USPS Why People Are Quitting?
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Here are the reasons why people are quitting their job at the United States Postal Service or USPS.
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The short answer is: because people don't like to be treated like dogshit. But there are ways to fight back.
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I have finger printing 2morrow. I hope to hear from them soon for orientation . Also I have a few trips that I already paid for in the near future. Do you think this will be a problem if I let them know ASAP ?
few trips of what?
Vacation trips , out the country . Before I got the offer for the job . One for family member graduation and the other for a birthday trip for my boyfriends birthday . If I tell them as soon as I get to my office will they be understanding??
@@danamaragh1730 let me know how that goes cause I’m concerned
@@danamaragh1730 - Hi there. Kinda late for my reply to your question. Were you able to get those times off? Because in my brief experience as a CCA, I was never able to get time off when I wanted to. If I was off on a day I needed the time off for, it was by sheer luck alone.
The reason why people quit the the USPS is because they treat the new people poorly. When I say poorly you get the end of the stick. Supervisors are cranky. I was a CCA for 4 months and cried everyday after work. I was left to figure things out on my own. I had to work 60-70 hours a week including Sunday with no day off. While people who worked 10-40 years would come in and leave by 2pm or have days off. If they were the change the health benefits and give us PTO when we first get hired in it’s worth it. But your really just trying to keep a job that doesn’t wanna keep you. Health benefits is important. That’s one of the reasons I left. And poor management and their LLV suck. I almost died in those things. I was freezing cold and crying praying the heat would work.
Can I read this in my next video? I'd like to address this matter.
@@MarieAdventure please do
Rural is a LOTTTT better job with a much less useless union. If you're efficent you can make out pretty well with evaluated route times. Plus we aren't forced to half ass everything in the office and fuck around for hours on end on the street because we weren't allowed to do anything more than case flats in the office. If i were a CCA, i'd quit the first week as well.
yes ! The USPS workplace is toxic and management is corrupt. Old employees bully new employees. It's terrible!
That sucks when you have workers who come in and wanna take advantage of others.
If you want to have your body permanently damaged apply for the post office. It ain’t as easy as one thinks. It is very hard heavy work.
You will see all the old people who have been there a while walk with a limp or are favoring their lower back. You do a lot heavy heavy mail cart pulling. I’m waiting to buy my own tractor trailor so I can get the FUCK out.
You seem like you'd be a good coworker! I've been there for about 6 months, and I've never had two days off. 95% of those days are 12 hours. I just got done working 15 days in a row, and I'm considering quitting.
I hear you. Follow your heart.
@@MarieAdventure Sometimes, you SHOULDN'T follow your heart, but think of the future. You aren't a CCA or RCA or PSE forever.
@@jeffw1267 There are many options out there. Retirement benefits through employer isn't the only thing in this world. I have my own retirement benefits and invested in stocks and mutual funds. I realized how rich people get richer, first, they are not employees, they are the employer and hire employees to work hard and make them rich.
@@jeffw1267 And sometimes even after making career, you still work as a CCA. So fuck it, not to mention al9t of the white supervisors are racists towards peeps of different skin. They only flirt or get along with the ass kissers or peeps they find attractive. Meanwhile even if you're a hard worker, they make an effort to push you out.
Almost like being a robot. When you break down they replace you with another. Almost as if it is intentional. You don't see the effects right away but eventually you will. I believe this excessive employment style is happening all over. One way not to pay pension or social security.
They mandatory OT almost everyday even on slow days, and you have to pick up after other shifts slack, and they slave you when it’s short staffed which is almost everyday, and they dont really care about your health like they say they do nor do they do any stretches in the morning, and as a MHA it’s unpredictable when you’ll ever become a regular, even so the work/life balance is NOT there at all man. Management is flooded on day shift and they overwork you but don’t appreciate you. So Im considering quitting too and I will soon
In talking to people who work or worked for the USPS, the reason people are quitting/high turnover is because the system to even get paid is archaic and inefficient--they still use paper time cards you fill out by hand and turn into your post office. The cards almost always "go missing", you are not paid properly or at all after months (after busting your ass), it is exhausting to fix, it is unfair, there is chronic wage theft, there is no accountability. The wage theft/errors are so chronic, they even have a 800 number you can call. This is how bad it is--the incompetence and unfairness has been institutionalized. The bottom line with all of the people I spoke to, and you experienced this yourself, is working for the USPS is dehumanizing and anyone with a modicum of self-respect will quit. Even cleaning houses pays more and confers more respect than subjecting yourself to the thankless, sad, pathetic monster that has become our "U.S." Postal Service. It will destroy you (including your body, your mental health) and when it does, nobody will care. They will just move on to the next victim.
you hit several nails on the head here. I have a friend that works there and they said it’s so behind technologically it hurts. USPS has so much potential, what a waste
I’ve worked for them for years and love it, I def make more than a house cleaner and the job is so relaxed. Sounds like you haven’t actually had a bad job. Also not once have I not got paid, on time and in full. I can double check time cards online after each shift if needed. Never have I needed to.
@@style715 There are so many factors that would dictate otherwise. If you haven't had to make a union call for pay even once. Specifically in these past years you are drastically full of shit.
@@jacklionhart242 No actually I am being 100 percent honest. The job is great and I am paid on time and correctly EVERYTIME.
Yeah pay is an issue sometimes...but also there is a respect and appreciation problem. I can't stand being taken for granted...Im not saying throw a parade everytime I do something im supposed to do...but don't push what I do aside either. I think the one common denominator is poor management and leadership cause you get these supervisors in there that haven't carried a drop of mail before trying to tell you to hurry up on the routes that you never done before and get back to the office only to carry more mail. Do they realize people have lives outside of work?...guess not! If your interested in having any kind of a life this is not the place for you
It’s shocking to believe how a Federal job can treat their employees so poorly , basically work you to the point of quitting just doesn’t make any sense but money isn’t everything- you can make decent money and be happy and stress free ~
I agree.
Agreed. It was an awful place.
Why are they Quitting because of higher up’s they treat the employees like dirt and they don’t care hope you get a better job and tell people not to work for the post office it a bad job 🙄👎
I wonder when the bad management will stop.
I worked at the Statesboro post office and most of the employees there had a horrible attitude and they treat new people poorly. From my first week there if I asked a question most of the staff would act like they didn't hear me or they would mumble a negative comment about me, etc. My first week there I asked a senior person where something was and she yelled at me and said "I ain't got time for you." I worked about 60 hours a week and 6 days a week, but the worst part was the employees there. She is right most of the senior people would take long breaks or just disappear. Kind of funny I liked the physical part of the job, but the bad people ran me off.
Correct.
New hire here- going through my first week and after back to back 10 to 12 hour shifts I had an emotional breakdown in my car. I'm not a quitter but I'm being heavily tested right now. I just moved out on my own so I need the money coming from a previous job that was much less demanding but didn't pay much. I'm afraid of the next day arriving but I'm going to show up and hope things get easier as I continue. Sigh
I was in the same situation when I first started. I cried after my first month because my body was aching 😩 😫 😭 get yourself a massage. I use CBD and it helped with the pain. I hope you will push through this free body building job. I feel you and stay strong 💪 ❤
@@MarieAdventure My mental health deteriorated so I decided to return to my old job. It wasn't worth it to me.
@@daranbrock7891 was your pay decent ? My pay was not great , I didn’t work crazy hours but i returned to my previous job aswell I make in 1 week what I made as a CCA in 2 … and no stress 🙏🏼
@@cynkis3194 Honestly, the pay wasn't the greatest that many make it sound to be. I was at 17 an hour and some odd cents ( which wasn't bad) but no amount of money would make me want to sell my entire life away. I guess some plants are different than others so I can't speak for everyone but I didn't like the scheduling system when you aren't yet considered full time career.
@@daranbrock7891 I agree 100%! The ppl at plant were nice (well some lol) but I had no schedule no badge no swipe card the fact that you have to wait 3 months to get a uniform is ridiculous- a government job and you all you get is a big ugly hat hahaha … but hey like they told me this job is not for everyone!! And to those who stick with it especially in this cold , much respect to them 🙏🏼 because for the work and the physical part it’s way under paid
I worked in the plant as a PSE for two weeks and resigned today. A lot of heavy lifting. Definitely shoulder/back breaking. Glad I won't go back there tonight.
Yup.
I just retired this past July working for UPS. I feel your pain!
How many years did you work at the USPS?
@@MarieAdventure Actually, It's not the US Postal Service, Its United Parcel Service. I worked there for 29 years. Decided to leave early because I got tired of the politics.
@@robertbeale3795 - Oh, MAN! Congrats on getting out! It doesn't matter: if you work for any company that delivers mail and/or parcels, we've all had the same kind of problems! You're just a gopher running around like a chicken with someone else's deliveries!
I didn’t think the job was bad at first, but I’m three months in now, and the side effects of this job are starting to catch up with me, but I’m still trying to hold myself together, as hard as it is.
People are quitting in Ma because Dunkin Donuts pays the same starting rate as the Post Office $19. $19 an hour in Massachusetts as an RCA doesn't cut it when rents are over $2000 a month. Not to mention Food a Car and Car insurance and my bills lol. The Post Office needs to step it up if they want actual working people.
Correct.
Agreed. Massachusetts also requires people to have health insurance or pay a hefty fine come tax time. My understanding is that newly hired PSEs aren't offered health insurance until they make career.
No break no lunch still get call by the bad supervisor, as new Cca they send you different stations everyday, new route very time.
CCA seems to be the hardest when it comes to new hires.
7 months in as an RCA and im looking at doing something else. If anyone ran a business in the private sector like the USPS, they would be out of business. At this point, it's just a matter of time for me. Already looking for a new job.
It's a different world at USPS.
Once you're in, when do you have TIME to look for another job. You're so damn tired from working all the time.
you will make time
Awesome video marie!❤❤
You inspired me Barbie
What was your pay? Actual take home?
Your profile pic is funny! Normal take home pay is $2000
@@MarieAdventure thanks for replying. Makes a huge difference. I’m looking into the PVO position, would you happen to have some insights on this? What are you currently doing now that your done with the Postal Office?
Hey Marie...Thanks for sharing. No orientation for me yet but i think i'm ready because of your video.
Congratulations Mari!
Hello Marie this is the first time I came across to one of your videos and first I would like to say thank you for the information give it through this video. Also I hope you archive the goal you have in mind im sure its not easy but hard work will pay off so thank you for it.
Thank you, it means a lot to know that someone cares. I wish you all the best.
Go Maintenance...Just Sayn....You'll thank me later
Deplorable 113 how, show me the way
@@MarieAdventure you gotta have some what of a mechanical background....took the 955 failed the interview but passed another one but it didn’t count...gotta wait till feb 2021 and I’ll get another shot!....starts at $20 plus career employee....you barely do anything!!
@@skywalk78none94 did you get the job?
@@harley8728 yeah I work in SoCal it’s the easiest job ever seriously…I’m 24 you can do it!
@@skywalk78none94 Nice! Those jobs are hard to come by in the post office I have been looking.
Try being a rural carrier who has delivered upwards of 30,000 Amazon packages, worked an extra 5-10 hours a week and not got paid a penny because they won't do a mail count! Last mail count was 4 years ago and several months after we started delivering Amazon!
Can you please inform us about the relationship of mail count to getting paid?
@@MarieAdventure Annually they will take a period of time, one week or two, and count every letter, every mailbox, every package, how many miles you deliver, and other essential things we do on a daily basis. From these numbers they will create an average and from that average our pay until the next mail count is created! Last mail count I averaged around 50 packages. Today I am usually between 100-160 and have had upwards of 260...
I can tell you would be awesome to work with
Hehehe, thanks!
You are def a hard worker !!
I’ve been trying to get a job at the USPS, just haven’t gotten the opportunity. Hopefully in the near future.
Update: Finally last week I got an invite to take test and I scored 78.20. You think I’ll get called for the finger print? Oh I applied for the Laboral Custodian graveyard shift.
Go Maintenance It's GREAT!!!
Update: Received an email from USPS asking permission to do an MVR Check......permission was granted..
Don't do it, plenty of other jobs out there. If you do apply for clerk or cca
Thats cool just don't put your eggs all in one basket...its not what you think it will be
Question do you know what are the schedules to work at the station vs the plant ? As a pse processing clerk?
Plant is 24/7 it has 3 shifts. Morning, afternoon and night.
@@MarieAdventure Whats the afternoon sheceduleL
@@MarieAdventure time wise
Maria your video reminds me of my coworker in the station she got paid of constant visiting the bathroom!! Who knows what she been doing? Well, to make the story short. She didn't get in trouble because she likes to kiss big crocodile stinks ass😫 sorry for my word. But today im ready to kick some ass but i just bite tongue and 🤐 mouth. Patience is a virtue. Well see..ill give it a try.
you sound like you're tired
I'm tired everyday :)
They kept me as MHA Tour 1
Congrats!
Marie Adventure thank you friend, i understand your video 100 percent I feel the way you was describing the job being boring which I mentioned in one of your videos plus I'm doing all the work and these young people who are regular employee just don't do the job but I just go in focus on myself do my job and collect the check the job is not hard just common sense
What does Tour 1 mean?
@@nigelmcgrruderr shift 1
Thank you Marie for the video. It's very helpful. By the way are you still working at usps now? you mention on your other video that you resigned. Sorry for asking but i know you can apply again right?
Thanks for your video. I start orientation on Tuesday.
Best of luck!
I apply for Rural carr assoc/they require me to completing the sf85 an email it back an I have clue where email ?
check your spam and junk folders as well...
all USPS communication is via email.
for the hiring process...good luck!
1 word why everyone is quitting. DeJoy!
Nah, ita been like this prior to him. Covid is the main reason, over worked and lazy workers preferring government help.
DeJoy made it worst. The laziness of some and unprofessional supervisor (not everyone) made the job harder and toxic.
@@MarieAdventure OH yeah for sure but my point was that the USPS is running is very dinosaur business. It needs to evolve and understand one thing - People work for the postal office, not live for it.
All the mando given, yet when do you see management set the standard? Many of them were former carriers, clerks, etc. Yet NONE or extremely rare, do you see any of them come in on their off days to fill in the spot vacant.
Respect is earned not given and majority of those turds want it, but don't return it.
How awesome would it be to have your post master delivering or helping out the clerks? USPS doesn't know a damn thing about moral.
I’ve seen retail managers work harder than Usps supervisors. I would walk pass my managers and se her on her cellphone 📱. But I do agree it a dinosaur business. Even her computer was glitching..lol she had to smack it to stop it from do that…smh.
@@cairo1077 Same, absolutely the same. During the holiday rush my office manager and one of the supervisors would "help" the clerks by just standing there and watch them.
Its like come on morons, lead by freaking example and atleast try to give a hand. Otherwise get the hell out of the way.
Over here they are so desperate that they are offering CC (not CCA) positions right off the bat. I am wondering why. Does it suck so much that nobody wants to even be a career city carrier?
It depends on the management.
Right now i'm at the annex building. They have us working one day a week for 4 hours. I wa slaid off and then rehired and don't even know if im on pse 360. But all i know is that i will get lalid off again may 27th. I got offered a position for rca but if i acccept i have relliquish my current position. I want to accept but i recently found out that 60 -80 people are about to get converted and i dont know what to do? I have bills to pay and this is frusfrating.
Talk to the supervisor about your situation and ask if you will be "converted" or not. I think that will help with your decision in taking the RCA position.
2nd day yesterday. I like it so far. But im in the warehouse. Have us doing the covid kits. Im worried about my 90 days. Someone said they will let us go after. I dunno whats going to happen.
No one knows what is going to happen, neither your supervisor. It all depends on the need of manpower in your plant. You might get transferred to. Don't worry about the 90 days, maybe you may resign before 90 days. Who knows. Live in the moment.
Thanks for sharing keep up safety my friend
You too
Hello,
Are you saying that mha is 6 days a week or use to be ? Also how many hours are you working now
It depends on your branch and supervisor. I now work 10 hours a day... my body is in pain every time I leave work.
@@MarieAdventure do you think the hours are heavy Because of covid or this is the regular thing
@@MaxPotentialGreatness 8-12 hrs depending on the volume of mails to be processed. They now require 12 hrs due to elections and holidays.
How do you check your application status?
Your voice is very relaxing.
Glad you think so!
Local services which be with be post offices you apply by?
Do you actually work at the plant or is this your job assignment? Just seems like with all their rules they would try to censor you if they are not on board with your social media information. These videos take a lot of time. Maybe they figure you can answer common questions so they done have too.
Maybe they think it was helpful.
Do TTO have to work in the facility?
In the facility that I work at, the TTO comes to the dock either to load or unload the parcels. They sometimes help the MHA to load the truck when they are in a hurry.
Question do you recommend to work for the usps now or after the holidays?
Sorry for my late reply. If you want some cash and have no important social plans or a family to worry about, just do the holiday season. Because they will work you 10 - 12 hours a day. I hear that nowadays, if you get hired for Christmas only, you can request to do parcels (packages) only, or mail and parcels. Don't take my word for it, though. For most people, working at USPS is a very physically demanding and stressful job. Good luck out there.
I applied for MHA accepted offer did background just waiting on fingerprints but I’m thinking it’s temporary cause when you accept the offer it don’t tell you how much you will get paid vs when I was applying for RCA it did .
MHA is $16.50 / hour plus overtime and paid holidays.
Hi Marie I took my fingerprints and after that a lady from HR call me to go to her office and bring my social security card and my driver license to make a copy. It's for Clerk Assistance position. So it's mean that I got the job? Because before they offer me a CCA POSITION I took my fingerprints and after that I did not hear anything from them. Tha is why I think it is a good sign that I gonna have the job
IF you pass the exam and criminal background, it means you are in. But the process takes longer depending on the number of people they already hired ahead of you. Pray on it.
@@MarieAdventure thanks 👍
❤️
Hi po ate nice to know you
Hi Barbz, nice to meet you here
my case I am MHA and I am going for 8 months. I started in a plant and now they changed us in a warehouse and we have 1 day off and 6 days of work at 12 hours a day.
Do you like to work 6 days a week? You must be making a good money for working 12 hrs. Can you tell us what you feel about your schedule?
Well about the schedule my first day was on tour one at 12:00 am. Then they changed us to tour 2 at 6:00 am so we stayed for 2 months with weeks they changed us to the warehouse. After that they put us on tour 3 and from there they closed tour 3 and sent us to tour 1 at 9:00 pm. And if it charges quite well but it is very tiring.
Great video I was fired July 22nd for having legal doctor notes I never stayed out illegally my postmaster verbal abused the employees she gives everyone a hard time she uses her authority to hurt people it’s so many 204 - b trying to hurt people as well
I know how it's like, recently we had the same incident. It really sucks.
Why do so many CCA's quit?
Work is hard, newcomers pick all the slack, you are everyone's biatch.
@@MarieAdventure Well, I am.41 with education and work ethic. It is my desire to convert from CCA to regular one day. Our list isn't long. Retire in perhaps...20 years.
@@mjp-bi3re I wish you all the best.
Hi Marie, is there an interview for the candidates? You didn't have an interview because of Covid? Is it?
MHA and MPA does not have interviews
WHAT ARE THOSE RED THINGS BEHIND YOU....GOING UP THE WALL....
It’s an effect
My sister began work for USPS at the Annex, whatever that means, what's your opinion on that job position and work environment because I'm thinking about it but I'm in school?
What city?
@@MarieAdventure Shreveport, Louisiana
Its work. I make good money in exchange of labor.
Thank you for the insight. Do you think it's advisable for me just came out from cancer treatment last year to apply in USPS?
I am currently Corporate Security officer/Receptionist.
Lynne_ ArmyMom70 I am not in the position to advise because I’m not a physician. Follow what your body tells you, the best I can do for you is pray for your health and stay blessed.
My application was already submitted.
Good luck!
Yal act like yal wasnt told this in orientation how that cca life is. What yal thought it was a joke. Your going to work 40+ hours and 6days a week, your told that …like it wasnt no surprise …this shyt is very demanding ,i started as a cca i worked on sundays to, i actually got bored with mail delivery as asked if i can try out being a supervisor….sorry for those who had shitty management but i know where i came from therefore my people are not disrespected
Thanks for sharing your experience 😊
How many times can I retake the test
one time
Once a yr for a higher score
Marie I got a 95 on my first try and it send an email that I had fail the assignment than I took two more test and got a 71 and another a 74 ? I’m confused so total I have 3 scores
Hi Marie. At the plant, do you only scan parcels or do you do anything else?
We only scan parcels for now. Maybe in a few months, they will have the letter sorter.
Marie Adventure then I’ll apply to a plant. I don’t like it here at the station. They tell us to do other things. I rather work long hours on the same thing!! Than doing other confusing stuffs.
@@lovefamouspeoplestar5787 Welcome to the club!
Lol you do work the similar tasks with the same concept.
at the station of course.
how does a school schedule fit in with working at the post office, is that really possible?
It is hard to study when you are dead tired from work. But nothing is impossible you just have to sacrifice sleep and comfort. Our class is via Zoom conference due to the pandemic. But next school year if the university opens, I have to physically go to school.
@@MarieAdventure dont do it
Been there, done that.
In summary: People are quitting because they are lazy and thought the postal service was an easy job. I work at fedex and go through the same thing. People think fedex is an easy job until they start delivering packages and one of the packages is 50 pounds and you have to carry it a couple flight of stairs. It's pure laziness on why people are quitting.
In fairness to my hardworking co-workers, they quit because the supervisor treats them like a hot garbage. To the lazy ones, they effing deserve it.
There short staffed.overworked and underpaid.im not lazy and moving on for better pay and better goals.it was the best job years ago but amazon has made post office a shitshow
@@ceelos69 Amazon? Out of those 3 Amazon is a dumpster fire. No way in hell would I even consider working at Amazon. I’ve heard horror stories from people who used to work there.
@@GenX_US_Marine i dont think you understood my comment.the post office gets thousand of amazon packages which now make a mail carries job to deliver a miserie.back then with no amazon package the job was a breeze but now with thousand more packages it makes the job miserable im employed by usps i see it with my own eyes.
The pay is also too low 18-19 bucks isn’t worth it. I’ll be quitting soon. Even though im part time they work me like a dog and on top of that over 90% of the time when im finally done they send me across town to a different office to help and I have no choice but to go there because it’s not optional. They even make me use my own car sometimes. How are you a billion dollar industry and can’t afford extra trucks? It pisses me off. They also tried to say I was slow but lately I been keeping track and I perform above average so they’re also trying to undermine me. It’s all true the supervisors treat you like crap
Marie, In 2018 the self TERMINATORS as I call them are the quitters who terminate themselves, it is better for the USPS because these are not the kind of people the USPS are wanting in their work force, don't you agree? Also the employees who are constantly missing from their assigned operation sounds like a Supervisor problem because they are not keeping track of their employees assigned to them, Do you agree on this? The First Line Supervisor is responsible for finding problems in his/her operation, if they do not want to supervise their operations correctly then they should be sent back to craft, this will be the MDO's problem then. A Supervisor cannot be buddie-buddies with their employees, once a supervisor becomes management, all that comes to an end, if a supervisor is letting an employee getting away with this, then the MDO needs to take action and put this supervisor down. The employee doing the not working thing, should be given some sort of discipline for falsifying their time sheets, not being where they are supposed to be, don't you agree? In my opinion the USPS needs to come up with a better way of vetting new employees, for one, I don't think HR is giving the correct information to potential new hires what is actually happening in real life as an employee, of course their job is to get the people in the door, in 2018 the amount of self terminators (quitters) was at 32.5%, that is a huge number, so that is why I say that whatever HR is doing is very wrong and that should be looked into and revamped, this is my two cents. Marie I hope you can continue to keep up with the young kids in the USPS. Alpha Mike Foxtrot, out.
I think because the public only sees the people at the front store post office and the mail man delivering mail to their homes, they assume that that is what post office work is. So now they will apply at the plant unknowingly the tasks involved, a repetitive and laborious task that young employees 18 and above find it uninteresting. My former young co-workers left early, every week people are resigning. But my mature and older co-workers stayed. For the permanent employees who have been there morethan 2 years, they could have been an example or someone to look up to. But some of them are lazy and the new comers who are hard working are picking up their slack and that is very demotivating. I work in tech before and we get rewarded for hard work and innovation. The permanent workers work twice hard so the new comers work their A off to compete. But's the reverse with government jobs. Regarding with supervisors, in the tech industry we like higher ups who are not aristocratic. Because our job is hard already, I am a computer programmer and web developer, I also develop mobile applications. This job is brain wrecking, so the supervisors who are senior programmers have empathy to us because he/she have been there too. But in the labor force, it is necessary to be a tough supervisor because there will be some workers who will abuse the system. They are the lazy ones and taking too long breaks. But they can't get fired if they show up everyday and work a little. Anyways, the best part of my job at the usps is I met employees who are in the page as I do. We are there to work and make money to provide for our family or in my case I'm paying for my own higher education. I'm taking a course at Stanford University.
@@MarieAdventure Marie, I enjoyed reading what you had to say, and yes the general public all they know is the window clerks and the carriers, they have no clue what it takes to get their mail to them (i.e. bills, junk mail, checks etc.) mail processing is and has always been the unknown work force that does not exist to the common person. In my time as a Supervisor, periodically I would give my employees official USPS Certificates of Appreciation along with a monetary award, these were for outstanding work, in my opinion , and they liked the checks also, I presented those awards in front of their co workers, I also gave Safety Awards, same thing as the Outstanding Awards but for Safety along with a check, 90% of my employees were either good or very good, the other 10% were my problem children that I had to deal with, you see a Supervisor has a progression to issue discipline, 1st warning, 2nd official discussion (this starts the paper trail to issue discipline), 3rd Letter of warning ( more paper trail), 4th 7 day Suspension, 5th 14 day suspension, 6th Termination, so you see difficult to terminate someone, I personally terminated 6 employees because I was determined to correct my operation, and keep it running smoothly, The Supervisors of today may not want to go through this process and as such just turn a blind eye, I that is the case they should be sent back to their craft. I sure your Tech job was very different then your previous tech job, this is a different animal, but the bad apples need to go whether employee, supervisor or mdo's. take care and as always from what hear on your videos, you are a keeper for the USPS, keep up the good work and use plenty of your balm for your sore muscles. Alpha Mike Foxtrot, out.