Originally Posted by
Captain Cook
Oh please!
You may be enamored by the mythology of Frederick W. Smith, but not everybody else is.
He was born with a silver spoon firmly in mouth and had his daddy's and his uncle's money (over a hundred million in today's dollars) to start his company. (If my daddy had loaned me $100 million, I'll bet I'd have a big successful company too by now.) You FedEx pilots who earned your hours and worked your way up to earn a good salary have accomplished more than that bonehead ever would have without his daddy's cash.
The fact is that Fred Smith is one of the most anti-union CEOs in recent memory. He's been stepping on and taking advantage of hardworking, middle class Americans his entire professional life.
His latest antics show his true side and show that he will sink to any level to keep his money that he believes is his birthright. (Why let the little people have any, right Fred?)
He's a whiney crybaby who will have to start playing by the rules and will soon pay his workers a fair wage when they unionize.
There are a lot of good folks at Purple and we seem to have a very respectable relationship with mutual issues and challenges. But I have to agree with the Capt.
Between Fred holding Boeing hostage and this attack on UPS saying that we need a bailout, it reminds me of my 4 year-old nephew, when we take his Bozo the Clown doll away.
If the roles were reversed does anyone think Uncle Fred would sit on the sideline. I don't mind him lobbying against the bill, even though its' passage would level the playing field, but to blame UPS is just scapegoating a company because of his insecurity of unions.
Put in other terms, if the drivers are being treated well, why would they ever unionize. If that's the case, Fred has nothing to worry about.
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