FedEx New Hire... Buy Apt or Hotel/Pad ?
05-03-2017, 11:40 AM
#21
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Originally Posted by urinmyseat
The fact is, if it's legal and you follow the company rules which change depending on your marital status and what your spouse does for work...you wont get fired.
05-03-2017, 01:29 PM
#23
New Hire
Joined APC: May 2017
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New hire here. Start class in a couple weeks. Can't find any open crashpads....looks like the facebook crashpad group doesn't exist anymore? Anyone have ideas?
Also thinking about just renting an apartment. Let me know if anyone is interested.
Also, whats your guys experience with uber or lyft in memphis? Reliable enough to get to work once called out? Or should I be shopping for a used crown vic airport car
Also thinking about just renting an apartment. Let me know if anyone is interested.
Also, whats your guys experience with uber or lyft in memphis? Reliable enough to get to work once called out? Or should I be shopping for a used crown vic airport car
05-03-2017, 01:54 PM
#24
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Joined APC: May 2006
Position: Excessed WB Capt.
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If you are single rent a place in Memphis and move residency there. DO NOT MARRY A GIRL FROM MEMPHIS. There is a extended stay in East Memphis that is safe for about 70 bucks a night probably cheaper for a longer stay. Do not risk ur career on a cheap car or Uber.
05-03-2017, 02:24 PM
#25
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Originally Posted by captaincombover
New hire here. Start class in a couple weeks. Can't find any open crashpads....looks like the facebook crashpad group doesn't exist anymore? Anyone have ideas?
Also thinking about just renting an apartment. Let me know if anyone is interested.
Also, whats your guys experience with uber or lyft in memphis? Reliable enough to get to work once called out? Or should I be shopping for a used crown vic airport car
Also thinking about just renting an apartment. Let me know if anyone is interested.
Also, whats your guys experience with uber or lyft in memphis? Reliable enough to get to work once called out? Or should I be shopping for a used crown vic airport car
PM me if you would like some info on the place we live....not bad...not great and 15 mins to the AOC lot.
05-03-2017, 03:41 PM
#26
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Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: Midfield downwind
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Originally Posted by captaincombover
New hire here. Start class in a couple weeks. Can't find any open crashpads....looks like the facebook crashpad group doesn't exist anymore? Anyone have ideas?
05-03-2017, 04:47 PM
#27
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Joined APC: Sep 2015
Posts: 135
You most likely will be fired before you start, so I wouldn't worry too much about it!
Good point fellas on the constantly moving target given by the company. Got to love good humor. Especially when it has some truth to it.
Good point fellas on the constantly moving target given by the company. Got to love good humor. Especially when it has some truth to it.
05-03-2017, 04:49 PM
#28
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Originally Posted by urinmyseat
To the new hires out there:
If something is legal, feel free to do it. Follow the rules set up by the company. Read them carefully and follow them.
If you want to talk to crew members with an item of footwear on you're hand, do it. It's been proven you won't get fired. And No, I'm not talking about the person everyone is thinking of, I'm talking about someone else.
If you want to have the worse CRM skills imaginable, and after retirement get into a fight and arrested, do it. You should have a 30+ year career of being a donkey's rear.
The fact is, if it's legal and you follow the company rules...you wont get fired. In many cases if it is outlandish and follow some of the company rules...you still won't get fired.
A word of advice. If your going to go off the reservation, go BIG! I mean really BIG
The bigger it is, you will either be employed forever, or be remembered as a "legend"
One probie I know was fired for "attitude". When he struggled a bit in 727 FO checkout he was sent packing, because he had no green stamps left...
Pop positive on a drug test? You are gone.... I know of at least two since I've been here...
Then there is the list of housing allowance pilots fired, the expense report issues, and a pilot who put a medical into VIPS a day or two before he actually got one...
Another pilot "shared" his FDX shipping account number and when the other person abused it eventually got him fired.
I wouldn't say FedEx just lets things skate. I would also say that their is a cumulative effective of pilots getting into trouble, and management then says "...better get rid of a guy before he develops into real trouble..."
Just because you don't know many pilots that were not fired doesn't mean it hasn't happened. Some may have been clean kills, but the fact is when the company comes after you with all its might its a very miserable experience for the pilot.
I don't think anyone should walk around on eggshells here, but I think the "ah, what the hell..." tongue in cheek approach you indicated might lead a new hire to a wrong conclusion.
Work at your craft, be nice to those around you, leave your gun in the car or at home, don't do drugs, and be honest...and you should have a long career here. But yeah...they fire people here. I know a few...
05-03-2017, 05:50 PM
#29
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jul 2013
Posts: 98
Originally Posted by captaincombover
New hire here. Start class in a couple weeks. Can't find any open crashpads....looks like the facebook crashpad group doesn't exist anymore? Anyone have ideas?
Here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/313625555706380/
05-04-2017, 01:10 AM
#30
Avoiding Memphis
Joined APC: Apr 2005
Position: Intl Feeder Jet
Posts: 504
Originally Posted by Albief15
be honest...and you should have a long career here.
If you F Up, admit it.
Numerous examples of this that are not appropriate for this forum, but over beers on a layover...
If you make a mistake, fess up. There are a ton of good guys who will defend you and keep your job for even the most ridiculous mistakes.
But if you lie...good-bye. No one can defend that, and you will be gone.
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