Frederick W. Smith - Wikipedia
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  • Tikiporch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2001·
    5 months ago

    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…

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
      67·
      5 months ago

      Jesus christ. Way to spoil the mood! /s

      It’s actually very good to always attach these „privileged success stories“ to these people to demystify them.

    • teamshinanagin@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      5 months ago

      This guy was so lucky! It says here also he killed someone in a hit and run (no charges) and separately a passengers of his car died after he flipped it (no charges, the cause of the accident never determined)

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1251·
    5 months ago

    Remember kids, with a little hard work and a lot of luck gambling, you too can be a successful capitalist.

  • haunte@leminal.spaceEnglish
    651·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • slumlordthanatos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      5 months ago

      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.

          • starchylemming@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            5 months ago

            indeed. they once dropped my package in front of a random house 3 streets away and we played a guessing game over the visisble surroundings on the delivery “success” picture. without success on our part, the person living there found us first. since the adress on the packaging wasnt as hard to find

      • bitwaba@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        Someone has never had to deal with Evri Hermes in the UK. Or TNT. Christ theyre terrible.

        • valkyre09@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Order a chair online. Order confirmation email: “we’ll be in touch in 48 hours with shipping information” Email from Hermes: “we’re expecting your package” Me: ah fuck

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      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.

    • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      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.

    • all-knight-party@kbin.run
      6·
      5 months ago

      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.

    • Jesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      UPS is the worst in my neck of the woods. Their delivery estimates are always way off and I often get seriously damaged goods from them.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      oh wow, you must lead a sheltered life if the worst you’ve ever had is fed-ex. bud, they’re actually average compared to UPS, DHL etc

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    621·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54·
    5 months ago

    If it happened to him, it could happen to me! The world is build on extraordinary events!
    –Three days later–
    Bankruptcy.

    • Vent@lemm.eeEnglish
      201·
      5 months ago

      No, but he went with a thousand other shipping company CEOs and only him and the UPS guy came out with money.

    • TrippyFocus@lemmy.mlEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

      I’ve heard this story a few times and supposedly it happened over a weekend but yeah either the guy was a very good card counter and played a ton or recklessly bet it on roulette and got insanely lucky if this is true.

        • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
          12·
          5 months ago

          Seems so absurd to me that there is an officially sanctioned game in the gambling scene that can be gamed by a skilled player to win, and they just blatantly ban doing that, and yet people still play it. Not the game is banned mind you, the winning through logic part. Cant have anyone make bank but, well, the bank.

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          5 months ago

          To illustrate, let’s play a game. We each put in a dollar, and whoever wins a coin flip gets the two dollars. Completely fair, even odds, right? We’ll play until one of us decides to stop or someone runs out of money.

          I’ll start with $1000 and you start with $10. Let’s see how it turns out.

          If it helps, picture a graph where the bottom axis is number of coin flips and the Y axis is the amount each player is up or down in total. Each flip can move the graph by $1, up or down randomly. So it’s going to bounce a little, because it’s random. Some bounces will be bigger than others.

          The house can offer you completely fair odds and still take your money just fine.

          • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            21·
            5 months ago

            Are you guys seriously lecturing me about blackjack based on an unfounded and incorrect assumption I don’t understand how it works?

            This is like some Internet variation of mansplaining. Do just assume someone doesn’t know something because hand waves and then start lecturing them about the subject?

        • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          Yes the house has a seat at the table. It was a boiled down one liner about the follies of gambling and thinking you will win. I don’t need someone to explain blackjack to me or how a casino works. I’m 40 and not that boring.

  • cashmaggot@piefed.socialEnglish
    141·
    5 months ago

    I feel like there’s undercover mob stuff happening here. But I also cannot prove it in any way, shape or form.