Working at Fedex — Reviews by Employees

I worked for Fedex LTL. The place was a very good place to work at. The managers in charge was on top of everything nothing could go wrong he couldn't figure out. You basically rode forklift around moving skid truck to truck. They even would bring in treat if you did a good job. It was a very fun job
Pros
13.50 HR
Can ask off
Managers very good
Off weekends

Cons
Winter was cold outside
hours

I worked for Fedex LTL. The place was a very good place to work at. The managers in charge was on top of everything nothing could go wrong he couldn't figure out. You basically rode forklift around moving skid truck to truck. They even would bring in treat if you did a good job. It was a very fun job
Pros
13.50 HR
Can ask off
Managers very good


Cons
Winter was cold outside
hours

My short stint with FedEx was as a package Handler in the Lenexa hub

Pay: Nothing to write home about. $11 an hour, but we worked overnight and were lucky to get four hours, which was our limit. We were always pressured to finish faster and some nights there weren't enough packages for the entire four hours. The pay should have been better, but could have been far worse. Its the hours they get you on. -4

Respect: Depended on how well you did and how much ass you kissed. For the most part, respect from the managers was given in the form of them saying nothing about you. no positive praise was given, and when it was, you could tell it was forced. It's not a terribly hard job, aside from the physical aspect, but I was asked to (in some cases, quite literally) bust my ass for "the team". If you're going into this company as a package handler, you better have thick skin. The only thing I can recall was this one black guy who personally handled the training of the new guys. I wish I could remember his name, but that man was great. Easy to talk to, would help you out if you really needed it, and was damn good at what he did. If I could, I'd give him a 5. The company gets a -5.

Benefits: None. Moving on. -5

Job Security: This is a joke right? I can go into how the system works, but I'll simplify it. When you've worked long enough to warrant a raise, they look for a reason to fire you, and failing to find one, will manufacture rules that conflict with one another to ensure they have a reason to fire you. -5

Work/Life Balance: Again, four hours a night, two days off. I worked midnight up to four in the morning. Not much time spent on site for me, but the shift pretty much dictated I didn't get up until 6 or 7 in the evening. Work the graveyard shift long enough, you begin to feel like a vampire what with the lack of sunlight. -2

Career Potential/Growth: Like some have said before, taking a promotion is tantamount to quitting yourself. -5

Location: I lived not too far from this place, and the route was ridiculously easy. 1

Co-worker Competence: Someone with a mental defect could do this job. It's repetition and physical labor. You either get used to it or you don't. For the most part, the other guys on your side of the hub will stick to their trailers, and help you out when needed. Unless the managers are trying to ensure you make a mistake they can use against you. Speaking of management, they care little about you other than you do what is expected of you. 0

Work Environment: I wish I could give this a -10. The hub is not climate controlled, meaning its sweltering in the summer, and freezing in the winter. The trailers themselves are hotter inside than the hub itself. I worked at night, and it was at times horrid. I shudder to think what those poor souls working the day shift in the middle of July go through. The workplace isn't especially dangerous, but given the weight and nature of some packages, it can be dangerous. I myself popped a shoulder out of the socket trying to move a package EXACTLY HOW THEY HAD TRAINED ME TO DO SAFELY. I was then berated for not working safe. The thing that infuriated me the most is their fluctuating policies. Our job required us to use a wrist mounted scanner to scan the bar codes of incoming packages to make sure the right package was being loaded in the right truck. Our scanning rates were monitored and on average we were expected to load at a rate of one package every four seconds. Regardless of the weight. So to compensate for the bigger, bulkier packages you were looking more or less at loading a package every two or three seconds. We were to load fast, but "efficiently" (no wasted space). It was basically like playing a 3D version of tetris, and sometimes, boxes would not fit together seamlessly. The aforementioned scanners were built rugged, but were still susceptible to wear and tear. They were not maintained or repaired in any way. One had to break completely before being replaced. In effect, we were being saddled with shoddy equipment and expected to make it perform flawlessly. Then came the fluctuating policies. We were expected to load faster, more efficiently, even when we we short on workers. But, the safety regulations increased. It doesn't take a genius to figure that asking someone to do hard, physical labor, faster but more safely, is a contradiction. I managed to weasel the truth out of a guy who'd been working there for YEARS, shortly before I quit. He confirmed that he'd overheard managers talking. They were intentionally changing rules and regulations to ensure that people would fuck up, and that they had a reason to fire them. Then they just brought in the fresh meat and ended up paying the same flat rate. He also confirmed that the managers were not the ones behind it. Those orders came from higher up.

All in all, FedEx treats their employees like kleenex. To be used up and disposed of. I simply walked away from the job. No resignation. No storming out in a fury. I just stopped going. One of the best decisions I ever made.

I was hired by Fedex Ground to work as a part time package handler. First off, you should know that pt employees of Fedex DO NOT receive bene's, so if that's what you're after, look elsewhere. On my first shift, the person that I assumed was my manager had me float through a few different work stations. He told me I'd be working in a certain area later and he apologized profusely for it, but for the time being, kept me busy. After a couple of hours, I was pulled aside by the manager to go over their truck packing procedures. When we were finished, he told me to go check in with the other manager. It was at this point, 3/4 of the way through the shift that I was informed who my manager was. As he began to walk me through what I'd be doing, I kept pulling boxes from the belt. He then proceeded to instruct me to pull all of the heaviest boxes from the conveyor belt.... in excess of 100 lbs. I was offered no assistance and when I expressed concern in trying to move a box that contained a full-size punching bag and all of the equipment I was told to "get used to it". Although I realize that we were essentially using our bodies as tools, I felt that that amount of weight was excessive for one person to be expected to handle without being injured.

job: package handler

For $11/hr, Fedex will pay you good for using your body as a tool to load hundreds of heavy packages into their trucks. The mentality at my station has become to load as many boxes into the truck as much possible within a short amount of time without regards to the safety of the goods inside the boxes. They don't care what kind of people they hire as long as they can load boxes as fast as possible, so I had to deal with the worst on a daily basis. The environment can become deafening. Neighboring workers drop heavy objects and the resulting sound explosion is very painful.

There are probably less stressful places to work - and as one of my coworkers once said "a job like this makes the idiots happy and the intelligent people insane" If you want job security and AMAZING benefits and can handle hard physical work and stress this is a great place to work.

HOWEVER. There's alot of pressure to finish on time regardless of short staffing at times. Injuries are dealt with so terribly that at times your own coworkers advise you that its sometimes easier to just work through an injury and I've seen several of my coworkers try to do just that. It's rough on the body, soul... and mind. But in this economy what else is there?

I took the job as a part timer They say you only work 4 hours a night but make you stay 6. Or 5hours and 59mins so you dont get a paid lunch. The Supervisors treat you like shit. They tell you if you need help ask and they would be glad to help, but when you ask they get all pissy with you and act like you did something wrong. Then the Full timers think there shit dont stink and just plow threw on there forklifts like they are the king of the road. I will hold on for a little while more but I'm not going to be treated like crap for ever.

I worked at FedEx Ground in Grand Rapids on 3 Miles Road, for 2 yrs. It was the worst 2 years of my life. That company is all for managers making money while they screw over the package handlers every chance they get. I gave nearly everything a -5. The pay is screwed. You start out at $8.00/hr and 25 hrs a week. but then as soon as you start getting your annual raises. They cut you down to 13-15 hrs a week. Respect is more like a -10... This company literally fires people for personal reasons. They will fire you for your looks, beliefs, race, anything and everything. Expecially once you top out at $12.00/hr. As soon as you top out at $12.00/hr, you are number one on the hit list. I topped out at $12.00/hr and a week later they told me they need to let me go after the current week because they are overstaffed and need to make cut backs.(this was Wednesday) 2 days later on Friday. 9 new people started on the same belt I worked on. They fired me so they could pay others $8.00/hr instead of paying me $12.00/hr. The managers Greg Law and Larry both came to work drunk on a daily basis. And always smell like beer and/or Vodka. Larry was always trying to find whatever reason he could to touch the female workers. He also would stand at the end of the belts and just stare at all the female workers chests. Numerous times he was heard commenting to Greg how he "would love to F*****" certain females that worked there. Most of which were only 16. So as you can see Job security is also a -10. Literally fire you for whatever they want. Work environment is also horrible. You are in Hazardous and unsafe and unhealthy condition. Since they make us do 8-9 hrs of work in 4-5 hrs. No package is handled with care. Expecially the hazardous and fragile packages. I can't even count the number of hazardous boxes were leaking fluids and all the managers would say is "Tape it up, and put it on the truck." You get no form of break. Even if you have a 30 sec. gap between packages, DONT sit down. They will fire you. The average package weighs 60 lbs. you do 700-1000 of them. Non-stop, pull them off the belt twist around to your truck and throw it as hard as you can to get it to land as close to the front as possible. And repeat. You load a package this way every 2-5 seconds. So needless to say you body takes a painful beating. Of course FedEx offers no health benefits. If you do hurt yourself. They will try to fire you anyway they can. Expecially if you go to your own doctor instead of their Hired doctors who are paid to say your not injured. Co-worker Competence is -5. Most of the people are ok, but plenty are trying to sell you dope or crack. They dont get in trouble as long as they hook up the managers Greg and Larry with discounts. If they don't they will be fired. All the manages including the big wig managers who showed up like once a month, were always mentally and verbally abusing workers. Telling them they were stupid, cussing them out for no reason. Greg and Larry both were constantly making sexual remarks to the females. If the females even showed that they were offended, they were fired. I Personally have witness all of this, On the belt I was on alone, in 2 yrs went through over 100 people and 11 people work on the belt at 1 time.

After they let me go I filed for unemployment, because in Michigan you can even if your part time as long as you've been there 18 mths and made $2,500 a year. I made that in 2 months but FedEx also screwed me there too. They would only aknowledge $2,490 per year. They did that on purpose to keep me from getting umemployment.

FEDEX GROUND IS NOT A PLACE ANYONE DESERVES TO WORK. IT IS HORRIBLE IN EVERY WAY. I HONESTLY THINK THAT COMPANY NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN!!!

They don't care about their employees, they don't care about the customers, they only care about management money. If you happen to read this and have a interview and or will soon be working at FedEx Ground in Grand Rapids Michigan on 3 mile road. Don't say I didn't warn you.

It is hard to imagine why FedEx SmartPost would keep Michael Fountain as a manager. He doesn't want to be at the building, He lies to people about when he arrives in the morning to give an impression that he cares. He lets the incompetent Derek Patrick run and ruin the operation. Derek lets Mike Fountain know that he will do anything for the hub. He must know that he would have to go back the being a security guard if he didn't have this job. And you cant blame him because the sexual favors Derek gets from an employee are a nice perk. The company wont even investigate this.
I guess Mike Fountain is protected by the CEO Ward Strang because they are buddys from way back in time. This part of FedEx is incompetent partly because they have up to 14 business days to have a box delivered, With that kind of pressure, who needs to be competent.

Kinda sounds like other guys are also having the same problem(s) that I got lately. Company doesn't want to stand up for itself wants a shield to make decisions. Never had a problem with my Drivers license until these guys. fedex sells it to you that they input your info into the computer then Informart makes an unbiased decision. Unbiased my ass! can you spell lawsuit?