FedEx Freight East Reviews

Pros

The management is very supportive of your personal life and advancements.

Cons

You don't always get your desired amount of hours per week.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up what you're doing.

Pros

It's got great benefits and decent job security

Cons

Upper management sees bottom lines, not people.

Advice to Senior Management

Take an interest in your people and their job satisfaction!

Pros

Great Pay and great schedule

Cons

Some immature management but to be expected

Advice to Senior Management

Be more interested in making customers happy and less on share price

Pros

Great pay, decent benefits, great co-workers to work with, a paycheck every week (not bi-weekly)

Cons

Inconsistent on the times you get off, it could be 4, 6, or even up to 12 hour shifts. So if you have a normally tight schedule (such as school, or another job that starts in the morning), you might want to think about it before applying. You get quite dirty as well.

Advice to Senior Management

When telling an employee to do something, ask if they might need help doing the task (like picking up toppled skids, or moving a bunch of skids). It is greatly appreciated.

Pros

Drivers are professional and take pride in their work, dock workers are mostly competent and some are very knowledgeable. Terminal manager is a strong and dedicated leader.

Cons

Low pay. Maddeningly low level of professionalism and effort amongst office staff. Too many corners cut regarding safety. Insufficient facilities. Remarkably understaffed. Excessively complex computer systems. Excessive and redundant reporting on a daily basis. You will be doing a significant amount of manual labor. If you want to move up in the company, it will absolutely involve relocation (could be a "pro" for some). Overall too much bad and not enough good.

Advice to Senior Management

Practice what you preach, and do things the right way. Too many people out on long-term disability, these are red flags.

Pros

Great place to work, team atmosphere. Management worked right along side with office staff. Open door policy. Great training and ongoing training for updates.

Cons

Hard to get fulltime employment if office staff - few positions available. May have to work more hours depending on location of service center due to weather conditions, ex: snow and ice.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep communications lines open with employees across the board so everyone can be a part of providing the best freight service available, while also keeping employees happy and satisfied with their jobs and performance levels will stay high.

Pros

There are leadership programs for advancement

Cons

Employment and salary decisions are based on seniority instead of performance

Advice to Senior Management

Management be sensitive towards your employees

Pros

Good pay and benefits. Excellent equipment and uniforms. No weekend work except if you volunteer. Overall good place to work.

Cons

Merger with fedex national is coming up. Not enough communication with employees. Too many rumors going around and not enough facts.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate more. Need more info to all employees to keep down on lies and rumors. Need more meetings to eliminate this problem.

Pros

good job. good company to work for

Cons

none. good place to work

Advice to Senior Management

stay on top of underperformers and get rid of them

Pros

better than average pay, very good benefits, employees generally look out for each other, vacation time off is easy to be used

Cons

get rid of the good ole boy situation, treat everyone equally, need to review and adjust "reasons for termination, management needs to treat hourly people like they are needed, handbook rules need to apply to all employees evenly

Advice to Senior Management

an out of service tag on the door of a truck won't prevent an accident if other employees disregard other safety precautions are ignored, to terminate a six year employee over a door tag is trivial.