The Curse of Black Tuesday

The collective 3,000 curses from the mouths of the Black Tuesday victims have been heard. The ship is going down and it only took four years.

Once we had pride in our jobs and our employer. No one faked signatures or stole shipments. We worked hard and had fun and a sense of teamwork. After Black Tuesday it was "us" vs. "them." Four years later it is still that way, and shipments are still getting lost, stolen, and signatures faked. That's the Airborne way.

This bitter old crone may have one foot in the grave, but she has her steel toed boot on the other foot and can still kick some ass. Those of us who remember the old days knew this day was inevitable.

There is only one thing left to say:
NEENER NEENER NEEENER

This post has been edited by bitteroldcrone on January 25, 2008 01:29 am

i remember those days very well.They replaced 3000 proffesional drivers who were motivated,well groomed,knew the job inside and out with a circus act .with drivers right out the bar scene from the movie star wars.

I totally agree with both of you!!! I was one of those professional drivers who went to work for the enemy out of desperation for a paycheck. Airbourne drivers are pigs! How embarassing for DHL! What comes around goes around...

BLACK TUESDAY IS BACK AGAIN, AND I'M GLAD

i love this post

i love this post

DITTO.



Ex-Lifer

it is going further and further down the drain!

time to dust off this great post once again

So true.

Having been with DHL for 15 plus yrs and lived through the integration I can understand your sentiments. My last day was Saturday. Most ABX drivers I worked with have been fine. Some have even become my friends. However, you are dead on about some union members' attitudes. You should have been there Friday night when the rug was pulled out from another 20 people. Come Monday morning and throughout the week more will find out that even the union won't be able to save them. There are still ABX drivers that do not know how to process international pcs. This is what the Germans are leaving their precious DHL brand in the hands of. The union will be the next to go. How can DPWN not look in the mirror and realize what a debacle it was to buy ABX?!! Management bears the most responsibility, that and refusing to hold people accountable for their work. I see posts from time to time about "how I busted my ass" for the company. Blowing off international service for 4 plus yrs has come back to bite you folks you know where!!

Yeah, I am one of those who has posted such. Because I always have. I have never blown off international service. The first thing that happened when we became DHL was a Saturday training class on how to process international. Attendance was MANDATORY. Employees who came in after that were also required to attend a Saturday training. Any slacking off of that training was management's fault. Any lack of understanding international by a driver who took the training was the driver's fault. If I had questions, ANY questions, I always asked. I didn't want to be the one to screw up, or made an example of. Some people may find it amazing, but I actually took it seriously from the beginning. I knew it was a big part of the job, and that I had to learn it. And let me tell you, when the dust settles, and DHL becomes whatever it is going to become (or NOT become), at least I know I did my best and what I was trained AND PAID to do.

The "REAL DHL" went out of business the day the germans bought them. PERIOD...I remember black Tuesday when everyone was shocked at the news. We had been told that the "now Legacy DHL" drivers would end up being lead drivers and sups, so as to train the "Airborne" personel the "DHL" way of doing things. I also remember the laughter from the "Airborne" drivers when they were telling those of us that ended taking positions with the ic's, out of desperation for a check, that the Saturday before we where let go......the Airborne drivers went to our warehouse and transported all the files and supplies and materials to the Airborne facility. Yeah they thought it was pretty funny how we went to work on that Tuesday only to be met in the parking lot by security and were told we could only enter the building after everyone had arrived. The best thing of all was when we questioned them about the whole lead driver and sups lie......I'll never forget it....they said..."Your thinking wrong, Dhl didn't buy Airborne. Airborne didn't buy Dhl. The Germans bought DHL a year ago and now "THE GERMANS" have bought Airborne....and there putting them together. It would be easier for Airborne to absorb DHL than for DHL to absorb Airborne...we don't have the manpower." You can slap a mercedes emblem on a VW Beetle......but that don't make it a mercedes! The germans slapped the DHL brand on Airborne and it didn't make them DHL! Every driver I knew back then said this day would come and here it is. The laughter has stopped now and reality hopefully is settling in......It hasn't been DHL all this time it might as well have been GHL-g for GERMANS. Here's an idea....now that the germans have not only pissed off the original 3000 on black tuesday......they've also pissed off another 9,500 american workers.....lets hit them were it hurts for a change. If every person that's been effected by the GERMANS/DHL makes it there mission in life to tell everyone they know "not to use DHL for anything....not int'l not global mail...nothing!!!" maybe next we will hear that they're pulling out of america all together. One other thing you can slap a TEAMSTER logo on everyone that calls themselves a proffesional driver....but that don't make it so either.


One of the greatest posts of all time
Paladin

i agree...the best post of all time.. karma is a bitch

Nov. 10, 2008 will now be known as "Black Monday," as Sep. 3, 2003 is a day forever marked as "Black Tuesday."

The Bitter Old Crone has been patiently waiting, stirring her cauldron of rancid German beer and IC scum, and anticipating the decline and fall of the teutonic empire-that-never-was. What goes around comes around, and the holy trinity of the 3000 victims of Black Tuesday has tripled to the 9000+ of Black Monday. Such is the spell of the thricely all-knowing Bitter Old Crone... heh heh heh.

FINALLY! I loved working for DHL and felt like a lover kicking me out of bed 5 years ago. To wake this morning to the this news was like finding out that lover got an SDT from some HO. What the Germans have done is a prime example of what not to do when taking over companies.

I dont feel sorry for anyone but those original DHL employees that stuck it out. They had hoped that one day it would all get better. We use to handle maybe two or three complaints a week with the real DHL. Once the ABX couriers came along, they had supervisors do nothing all day but handle complaints. Shouldnt that have been clue enough, that it was forever down hill.


Come on over to FEDEX the water is fine.