How do employees feel about their professional development opportunities at FedEx?

Weekly pay, Sundays off (FedEx Express)

Underpaid, considering their top competitor’s pay… poor organization… lack of structure and communication, unless you’re being reprimanded… no work- life balance, just all work… they give you a schedule frame upon hire (ex: Route 123, Mon- Fri 8a-5p) but there is only a scheduled time to come in and work until load is complete, no matter the time. If they don’t have enough Tues-Sat employees, they start to draft Mon-Fri employees involuntarily. If you refuse, they do underhanded things like cut your hours. Extremely hot and cold weather conditions. Managers only look out for their individual work groups, instead of pushing collaborative company teamwork. Micromanagement is unbearable, through installed vehicle cameras monitoring your every move, immediately sending video notification to management if you “blink” wrong. The company stresses no cell phones while on road, when it’s the only source of GPS, as well as management calling and texting your personal phone throughout the day while on road. Management will overwhelm you with meeting 3-4 different commit times, despite mishaps on the company’s part. If they don’t enough bodies to cover all routes, management divides the load with the loop, with no consideration to your life or plans outside of work. They don’t ask, they tell you. And sometimes your load is so heavy, you have to work though your lunch, yet still put it in the system as if one was taken. If you don’t, you get written up and possibly terminated. If you’re looking to advance, it can be done but many have left due to stagnation. Some managers will give you a “Team Lead” title but only use you to do tasks they don’t want to bother with, so you become stuck. You still have to run a full route on top of taking on leadership responsibilities. So it’s early mornings and late nights. Oh yeah, you don’t get paid for extra training hours put in and you don’t get a raise for moving up to Lead.

FedEx fosters a great learning culture and ensures adequate training for anyone looking to get into sales.

Lower commission possibilities than at other companies

Large company with a lot of opportunity for professional growth through promotion and/or job switching to build new skills.

Pay ranges can vary internally - for the same type of job role - depending on which individual operating company it is in.

Some lovely co-workers at the job, some coverage of college tuition

Training is a joke nearly was crushed, doesn't keep track of staff on site, you're overworked in a hot/cold environment (hit 110f in the warehouse a few times), constant overtime

I am 4 credits short of graduation and all classes have been paid by Fedex. all sick days even if covered by sick pay is a mark against you

The training is horrible and it needs to be more hands on with a teacher instead of new version of just videos. a balance of accrued vacation and set vacation days

Good benefits and lots of training

Need a change in leadership style

none, seriously, apply for something else.

Bad management, Training is insufficient, hours frequently cut even when you're by law expected to receive 30-32 as a full time employee, expectation to learn and work every at facet of the store doesn't match their own commitment to you as far as hours and pay. Have to say things that are unnatural in regular conversations.

FedEx gives the opportunity to explore and grow and earn new skills

The process that a project goes through is not clear and sometimes goes directly to dead-end because of the lack of protocols to bring a project to results

The people were really nice. You also get paid for orientation and training. The pay was also nice. ($16)

It’s in a warehouse, so at the time it was below freezing. They also don’t tell you to get gloves, which they definitely should have because you’re going to be touching a lot of dirty packages. One last thing, if you’re short…Jobs not for you. You’ll be filling 18 wheelers up from the bottom to the top with boxes. By your lonesome.

Work from home…for now at least.

The pay is literally minimum wage for a job that requires SO much technical knowledge and months of training. The expectations are actually insane considering it’s a minimum wage/GED/no experience necessary job.