True Fedex Stories and Rants

Well a year and a half went by an I decided to transfer to another state, hey I was 22 heading towards 23 and decided to move where its warm and the girls were hot. I also took a job upgrade to a courier position. Which was probably the biggest mistake of my life, In Newark my eyes were starting to open.. Now they stay open and don’t ever shut them again !

I put in for a Tuesday through Saturday courier position, and E-mail the Manager we will call Mikey and say in the E-mail do you want me Monday or Tuesday ( I always think ahead just in case) She says no come in on Tuesday.. I say OK it gives me an extra day to settle in, so for the next 4 days they are showing me the route and the ropes before I go to courier school. Now don’t forget I’m still naive to this state, I really didn’t think it was gonna be that different from Jersey.. WRONG !

Friday afternoon I punch in and Mgr Mikey say hey I’m leaving early today and we changed your route to Monday thru Friday  so you don’t have to come in to work tomorrow..But you start courier school on Monday ..I say OK but are you sure about tomorrow cause I only worked four days this week can I still come in and get my fifth day..

She says No We Don’t Do That Here !

Oh I was sooooooooo friggin pissed, here I am just moving I went from full time down to part time I E-mailed her and asked her of ANY changes and she pulls this shit on me.. Hell I would of come in and did the offload for an hour but nooooooooooooooo

Then at that time I realized that I wasn’t in Newark anymore Toto and what the hell is gonna happen next

Of  how things work around the corporate business..

Well after a few years I was promoted to Team Leader, which is that I get my own group of people to lead and get the job done.. Sounds simple right ? welll no I was 21 and well some of the older people I still had to earn their respect but hey shit happens right.. But for the most part I had a few people in my group and we became close friends in and outside of the job I miss them to this day they took care of me as well I did them..But they were disliked by a certain manager we will call Jack

One hot summer Jersey night my group was assigned to take the freight out to the Memphis 747, most of it was waiting for the freight cans and I had my best friend Ru with me an a few new hires with no tug license so they were useless to me anyway..A tug is the little white armored truck you see driving around the airport and you have to be certified to operate one.. Anyway the manager Jack comes over and says I need help for the 747, so I say OK and send the two new hires and THEY WERE ON THIER WAY !…

Jack was not even looking at me but straight dead at Ru, and says it again.. I tell Jack I need Ru and I sent two people already, he fully ignored me and took Ru’s ID for insubordination.. He was suspended pending investigation, I was like What The Fuck ! Jack still was not looking at me

I talked to Ru the next day an he was going to GFT it ( Guaranteed Fair Treatment) .. Now the GFT is supposed to give us a fair hearing of our case, a lot of people have actually gotten their job back but less and less over the years ( More On that in another post).. Now you also get three stages one local then if that does not work an conference call with Memphis and the last resort is a face to face with Memphis..

Now its a few weeks and almost time for the first stage, I am setting up the airplane gates when Jack hey join me for a Cigarette.. I say Umm I don’t smoke, then he says its ok just take a few min with me.. I say ok… He say you know I like you, your a good worker but some of those like you friend Ru can be lazy pieces of shit..We try to keep the good hard workers and get rid of the shit. He also says he wants me to help him get rid of the shit, Now this jackass don’t know that Ru is one of my best friends but I didn’t say that.. All I said was look I am gonna tell the truth on what I saw an I am not gonna lie

He goes well now now I’m not saying lie but help me out.. Well to make a long story short Ru’s GFT went all three stages and I told the truth at every stage, if Ru was wrong I would have said so but he wasn’t and they still fired him anyway.. Jack the Manager never said another word to me again not to mention not even as so much look at me

I was in shock for a while, I just could not believe that something could actually happen like this.. My eyes at 21 years old were finally starting to open

Well I was 18 years old just graduated High School and was delivering auto parts in Kearney N.J. waiting for a job interview at Newark Airport for this place called Federal Express. I never even heard of the company, saw the ad spots every now an then but you know I was a Teenager I didn’t pay any attention whatsoever..

A few weeks and a few calls went by an got my interview, I gotta admit she was pretty hot but never the less I got the job an feelin pretty good about myself the hours were 11 pm to 4 am in the morning on the airport ramp loading and unloading airplanes it was friggin cool.. But for the next 4 years I worked a full-time day job at the parts store then back to the gas station I worked at all through High School..So I was up at least 20 hours a day during the week, I dont know how I did it but I had my falling asleep on the job moments..

All my managers were super cool and actually helped me out, if it was cold and I did not have my uniform yet they would give me theirs.. If I needed something they would take the time and order it for me. If I had a question they would answer it, and I mean with out thinking and actually knowing it type of answer no Ummm Uhhh Ill get back to you.. They would actually say hey how are you and how was the work night..

The older guys were great and really taught me the ramp and how things go, now dont forget this was my  first job with a hugeeeeeeee group of others outside my neighborhood so I had a lot of learning to do and growing up to do to I just did not realize it yet..

I thought EVERYBODY worked like me right, well wrong I learned no matter how cool the guy is or how hot the girl is they can be lazier than 30 pound house cat

I also learned not everybody will like you for some-kind of bullshit reason, your race,your decent or what the hell ever and they will screw with you, I had a ramp agent have a hard-on for me forrrrrrr years until I transferred to another state..But everybody knew I was a good guy and a hard worker and all his accusations were bullshit so they always took my side over his anyway 

I look back at this time as the best time I ever had in this company