FedEx is so very complicated, FXG isn’t union, Federal Express is, IIRC something to do with them being under FAA authority. Not sure about FedEx Freight, FedEx LTL or FedEx Expediting. And that’s just part of the mess of the company. As to the name thing, that was started by RPS, FXG’s predecessor, and was a single contractor buying a route from RPS, with RPS supplying vans and uniforms much the way Amazon does with their companies, but it’s entirely possible that some of those drivers bought multiple routes and formed up their own little company, or that FXG followed in Amazon’s footsteps and switched to contracting with companies rather than individuals.

Amazon upped it here by hiring courier companies, even helping to found them, with really bad contract deals, rather than hiring individual contractors like companies had before this.

Amazon is particularly good at thinking up ways to avoid responsibility, they own no vans, employ no drivers, have no planes nor employ any pilots, and they don’t own any tractors and don’t employ any truck drivers.

Did they change? I worked for them as a sorter before they were FedEx Ground, and at that time it was similar, each driver was a contractor with FXG, but after the lawsuit (dunno what happened with that), and seeing how successful the scam was for Amazon, I wouldn’t be surprised if’n they changed.

If you’re going to drink that much coffee, look at St Louis Bread Co/Panera Bread, their Sip Club makes it cheap. $13/mo, and large cold drinks are around $3.25, so it doesn’t take long for the membership to pay for itself, and as I’m a courier, it definitely saves me money. That said, support local if you can.

Interesting, I’m running LM:DE, and haven’t had any problems, on first start up it offers up a selection of things I might want to do including loading proprietary drivers. So far I have it running on multiple computers, including two POS terminals that were never meant to be used as computers.

Usually I just take a screenshot, I have no idea why I did a photo this time.

Could be the strong competition in China, there’s a lot of electric car choices there, more than any other country IIRC

Hmmm, interesting idea, I’ll think about it, thanks.

I sorta understood that, but nothing research can’t answer. I know just enough extra about computers to really bork things. 😜

Attached is a pic of the BIOS, and I think you can see what I mean about it not being the real BIOS

Can y’all adopt us couriers?

Prolly not far off, since these kind of companies are barely a step above a temp agency and workers often get screwed.

That’s what I’m thinking

Could always triple boot, use the third to play around to see if’n something else is even better than what you have, or use a container to test run different linuxes… linii? Personally I’m enjoying LMDE, and don’t like Gnome either, but that’s the great thing about Linux, so many different options.

Unfortunately it’s prolly illegal for them to negotiate in good faith. No, really, this post on my Tumblr covers it, but basically companies are legally required to make money for their shareholders above all else: https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/736766472648605696

Arch is a good choice, Endeavour was my flavor of choice, but these days I use Linux Mint: Debian Edition, which works mostly fine for me (got one minor piece of software I can’t get for it).

Yeah, unfortunately this can happen

Self-empoloyed, I’d love it if’n the Teamsters or another union would put together a guild… Sorry, professional organization for us.

Honestly I’m not really surprised, they’re a battery company that moved into making cars. Considering how important batteries are to electric cars, if they make reliable, cheap and powerful batteries, it won’t be hard to move cars, even mediocre ones, and from what I’ve seen, their cars are anything but mediocre.

We were already leaning towards replacing it with WalMart+ before this announcement. It used to be worth it when it was cheaper and got you next day delivery, but those are gone. We have little use for it’s various features, so we figure give W+ a try for a year, it’s cheaper, and seems to cover our needs, though there’s a good chance that’ll be a one and done thing, since I don’t think we’ll find it worth it, but I don’t see us going back to Prime.