What are some insights into the strategy or vision at FedEx?

open-minded, respect, flexible, innovative and customer centric

many layers of decision making that takes long time

The closer you are to touching packages the more secure your job is.

Current CEO only cares about shareholders and it says in the mission statement

Good benefits, work-life balance, my manager was fantastic, accessible leadership, interesting work, and a true commitment to operational excellence. Many employees made life-long careers at FedEx.

The company is enormous and it's daunting to understand the org chart. Your experience is heavily dependent upon your team director. As a new employee, I had a wonderful director that helped me feel supported. In a department I was later moved to, my director was extremely hands off and I felt completely lost. The use of acronyms and corporate jargon is out of control. It's almost like these people speak a different language. You really have to buy into the "Purple Promise" to be successful - institutional knowledge is how you'll be able to move up. I had people in other departments purposefully derail my work, seems counterproductive to the company mission, be prepared to play politics.

Easy job Very little responsibility Good side job I got promoted because I showed up and did my job and wasn't high or drunk

Weird hours working in the middle of the night. Some nights you work for 10 hours and it's super busy and feels like it won't end, other nights they send you home after an hour cause there's nothing to do The people working all nighters are usually criminals and crackheads It can be dangerous at times

I had a wonderful supervisor and upper management. We had a nice little work-from-home community and worked almost seamlessly together to help resolve customer issues.

I cannot think of any downsides other than getting laid off.

Good pay Co-workers work well in upper management Benefits are great

Not always room for growth or movement Warehouse environment/employees Fast paced Productivity focused

Lost sight of what employees want, took away incentives to want to do better. Great company just seems lost management wise right now.

Difficult to understand the corporate strategy.

communication culture team work responsibility training

cold difficult to know the process

Driving sights customer interactions and working alone

Pay isn’t that good at all

-Physical, it really is a great workout. -Not technical, you don't have to think too much. -Low responsibility. -Off work early(local pre-load shift)

-Inconsistent hours, sometimes shifts will change start times with less than 24hrs notice, and if you were scheduled the day prior you might not be notified. Shift ends when it ends, might be 7am, might be 9am, doesn't matter what the schedule says. -Low pay, pay sounds decent at start, until you realize you might move 3x volume as other and receive same pay. -Meal/rest breaks might not provided, or might be coerced into taking meal break at the end of shift which violates Oregon state law if employed in this state. (Note previous bullet about inconsistent hours. This makes it's difficult to even advocate for yourself and say hey we are required to take a lunch during this time because our schedule might only say 5 hours, but then we are required to work well past 6hours when a meal break would have been required) Not to mention literally everyday I see dozens of employees working though 10min break periods because they are either not told to take their break or they are engaging in a work culture of 10min breaks are the only time the belt stops and now they can catch up on packages stacked out by their work areas. -Training, rather lack thereof. At one point new hires were together and had trainers next to them for up to 2 weeks. Now new hires are spread throughout the building and are lucky to receive 2 or 3 days with a trainer by their side, then thrown to the wolves with minimal guidance after that. This leaves others with increased workloads, unable to even give tips or pointers. -Turnover. Constant influx of new hires as solid workers leave feeling underappreciated or overwhelmed. -Exhausting. Even though you might get of early and don't really work a ton of hours throughout the week, you are on your feet the whole time on metal grated flooring, with constant heavy lifting. And you will very rarely receive help for very large and awkward packages the required team lifts, leaving you to lift those packages alone. As such, you WILL feel worn out after your shift.