Loved the people, not the hours - Package Handler FedEx Employee Review

4.0
Sep 21, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- awesome coworkers and managers, everyone was super chill - basically getting paid to work out - great benefits - awesome work environment - weekly pay - recognition for hard work - promote from within as long as you are up to the task and show your strengths

Cons

- usually only 3-4 hours a day - 3am-8am shift sucks, is very hard on body, makes living life/having a second job tough because you're always exhausted - the work is very grueling, they will work you as hard as they can even if it is hard for you - the job gets extremely stressful - warehouse is hot -easy to overwork yourself, must eat beforehand and hydrate on and off the job - benefits don't kick in until after a year for part time - not enough pay for what it is worth (this job is literal manual labor)

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Cons

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4.0
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good consistency in pay, caring bosses, solid yearly raises, consistent/regular routes, not a lot of floating between routes after gaining minimal seniority. I was given a route to myself after only 5 months of work, even before then I was usually given that route with minimal floating to other routes for the day. I have loved working here. So much consistency and you are just basically driving all day, bringing cool people their packages (my route is a mix between in town and countryside). I highly recommend this company through a contractor, working for FedEx corporate/Express has mixed reviews. Not much micromanaging at all from my contractor.

Cons

Contracts between third-party and FedEx corporate are not always great or reasonable financially leading to occasional and temporary surprise increases in workload due to contracts with companies like Walmart, Costco, Amazon without much increase in base pay as a result, although contractors do compensate their drivers out of their profits. It would be nice if they received more from the third-parties as a result. The trucks take a beating but they do pretty well with what we give them, they still stay comfortably drivable and contractors are always ready to repair them. Sometimes the trucks struggle with A/C, not critically but still not always crispy and not extremely comfortable in mid-western heat.

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