My FedEx Experience
My wrists ache. It's been two days since I worked on the line unloading trucks for FedEx, and my wrists still ache. The three week experiment has come to an end, and now I'm considering other options. It was a few weeks ago that I decided to try being a seasonal package handler for Federal Express. My 6 months of unemployment payments had come to an end, and something needed to take its place. It was never going to be enough hours to cover the difference, though. The process was simple enough. I applied online, went through a background check, and was called in for orientation and training. Orientation took just a few hours, and training was covered over two days, a few hours each. Then I went to work on the line, unloading trucks. The first two days they had me pushing heavy packages out onto the conveyer belt from the trucks. It was sweaty work but straightforward enough. Then they put me on small packages, which you would think would be easier, but really it's not. The s...