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From my experience be very careful with anything connected to FedEx Ground and contracting. AS an actual employee of FedEx you'll be treated ok, but as a contractor or a driver for a contractor look out. I was a contractor and found that they are a very dishonest company and won't obey the laws. They don't play by the same rules and have a team of lawyers to keep you where they want you. They still owe me over $400,000. The IRS agrees that they are dishonest but it costs too much to do anything about it. Anyway, my experience with them was very costly. Working for a contractor they may verify employment experience down the road but FedEx themselves will not verify anything. With a judge and a court order FedEx refused to verify that I had a contract with them. In my IRS audit FedEx refused to verify anything, even with a court order. I had to prove everything through receipts, 1099's, etc. You could check into the Teamsters lawsuit against FedEx Ground for a little info. So far FedEx Ground has lost every lawsuit concerning employee/contractor/driver issues, but it is costly to sue them. Overall, be very careful of FedEx, if you can act like a subservient employee ALL the time while paying like a contractor, you may do ok. Don't expect any loyalty or favors from FedEx and get everything in writing with signed witnesses not part of FedEx. I found that management refuses to sign any official agreements and witnesses down the road won't back up any agreement if they were a part of FedEx. Good Luck.

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[Orangetxguy]

Gee....maybe I could contract to Fedex..and in 6 month's have them oweing me $400,000.

Overall, be very careful of FedEx, if you can act like a subservient employee ALL the time while paying like a contractor, you may do ok. Don't expect any loyalty or favors from FedEx and get everything in writing with signed witnesses not part of FedEx. I found that management refuses to sign any official agreements and witnesses down the road won't back up any agreement if they were a part of FedEx. Good Luck.

Driver, you ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie! I was a service manager at RPS (FedEx Ground) in SoCal after I was discharged from the air force.

Back then, there was a 220% turnover rate for package handlers on the AM sort…makes the McMega haulers look like hitting the Powerball. Handlers were mostly college kids from Cal State or San Joaquin Valley College, Mexicans, or stewbums who’d disappear after cashing their first paycheck at the liquor store. The morning sort was outright balls to the walls…packages would come flying down the conveyors at mach 5. They'd have a guy desperately trying to load 3 vans and he'd get bombed with freight...sometimes I'd look down the belt and see nothing but a huge mound of packages. Every so often, someone would say “I gotta take a piss” or “Hey man, brb…gonna get a drink of water” and they’d just walk right off the job never to be seen again. Lots of injuries, too. Guys were always getting knocked out after a wall of packages inside a pup came tumbling down upon their head. A girl spilled some hazmat on her leg and ran around screaming like a banshee until we dragged her kicking and screaming under a wash station. And in the morning, the place looked like a scene out of that movie 'The Mist' when all the drivers fired up their trucks in unison. Sitting on the harbor freeway in gridlock traffic was like a breath of fresh air.

Fun times indeed, tho my budding corporate career came to a screeching halt after they canned me for going out with a female driver. That was the official line anyway. In reality, they didn’t give a rat’s ***** about their people.

Even had the police escort me out on my last day…how’s that for going out in style?

[YoungZ.W.]

Even had the police escort me out on my last day…how’s that for going out in style?

Was it one of those $23,000 Britney Spears police escorts? :wink: