Pros
If you enjoy a competitive and energy driven enviornment and you like to get your hands dirty doing physical work, its the place for you.
Kontras
All that hard work that was mentioned above won't really be recognized or appreciated. You are sent to training classes which preach "servent leadership" but you come back to your work place to senior management who serves only themselves. FedEx is going through a restructuring which knocks upword mobility down dramatically. It is set up to feed on young workers who work hard in an effort to get promoted but rarely see the oppurtunity. The goals keep rising, and to meet these goals we're forced to treat our package handlers like slaves. Shifts are only three hours long, and I find myself sending people home after an hour and a half in an effort to maximize the productivity of the building. The style of management we're forced to use is driving the morale into the dirt. Management often works right along side package handlers...again, in an effort to reach higher and higher goals. Which would be fine if we were hourly, but a 55+ hour work week without any compensation or recognition for going the extra mile gets old pretty quickly. (That works out to be about $13.00 an hour) Our senior package handlers make $12.50 Thats an awful lot of added responsibility for $.50 more an hour.