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Jodie Harden1/22/2015
Seltman, Cobb & Bryant - Some employees went to work for SCB, some JCA'ed within FedEx, others left the company -
Jodie Harden1/22/2015
Line Haul was the department, I believe - The outsourcing was the idea of Kevin Humphries & John Post
Buddy Johnson1/22/2015
A. Seltman Cobb and Bryant. B. They f
Buddy Johnson1/22/2015
B. They had to te-apply for their jobs or transfer to anoth open position in IT. C. Steve Steiling
Buddy Johnson1/22/2015
John Post and Dennis Jones were believed to be the architects of this plan and gave it to Kevin to implement. SCB was told the. Just needed to "maintain" the applications. The users of these systems, however, expected "maintenance" to also include small to medium changes to keep the Air Operations apps running.
Buddy Johnson1/23/2015
May be, but that whole Dallas fiasco cost Dennis a lot of respect my a large number of IT professionals.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2015
Answers above were pretty much correct:
a. What was the name of the company these jobs were outsourced to? SCB (Seltmann Cobb & Bryant)
b. What happened to the 90 employees? Only a few accepted the outsourcing offer from SCB; the others bid or were transferred to other open positions in the company.
c. What did this department do? Weather, messaging, Air Ops applications
d. What was the name of the Director over the group that was displaced? Steve Steilling
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I got involved a year later. Steve had left the company. Chris Hjelm who was now the CIO of FedEx Express, commented that it was apparent working with Steve, that he was a dedicated professional who really was concerned and looked after his staff. Two years later, all the work transferred to SCB was terminated, and support/development moved back into FedEx in Linehaul.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2015
Carl Hardeman's post..didn't post correctly to facebook: Carl Wayne Hardeman 4:43pm Jan 22 Part of a plan to create three CIO's and an Executive CIO or so I heard.
preceded Buddy's comment above: May be, but that whole Dallas fiasco cost Dennis a lot of respect by a large number of IT professionals.
Subject: Is health spending account withdrawal / usage subject to Federal Income Tax?
Carl Wayne Hardeman1/22/2015
Is health spending account withdrawal / usage subject to Federal Income Tax?
Deby Abbott Jolley1/22/2015
I don't think so - but good question!
Linda Cook Thorn1/22/2015
It stated in our documentation that the 25000 would not be taxable.
Linda Cook Thorn1/22/2015
I don't think the other we get each year from Fedex is taxable either. I didn't claim it last year.
Carl Wayne Hardeman1/22/2015
Thanks!
Janine Strausser Mashburn1/22/2015
Good news!
Vicki Shirey Sanders1/23/2015
Nope!
Marsha Terry Rider1/23/2015
NO. We asked for a clarification on that from our MD prior to our decisions.
Subject: FedEx Trivia
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2015
FedEx TriviaAfter the Federal Express Package growth started climbing, a larger computer was needed and the Burroughs 6700 was acquired. Which of the following computers were considered to replace the Burroughs 6700 computer systems.a. Burroughs 7700
b. IBM
c. DEC PDP 11/VAX
d. Data General Eclipse
Akita Hank1/23/2015
A. Until Charlie Brandon felt slighted by the head of Burroughs and gave them 6 months to get out. Then the scramble began.
Don Rose1/23/2015
A
Buddy Johnson1/23/2015
That was a few years before my time
Subject: I jumpseated on the DC-10 and 727, would have been nice to jumpseat on the Concorde...and I didn't g ...
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2015
I jumpseated on the DC-10 and 727, would have been nice to jumpseat on the Concorde...and I didn't get a chance to fly on the FedEx 747 when we had them.
Dan Elliot1/23/2015
We used to jumpseat on the 747 from oakland to hawaii! Wonderful! had the whole upper first class section! And a mea!!
Bob Higgins1/23/2015
Do you know the IT executive that got to ride jumpseat on the Concorde when we were considering the purchase?
Jon Peacock1/23/2015
I jumpeated on the Falcons (DA-20's), B-727's, B-737's, DC-10's, MD-11's, the Air Buss's. But did not get to jumpseat on the B-747's we got from Flying Tigers. The B-727 was my favorite. I truly hated it when we lost jumpseat.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2015
I don't know the executive during the negotiations, but John Schwarzmann did get to ride jumpseat once when returning from Europe.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/23/2015
and if I remember correctly, the concorde wasnt going to fly from europe to memphis. it would fly to dulles, then be offloaded to a 727 which would fly the freight to memphis. the concorde wasnt too efficient with fuel and also couldn't fly suoersonic over the states. it would take freight from 2 concordes to fill a 727. A primary reaon on getting the concordes was to have a next day service to the usa.
Carl Wayne Hardeman1/23/2015
I jumpsat on bof the 747 and DC 8 we got from Flying Tigers.
Peter Dangerfield1/23/2015
I managed to ride the 747 to Australia and back via Asia a number of time to visit my family. I was amazed at the catering provided, three hot meals, sandwich plates, fruit plates and cheese and crackers. Customs trashed all the left over food, what a waste.
Jim Bentley1/24/2015
During my 31 years at Fedex, I managed to jumpseat on every type of aircraft we flew. All the way thru the Airbus aquisitions. My favorite was the DC-8. The jumpseat was like a big easy chair..
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/26/2015
FedEx Trivia QuizWhen the Burroughs Computer needed to be moved some employees loaded it on a truck themselves...then dropped it...Who did this?
Glenn Taylor1/27/2015
FTN or FHN
Carl Wayne Hardeman1/27/2015
UPS?
Jimmy Glenn Burk2/5/2015
From Tom Bullion:
The guy that ran the computer was a big guy with a full black beard…….. The movers used a 28 foot rent truck with a Tommy lift….. There were 4 or 5 of us around but almost what 41 years now……. Couple of ‘em are still around I would guess….
Don Rose2/5/2015
The big guy Tom is referring to is probably Tom Kline (known as Monk to most of us).
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/26/2015
FedEx Trivia QuizWhich company told Jim Barksdale that he needed to order 30 computer systems before he could get a 5% discount?Someone on the project bypassed this computer company and bought them OEM, a few at a time, and saved 30% on each system bought.Who is this person?
Dave Hansen1/28/2015
Future Now computers??
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/28/2015
Answers:
Computer company: Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)
Person: Jim Bentley (negotiator extraordanaire...)
Jim Bentley1/28/2015
And after DEC gave us 6-month delivery, we had the first 6 in 15 days. After they arrived and we called the local DEC office to Gen the operating system, they could not because they had never seen this system it was so new.. RTFM, and we did it ourselves!
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/28/2015
My DEC /DADS story:
For a short time Jim Bentley had a Systems Service Package with the Dec PDP11/34 where we could call and ask systems questions. Calls were routed to a DEC call center in Colorado.
We had a problem of random disc errors we couldn't figure out. It happened randomly and I put some debug code in the system, but couldn't locate the problem. I called DEC and went thru 3 layers of systems people who had no idea what I was talking about. They said they would refer the problem to a Higher Office.
Not too long after this, while the problem was happening, the problem just stopped...as Jim was shuffling things in his office, which didn't have a lot of free space. It turned out that the modem, connecting the system to COSMOS was causing the disk errors when the modem was moved close to the disk drives. I called DEC back and wanted to let them know what the problem was and to close the ticket.
The next month, I started receiving calls from DEC in Colorado and in Atlanta to refer their hard problems to me. They assumed that I knew what I was talking about, so I must be a DEC engineer and they just wanted to flip the problems to me.
So it seems, I became the Higher Office...which I quickly shut down. I was eventually contacted by the District Atlanta office and offered a job, if I ever decided to leave Federal Express....
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/26/2015
FedEx Trivia QuizWhich company gave Dennis Jones something like a $50M estimate on leasing computers...then intercepted him just before he went into a Board meeting to ask for the money...and told him they forgot to add tax....new price $55M?
Jim McBryde1/26/2015
Nec?
Laurie A. Tucker1/26/2015
IBM
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/26/2015
Laurie is correct!
Jim McBryde1/26/2015
That was my 2nd choice.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/26/2015
This is one of several things IBM did to stay on DHJ's bad list. I wasn't involved in the following one...but was told...
IBM wanted to get their newest PC into the Automation program and for FedEx to buy many of them. The Automation group asked to see one...and IBM told FedEx that FedEx had to find a room, put it under lock and key and heavy security...and then IBM would deliver one for FedEx to look at. I guess it was too new to have other companies even see it. None the less, I don't these type attitudes helped IBM get in the door at FedEx.
Jim McBryde1/26/2015
It also didnt help that ibm switched from fedex to airborne for shipping during that time.
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/28/2015
FedEx Trivia QuizFedEx had been having problems with disk drives for years and finally the vendor admitted there was a design problem. Computer Ops was not exactly wanting to meet with the manufacturer on new products but at Upper Mgmts request ...a meeting was set up.After a presentation admitting that their drives were flaky...the presentation switched to a proposal to fix the problem. Replace hundreds of existing drives...with their new and super duper drives...that would fix the problem.Jimmy Sowell listened patiently, which was not normal for him, and said....
'You have just admitted that the drives you have been selling us for 2 years are flaky and still have a design problem....and your answer to fix it...is for us to change all the drives on a new disk system...that you haven't even put into the field...and you don't really know if it has design problems???"Vendor said "YES!"Jimmy replied....'That's just Silly.....'Who was the Company??
Dave Hansen1/28/2015
Hitachi?
Gary Phillips1/28/2015
HP
Ben Moore1/28/2015
IBM 3380s. The bearings deteriorated over time and caused head crashes. IBM replaced the bearings in ALL the 3380s that FedEx had. I believe these defective drives were involved in the COSMOS crash that resulted in the loss of the tracking data for the firemen's helmets shipped from Chicago to Hollywood for Backdraft and subsequently lost.
Carl Wayne Hardeman1/28/2015
Maytag
Kelly Clements Staggs1/28/2015
Jimmy always had a way with words... one of the things I loved the most about him.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/28/2015
Answer: for this meeting the host was Sun Microsystems
Subject: George Moore shared HOT 104.5's photo to the group: FedEx ITD Retiree Breakfast Club.
George Moore1/28/2015
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/28/2015
FedEx Trivia QuizWhen Dennis Jones took over Ron Ponder's CIO job, he set up a West Coast trip to HP, SUN, Oracle, BEA and other companies to see how they did business and what they did to attract employees. He took 16 people with him on the Corporate Jet. At the last minute he told Ed White(VP Computer Ops) to stay in Memphis and clear a place to install a new Mainframe he was going to purchase.What was the new Mainframe...and how did that turn out???
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/30/2015
Answer:
The new mainframe was Hitachi, and DHJ met alone with the company on the trip, to place the order. The deal fell thru when the Hitachi mainframe(which ran an IBM OS) did not perform as stated.
Ben Moore1/30/2015
I remember Ed White had Jim Covington go in the the computer room and tape out an outline of a Hitachi mainframe to scare IBM.
Subject: Article, Best Cell Phone carriers:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/28/2015
Jack Brown1/28/2015
Jimmy, Thanks for sharing this. It really helps to know what our options are. Based upon this info, I think I will move to Republic Wireless in June when my contract expires with Verizon; $50 per month for 2 phones certainly beats $165 per month.
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/28/2015
FedEx Trivia Quiz:The day or week that Zapmail launched, FWS received one of the first Zapmail documents from whom? and what was the document about?
Jim McBryde1/28/2015
Tom oliver?
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/29/2015
I was told that a young lady had recently graduated from college, sent a Zapmail document to FWS congratulating him on the new service, and included her resume for any possible positions. An innovative way to get your resume to Mr. Smith, who would surely read it.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/29/2015
Also, on the first day of Operations, Jim Barksdale came to 2955 Republican and sent one of the first Zapmail documents. I believe there were only 50-60 transmissions that day, but eventually reached about 55,000 on a peak day.
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/29/2015
FedEx Trivia QuizIn the year that FedEx was going to start service, an Oil Embargo started. Federal Express was only going to be allowed a portion of the fuel it used the year before. FedEx estimated a need of 4,000,000 gallons and were to receive about 1,000 gallons. Executives went to the Federal department handling oil rations to get an exception and relief but were denied.How did FedEx get the aviation fuel it needed?
Peter Dangerfield1/29/2015
Well since most airline parked their aircraft at night we gave our mechanics a length of hose and they did the rest! 😄
Gary Phillips1/29/2015
I was going to guess siphon as well Peter Dangerfield.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/30/2015
Answer: Howard Baker our TN Senator was able to resolve the issue.
Subject: Has anyone had trouble accessing the flex spending account website for health premium reimbursement? ...
Tonya Handwerker1/29/2015
Has anyone had trouble accessing the flex spending account website for health premium reimbursement??
Danielle Harnisch1/29/2015
No I was just in there this morning
Tonya Handwerker1/29/2015
Can you send me the link? I don't know what is different.
Penny Hitchcock Hopper1/29/2015
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Tonya Handwerker1/30/2015
The site had an outage. Thx.
Danielle Harnisch1/30/2015
Oh ok
Subject: Barksdale quotes:
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/31/2015
Barksdale quotes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY0P2G8XQ4AMarie McVay My favorite - "If your going to hunt with the big dogs, you have to get off the front porch!".Don Rose I was writing some code for something that Jim wanted done ASAP, It was very complex and time consuming, so it was slow going. Jim called me to his office and asked when it would be finished. I told him the was not easy code to write, and he said "I know it's not easy. If it was easy, I'd do it myself".Jimmy Glenn Burk "It's the icing...that sells the cake..."
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Jimmy Glenn Burk At the Gartner conference in Orlando before 6,000 attendees, the day after Bill Gates spoke and said, 'I think Browsers should be free..' and JLB (who was with Netscape at the time) was asked to comment...Jim answered, " I heard what the youngin said yesterday...and well...I've put a lot of thought into his comment....and...... I believe 'That Operating Systems should be free.....' ."Mr. Barksdale then got a standing ovation....
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Jim Moore How about;;; "that dog won't hunt" , after some proposal that didn' t
Jim Moore go well.Jimmy Glenn Burk 'You can't operate what you can't measure'James W Jim LeMaster "There is no such thing as too purple!"Elizabeth Ward Blaylock When speaking to the couriers and service agents in Calgary during the 1988 Winter Olympics he told them that he was "as pleased as punch" with their performance.Nancy Hinds "These ARE the good old days"Nancy Hinds Dickie Dunn would have confirm the exact words but "I don't want to wake up and find UPS has leapfrogged us... You understand? When one frog jumps over another and he is now in front"
Nancy Hinds "The fat lady ain't off the manhole cover" NO wait - that was Rick DouglassJames W Jim LeMaster At one of the national sales meetings in Orlando, he gave a speech that opened with: "You know why the eagle soars? He's looking for meat!"Jim Moore UPS and the leapfrog, was in regard to UPS purchasing "Two Morrow" a company making 220Mhz low power stuff. I said no problem, for many reasons at the time, which UPS found out. they went cellular, as we know.Nancy Hinds Oops - I SO get my managers mixed up... But they were both VERY special peeps to me... Love my JBM and RD still.
Barksdale quotes:
Buddy Johnson1/31/2015
My favorite - Always keep the main thing the main thing. There was also something about playing with dead snakes but I don't remember how that one goes. Hopefully, someone out there does and will share.
Jimmy Glenn Burk1/31/2015
Jim Barksdale’s 3 Rules of Business.
* The first rule is, if you see a snake, don’t call committees, don’t call your buddies, don’t get a meeting together; just kill the snake.
* The second rule is, don’t go back and play with dead snakes. We haven’t got time to go back and revisit decisions.
* The third rule is, all opportunities start out looking like snakes. So look at problems as opportunities
Subject: From Guestbook @ www.fedexlegends.info
Jimmy Glenn Burk2/1/2015
From Guestbook @ www.fedexlegends.infoDanny Janssens
Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:15:24 GMT -6Worked for FedEx from 1992 until 2000, miss the great times and entrepreneurship...
Jim McBryde2/1/2015
Loved working with danny.
Subject: Jimmy Glenn Burk > FedEx ITD Retiree Breakfast Club
Jimmy Glenn Burk2/2/2015
Subject: Telecom Org around 1986
Jimmy Glenn Burk2/2/2015
Subject: I think you will remember a lot of what is mentioned here.
Jack Brown2/3/2015
Don Rose2/3/2015
It really is sad that our life was so great and now the kids have to deal with these stupid rules and laws. There were very few times that I did not have a shotgun in my trunk while at school. During hunting seasons, I usually hunted before and/or after school.
Jack Brown2/3/2015
I smoked when i was in high school in southern Indiana. We could carry our cigarettes in our shirt pockets and walk across the street from the school and smoke during breaks or lunch and no one said a thing.
Don Rose2/3/2015
We had a smoking room at my high school. We could smoke between classes and at lunch.
Dan Elliot2/3/2015
Boy Johnny was a real trouble maker!! Ha!
Dan Elliot2/3/2015
Very disturbing, but unfortunately too realistic! Maybe things can change??
Debora Williams Waller2/3/2015
What bothers me is that some of these rule and law makers grew up getting spankings and blowing up ant hills without severe consiquences..... (or did they/)
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk2/3/2015
FedEx Trivia QuizZapmail machines could transmit via leased lines (56kbps and 14.4kbps) and dial up at 12 kbps half duplex.
What was the communication costs to transmit one page using dial up initially?a. 25 cents per page
b. 75 cents per page
c. $1.00 per page
d. $1.80 per page
Jack Brown2/3/2015
I believe the cost was $1 per page.
Don Rose2/3/2015
$1 per page sounds right.
Marie McVay2/3/2015
C
Akita Hank2/3/2015
Probably D. C was target. Did they make it?
Jimmy Glenn Burk2/3/2015
Ancel is correct. Initally was about $1.80 per page, but dropped under $1 as the ATT breakup provided more competion and the startup of LDDS, MCI and other carriers.
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz
Jimmy Glenn Burk2/3/2015
FedEx Trivia QuizAt one point in Federal Express history, packages were delivered before 10:30am for overnight delivery or before 3:00pm for 2 day delivery.What scheme/recommendation did some in sales tell customers to do when shipping their packages?
Don Rose2/3/2015
Ship overnight AND 2nd day to same customer. All will be delivered at the same time to save a delivery stop.
Peter Dangerfield2/3/2015
Give Don the first prize!
Buddy Johnson2/3/2015
Ditto. But, Ops as recently as 7-8 years ago would not deliver anything but P1 packages before 1030 and P2 before Noon. Then would deliver everything else. At least that was my experience when working at NQAA during Peak for several years in the late 90's and early 2000's.
Jimmy Glenn Burk2/4/2015
7-8 years ago I was sitting with Dave Rebholz, waiting on another lengthy meeting to start, and he relayed that they were starting to do this...deliver p1 by 1030 and other pkgs at 3pm; they hated to make 2 stops to the same place each day, but had no recourse since many were doing this...and some in sales were telling customers to do it
Subject: FedEx Trivia Quiz Which of the following is True? (that FedEx looked at or even implemented)
Jimmy Glenn Burk2/3/2015
FedEx Trivia Quiz
Which of the following is True? (that FedEx looked at or even implemented)a. Blimps for overseas transport of cargo
b. Extremely fast ocean going cargo ships
c. same day service
d. Armored car secure delivery
e. anonymous delivery
f. newspaper like carrier routes for part time couriers
g. same day delivery from Europe
h. monitored shipments (location, temperature)
i. controlled delivery(scan every time a pkg changed hands)
j. low flying parachute drops to remote cities
Peter Dangerfield2/3/2015
All?
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