FedEx New Hires
04-22-2011 | 01:52 PM
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Why can't this mentallity be switched around to where it is the cost of doing business for the company to pay a living wage from the start? Why is it that pilots are willing to give up so much and call it "investing in your job". Haven't we invested enough already to get to a position to be able to apply to Fedex or any other great job? Lets all have some respect for ourselves.
Once again, I think they should be higher, but to claim "living" wage concerns is ridiculous in my book.
04-22-2011 | 02:20 PM
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Are there hotels around the training center that you can get a room for $2000/mo. or less with transportation. Are they hotels that know what FDX newhires get paid and use that to there advantage? One would think that FDX might not want newhires to worry about lodging and just concentrate on school. I'm thinking too much again!
Seriously though, what's it cost a month for a hotel room for training and are they "rats nests" or descent?
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Seriously though, what's it cost a month for a hotel room for training and are they "rats nests" or descent?
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04-22-2011 | 03:53 PM
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If you search this forum for "mem hotels" you will see a lot of choices. The only place I stay is the Olive branch fairfield inn for 50 bucks a night. You can probably find cheaper but not much. Your only practical choice is a crash pad and an airport car.
04-22-2011 | 08:11 PM
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FWIW, Yr 1 payrates (All taken from APC snapshots on the home page)
UPS 38
Alaska 47
American 35
Continental 31
Delta 56
United 33
US Airways-West 39, East 3k\month for all acft except E190 $41
FedEx 61, once you reach the line
UPS 38
Alaska 47
American 35
Continental 31
Delta 56
United 33
US Airways-West 39, East 3k\month for all acft except E190 $41
FedEx 61, once you reach the line
04-23-2011 | 05:33 AM
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04-23-2011 | 06:57 AM
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Just saying, how productive is a new hire in training? Flame away.
04-23-2011 | 07:56 AM
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Do they pay per diem also, or just a flat $2k?
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04-23-2011 | 08:22 AM
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Dudes,
You don't get a hotel or per diem. MEM is your domicile (unless you go to Hong Kong). Training pay is it. Is training pay ridiculous? Absolutely! Will you more than make up for it after 1 month on the line? Absolutely! We have new hires in ground school who've already been awarded wide bodies! It's like a Kenyan who stops to tie his shoe at the beginning of the Boston Marathon. Ya think he might make up a little ground in the first couple of blocks of the race? Or you could go to SWA and pay for your own training. A 5 year FedEx 727 Engineer makes as much as an 8yr 767 FO at United! The list goes on.
Try to look beyond the end of your nose.
You don't get a hotel or per diem. MEM is your domicile (unless you go to Hong Kong). Training pay is it. Is training pay ridiculous? Absolutely! Will you more than make up for it after 1 month on the line? Absolutely! We have new hires in ground school who've already been awarded wide bodies! It's like a Kenyan who stops to tie his shoe at the beginning of the Boston Marathon. Ya think he might make up a little ground in the first couple of blocks of the race? Or you could go to SWA and pay for your own training. A 5 year FedEx 727 Engineer makes as much as an 8yr 767 FO at United! The list goes on.
Try to look beyond the end of your nose.
04-23-2011 | 08:29 AM
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