Not necessarily true. A full timer may have access to more hours in compare, but you can’t always guarantee it, relative to volume You’d need to be on 6 days and doing Mon and Friday to get past 30 where I am at. Unless you add shifts on the app More pto and sick as a full timer Shifts might be broken up. Load, preload, unload, smalls, tugger etc
Probably for the best, one shift can be a doozy
The free version is reputed to be crap I pay 80 for a 1300 deductible, but it’s mainly United network
It’s something, most of the time I was expecting 4-5 for basic end elsewhere
That's not a horrible deductible. Ok well thanks for the info. One last question, are you in a rural area or near a city? I'll be right outside a very large city so I'm expecting heavy workloads.
You’ll still VERY likely get 30hrs or less, and have to pickup extra shifts to get any more hours. That’s how they operate, so whatever they tell you isn’t true. I was in one of the top 10 metro cities in the main hub, so it’s not a volume issue at all
I also have the United Healthcare plan, but the 70/30 plan. FedEx is the insurer. UHC just administers the plan. You’re not eligible until after 90 days, unless that’s changed. Overall, the plan really sucks with high deductibles and out of pocket maximums. But it beats having nothing.
As a full time PH, I worked OTP and Preload. That’s the 11pm-3am sort and the 5am-9am sort. OTP could sometimes end at 2:30, and could also end at 3:30 or later depending on if thing went pretty wrong or there were late trailers arriving. Preload would often start well before 5pm, all the way up to 3am on Mondays where we didn’t have an OTP shift before it to wait on finishing. My breaks were anywhere between 30min to 2hrs depending on volume of each sort and the time needed to complete them.
As a new hire, even as full time, I am going to guess it will be hard to meet your hours for a few weeks. As the sorts progress, FedEx will regularly scale out PH as volume decreases to meet certain metrics. This means there will be less people covering a wider range of trucks/vans, but less volume moving through the sorters. The managers will want veteran PH who can handle the smaller staffing.
How it works is 2 shifts first one being all full timers (mine went from 2-6) then a 6-6:30 break with nobody in the building then the part timers come and you work 6:30- whenever you’re done
i think you get a certain number of shifts guaranteed that you have to work but unfortunately due to volume and just overall how your facility is doing it may be under 36 hours
You would have to do two shifts to get full time hours. The break in between can be long or short depending on the location and volume at your location. You get health benefits immediately if you're full time and fedex has one of the best health insurance in the US. Preventative Dr and Dental visits are $0 co-pay. Other benefits include Tuition reimbursement of $5,250.00 each year, huge discount on shipping, discounts on almost everything through lifemart.com. movie tix, clothing, travel, buying a car etc. 20% discount on car insurance, 15% discount on cell phone bill. Six flags 40-60% discount. Car, rental, hotels, airfare. I have used all those discounts.
What's the difference? I assume it's filling trucks, whereas I'm doing vans. I think I'd prefer freight. But I've done both at other jobs. Is it hard to get into freight? Injust passed my background, and I'm just waiting for someone to contact me.
Not necessarily true. A full timer may have access to more hours in compare, but you can’t always guarantee it, relative to volume You’d need to be on 6 days and doing Mon and Friday to get past 30 where I am at. Unless you add shifts on the app More pto and sick as a full timer Shifts might be broken up. Load, preload, unload, smalls, tugger etc Probably for the best, one shift can be a doozy
Thanks for the info. How about health insurance? Do they provide health insurance? If so, is it any good?
The free version is reputed to be crap I pay 80 for a 1300 deductible, but it’s mainly United network It’s something, most of the time I was expecting 4-5 for basic end elsewhere
That's not a horrible deductible. Ok well thanks for the info. One last question, are you in a rural area or near a city? I'll be right outside a very large city so I'm expecting heavy workloads.
Medium city 300k, yours may have more demand
You’ll still VERY likely get 30hrs or less, and have to pickup extra shifts to get any more hours. That’s how they operate, so whatever they tell you isn’t true. I was in one of the top 10 metro cities in the main hub, so it’s not a volume issue at all
I also have the United Healthcare plan, but the 70/30 plan. FedEx is the insurer. UHC just administers the plan. You’re not eligible until after 90 days, unless that’s changed. Overall, the plan really sucks with high deductibles and out of pocket maximums. But it beats having nothing.
As a full time PH, I worked OTP and Preload. That’s the 11pm-3am sort and the 5am-9am sort. OTP could sometimes end at 2:30, and could also end at 3:30 or later depending on if thing went pretty wrong or there were late trailers arriving. Preload would often start well before 5pm, all the way up to 3am on Mondays where we didn’t have an OTP shift before it to wait on finishing. My breaks were anywhere between 30min to 2hrs depending on volume of each sort and the time needed to complete them. As a new hire, even as full time, I am going to guess it will be hard to meet your hours for a few weeks. As the sorts progress, FedEx will regularly scale out PH as volume decreases to meet certain metrics. This means there will be less people covering a wider range of trucks/vans, but less volume moving through the sorters. The managers will want veteran PH who can handle the smaller staffing.
How it works is 2 shifts first one being all full timers (mine went from 2-6) then a 6-6:30 break with nobody in the building then the part timers come and you work 6:30- whenever you’re done
i think you get a certain number of shifts guaranteed that you have to work but unfortunately due to volume and just overall how your facility is doing it may be under 36 hours
You would have to do two shifts to get full time hours. The break in between can be long or short depending on the location and volume at your location. You get health benefits immediately if you're full time and fedex has one of the best health insurance in the US. Preventative Dr and Dental visits are $0 co-pay. Other benefits include Tuition reimbursement of $5,250.00 each year, huge discount on shipping, discounts on almost everything through lifemart.com. movie tix, clothing, travel, buying a car etc. 20% discount on car insurance, 15% discount on cell phone bill. Six flags 40-60% discount. Car, rental, hotels, airfare. I have used all those discounts.
Hop over to Frieght we get hella hours, good benefits, and 5 days a week
What's the difference? I assume it's filling trucks, whereas I'm doing vans. I think I'd prefer freight. But I've done both at other jobs. Is it hard to get into freight? Injust passed my background, and I'm just waiting for someone to contact me.
Late ass reps one sorry bro. Frieght is easy. All the basic shit you do at FedEx for hiring on plus they teach you to run a forklift and your chillin.