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Marsha Terry Rider10/10/2016
I've seen Randy's setup - it's incredible - not your average hobbyist.
Subject: Nice article on FedExr Cecelia Wingate in the Memphis Magazine
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/9/2016
Nice article on FedExr Cecelia Wingate in the Memphis Magazinearticle on page 22
https://issuu.com/contemporarymedia/docs/mm10_2016_compositeproof_all_wlinks
Subject: This past week a FedEx tradition was once again celebrated.... 10-4 Day hosted by the Radio Group. I ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/9/2016
This past week a FedEx tradition was once again celebrated.... 10-4 Day hosted by the Radio Group. I couldn't attend, was keeping two grandchildren for a couple days due to their mother's surgery. Hope that all had a great time.Thought I would post a memory. This photo was taken for a Corporate article of some of the people still at FedEx that played a part in initially birthing DADS, which grew to a large nationwide private radio and terminal network. Over 386 locations, 42,000 + computer terminals in the vans, and over 5 million transactions a day, and also enabling the first real time posting of delivery scans for customers do know where their packages were.Shown is JJ Woods, Richard Dunn, Jim Bentley and myself. Jim Moore had already departed FedEx to start his own company...Nathan Lemmon and others should have been in the photo, but they pulled the article together quickly and didn't go out searching for everyone.
Nancy Hinds10/9/2016
This was always a great photo...
Brian Sneed10/10/2016
It was a great night. Bravo Zulu to those that made it happen. What an amazing and talented group of people.
Subject: FedEx Trivia
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/11/2016
FedEx TriviaDave Bronczek will be the new COO of FDX. He is an extremely nice person. I was on the committee a couple times reviewing GFT's that had come to FWS level of review. He was compassionate and very fair in his evaluations of people.What was Dave's first position at FedEx?
Elizabeth Ward Blaylock10/11/2016
Courier
Buddy Johnson10/11/2016
And, wasn't it a Part-time job??
Bob Baxter10/12/2016
Many of you remember Ernie Ohle in I.T. My recollection is that Ernie started as a courier working for Dave Bronczek in Cleveland. Ernie moved to Memphis, working with us as a programmer/analyst at Sprankel Avenue. Buddy, is your recollection the same?
Hector Vazquez10/11/2016
Agreed. Meet him here in Orlando at an Officers and Directors meeting years ago. Seemed liked a very decent guy. Easy to talk to.
Liz Ciulla Carrozza10/12/2016
A fairy tale story with a happy ending. Courier to COO! Wow!
Terry Walker Smedley10/11/2016
Did I miss an email? Last one I saw from Fred said he was going to be COO.
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/11/2016
Dave becomes the President & COO of the FDX companies; FWS retained the title of CEO of FDX & Chairman of the Board
Rachel Wilkinson Harvey10/11/2016
Effective 2018.
Subject: FedEx Trivia
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/11/2016
FedEx TriviaSome Major events in ITD...answer any of the following....a. Who was CIO when COSMOS was prototyped on the Burroughs mainframe?
b. Who was CIO when COSMOS IIa and tracking (at hub and stations) were implemented?
c. Who was CIO when COSMOS IIB (scanning at the Customer site) was implemented.
d. Who was CIO when International/Europe was launched?
e. Who was CIO when the first automation device was deployed?
f. Who was CIO when Broker/Select was launched?
g. Who was CIO when the 'Power....' label was launched>
h. Who was CIO when the first Internet tracking app was launched?
Akita Hank10/11/2016
A. Charlie Brandon
Subject: Jimmy I came across this FDX 737 brochure. Not many folks would have seen our small fleet I think th ...
Peter Dangerfield10/11/2016
Jimmy I came across this FDX 737 brochure. Not many folks would have seen our small fleet I think there were five.
Jim Bentley10/11/2016
And even fewer ever jump seated on them! I was a lucky one..
Peter Dangerfield10/11/2016
I didn't Jim, missed that ride. Was it in cargo or pax configuration?
Jim Bentley10/11/2016
It was cargo. We flew from Mem to Indy(I think). On takeoff the Captains seat slipped and it came straight back and pinned my feet. He was short and the seat was all the way forward. Once that happened he could not get the seat back and the right seat had to take over the takeoff. It happened as soon as he rotated. I will never forget, my feet and ankles were really bruised, and it took until we leveled off till he could get the seat back forward.
Peter Dangerfield10/11/2016
WOW Jim what a ride glad it didn't break your foot.
Bob Baxter10/12/2016
I didn't have Jim's painful experience, but I clearly remember jumpseating into Orlando on a 737 IN THE FOG! We were about 50 feet above the ground when the runway suddenly appeared in front of us. It was so foggy that when I walked out to the street side of the FedEx facility, I couldn't figure out where the street was, and then nearly got run over by the Hertz bus. That was the night I developed great respect for FedEx pilots and realized that they earn every penny they are paid.
David Warren10/13/2016
What's up Pete.....
Peter Dangerfield10/13/2016
Hi David I'm retired and loving it. How about you?
David Warren10/13/2016
Ditto Pete. Good times.
Subject: From Karen Sandiford Roberson.
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/13/2016
From Karen Sandiford Roberson.Many of us used to fly on the corporate jet with him as pilot:I wanted to share with my Mid South friends and family that my father passed away this evening. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, October 15, at 11 am at Hope Baptist Church, 6800 Center Hill Rd., Olive Branch MS. A second service will be held next week at Fort Barrancas National Cemetery in Pensacola, FL, where he will receive a full military funeral. He suffered from advanced dementia and a recent cancer diagnosis and had been under nursing home and hospice care since last February. He was 86 and lived a long and prosperous life.I appreciate your thoughts and prayers for my family at this time. Please feel free to share this with anyone I may have missed.Thank you,
Karen
Buddy Johnson10/13/2016
Remember him well. Sorry to hear of his passing. Prayers to the family 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Geana Allen10/14/2016
I'm so sorry for you and the family
Timothy Joseph Frassinelli10/14/2016
Aww, man. I worked with Buddy for years and flew right seat with him many times. He was a skilled aviator and I still repeat my favorite quote of his about how much fuel one should have on board an aircraft and I quote, "The only time You can have too much fuel onboard is when she's on fire!!" Rest In Peace, Buddy!!
Karen Sandiford Roberson10/14/2016
Thank you for sharing this post and for your thoughts and prayers. My dad was definitely one of a kind!
Subject: FedEx History Trivia Answer any of the following:
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/14/2016
FedEx History Trivia
Answer any of the following:a. FedEx once made a Star Trek commercial that was never used. What was this for?b. To use jumpseat, when there was jumpseat...what did you have to do and become?c. FedEx has had the exact same number of holidays forever...what holidays are recognized for employees to take?d. In the 80's, college students got access to this FedEx utility and used it for free for years, what was it?e. In the late 80's this was set up to use to assist disaster areas and upcoming major predicted events (Earthquake along the Mississippi, flooding, & hurricanes), but was never used because Federal law didn't allow it to be used for business...only safety? What was this?
John Wilkinson10/14/2016
a. fax machines
John Wilkinson10/14/2016
b. jumpseat test and part of the crew
John Wilkinson10/14/2016
c. new year's day; memorial day; 4th of july; labor day; thanksgiving; Christmas day; 2 floaters; 2 personal business
Subject: FedEx history quotesTrivia:
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2016
FedEx history quotesTrivia:Which person said or wrote the following:...cobol programmers are the pariahs of this company
...not providing a new courier with a SuperTracker is just malfeasance
...you all are just a bunch of cretins
Jim Bentley10/15/2016
A: Dennis Jones.
Jere Bledsoe10/15/2016
And now he has his name on a building? Disgusting!!
Linda Cook Thorn10/16/2016
Sucks! No one liked him as Officer at FedEx. How did he gain all the Honors and positions?? !! !!
Dan Elliot10/15/2016
DENNIS JONES!!!!!! He gave a speech in Orlando that left everyone depressed!! Not exactly a team leader!!
Ben Moore10/15/2016
My momma told me if you can't say something nice...
Mary A Johnson10/15/2016
DHJ! JERK extraordinaire!
Carl Wayne Hardeman10/16/2016
Several of us, The TPC, were at Santa Teresa when the IBM IMS team told DHJ and us they would no longer enhance IMS as the customer base was too small. IBM also said they would make clusters of servers rather than ever larger mainframes. SUN and HP were telling us much the same thing. Turned out not to be so but that was best external technical advice we could get. Even Gartner predicted only DB2 and Oracle would survive as DBMS's. So DHJ made the technical decision to move in the Unix/C/Sybase direction. If anything he should be faulted only for his poor bedside manner and lack of close personal interaction with the internal technology experts, mainly since they were adamantly opposed.
Linda Cook Thorn10/16/2016
You said it perfectly, Carl hope you and family are doing great!
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quotes
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/15/2016
FedEx Trivia Quotes...and who often said 'that dog don't hunt' & 'if you want to run with the big dogs...you have to get off the porch..'
Peter Dangerfield10/15/2016
Jim Barksdale
Akita Hank10/15/2016
Barksdale!
Gary Owens10/15/2016
Mary Alice Taylor!! LOL! Just kidding!
Don Rose10/15/2016
JLB of course/
Carl Wayne Hardeman10/16/2016
And if you ain't the lead dog the view never gets any better.
Terrie Hoerning10/16/2016
He is a very special and classy man! I have so much respect for him.
Timothy Joseph Frassinelli10/16/2016
JLB
Subject: JLB interview
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/16/2016
JLB interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkgfXT0VLc4
Subject: FedEx'r Sighting
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/16/2016
FedEx'r SightingWas at Target/Wolfchase getting our grand-daughter a birthday gift and ran into Jud Williford who is looking good. Jud took the buyout and now works from home for a tech company out of New Jersey.
Peter Dangerfield10/16/2016
Hi Jud
Raymond Lane Cross10/16/2016
Heckuva guy, and a great trivia player!
Subject: Passing this along, to all who knew Ron:
Jodie Harden10/16/2016
Passing this along, to all who knew Ron:Ronald J. Grasso Somerville, TNA memorial service for Mr. Ronald J. Grasso, age 72, will be held at 2:00 on Friday, October 28, 2016 p.m. in the West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery, 4000 Forest Hill Irene Road, Memphis, TN.
Mr. Grasso passed away on Monday, October 10, 2016 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in Jackson, TN. Ron was born in Waltham, MA on March 13, 1944. He was an Air Force Veteran, serving in Vietnam. He was a member of several military organizations and he retired from Federal Express.
Ron was preceded in death by parents Joseph and Viola LaRose Grasso of Newton, MA and wife Micki Wizer of Memphis, TN.
He is survived by his sisters Jeanne Brissette of Fitchburg, MA, and Regina (Billy) Eldredge of Newtonville, MA, and a brother Dane (Donna) Grasso of Foxboro, MA.
Shelton-Hunt Funeral Home 731-784-1414
Subject: Does anyone have a phone number of someone in Corporate that can help me with a Cigna issue. The num ...
Richard Maingault10/21/2016
Does anyone have a phone number of someone in Corporate that can help me with a Cigna issue.
The number in the benefit book is a contractor who was no help at all. The service level at Cigna has gone done the toilet.
Tommy Shelton10/21/2016
Richard, try contacting Vickie Gratton at 870-704-5265 or Vickie.gratton@fedex.com. She is an HR Advisor for Benefits Planning & Management. She attended last years 2016 Pre-65 Retiree Health seminar and gave me her business card. Told me to contact her if we had problems with Cigna. Hope this helps.
Richard Maingault11/5/2016
I called Vickie and she never returned my call. This is the biggest problem I have in working with anyone. I have learned to expect my calls to not be returned. Service in this country does not exist any longer.
Subject: FedEx Trivia/Philosophical question:
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/24/2016
FedEx Trivia/Philosophical question:a. In the early 80's, why did FedEx abandon the Operating System that COSMOS was developed on (ACP/TPF) and retrain all the COS programmers to COBOL and move to IBM's IMS operating system?b. In the mid 90's, why did FedEx move most new applications to a Unix/C platform instead of putting new applications on the IBM mainframes?
Ben Moore10/24/2016
a. ACP programmers were too expensive. Nobody told Flying Tiger that though.
b. Because of Dennis Jones.
Carl Wayne Hardeman10/25/2016
There were very few of us Assembler Language ACP/PARS programmers.
Akita Hank10/26/2016
A. In addition, transaction rates did not grow to the volume expected that would have required ACP, and IMS was improved to handle higher transaction rates. I believe availability of assembler language programmers \, and the longer lead times for development are as much or more reason than the expense.
Subject: Has anyone received 2017 Healthcare benefits from FedEx yet?
Charlotte Benton Hieronymus10/25/2016
Has anyone received 2017 Healthcare benefits from FedEx yet?
Dawn Taylor Bush10/25/2016
Nope!
Diane Conner White10/25/2016
No but I am scared to get it!!!
Charlotte Benton Hieronymus10/25/2016
Me too!
Laura Ladd Beard10/25/2016
Me too!!! I can't imagine what the cost will be!
Diane Conner White10/25/2016
I'm still paying for Spencer. Cannot believe that I am eager for 65 to get here!!!
Laura Ladd Beard10/25/2016
A car note is cheaper!
Hector Vazquez10/25/2016
I have. Have not been through it yet. Received last Thursday
Charlotte Benton Hieronymus10/25/2016
How much have the premiums increased?
Jon Peacock10/25/2016
Nope.
Subject: Has anyone gotten a popup message saying error code 0x80016CFA and giving a phone number to call for ...
Janie Haynes10/25/2016
Has anyone gotten a popup message saying error code 0x80016CFA and giving a phone number to call for help? Laptop is making a loud beep and the only way to get out of it is to go through Task Manager. It's an Asus laptop if that makes a difference. Any advice?
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/25/2016
I did a quick look up and it seems to be an Adware pop-up scam. You may need to run something like Malearebytes, which is free to clean it out. You can maybe use the task manager to end the browser task, if you haven't done that already.
Ben Moore10/25/2016
J. David White10/26/2016
I was able to exit out of it as soon as I saw the pop-up message. I ran a scan on all files with McAfee and it found the maleware file and deleted it.
Janie Haynes10/26/2016
Thank you both. I think it's fixed!!
Tommy Johnson10/26/2016
Subject: Forwarded from Bernard Bowe
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/26/2016
Forwarded from Bernard Bowe
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/26/2016
Forwarded from Bernard Bowe
Subject: Some video Interviews with former FedExr's Chris Hjelm & Brett Bonner, both now at Kroger Corporate
Jimmy Glenn Burk10/28/2016
Subject: FedEx History Trivia:
Jimmy Glenn Burk11/1/2016
FedEx History Trivia:List the times that FedEx stopped flying it's jets?
Jimmy Glenn Burk11/1/2016
Cathy 'Jenkins' Burk: Sept 11, 2001?
Deby Abbott Jolley11/1/2016
August 2003 - Learjets were grounded for FAA concerns over tail parts. Corporate jets were impacted.
Subject: The 2017 insurance premium information is now posted on fedex.ehr.com. You better take a tranquilize ...
Phil Pickens11/2/2016
The 2017 insurance premium information is now posted on fedex.ehr.com. You better take a tranquilizer before viewing it.
Jodie Harden11/2/2016
Ouch!
Deby Abbott Jolley11/2/2016
Wow! Up 24%!! That hurts!!!
Peggy Dawson Black11/2/2016
Food for thought. I am just recovering from colorectal cancer, which has been a painful 2 year journey. I'm looking at quarterly CT scans for the next few years. As expensive as it is, I've had excellent medical care thanks to our insurance. As high as it is, it's been there when I needed it the most. You never know if/when you'll need it.
Jane Meredith Robbins11/2/2016
And if you think premium costs are high, surgeons and hospital charges are out of control! Cigna works discount deals within the network and the providers have to write off a whole lot! This saves you too. Wouldn't want to be out there on my own!
Subject: Jimmy Glenn Burk..I remember Rendezvous. .thanks so much for the memory..
Peter Carabetta11/5/2016
Jimmy Glenn Burk..I remember Rendezvous. .thanks so much for the memory..
Subject: Jimmy Glenn Burk > FedEx ITD Retiree Breakfast Club
Jimmy Glenn Burk11/8/2016
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