The Resume

(1971- )
Founder/CEO is Frederick W. Smith
Headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee
Founded as as Federal Express Corporation (Little Rock)
Sponsored the Orange Bowl
Namesake for FedEx Field
600,000+ employees (as of 2020)
Known for its overnight shipping service

Why they might be annoying:

John Moschitta. Nuff said.
It has gone through 12 different slogans.
They claim to have invented express transportation (yeah, and Al Gore invented the Internet).
Frederick Smith was indicted for forging signatures on documents to obtain a $2 million bank loan for FedEx (January 31, 1975).
The kids in 2003's Cheaper by the Dozen call the misfit brother with glasses 'Fedex' because they claim he was 'dropped off by the mailman' (well we'd've sued!)
They have been fighting an uphill delivery war with Amazon.
Madonna took to Twitter to complain that she'd spent a week trying to prove her identity and still couldn't get her package released. Backlash eventually prompted a representative to respond.

Why they might not be annoying:

It is one of the top contractors of the US government.
It moves an average of more than 15 million shipments each business day.
The company delivered 186 packages overnight during its first night of continuous operation in 1973.
Local offices are pretty invaluable to people without access to a computer or printer.
Its founder wrote a paper in college outlining the business plan for FedEx. It got a C. (Joke's on them!)
It is the second-largest package/courier carrier behind only UPS (as of 2020).
The FedEx 'Fast Paced World' spot was named 11th best ad campaign of the 20th century by Advertising Age.
They pioneered a system that could track packages and provide real-time updates on package location (a feature now ubiquitous among carrier services).

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Beastie Boys References
• BoyWiththeGreenHair’s Profiles [Series 17]
• Celebrity Washington Commander Fans
• Corporations
• I Made the Guinness Book of World Records
• I Pissed Off Mike Ditka
• I'm a Billionaire
• Known By a Single Name
• Lil' Kim's 'Black Friday' References
• Look at Me, I'm Doing Housework
• Look at Me, I'm Driving
• Look at Me, I'm Getting Blown
• Look at Me, I'm in Agony
• Look at Me, I'm with the Cops
• Look at Me, I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up
• Madonna Doesn't Like Me
• Postal Workers
• Profiles 48762-48838 (Ranked: 48820)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 20 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 24 Votes: 54.17% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 29.41% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 114 Votes: 52.63% Annoying