FDX Service Awards
 

Just got a catalog to order my 10 year service award "gift". As we negotiate for a contract, I think this well highlights our value in the company's eyes.

I went on Amazon and priced the lovely assortment of "gifts". They retail for about $12 each.

I'm guessing FDX is paying less than that. I'm glad my service is worth a dollar per year to them. They'd be better off to cancel this program than to actively mail this insult.

Pipe

Nice hat
 

I ordered the ball cap. It came with FedEx Ground on it!

I ordered the knife. But it was taken away at security when I tried to jump seat home with it. :rolleyes:

Get the globe.

25 years. No notice, no choice: framed look back on what was going on in 1990. Just showed up at the house. meh.

The service awards I chose all have one thing in common... No FedEx logo anywhere.

On the bright side, all the deadheading to/from work I've been doing over the years on Delta earned me a pretty sweet million miler gift. A bag worth over $400. At least I feel valued by Delta. Gave my spouse the choice of the 20 year FedEx service award, since I couldn't find a single thing that wasn't junk. Ended up with a little tool kit.

Forget the service award, how about a contract?

I suspect the Service Awards are relics from the PSP days (when employee moral was a valued commodity at FedEx). unfortunately, it's not that way anymore ...

For my 20 year Award I picked something I thought I might be able to donate to charity. Maybe they can put it in a silent auction to use as a fund raiser?

I agree, this program seems silly now. If my memory serves me correctly I think I remember the 10 year choices as being rather nice gifts? Maybe another victim of cost cutting measures?


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They finally stopped sending me email reminders to select my 20 year service award. All the stuff was junk. Get rid of that program, and the employees that run it! Now pay me a bonus for saving the company money. :rolleyes:

It only gets better for 25 years you get no choice and a politically correct picture of "important" events going on in the year you were hired!