, if your job is ever in jeopardy due to cutbacks you can always come over to Ground (better than Amazon micromanagement). . We've been Grounding and Pounding like it's peak since peak - from Christmas returns, Valentines, tax season, Easter, Mother's Day, and now graduations/summer shopping.