Before this, he won $4,000,000 by inheriting it and was able to convince a bunch of his rich friends and fellow Yale alums to bet $91,000,000 on FedEx.
Lucky guy winning that $27 grand…
Remember kids, with a little hard work and a lot of luck gambling, you too can be a successful capitalist.
Just don’t gamble with your own money. Be sure to take the company’s last $5000 instead.
Be sure to take the company’s last $5000 instead.
Well, now I need to find a company. Oh, one with $5000.
You mean we were one roulette spin away from having the absolute worst shipping company of all time from not existing? The universe fucked us man. Fuck Fed Ex. They are the one company that actively hates your shit. I think they try to break stuff on purpose.
Someone has never had to deal with DHL.
You’d think the Germans would be fantastic at logistics, but in this case, you’d be very wrong.
DHL is not the worst oen operating in germany. its not even close
hermes sets a low bar
Someone has never had to deal with Evri Hermes in the UK. Or TNT. Christ theyre terrible.
I never have had the bad experiences that many claim with shipping companies. I used to praise FedEx as they would make shipments when I was doing apple warranty repairs. If I ordered a replacement part by 5pm, they would have it the next morning before 10am at our facility. Their shipments were $6.95 for any of the parts as well, never understood how they could do it at the time. Circa 2011,12 time period. I’m sure it was because Apple paid them a shit ton, but was like magic.
Ups staffs their warehouses (or at least did when I worked there as a temp) heavily with temp agency staff who they can toss at any point, they don’t give a shit and while my experience was on the packing side (shrink wrapped bundles, barcode stickers, in store displays) some people did do the shipping side, it sucked and they talked about people throwing things around to meet targets, the quotas were unreasonable, paid next to nothing and the threat of termination was used as a “motivator”, by far the worst working experience of my life and I expect FedEx does the same thing. Met some cool people though so not all bad.
I never hold anything against FedEx employees because I talk with the drivers often as they deliver to my workplace and they run their drivers so fucking hard, not a single driver has said they like the job. It pays them well, but the trucks are always bad quality and breaking down, and the drivers barely have time to take breaks and eat while getting done at a good time most days.
I always feel bad for them.
This kind of mismanagement and just operating off sheer luck kind of explains why I have never gotten a package from them that WASN’T damaged.
If it happened to him, it could happen to me! The world is build on extraordinary events!
–Three days later–
Bankruptcy.