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Jimmy Glenn Burk4/17/2014
This photo was taken just before a monsoon hit Bristol. It poured down rain like cats and dogs for 15 minutes. We huddled under the awning that was attached to kevin humphrie's motor home when it started raining...then all of a sudden, the awning retracted as the downpour began...and we all got wet...there wasn't enough room for 20+ people in his camper. It seems that his RV came with an automatic retractable awning..whenever wind speeds got too high...so we just got soaking wet.
Subject: FedEx Nascar Race Bristol about 8 years ago. My wife Stephanie, Susan Pasley & Judy Stephenson watch ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/16/2014
FedEx Nascar Race Bristol about 8 years ago. My wife Stephanie, Susan Pasley & Judy Stephenson watch the race. Ken Spangler of FedEx Ground is on the row above them.
Subject: Who is the humanoid in the middle of this photo?
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/17/2014
Who is the humanoid in the middle of this photo?
Gary Phillips4/17/2014
Jim Moore?
J. David White4/17/2014
Jim Moore - radio DADS.
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/17/2014
indeed is James B. Moore, father of DADS & the Radio Network & formed first mx organization to repair FedEx equipment. Worked for several wireless companies in San Diego, formed his own company, sold it, and still works there as a technical principal guru.
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/17/2014
Nancy Hinds4/18/2014
JBM hired me - he was amazing - it was the old days. I left work every day to go pick up his girls at ICU. And possibly the dry cleaning. I remember him being at lunch w/ Bentley, Richard, JJ and one of the girls int he office just kept taking messages for them - it was ORD dispatch and one of the first cities to go live. I finally picked up a radio and said - "Uh - you might want to tip back on in"...That lady did not last long. And those are his Grands huh? WOW
Subject: Who is this? and what did he do?
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/17/2014
Who is this? and what did he do?
Sammie Helton Butts4/17/2014
Jim Bentley? Radio DADS?
Angela Maynard4/17/2014
Didn't he leave FedEx to work for the City of Memphis IT dept?
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/17/2014
This is the Jim Bentley, co-developer of DADS and did much work in LineHaul rolling out systems. He was offered a Director job with the City of Memphis, but turned it down, when his mgmt. would not grant a leave of absence.
Buddy Johnson4/18/2014
Good pix, Mr B.
J. David White4/19/2014
That's Bentley. He took the wedding photos at mine & Diane's wedding on Feb. 18, 1989!
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/19/2014
Jim took wedding photos of my sisterInLaw in the early 80's, then my son's wedding about 7 years ago, and my second son's wedding last year. He's a great photographer.
Nancy Hinds4/20/2014
Mr. Bentley also wrote the first database for us to use when NOBODY had one. We could track radio site information - maintenance - circuits and other dandy info. A really good guy...And he takes a darn nice picture as in the one above - so he is good on both end of the camera
Subject: Who is this? and what did he do?
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/17/2014
Who is this? and what did he do?
Angela Maynard4/17/2014
Harry! Field Services VP
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/17/2014
This indeed is the Harry Dalton, VP of Industrial Engr, then SIS, then VP over Field Services, now living in Gulf Shores, AL
Subject: Can you name any FedExr's in this photo???
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/17/2014
Can you name any FedExr's in this photo???
Don Rose4/17/2014
Bob Baxter & Sue Tritt for starters. More names will come to me.
Kerry Allen Clark4/17/2014
Cheryl Bowen.
Subject: Who is this?
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/18/2014
Who is this?
Rachel Wilkinson Harvey4/18/2014
Amy Armstrong!! Miss her!!
Shirley Lovelace Williams4/18/2014
Enjoyed working with Amy Armstrong.
Jim McBryde4/18/2014
Got my first cat from amy
Linda Cook Thorn4/18/2014
Loved seeing this poster of Amy on my way to the cafeteria from Bldg 40. Sweet lady. I worked with her husband Ben for several years. Nice family!
Subject: Michael Taube wrote:
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/21/2014
Michael Taube wrote:Nice job, Jimmy! Some great memories about folks who had faded from mine. Working with a start up/rapidly growing company is exciting and , if successful, quite rewarding. A true privilege. Thanks!
Ann Hoff Crum4/21/2014
I remember Mike Taube from the 1980's.....Sort Systems Development .....hangar 7!!
Subject: Here is a list of restaurants, supermarkets, department stores, travel deals and other types of offe ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/21/2014
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/22/2014
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/26/2014
Subject: Skip Morris sent me an email that he is retiring soon after 31 years at FedEx. First met Skip in the ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/24/2014
Skip Morris sent me an email that he is retiring soon after 31 years at FedEx. First met Skip in the 80's in the Radio Group.
Rebecca Felts4/24/2014
Did he take the buyout?
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/24/2014
He didn't say, but I would guess he would have with that many years in.
Rebecca Felts4/24/2014
If he didnt then he did not make a smart decision. Ha
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/25/2014
Skip did take the buyout, and the last group leaves Friday May 30th.
Lucille Crowder Morris4/26/2014
Great memories with Skip! Perhaps the best was our dinner at the Jules Verne.
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/3/2014
from Jim Moore: Congratulations Skip… and we said it wouldn’t last… J
Best to you
JIM MOORE
Charles Morgan5/6/2014
Skip and I just went to Phoenix in March on business - he's a really nice guy... great to work with...
Subject: J. David White > FedEx ITD Retiree Breakfast Club
J. David White4/25/2014
Subject: J. David White inside the EAA's B-17G Aluminum Overcast on 4.18.14 at OLV airport. I'm retiring from ...
J. David White4/25/2014
J. David White inside the EAA's B-17G Aluminum Overcast on 4.18.14 at OLV airport. I'm retiring from FedEx 5.31.14 after 30.5 year career.
Kandi Tippit4/25/2014
Way to go David, I was there and saw the plane....very impressive. I retired last may and I haven't looked back one time.....it is a whole new life you will love it.
Geana Allen4/26/2014
Congratulations. Hope you enjoy retirement. It will be 2 years for me 4/30 after 35 years
Subject: We need a list of the new group of retirees...
Dan Elliot4/26/2014
We need a list of the new group of retirees...
Subject: Met former FedExr at my 45 Class Reunion...
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/27/2014
I had my 45 year Frayser Class Reunion this weekend (1969) and got to talk again with classmate and friend David Everett. David was one of the pioneers in developing FedEx systems starting in 1977 to 1984. He was hired by Steve Steilling because he knew programming and accounting, and Steve wanted an expert in both. He started writing programs on the Burroughs and then transitioned to the IBM system with the Cook IT buyout. He was the one who coded Prism to recognize your birthday and put a message on the green screen. He remembered project Butterfly? when the young ops research group would run their models. They would make an announcement that the model was running at 2:15...then everyone would go home, because the systems were useless, it was so slow. Here is a list of some of David's projects below. He left FedEx for ATKearney and now has his own firm in Dallas:IT from 1978 to 19801. Converted a Honeywell Fixed Asset system to Burroughs.2. Converted the Burroughs Fixed Asset system above to IBM (after FedEx bought the Cook data center)3. Developed and implemented online IMS-based Purchasing System4. Converted Casper HR system to online IMS-based Human Resource System (I forget what we called it). Had some fun with this. When the folks in HR logged in, the system would greet them by name, wish them a Happy Birthday and also provide holiday greetings.Cost Accounting 1980 to 19821. Standardized & automated Landing Fee Reports to 100+ airports using SAS to integrate multiple data sources2. Taught the entire department how to use Mark43. Used SAS & Mark4 to automated 80+% of Cost Accounting reporting4. Used SAS to develop the first standard cost report for each serviceLogistics 1982 to 19841. Led a team (user and IT) that designed and Implemented LOGOS, the logistics management system used for order processing, warehousing and inventory management in Distribution Services and Ground Support Services
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/30/2014
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Subject: Note from Gary Swinger :
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/30/2014
Note from Gary Swinger :Retired in late November, 2003.
Gary Phillips4/30/2014
I think a gun can be in the car on property now. I thought state law over rode policy recently.
Subject: Question: does anyone know what FedEx's gun policy is currently? when I left you couldn't carry a gu ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/30/2014
Question: does anyone know what FedEx's gun policy is currently? when I left you couldn't carry a gun into premises of course, but you also couldn't have one in your car, even if parked on public property from a building that FedEx rents. Just asking after latest violence at a fedex facility
Don Rose4/30/2014
Last I heard was that the policy had not changed. No guns in car.
Jere Bledsoe4/30/2014
I remember when the first gun policy was written. One of the system development manages brought a gun to a meeting and laid it on the conference table as a joke. It scared the hell out of some of the attendees. Thus, we got the first gun policy. DR, do you remember that?
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/30/2014
Jere do you remember about what year that was?
Buddy Johnson4/30/2014
That was called 'gunfight at OK corral', involving Hubert Fisher and Ray White. That was in 1980-81.
Jere Bledsoe4/30/2014
Jimmy, I really don't remember the exact year. It was sometime shortly after 1978 since I do remember who did it and when they joined FedEx. Maybe Don will remember better.
Jere Bledsoe4/30/2014
Okay, Buddy knew. I wasn't going to name names but Buddy did.
Jimmy Glenn Burk4/30/2014
I do remember in the early 80's at 2955 republican, someone came into the building at night looking for his girlfriend..with a gun.... a fence went up shortly after, and a security guard placed at the front desk.
Subject: Thanks
Christopher Shawn4/30/2014
Thanks
Subject: Jimmy Glenn Burk > FedEx ITD Retiree Breakfast Club
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/1/2014
Don Rose5/1/2014
Fun times back in the day.
Mark Baugh5/1/2014
This was a very cool perk, cool lounge to wait in, free soft drinks and water, egress to the front of the line...
Subject: Staying busy during retirement:
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/1/2014
Subject: How to handle a crisis:
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/5/2014
Subject: Sandwiches:
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/5/2014
Don Rose5/5/2014
Good for Edith. Helping others while still staying in the business world. BZ!
Angela Maynard5/6/2014
She is a class act!!
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/6/2014
My team was working on a $65M project and needed to write multiple po's and contracts and needed backup plans. There were over 200 purchases to be made, and I didn't need to have 3 bids on every item, that her dept required; we didn't have the time. FWS had relayed that the project timelines couldn't slip, and the project wouldn't fail.
Two of Edith's mgrs were giving conflicting requirements and adding bureacracy to the project.
I requested a meeting with Edith & her directors & managers. As she listened to what I needed, her two managers suddenly started arguing with each other...
Edith immediately recognized a dysfunctional attitude, and said something like "Jimmy, I need a few minutes with my staff alone. I'm sure we can work something out to meet your needs"
About an hour later, we reconvened, and Edith relayed what they could do with the rules, and how her department would meet the needs of the project....her management team sat silently...
Edith was a class act, and she acted immediately when needed and her staff responded after that mtg.
Subject: FedEx Retiree Poll: When/IF you retired...did you still keep working somewhere? or just enjoy the go ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/5/2014
FedEx Retiree Poll:
When/IF you retired...did you still keep working somewhere? or just enjoy the good Life, and if you did keep working, for how long?
Carl Wayne Hardeman5/5/2014
I finally found my calling working part time at Russell's Farm Supply in Collierville measuring out seed orders, toting stuff to their vehicles, answering questions, sweeping da floors, showing da little chicks and ducks to customers. Need any hog warmer, hoof shine, ax handle shiv's, bunch beans, bermuda seed, etc, ask me.
Carl Wayne Hardeman5/5/2014
that's hog wormer....
Marsha Terry Rider5/5/2014
hog warmer...didn't wanna touch that one...or the wormer for that matter
Karen Schmidt5/5/2014
nope, I am not working... and loving not having to work.... for right now..
Denis Charles Mattingly5/6/2014
Nothing anybody wants to pay me for.
Subject: Jimmy Glenn Burk > FedEx ITD Retiree Breakfast Club
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/6/2014
Jim McBryde5/6/2014
I wonder if anyone still has a copy of the star trek ad we were going to run before we killed zapmail?
Subject: Who are these FedEx IT humanoids???
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/8/2014
Who are these FedEx IT humanoids???
Marie McVay5/8/2014
Ray Burk and Mike Griffith! Great fuys, all three.
Charles Morgan5/8/2014
Can anyone guess at what event that this picture was taken?
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/14/2014
This was at Jimmy's retirement party.
Charles Morgan5/14/2014
Yes it was!
Subject: Definitely not a formal day at FedEx...
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/14/2014
Definitely not a formal day at FedEx...
Sammie Helton Butts5/16/2014
OMGosh!! Thanks for the laff, Jimmy! You're a gem!!
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/22/2014
At this event,,,gary holmes, who had difficulty wearing a tie...when you had to wear a tie,,,,he wore a tie as his dress up costume...
Subject: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2014/may/14/fedex-launches-new-testing-lab/
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/15/2014
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2014/may/14/fedex-launches-new-testing-lab/
Subject: Jimmy Glenn Burk posted in FedEx ITD Retiree Breakfast Club — with Wade Waldrup and Irene Williams.
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/15/2014
Irene Williams5/15/2014
Once upon a time and long, long ago....work was FUN!
Wade Waldrup5/15/2014
Yes, a LONG, LONG, LONG time ago!
Jere Bledsoe5/15/2014
As I read these and other emails and FB posts one thing really jumps out: FedEx is not such a happy place to work anymore. I saw that beginning before I left and obviously things have only gotten worse. That is sad. If upper management sincerely wants FedEx to stay strong and remain a world class company they're going to have address the decline of the People Policy upon which FedEx owes it's great success.
Deby Abbott Jolley5/15/2014
if only...
Subject: Jimmy Glenn Burk > FedEx ITD Retiree Breakfast Club
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/15/2014
Subject: Quiz: WHo are these two FedEx co-workers in IT?
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/15/2014
Quiz: WHo are these two FedEx co-workers in IT?
Joe Cutrell5/15/2014
Susan Martin Goeldner and Becky Steele Gafford - good times at 2828.
Subject: Jimmy Glenn Burk > FedEx ITD Retiree Breakfast Club
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/15/2014
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/15/2014
more Legends....Laura Beard, Winn Stephenson, Amy Armstrong, Randy Roy, and someone in a red cape....
Marie McVay5/15/2014
That's Angie in the red cape, isn't it??
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/15/2014
It is Angie...
Angela Maynard5/15/2014
This was the fashion in the 70's and I still have it. Every-time I wear it, someone offers to buy it from me!!!
Subject: From the FedEx Retiree Club
Jimmy Glenn Burk5/16/2014
From the FedEx Retiree Club*******
Attention: Upcoming FedEx Retirees and Pre-65 FedEx Retiree Health Participants
On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, the FedEx Retiree Club will host a 2014 Pre-65 Retiree Health Care overview. The presentation will be provided by FedEx Benefits Administration Services and will provide an opportunity for FedEx Pre-65 Health Care participants and/or FedEx employees that will soon be retiring to better understand the 2014 Pre-65 Retiree Health Care changes. This overview will be held at Ridgeway Country Club, 9800 Poplar, Memphis, TN, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Registration begins at 9:30 am.
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