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Denise Pate Spencer1/15/2014
I think it was originally called Consistency and Convergence?
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/16/2014
Was called initially something like
026x6x2006 (Zero to 6 by 6 by 2006)
CIO was Rob Carter
There were 2 categories of 6 things, but the basic premise was:
Common Infrastructure:
Have a standard for future hardware & software platform & networking, so programmers & architects knew what system they were targeting
Common Programming Environment:
Have Programmers using the same tools and development environments so they could be moved between projects based on current corporate priorities.
Common Proj Mgmt and change procedures:
Have everyone using same tools for developing and managing projects, initiating projects and making changes to the system, so personnel can support key priority projects.
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/15/2014
FedEx Trivia QuizName the top 3 holders of FedEx stock (individual or company).
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/16/2014
Fred Smith 19,627,999 shares (6.3%)
Primecap 19,033,679 shares (6.1%)
Dodge&Cox 18,549,478 shares (5.9%)
Brenda J. Brunner1/16/2014
You forgot my 19,626,999 shares....
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/16/2014
you can say what my 2 year old grandson said..after i gave him a dollar...."I be rich"
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/15/2014
FedEx Trivia QuizFrom 1994-2004 FedEx sponsored Space Mountain at DisneyWorld.What was the perk employees received from this sponsorship?Did any of you ever use that perk?
Ann Deloach Holman1/15/2014
going in the back door and going to the of the line
Don Rose1/15/2014
Like Ann said, front of line, back door.
Patricia Ross1/15/2014
Yes, I used it!! It was wonderful.
David Hunt1/15/2014
We used the perk 3 times on one trip. That was special since the perk was one time only.
Dan Elliot1/15/2014
The best part was the lounge! free drinks and A/C!! which is really important when it's 95 and 95% humidity!
Larry Tieman1/15/2014
There was another perk away from Space Mountain. Anyone know what it was?
Marie McVay1/16/2014
Used it, got to go to the front of the line and enjoy the lounge with drinks and a/c!
Subject: For those of you who are on Pinterest, there is a page of funny FedEx commercials: http://www.pinter ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/16/2014
For those of you who are on Pinterest, there is a page of funny FedEx commercials: http://www.pinterest.com/FedEx/fedex-ads-commercials/
Subject: Has anyone heard rumors of another possible buyout after May?
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/16/2014
Has anyone heard rumors of another possible buyout after May?
George Moore1/16/2014
I heard the rumor before I left Nov. 29, 2013
Penny Hitchcock Hopper1/16/2014
I used to START those rumors. One finally "took" and I was able to retire, I wonder who's starting them now?
Vicki Shirey Sanders1/17/2014
Interesting!
Debora Williams Waller1/17/2014
I haven't heard anything.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/17/2014
It may just be wishful thinking for some.
David Warren1/19/2014
Especially for those wanting to take it and were not allowed.
Subject: Commercial:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/16/2014
Commercial:
George Moore1/16/2014
Very funny!!!
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz 1/17/14:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/17/2014
FedEx Trivia Quiz 1/17/14:November 9, 1977 is considered to be one of the major successes of Fred Smith enabling Federal Express the ability to succeed.What happened on this date, and what did it allow FedEx to do?
Don Rose1/17/2014
Larger planes?
Buddy Johnson1/17/2014
Airline Deregulation passed by Congress allowing FedEx to carry cargo in excess of 7500 lbs.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/17/2014
Nov 9, 1977
All above are correct.
On this date PL 95-163 was signed into law by President Carter. The Airline industry was the first to be deregulated by Congress.
It allowed FedEx to choose it's own aircraft, fly larger aircraft and choose it's own routes without federal bureaucracy.
About a month later, FedEx purchased it's first Boeing 727-100's with effective payload of 42,000 lbs.
Without this bill, FedEx couldn't have continued to grow.
Johnnie Edwards1/17/2014
all of the above and my 23rd birthday and working at the Hub......
Buddy Johnson1/17/2014
First 727 arrived on a cold Saturday morning in January 1978, the 28th as I recall. Escorted to the Admin building by a bagpipe.
Don Rose1/17/2014
You are so right Buddy...Man it was cold and windy. But we were all there to welcome our first "Big Bird".
Buddy Johnson1/17/2014
yea, Don. Believe the high that day was 32.
Jere Bledsoe1/17/2014
Some folks chickened out and watched the festivities from inside the Admin building. I remember seeing their reflection in the glass. Oh wait. One reflection was me.
Don Rose1/17/2014
I did both Jere, and it was a lot more comfortable in the Admin building. Bob Lester and I were out in it for a while though. That wind was tough.
Subject: Facebook Listing http://fedexlegends.info/facebooklist.html
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/17/2014
Penny Hitchcock Hopper1/17/2014
Can you please add me? Penny Hopper, 1978, 35 years, hired by Bill Daniel into Customer Service
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/17/2014
Penny is added.
Danielle Harnisch1/18/2014
Thanks! I was just added . 1978 to 2013
Danielle Harnisch1/18/2014
Suggested by George Moore
Penny Hitchcock Hopper1/18/2014
Thank you, Jimmy.
Subject: Hannah: http://blog.van.fedex.com/blog/meet-hannah
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/19/2014
Hannah: http://blog.van.fedex.com/blog/meet-hannah
Jack Brown1/19/2014
What an honor.
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz 1/20/14: 1981: The Bear and the Alligator
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/20/2014
FedEx Trivia Quiz 1/20/14:
1981: The Bear and the Alligator"If there is going to be a fight between a bear and an alligator... the outcome is going to be determined more by the terrain than by the individual skill of the combatants. Much of the competition has jumped into the water with us alligators and they are totally reacting to what we are doing. And in marketing, there is nothing I would rather see than a predictable competitor. You can make him do things you wouldn't do yourself."Who said this and who was he referring to?
Bob Higgins1/20/2014
The quote is from Barksdale. I think it had to do with UPS moving into the overnight business.
Buddy Johnson1/20/2014
Knew that was a Barksdale quote...did not remember the situation. Thanks, Bob, for that history lesson.
Nancy Hinds1/20/2014
Sometime later there was the comment (regarding the Radio Network I believe) that he did not ever want to hear that they leapfrogged us. I believe JBM asked for an explanation - he said - you know =- when one frog jumps over the other one. But Dickie Dunn could most likely clarify that.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/21/2014
The above quote sounds exactly what Jim Barksdale would think up, and he might have been the originator, and all the executives quoted it in meetings...but marketing usually took credit for such sayings. The competion at the time was Emery, since UPS didn't think the market was big enough to offer a service. UPS did enter a year later.
Subject: FedEx Trivia Question 1/21/14: When the Overnite letter was launched, a good many people opposed it, ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/21/2014
Danielle Harnisch1/21/2014
Not sure why opposed letter , only zap mail . Hotel pak was a failure
Danielle Harnisch1/21/2014
Not many peeps in hotels used it
Danielle Harnisch1/21/2014
Maybe opposed due to price and certain weight only?
Ray Lipham1/21/2014
I kept one of the original Hotel Pak kits for years. I think I passed it on to one of my co-workers before I left FedEx last May. I picked it up back in the early 80's when I was doing station audits (in Des Moines, I think). Hotel Pak was largely a failure because it took more participation from the hotels than they were willing to provide.
Debora Williams Waller1/22/2014
Overnight letter was opposed because it went up against the USPS. Guessing.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/22/2014
Some thought it was a bad idea due to the low cost versus the cost of picking up the overnite letter. Actually, I think if we picked up the OL with packages at a customer site, there was no extra pickup charge, otherwise there was. And with discounts to larger customers, the net on the letter was low. I asked JLB about this once and he mentioned that analysis showed that the larger customers primarily would sent the OL's to their own branches and usually more than 1 letter would be involved on delivery, thus cutting costs.
Debora Williams Waller1/22/2014
Hotel employees didn't always give the courier the Hotel Pak. Many excuses were given. The hotel employee didn't know they had one dropped off or they didn't know where the pak was placed for courier pickup, comes to mind.
Subject: Tom Tompkins, who has worked at FedEx since the early 1980's sent me a newsletter and brochure on hi ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/21/2014
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz 1/22/14:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/22/2014
FedEx Trivia Quiz 1/22/14:Jim Barksdale was the Chief Operating Officer for Federal Express from around 1983-1992.a. Which Company did he go to in 1992?b. Why did he leave?c. What were the 3 companies he worked for after leaving FedEx?
Ben Moore1/22/2014
a) McCaw Cellular
b) Fred wouldn't make him President
c) McCaw Cellular, Netscape, Barksdale Group
Buddy Johnson1/22/2014
c. McCaw Communications, Netscape, The Barksdale Group
Gary Phillips1/22/2014
Iw was thinking he went to MCI at one point
I remember the others above but thought he worked with MCI at somtime. Might be thinking of someone else.
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Ben Moore1/22/2014
Gary Phillips Didn't McCaw own MCI?
Dickie Dunn1/22/2014
a. McCaw Cellular b."Obscene offer he couldn't refuse" c. McCaw cellular, bought by AT&T Wireless, and Netscape
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/22/2014
Richard got all three questions correct.
JLB went to McCaw Cellular. FWS was young and Jim Barksdale wasn't going to be CEO of Federal Express anytime in the near future. He was offered President of McCaw Cellular. He mentioned when he left, that the job offer not only insured he could take care of him and wife, but all of his family. AT&T bought out McCaw and offered him the President of AT&T wireless. He agreed as long as he didn't have to move to New Jersey headquarters. At that time, Ron Ponder was also at AT&T as the president of their Information Systems group. He left AT&T to become the CEO of Netscape.
AOL then bought out Netscape, and he formed the Barksdale Mgmt Group initially as a venture capital group for technology.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2014
...and Ben and Buddy also got mccaw
Subject: FedEx Trivia Question 1/22/14
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/22/2014
FedEx Trivia Question 1/22/14As Nancy(Hinds) mentioned below, JLB told JamesBMoore that he didn't want to hear that UPS had leapfrogged FedEx in wireless communications. The Radio Network was rolled out by Jim Moore, Richard Dunn and the radio group starting in the late 70's and in 1980 the first of DADS rolled out providing wireless data dispatch. The supertracker rolled out in the mid 80's providing scanning and tracking of customer packages with scans at the customer site.Sometime after 1992, UPS rolled out tracking at the customer site. (I was volunteered to write the letter to the FedEx Board explaining how this rollout by UPS affected FedEx and whether they leapfrogged us).How did UPS roll out their first successful tracking application and who was their wireless partner? (they had tried twice before)
Danielle Harnisch1/22/2014
And I work for UPS now lol
Dickie Dunn1/22/2014
UPS partnered with AT&T Wireless using their CDPD technology. CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) was the first attempt to provide wireless data on the public networks. It utilized the “Dead Air Time” between tearing down and initializing phone calls, to send data packets. The cost was greatly underestimated and UPS eventually limited their “Real Time Tracking” to twice a day. However, perception is reality…
Dickie Dunn1/22/2014
Correction - McCaw Cellular actually was the partner and AT&T inherited it and discontinued it in July, 2005.
Dickie Dunn1/22/2014
{Twice before} 1987 UPS acquires II Morrow (Loran C based tracking system} and Roadnet Technologies {mapping and vehicle routing systems}. 1991 UPS applied for nationwide 220Mhz frequencies – New limited band and no existing products
Danielle Harnisch1/22/2014
Btw- the new pension website middle NOT carry over your beneficiaries !!
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/22/2014
Richard's 2nd answer is correct.
UPS partnered, for their 3rd attempt at wireless, with McCaw Cellular. This effort had already started before Jim Barksdale took the CEO of McCaw position. AT&T soon bought out McCaw and offered Jim the President of the AT&T Wireless group.
One thing JLB did was separate himself from the UPS-McCaw project, because of his knowledge of FedEx systems. He would meet with their execs, but not attend any technical or implementation meetings.
The implementation connected UPS's DIAD terminals to a cellular dock. The UPS courier would scan bar code of delivered packages. Every 30 minutes the dock would dial into UPS's servers and transfer barcodes and timestamp of the delivery. Because Cell phone coverage wasn't that good in many areas, UPS engineers would drive around the city, marking good coverage spots on a map. If the courier was out of a coverage area, he would drive to another location.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2014
from Jim Moore: Good summary Nancy,, you the one,,,
What caused JLB to ask that question was UPS’s move to purchase a company called II Morrow, they had VHF narrow band channels, which are more difficult to engineer coverage patterns and had a high noise floor meaning communications would be somewhat intermittent… while we, FedEX had premier 800 MHZ wide band channels, virtually no noise I industrial, computer, etc) and much easier to predict coverage and install sites. UPS never utilized what they purchased but instead struck a deal with a Carrier with dial up in-band data on voice channels.
Thanks Nancy,, good to hear from you.
“JIMMY” (as in Jim)
Subject: Trivia Questions from Ben Moore:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2014
Trivia Questions from Ben Moore:a) What was SUN? Why was it unique?
b) Who championed it?
c) Why was it cancelled?
d) What job the champion take after that?
e) Where is he now?
John Toscano1/23/2014
Satellite Universal Network
Allan McArtor
The demise of Zapmail
Airbus US
John Toscano1/23/2014
Unique? It would have been the largest privately owned satellite network on the planet. Most ambitious was the launch of Express Star. Our own satellite. Actually the Challenger was the prime consideration for the launch vehicle.
John Toscano1/23/2014
Other contributing factors to canceling SUN were the availability of excess transponder space and the improving economics for terrestrial solutions
John Toscano1/23/2014
I think Allan went off to start an airline. Legend? His tenure with Federal Express was interrupted while heading up the FAA.
Ray Lipham1/23/2014
Other than the demise of Zapmail, another reason cited was the lost satellite lift during the suspension of the space shuttle program after the Challenger disaster.
John Toscano1/23/2014
I was in a NOCC design meeting in COS with Macom Telecommunications when the Challenger went down. Alfred Weiniger called me out of the meeting to give me the news. The meeting adjourned so that we could contact our management to assess the impact on the project. We were totally stunned.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2014
from Ben Moore:
------------ Answers ------------
a) Satellite Universal Network - a proposed solution to the crippling low bandwidth of the ZapMail network. It was to use 1 meter dishes rather than the then typical 3 meter dishes. And in the normal FedEx modus operandi it was to have 2 satellites in close geosynchronous orbit. In the event 1 failed the second could assume the workload without re-homing the dishes.
b) T. Allan McArtor
c) Challenger exploded in January 1986 and all the launch slots were cancelled. This doomed ZapMail.
d) McArtor was appointed to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) by Ronald Reagan in 1987.
e) McArtor is currently theChairman of Airbus America.
Subject: FedEx Trivia Question 1/23/14:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2014
FedEx Trivia Question 1/23/14:a) What is a QAT?
b) Name a QAT you were a member of.
c) What is a Pareto diagram?
d) Did you ever use one?
Dan Elliot1/23/2014
AH, why do you ruin my day with bad memories!
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2014
....hoping...maybe ....good memories for some.....I do hope you have a nice day!
Danielle Harnisch1/23/2014
Quality action team
Too many to list
Part of the qat process
Yes
Company never allowed time to have the meetings for the past 15 years
Not in the field anyway
I think In mem it was allowed
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2014
....of course a worst memory was when 2 of my staff answered a Survey feedback, that they were unsure that I supported quality......and I was sent to Remedial Quality training with a large group of inferior quality humanoids...for 3 days....
Danielle Harnisch1/23/2014
Yep, what a joke!
Dan Elliot1/23/2014
Ah you gotta love it!
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2014
FedEx Trivia Quiz:Which sport did FWS & T. Allan McArtor engage in together?
Gary Phillips1/23/2014
Tennis?
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2014
Gary = Correct
Gary Phillips1/23/2014
Knew FWS was a tennis guy. Saw him play at the club during the Orange Bowl in '96. I hit some with Pepper Rodgers wife then. There was a FedEx Orange Bowl tournament for employees and customers.
Ben Moore1/23/2014
Shooting down MiGs?
Gary Phillips1/23/2014
The FedEx folks and customers stayed at the Doral resort for the Orange Bowl. I was on the way down to play a match. I got on the elevator and a little girl (couldn't have been but about 7 or 8) saw my tennis bag and asked me if I played tennis.I said 'yeah'. She said 'my dad plays tennis'. I said really, who's your dad? She said 'Fred Smith, do you know him?'
The Smith group had an entire floor reserved for their family, friends and security. One of the Fedex security guards was escorting the kids everywhere they went
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz 1/24/14:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/24/2014
FedEx Trivia Quiz 1/24/14:Who was the person responsible for proposing that there be a dedicated group of Revenue agents to answer Customer billing questions, versus the Call Center agent tracking down the answers?He was a Manager at the time, and wanted to be the Director of that new group, but was made Director over a department that had major personnel & morale problems.
Peter Dangerfield1/24/2014
Tom McNeil ?
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/24/2014
Charlie Germano.
I'm sure others also worked on getting a new group started, but I met Charlie around 1980 while developing DADS. He was best friends with John Schwarzmann, my sr mgr. He told me what he had been working on: setting up a specialized group of agents to handle billing and revenue calls. He had worked to convince Jim Barksdale this was needed and he hoped to be the new director. There was a bad problem in the data entry group and the MD and all but one mgr were terminated. JLB made Charlie the MD over that group and told to fix it and increase the morale of the department, which he did.
Don Rose1/24/2014
Loved Charlie. He was one of the best bosses I ever had the pleasure to work with. A true leader!
Subject: FedEx Trivia 1/26/14:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/27/2014
FedEx Trivia 1/26/14:Who said this to new managers at FedEx?"Your goal as a manager should be to do what is best for the Company and your employees, not what makes you look good. If you only do things that get you visibility, and you have to take credit for everything ,,,then you shouldn't be a manager at Fedex"
Jack Brown1/27/2014
I want to say FWS at the end of each training class at the Leadership Institute.
Jim Bentley1/27/2014
That philosophy sure did not last long!!
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