FedEx guy caught on camera throwing a $1,500 lens instead of walking 10 feet
Nov 18, 2019
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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Imagine someone casually throwing a box with your brand new pricey lens inside. It makes me angry just thinking about it, and this FedEx dude did exactly this. He threw a package containing a $1,500 lens because he was too lazy to walk the extra 10 or 15 feet, and he was caught on camera as he did it.
Photographer Greg Riegler shared the video on his YouTube channel. He ordered the lens, and his front door camera caught the FedEx guy as he threw it from the lawn onto the concrete steps. Also, Greg explains that the package was signature item so it wasn’t even supposed to be dropped off.
Greg posted the video to Reddit, explaining the case in more detail. “I’ve been in contact with FedEx and the local distribution center. It’s a contractor, and the guy tossing the box seems to be training, which is crazy he already doesn’t care about his job,” he writes.
“After the toss the other FedEx guy kicks the box over to open the screen door to put a door tag on. They leave the screen door ajar, which for the rest of the day sets off motion alerts to my nest camera as well as blocks half our view.”
As I mentioned, the package wasn’t supposed to be dropped off. Sadly, the FedEx guys figured it out only after tossing and kicking the box, so they picked it up and left. Thankfully, Greg writes that there was no damage to the lens. “Opened the box and inspected the lens in front of the camera after receiving, everything appears fine!”
“I know packages are supposed to be packed in a way they can handle drops and what not, but they shouldn’t be intentionally mishandled,” Greg writes on Reddit. And I definitely agree.
After watching the video, there’s one thing I don’t understand. The FedEx guy was too lazy to walk to the front door and he just threw the box. But he returned to the van to pick up the tag scanner, and then he walked straight to the door. It makes me wonder: why didn’t he walk to the front door the first time with the package and the tag scanner in his hands, and then put the box on the ground like a normal person? It’s not that hard, dude, really!
[via PetaPixel]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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68 responses to “FedEx guy caught on camera throwing a $1,500 lens instead of walking 10 feet”
That’s what happens when you pay minimum wage… cant expect people caring on what they are doing. But we all want to pay as less as possible.
FedEx pays more than minimum and usually I’d think someone should be competent at their job before wanting a raise
Marco Peixoto most of these delivery drivers are earning 22.00 an hour
I drove a FedEx Custom Critical truck off and on for a few years, I was paid a percentage of what the freight fee was per shipment. It varied with each shipment. The ground trucks are not owned by FedEx. Typically a guy buys the truck and leases it to FedEx Ground. I was told by one of the owners, who usually is the driver, that they are paid a certain amount per delivery, a dollar or two. It varies. The owner might eventually get someone else to drive his truck, or buy more trucks and then spend his time trying to find drivers. Difficult life, but it doesn’t excuse what these guys did. Most, but certainly not all of the drivers cared about being professionals. But I did work with one guy who cared more about playing dungeons and dragons. His most important priority for him job was to get a good internet connection.
And what is he forced to do this job?
Matej Bajzik
This happens everyday on this type of jobs… so maybe its time for people to realize that something is really wrong and why is this happening?
If he needs the money to eat and can’t find anything else then yes he is “forced”
Doesn’t mean he should of course but why this is a recurrent thing on all of these Employees needs to be serious taken care of, of course it won’t because we all like to Order and get it next day even if it has to ship across the Country.
Go check on how many Packages an Amazon worker has to deliver each day.
Marco Peixoto No way. You’re spreading misinformation.
Marco Peixoto this is not an excuse. Work ethic is work ethic. I have mine regardless how much I get paid.
Actually Marco, I worked years for FX ground and my last year before retiring I earned a little over $54,000 working less then 6 hrs. a day and a yearly bonus if I did my job and hit my marks. My medical coverage cost me $118 a week, out of my pay. So not great but not minimum pay. Unfortunately as in any business there are A**holes who don’t do their job correctly. What this guy did in the video is grounds to be fired.
I echo Mr. Henry’s comments; that guy can easily be fired for throwing anything. I work for the Express side of FedEx so I am an employee not a contractor and have been for over 25 years. It is not minimum wage and never has been but Mr. Henry is also correct that there are bad apples in any large business our size. There are numereous things wrong with how the guys in the video went about the delivery. The tossing is easily the worst.
I have no illusion about what I do for a living but I do give a sh-t about doing a good job and so do my co-workers. We are not incompetent nor lazy. The job takes a while to get used to it and certainly can be physically taxing but it’s not rocket science. Also, I have no idea how many times I’ve apologized to customers for damaged packages because they were damaged before I ever touched them. There are numerous normal reasons why this happens but it’s the a-holes like those two dipsh-ts that make the rest of us look bad. Thankfully, f-cktards like them don’t last long because when they find out it actual work, they can’t leave fast enough. And to respond to anothers comment: management tells us repeatedly about all the cameras on us at all times.
By the way, I am an amatuer photographer myself (Canon Eos 30D) so I am personally irked about what they did.
I share everyone else’s frustration with morons like that and they will almost always get the spotlight while the good ones never get a second glance. I don’t bleed company colors and get quite pissed about some crap I and others have to deal with but my integrity remains intact because I want it that way. Those two sh-tstains couldn’t care less.
Marco Peixoto So based on this when you came to restaurant and you get cold soup with raw potatoes and and second dish will be thrown on the floor 2 meter of the table it is also good cause also the waiter do have minimal wage. And you probably wont complain either, is that right..?
You all are saying things I didn’t said…
No its not Ok but hey it happens, frequently and here we are talking about it.
I don’t live in the US and I had packages arriving totally wrecked too… so this is something that happens too frequently. Why? I already said why…
Not everybody has good work ethics and the lower they get paid the worse it is.
You have to show that you are WORTH making more than minimum!!
Package delivering is really a hard job, you have so much to do in a short window.
Everything is a hard job. So let’s do everything half-ass, yeah?
Like any job, if you’re not capable of doing it properly, you should find another job.
Should have used dpd. They pay well and their drivers give a shit due to performance bonuses.
Every parcel gets this treatment.
My daughter had STEEL exhaust pipes for her truck delivered, and they were BENT!! What the heck are these people doing???
What gets me is that they come the door anyway to get it signed off??
Idiots!!!
An other article said that it was a 10k lens…. it could also be a teddy bear then…
Duncan Dimanche that’s one helluva teddy bear that requires a signature for delivery.
Bill Worley lol it could be a marble teddy bear ?
Def not marble. Would’ve landed with a thud and crash if it was, not bounce around like it did.
The contents of the package are irrelevant.
NOTHING should be treated that way.
Neil Murphy what if it’s a pillow ?
I don’t even understand his actions…
Walk to the house with the parcel… then throw it to the door..
Then walk allll the way back to your truck to grab your equipment….
Then walk allll the way back to the house…
Lazy AND stupid!
They both need training!
I’ve had deliveries in the grass, porch steps, porch railing…meanwhile there is no walkway available to the front porch and the driveway takes you to a ground level rear porch. Duh. I guess they’d rather trudge through snow and grass.
What do you expect from someone that makes like 5 bucks an hour lol
Dave Goldman to do their job like everyone else.
Gill Morris you are asking for way to much my man lol
I’m guessing you are really bad at your job.
Dave Goldman the waitress earn less in many places, but we do not expect them to throw our food on the table.
LOL. What makes you think they make 5 bucks an hour. That’s funny. FedEx and all the rest of those delivery companies pay more than $20 per hour to their deliver people. I am amazed that you would think that is a $5 job, especially since minimum wage is higher than that now.
Na they just spit in your food when you act like an ass
They make 18.00 to 20.00 an hour. Don’t be ignorant.
Dave, so don’t act like an ass?
Dave Goldman
Would you like to know what I expect from someone that makes like TWENTY TWO DOLLARS and EIGHTY THREE CENTS and hour?
EL. Oh, EL
All FedEx Ground delivery people are “contractoirs” in the gig economy sense of “really employees but we don’t want to pay proper benefits to”.
Pizza delivery is better! ?
Why don’t FEDEX distribution managers tell their employees that this is a “Big Brother” society now, & EVERYONE has a camera? Do something wrong, & somebody has already seen you.
How dare this minimiz wage slave throw my shit!! Does he know who my father IS?!?! I’ll have him fired by morning…. Every white person ever
Ignorant, repulsive post. He makes more than double minimum wage. And you obviously believe throwing around someone’s expensive property is a good thing. I hope karma bites you in your ass.
You don’t deserve minimum wage if that’s how sloppy you do your job. Fuck that. You don’t deserve a job.
I’ve seen some people try and justify the FedEx guys’ actions with “they don’t pay them enough”. Well, let me tell you all something: if you think that you need to be paid however much you think to do your job properly, you’re what’s wrong with society, and you don’t deserve a job. Pay doesn’t matter, do your job properly or don’t do it at all.
Exactly! This person accepted whatever they offered him to do a job as instructed. If he doesn’t feel he gets paid enough, then he could do like all the other people that live in their parent’s basement… quit!
Funny how the “Comrades” state their complaints about poor pay and lack of benefits as a scripted response. They are the most predictable and spineless creatures on earth. Pay is negotiable and benefits are not a right. There is absolutely nothing to respect about socialism. Lazy, arrogant and demanding.
UPS delivery drivers are UPS employees
FedEx delivery drivers are private contractors.
That is the big difference.
That’s not true. And I’ve seen just as much junk done by UPS drivers as any other. They flung my friends $2000 laptop onto her porch like a frisbee only for it to fall off into some bushes and get rained in a d ruined.
To the misinformed and misinforming (Marco Peixoto and Dave Goldman for instance):
“Data based off of GlassDoor and Indeed-dot-com shows that the average OTR UPS driver earns $27.83 an hour, while the average FedEx truck driver earns $22.83 an hour. The total compensation for a FedEx driver is $47,492 a year, while UPS pays their drivers significantly more at $57,866 a year on average”
So, do your homework before coddling incompetent and/or lazy workers.
https://www.truckdriverssalary.com/ups-driver-salary/
Geoffrey Sprague dude you are a fool. I said 5 bucks and hour sarcastically lol. What a moron
I’ve never seen an unmarked FedEx van before.
The extra freight load during the holiday season means they hire full or part time temporary employees or contractors, and some come with unmarked vehicles. I took a UPS delivery yesterday, 11/18 and watched someone’s car drive up and stop. I wondered what was going on until a guy dressed in UPS ground got out and pulled out a heavy package. He bought it to the door and asked me if I wanted him to carry it inside my porch. Nice guy and considering the weight he was carrying, a hard worker. One year they drove golf carts with trailers in local neighborhoods to make deliveries.
‘Cause he’s a lazy m-f’er!
Also adjust the auto closing mechanism on your screen door…
Did the box have a fragile label?
Shouldn’t matter. You don’t throw ANY package!
Did anyone noticed that they took the package back with them….????
They had to take the package back. It was shipped that it wasn’t supposed to be delivered unless someone signed for it. They weren’t supposed to leave it in the first place
This is why if I want to buy from an online retailer and they only ship via FedEx it’s a thanks but no thanks from me. I’ve had so many problems with that incompetent company it’s ridiculous.
I’ve been a delivery driver for 40+ years and I have never seen people so lazy and careless ! ! Maybe THAT’S why they don’t get ” PAID ENOUGH”!!! Quit!! Go get a better paying job !! But he probably won’t because he has NO RESPECT for others possession’s so how could he respect anything else?? He must want to get to the bar after work , or his video game console is calling him from his mom’s basement!! Grow up!
Oh if the lens can’t take a toss, it’s not worth having.
I want robots doing my delivery, idc if they kill me later after they take the world, thank you.
The same thing happens at my house. The delivery guy ( it’s ALWAYS a guy who does this s**t), stands on the public sidewalk and hurls the package onto the front concrete porch. And ring the bell? Fuggedaboutit!