FedEx Reviews in Phoenix, AZ Area

Pros

Fast paced amd my co-workers and bosses are easy to get along with.

Cons

The heat is terrible , it would be alittle more bearile if there was a fan in my work area.

Advice to Senior Management

If a worker is good and hard working , not always tatteling crying and complaining. Don't ignore them leave alone to do the work of 3 people. without sending her someone to help out so they are not struggling to catch their breath . Instead reward them with more hours, and opportunities to learn more so they move up , to add their abilities , skills,and hardwork to help guide and motivate the other workers.

Pros

The people on the dock and the drivers are a ball to be around. The teamwork that goes on to load and unload trailers. The lead supervisors on the dock are people persons.

Cons

Things that go on that get covered up would never happen elsewhere. Pulling trailers away from the dock with someone in it someone said the person was in training when in fact two other people were trained after this person. Opening a Fulltime positon and giving it to someone that took a sevrence left for a year and came back as a supplemental dockworker.Thats Just Wrong...

Advice to Senior Management

Lead Supervisors on the night shift we give you coddles with a Big Thumbs Up. The others that say one thing and do another. You all need to look at yourself and maybe give people that work and are their everyday to make a living and pay their bills on the short hours we fight for the fulltime openings in stead of who you want and send people home that have fulltime jobs eleswhere in stead of people that are struggling to make ends meet.

Pros

Good Benefits, Job Security, able to transfer to other sites, able to upgrade from part time to full time, Good people there,

Cons

Very busy during holiday season and overtime is mandated. Very strict about attendance and tardiness. You are marked down on your review if you use sick time.

Advice to Senior Management

Bring back the old motto People Servcice Profit in that order please. Many say now it is Profit Service People.

Pros

FedEx is an excellent brand name offering decent pay with fair benefits, paid time off, retirement, profit sharing.
It is an excellent part time job while going to school and there are many advancement opportunities for those willing to move around.

Cons

Benefits have been greatly diluted over the years. The traditional retirement is gone, pay did not keep up with society, jumpseat priveleges were abandoned, pay for performance and other benefits were diluted. The people, service, profit cornerstone was abandoned for profit, profit, profit. Long term employees are greatly disillusioned by the company. Management does not support the workforce. No longer can you be assured of a job merely by being a conscientious hard worker.

Advice to Senior Management

Put the people first again. Southwest airlines does it and the employees love it their. When you take away a perk like jumpseating replace it with some free travel vouchers or some other meaningful perk. Stop acting like we are ignorant and don't know that the reason the benefits have been greatly diluted is for company profit. Reward employees rather than having so many punitive systems in place.

Pros

Benifits are great and flexible for students. Tuition reimbursment program is an excellent benifit. When the economy was down FedEx still provided a secure work setting.

Cons

110 Degree warehouse in the summer. The holidays are non-existant because we are providing a service that is stressed during those times.

Advice to Senior Management

Some of the factors that are focused on are not as important as others. Prioritizing station upkeep and other things may need to be looked at.

Pros

Benefits and job advancement opportunities. Work/ life balance is really good. FedEx is a great stepping stone to gather experience and move on.

Cons

The job itself is not very challenging and therefore not really rewarding. Compensation is not there and the bonus system is a fraud.

Advice to Senior Management

Some upper management does not take the employees seriously and make wrong decisions to bring down the morale of the work environment.

Pros

Very good flight benefits available

Cons

Inaccurate reporting, unorganized, poor information technology infrastructure

Advice to Senior Management

Consistency and Organization

Pros

FedEx is a company that is a leader in the transportation Industry. FedEx offers great career advancement opportunity. Very good training and preparation for other job opportunites. Management is fair, but there tends to be a lot of gossip floating around in the inside sales offices. Travel benefits and shipping discounts are awesome. You really can't compete with FedEx when it comes to these kinds of perks.

Cons

Politics and the gossip that goes around, and since the corporation is a large one the pay is not very good initially. It is a sacrifice initially for a long term career success.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you're doing.

Pros

work life balance is great

Cons

Lack of senior leadership recognizing and measuring productivity

Advice to Senior Management

Be a leader and learn to develop leaders

Pros

Great brand power, great benefits (401k + pension), easy to sell, management at the executive level is superb.

Cons

Inconsistency on message delivered from the Director level down, each district does whatever they want. A lot of secretism about the direction the company will go. What I would say is not worry about what you know but about you don't.

Advice to Senior Management

Deliver a more consistent message from the director level down, so all districts are in the same pace. Stop with the hush-hush culture regarding where we are going and what steps are being taken at the mid-level management to accomplish the macro-goals for the company.