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Welcome to episode 1 of united. We scan my our voices may sound
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familiar but we'll go ahead and do the introductions.
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I'm Kirsten and tonight we have Bill Josh and Mike with us.
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Go ahead and say hi Bella. Did we lose Bill?
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I'm here. Drum roll.
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Yes. Let's try to have some fun.
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Josh run away. Yeah.
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Once we get the ball rolling and get ARP a, you guys can let us
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know what you want to hear talk about, you know, definitely will
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probably be doing the recorded episodes at least through the
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holidays because we know our schedules.
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Well yeah, aren't too friendly at the moment.
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And hopefully after the holidays.
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After the first year, maybe we can go ahead and start putting
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some lives on once in a while. Well, the schedules easy, you
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get up, you go to work you, come home, you eat, you go to bed,
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you get up, go to work, come home.
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Eat, you gonna pay? And that's why we're all on and
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that's why we're all sitting at home on a Sunday evening doing
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the recording because we couldn't do it any other time of
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the week we've tried. Or when we got back, I can't
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think of anything. So it's like that me my poster
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that said, you know, this is the season where we kiss, our
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families get by and say, we'll see you in January and they're
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not right. No, they are not.
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I pull forty eight and a half hours in five days.
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It's to the point in our office that we're so short already.
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I mean you know that they have this new thing about you have to
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be comfortable overall Parcels by 7 p.m. and you have to be off
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the street. No later.
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No later than 8:30 and and I just started laughing, it's like
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well how the hell you gonna accomplish your mission if those
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your parameters but we can't meet them folks.
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Yeah. It's it's going to be an
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interesting. Yeah.
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My office is I and I suppose a lot of offices are doing this.
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So I know it's not uncommon is allowing carriers to come in at
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six. Our start time is 8, so they're
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allowing carriers to come in at six and allowing them to run
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Parcels for two hours. they can't touch any may, you know,
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if you come in at six, you can only do Parcels, you can't touch
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any mail, you can't case anything, you can't do anything
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like that, you can only run parcels and When I when I became
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regular two years ago I took advantage of that I started
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doing that and then I found that and even last year I didn't find
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the parcel load to be too awful bad that I couldn't get my route
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done. In you know that the nine-hour
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eval without, if I didn't, if not not doing it, I could still
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get done within eval. So I stopped doing it because I
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just it just messed me up too much.
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So last year the couple times I came in early to do that, I went
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picked out what the parcels from the neighborhood.
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I was going to run loading the truck and there was another
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truck parked in front of me because we don't have the
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Parking spaces in our lot. And no one seemed to be able to
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know where the key was. So I couldn't leave building
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anyway now. So, I just started kissing me.
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Now everybody got that alleged email from that alleged outfall,
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didn't they yes? Yes we did, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Get you want to start complaining and breathing that?
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Well here's our thing. Specially I living in North
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Eastern, Michigan is, you know, the roads get slick and icy.
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And I'm in an area where if you're rolling up on somebody's
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house at 6, a.m. they may meet you at the door with a shotgun.
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Yeah, you know, or it's so I see and unsafe and dark out there.
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I've delivered early in the mornings like that, and I know,
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every single one of the carriers are my office prefer not to
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anyone in the past. We've always had at least the ox
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carrier, was able to go provide existence.
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But, you know, now that we only have two RCA's myself and one
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other one and I am running the Oxford.
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My rocks are out with every other route in the office.
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We don't have that extra person to help when do assistance with
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packages. No, no people don't disappear.
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They don't exist anymore. Exactly.
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After worried, all the way we're coming back now.
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No, not my office now. Yeah, we have the same problem,
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because, you know, we have, we have 50 routes in my 50 routes
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between my two opted to offices, my town.
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We have 50 routes. And now we're down to.
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I think I heard we're down to 13.
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Leave Replacements. So we just had well my RC a
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transfer to another office. We had another RCA Jump ship and
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went to became a PSE. And I think I heard that there
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was another one quit or his last day was last Friday, the day
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before day before yesterday. Yeah, well we're we're in a
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similar boat here. I and I'm guessing I haven't
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seen a seniority with and so long to to know what the numbers
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are. I think we're at about 50 RCA's
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Maybe. 15 to 20 pts for 260 routes.
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Give or take a few, right? So but I was that I was taking
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doesn't matter, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was I was
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telling something. When I what I transferred to
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this office, six years ago it always seemed like we were at.
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We always seem to somehow be able to maintain like 50 when I
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got here. We had 42 routes and 42.
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RC He and 21 RCA's. We always seem to be right
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around 50 percent and that you know sometimes a little more
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sometimes a little less than that always that 50%.
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More number seem to be worked pretty good for us.
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But you know here recently you know when we lost FSS and 26 of
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our routes what overburdened and you know we just Suddenly grew
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in Leaps and Bounds, we had in a two year period.
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We had 66 leave Replacements become regulars in 2 years.
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Yeah, and I just don't know and I don't know.
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I we don't have a current seniority list of either and I'm
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not sure. I'm not sure when folks are
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preparing to are going to get going to retire.
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I know that my case neighbor says she's got like three more
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years and then she's gone. Let's leave the post office
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mates it to those three years. Yeah yeah yeah let me know it.
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Somebody overheard a conversation with a district
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manager and they blatantly just said I don't know that we can
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meet these objectives or goals for Christmas.
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And not realistic. Well, you know, here's the thing
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I was, I was picking my car up from the shop the other day
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after work and they were, haven't they?
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The TV station, they had the local news on and they were
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talking about the Christmas and they were hiring for that.
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They had enough seasonal, help for this, for the, for the
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holidays and they were tapped. And I've said this before, they
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keep touting this number, They've converted all of these,
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whatever you want to call them non-career, pre career
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part-time, we've converted, all of these non-career employees to
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Career positions, and I'm like, well, that that's nice that you
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have more people getting full-time benefits but that
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doesn't address the labor shortage.
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No, you know, there's they're still, you know, you know, we're
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still short. Art, you know, whatever it is if
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we're down to 13, there were down to them.
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Were short 30. We were down like 37 RCA's in
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our office. Hmm.
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So Said, well, yeah, but we converted some of them to PT F.
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So it's like, well, okay. If you're saying that that
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covers, you know, we have, I think we have 6 PTs in our
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office now and between the two offices.
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So if you're safe, you give them each five routes, that covers
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30, is that what you're saying? So those, those are covered And
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that's no, no no that doesn't make sense.
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Go and they're on the right side of the table and you fly them
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over to the left. okay, even though you still have four
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beans, they're better off better off than what?
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Yeah, well better off than they were before, but you're still
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screwed. It's to you're thinking of in a
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negative way. Oh, really.
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Looking at it. Realistically, I thought it was
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just me and I thought I was just applying comments out.
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Damn it Derek. Yeah.
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JC wait. We all know, we all know if it
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makes sense, the federal government does the opposite.
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Yeah, you would you would think I've worked with the government
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long enough to know that as a say, your veterans out there but
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do that too. That's it doesn't have to make
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sense. I was just
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Jumbo shrimp, you know, they're just small.
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You idiot. Yeah.
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But yeah, you years ago, I got caught.
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I put a sign on our door. It said common sense and common
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courtesy stop here. Sounds about, right?
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Yeah. I got in a little trouble for
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that one. You know.
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I would not keep those laughing. It didn't matter.
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Yeah. But right folks, I mean, you
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know, you can't cry about it because it doesn't help, you
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know, no, I've gotten, I found this, I found this posted one
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day and a Facebook page that post a related, but it really
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kind of described exactly where I'm at right now.
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And let me find it. Here it is.
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It's called fuck strated. When you're so frustrated that
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you're truly, don't give a fuck. That is where I am at right now
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and have been. I mean last Monday, when I
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walked into the office and I saw what I was walking into on that
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48k route. I'm just like at that point.
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I'm like, yeah, if I don't get all the office till noon, it is
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what it is. You know, at this point it's
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there's nothing more. I can do, you know, we just take
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out strike but yeah, I was like this is this right?
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I hear this explains it when you're so frustrated that you
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truly don't give a fuck. And that's exactly where I'm at
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right now. Yeah.
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Yeah, I was, I was that I was that way.
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I mean, this political season it wasn't as bad as I mean, it was.
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I mean, it got bad. It got ridiculous with the
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number of ads and everything, it was the same, but Einsteins
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Brewing, over my office. Yes.
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Yeah, same here. But it just got to the point
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that's like, Look, I basically have by the time I do these.
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It's it's like having a full coverage.
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Yeah. So I just started casing, casing
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them all up, casing everything up.
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And then just basically saying look if I case everything up,
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Regardless of how long it takes me to the office, I'll be back
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in about three three to four hours now were you getting yours
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that were coming in? Reverse order to Some are I had
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a couple? I mostly they would come in in,
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in route order, in DPS, order. I had a couple from the same
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groups that always seem to come in, in reverse order.
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Yeah. Some say, it was usually the
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same ones, the same groups, the same.
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Yeah, political action committees, and we're sending
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those out. We're from the last box up that
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of corn. Mhm.
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What was that? I said, most of mine were coming
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in. Reverse order.
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The last box first and the bottom was the first box.
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No. Yes.
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But you know it's like we were saying before we got on before
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we started recording, I've already been mandated for
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Friday's Mike a day and I've already been mandated to work
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next Friday. And I'm probably just going to
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go ahead and just just plan on working my Fridays throughout,
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you know, and you know, we may as well they're going to, you
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know, it's our five money anyway so I may as well may as well do
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it. But that's the funny part
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because, you know, I'm not on the overtime list.
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So, of course, I would naturally quit, you know, an artery in
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there. Tell me.
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But you can't use our three, get some wine options would because
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it's automatically defaulted to our fight.
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Yeah. And I said what, and they said
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yeah. It's it's a it's a bad
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situation. No kidding.
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They're just paying us. The overtime period.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And I And I posted that on. I asked that question in rural,
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carrier group on Facebook, you know, would you, would you
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rather just just do away with our three and just have, just if
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you work your relief day, just get our five, just get the
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money, well, wouldn't you? Wouldn't you like them to get
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rid of the fsla? So we don't have to sit there
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and worry about, you know, paying back time.
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Well, yeah, this year I didn't, they actually paid me $667.
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And 64 cents. Because ice evaluations.
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Yeah. Well I wasn't, I didn't get
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anything back. I didn't know anything either
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but I I was I managed. I managed to you know use enough
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leave to stay under. So I don't play that game.
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Yeah. Luckily I have not had 2020 80
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or 20 to 40 issues at all. Oh, I don't either.
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They just pay me. Yeah, it's not an issue.
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I'm saying I haven't I haven't come close enough that they are
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like oh you need to start taking time?
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No, I haven't I have had that either just just from natural
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you know, taking a day here taking a day.
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They're taking advantage of the fact.
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I did have an RCA and not working my day off when I when I
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did. But on Facebook and one of the
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groups of couple weeks ago as also one that posted that their
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supervisor told them they weren't 2080.
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Trouble. Alright projected.
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We all know that that's, you know, I mean what good that,
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that is what blue could that projection is right now?
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You know, we say to that object, this motherfucker.
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Yeah, you know, it's when you have to and you know, I do have
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the smallest office compared to you guys obviously with six
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regular routes and one, Ox route.
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And but still with the only have two RCA's and you have 4K routes
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to J routes and and the ox and what and to of the K routes of
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the RCA's. I have the five and one with my
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ox. And I have my POV Primary in
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which is funny is because since I got back from National when my
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regular went full-time on that route and I stepped up and took
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the ox route. I had only ran my primary route
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once in two months up until this past week.
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And yeah, I had not ran my route in two months that my primary
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route I should say because I've been running everybody else's
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routes in covering everybody else's routes literally.
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And yeah. So it was weird actually to be
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out on my old primary route, which I used to work so much
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under the now, we're retired regular and I did have I had a
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few people say, wow, it's great to see you back in.
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Like I don't know where the heck I was I'm like yeah.
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I don't know when I'll get to see you again, but it was nice
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seeing you and I had that. I ended up running at three days
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last week regular took a Tuesday off.
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He, he had some sick, leave. It was still built up because
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he's still in this first 90 days from designated 79 before.
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So he did have some sickly if he took a one day because he needed
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a day off and low, man on the totem pole gets forced to work
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and Wednesday. I was looking forward to just
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doing my Ox route and going home and have an easy day and he
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ended up getting into an accident on the route, the
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beginning of the rout so calls me.
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I was the first phone call he made.
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Yeah, yeah. All right, Mike.
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I thought it was maybe me but yeah, it is my audio.
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Thank you, Josh, I'm glad you're welcome.
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Hey, you want to know what karma is ladies and gentlemen?
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Karma is being on vacation this upcoming week up to the next
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Tuesday. Leaving a shitload of mail for
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your sub, which we don't have. And then catching covid on
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Sunday. Oh my god.
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Oh jeez. I feel so sorry for that.
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Son of a bitch. Wow enjoy your vacation
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motherfucker. We want to go down, come on.
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Yeah. You know, you're going to be
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gone for the next nine days and you got to pull that bullshit.
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Well, like I said, it's only covid if you test for it, right?
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The flu or the other respiratory thing that's going around.
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What the flu? No no.
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There's something else the RSV. Yeah, the wife
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wants the report. I heard there that they think
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that because of all of the Social distancing and isolation
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that it's bad because of all the isolation is distancing that we
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are not out experiencing these bugs or catching these bugs from
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just the normal stuff and that's why the you're not getting the
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exposure. Yeah, that's why.
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That's why it's spiking so bad this year.
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No. Over the organism burn earlier.
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You know, regards to like you. Look at the last two years.
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The blue has been non-existent. Yeah, of course, you look
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better. Well everyone's from wearing
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masks or isolating or keeping their distance or everyone so no
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one was starting it. But this year now that
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everything's quote and quote, just about back to normal.
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It's probably going to be, you know, outrageous.
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The numbers. I don't know.
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I think I'm catching it. I'm Not Afraid.
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Are there every had it twice. Oh, I just I just drink a lot so
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I don't care. Yeah, I don't think I've had it.
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Although, I will tell the story that I came down with a came
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down with a sore throat and I had it for a week, the kind of
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sore throat that you feel like you're swallowing glass.
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Oh, and I hate those and After about a week, I went to my
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doctor and I said, you know, barely able to talk all that
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good stuff and they examined me. They looked at, yep.
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Your throats inflamed. Yep.
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Your your, your your, your nodes are in are swollen.
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What do you want to do? Is that I just want to feel
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better. And they wrote me a pretty and
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they wrote me a prescription for antibiotics and imprint, and a
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steroid. To help with the inflammation.
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They didn't test me for covid. They did not test me for strep
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throat. They just wrote me, two Scripts.
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And, you know, took those and, you know, after after about two
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days, like my, I start feeling a lot better.
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I finished the program. I was, I was over it.
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I had a co-worker who said she had the same symptoms and tested
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and she had covid like, well, What the hell am I?
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A bad guy for not going and getting tested.
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You know, I don't know. I didn't ask, I didn't ask, I
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didn't ask for the test and they didn't volunteer to give it to
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me. So, You remind me of the Amish
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people. go ahead, ask Why are you hiding?
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You feel like the Amish people bill because if you don't watch
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the news you can't catch it. Yep.
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You know. that just now saying, you know, I'm just I just, I
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really don't, I really don't think we want to get into like
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like a political discussion here and this, but it just, it just
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I'm just amazed at how quickly people were willing to how
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willing people were to use this to take control and how willing
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people were willing to give up. Control over there.
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There their lives. Yeah, over this.
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I mean there was a there was a point where I was when it first
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came out they said well, two billion people are going to die
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from this. I said okay, well maybe we
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should be a little more cautious about this.
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But when it was they kept somebody said nope, they're just
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going to keep pushing it. They're just going to keep
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pushing it back and pushing it back.
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We got to keep doing stuff and and after the first pushback I
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said that the right I'm not gonna be scared of this.
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It's just how scared do you want to be of this?
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So now, and I say that because I know people who have died I
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think we all do. I think we all do, the co I
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co-worker lost her husband to it.
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But again, he had my understanding is he had
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comorbidity. So he had some of those other
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things that made, it made him more susceptible, you know?
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It put one of my sisters-in-law in the ICU for two weeks.
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So there was a disease out there that was causing problems.
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Okay, I and I am by no means trying to say.
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Oh that oh this didn't exist. All it's all made up and know
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there was something out there. But people took advantage I
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think that people took advantage of this.
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This Disease being out there. This thing that was making
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people sick Right? I can argue that one.
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No, I mean, you know and you know, I'll tell you what,
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there's several times that I didn't feel all, you know, get
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the in shit and you know, you know, I still want to work but
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the thing of it is that, you know, it was no different to me
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than than if I caught the flu, you know.
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And you know, I felt no, no no more pain or eggs or anything
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else then I I would is if I had the flu.
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The oh, you know what? Well, I got it in September.
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The flu. I had team three years ago was a
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lot worse than that. And I went and got tested and
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then I stayed home work because I didn't want to give it to
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others because we had a quite one of our clerks, each
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70-something years old. She got it.
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I think last year she was out for like, two, two and a half
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months. yeah, for those that don't know, there was a little
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bit of a parting gift from a National Convention again this
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year for some, we'll see what happens next year, back in,
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Grand Rapids. Hopefully it's not a repeat of
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the Grand Rapids from 2018. Yeah, there's disease actually,
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it was H1N1, but yeah, I mean, we yeah, covid actually was a
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bit of a parting gift for for many National Convention.
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I was one of the lucky ones that again did not get sick.
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So even though two of the people I roomed with to get it I was
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lucky enough not to Yeah, and you're talking about the people
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who've been out a bit, you know, I always taken consideration how
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many people have played this system too.
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Oh yeah. It was funny as hell for six
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weeks. And I'm sitting there going God,
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this must be really bad that then I found out who it was,
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nice it out, okay? That makes sense.
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You know, I mean, we're talking about people who take advantage
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of the system. These two are at the top of your
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lips and, you know, it didn't even seem out of the ordinary
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that somebody said, well, they've been out as like no
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shit. I mean, yeah, that makes as much
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sense as saying, you know, it's going to rain today.
33:14
It's a possibility. We had one of our city carriers
33:20
Supervisor was telling me they put in for the dependent care.
33:24
You know, sit home and the carrier wasn't showing up on
33:29
Saturday. So wait a minute.
33:31
What would you do on a Saturday for the school.
33:33
Wasn't out at the school wasn't closed. that that save, is that
33:42
the guy who called out because he had childcare problems at
33:45
home and it was a Saturday, well, Under normal circumstances
34:00
you would have had to find something going on the weekend.
34:03
Yeah, so get your ass to work. Is that pretty much what they
34:07
do. Changing gears a little bit.
34:16
Something recently. Friday, I got the email from UPS
34:21
saying it was going to be delivered today by 9 p.m.
34:25
Via the post office. And it has a big button that
34:30
says track your package. So I click that and as of a few
34:36
minutes ago it's still saying label created.
34:44
Yep. That means your shipper hasn't
34:56
shipped it yet. Yeah.
35:02
Yep, that's what that means. We can stop looking for it.
35:08
It's all get there when it gets there.
35:10
Yeah, yeah. But we don't.
35:13
Yeah. Oh, I almost did get in trouble
35:16
the other day to do, get in trouble.
35:19
Bill, really? All right?
35:21
I know, I know, I know, I'm glad it was sitting.
35:23
Yeah, when you said that, Non post office packages.
35:42
Aren't ya non post office, the ups fdle's and all the other
35:48
ones were not supposed to bring them back anymore.
35:51
Well, I was doing this route. That's dad.
35:53
Is down the carrier. I brought back. 23 package.
35:59
Oh my gosh. So so of course, being, I take
36:07
him back to where he was supposed to be in this throwback
36:10
are here and the supervising sitting there going Phil I
36:13
thought we have a directive. Not to I said yeah, I'm not
36:16
listening to it but it's a prestige.
36:21
That's no director. Can send it back to the shipper
36:26
to read your liver? Yeah, well, she says, the boom
36:29
said to do this. I said, I'm not listening to him
36:31
either. You know, we, we had a carrier
36:36
recently and I like, so we don't have a lot of this issue in my
36:40
area. But recently, we had a carrier,
36:42
bring a FedEx package that FedEx had dropped off and mailbox.
36:48
It was one of those houses where the boxes on Run Road.
36:50
They live down the little It'll to track road down there and so
36:55
she brings it going. What the hell it was in my box,
36:58
taking up room for my stuff. And it's a, no, you did the
37:02
right thing by bringing it back. And then the next day,
37:06
supervisor postmaster, look at it and they're like, well, what
37:10
the hell we gonna do with it? Here, go take it back.
37:12
She's like, well, how do I get credit for?
37:14
Drop it, it back off. I said unscannable parcel.
37:17
Thank you. Yeah, that'll work.
37:20
Yeah. She's like really, I said that
37:22
exactly what it is. Go ahead.
37:25
Yeah. Yeah.
37:42
Just to have a copy of my faith of all the important ones.
37:46
You know, like throwing your basis on a daily basis.
37:50
Yeah, especially the 12 hour rule I've got all those in my
37:55
phone. Yes.
38:02
Yeah, yeah, there's many times has my phone as you know, fuck
38:07
me over, I don't trust it. So I pray on hard copies.
38:11
Yeah, I just, I don't, I don't trust technology.
38:14
I true do that too. But I guess what?
38:16
The whole mou with regulars, helping out, and, and Sunday,
38:22
parcel, stuff. Supervisor had a question
38:24
yesterday I had printed out at one time, what happened to what?
38:27
I don't know, but I was like, yeah, I got got it right here as
38:31
she goes. Can you send that to my email so
38:33
I can print it out? I said, certainly, what's your
38:35
email? And she's like, yep, I said
38:38
There You Go, set. You got it.
38:40
She's like, thank you. So me and I'm breaking up again.
38:48
I am going to have to work on my settings.
38:53
Do - as we work out the Cork's. Stop by, and you stop by your
38:59
electronics from Radio Shack. From where?
39:05
Very nice. That's what I was going to say.
39:08
Is there any Radio Shack's left? The last one?
39:11
I knew of closed up many years ago.
39:17
That was my point, haha. Uh-huh.
39:26
Yeah, it's always nice to have those things right to break in
39:29
your hand. You're available to give them
39:30
and say now can't do that. Yeah, bill, this is a directive
39:37
from the Puma. This is from Washington DC.
39:39
Where do you think outranks? You, you know?
39:42
All right, you're tired of arguing with him about it, you
39:46
know, just show me print. But your poom said, that's it.
39:54
Just because he's an idiot and he's above, you doesn't even
39:57
right? I did get another settlement on
40:01
his own 120-day letter and my good old Dr. Did what I expected
40:08
settled for language. And you wonder why we feel like
40:14
we're beating our fucking heads in the dirt for no reason
40:18
whatsoever dead to right. Hadn't have everything
40:23
documented. Yeah, it should be a clear cut
40:26
wind. You should be getting yellow
40:28
$100. You know, per week that I
40:30
requested because you know, they didn't, you know, take care of
40:34
the situation and he settles for language Yeah, you want to know,
40:43
want to know why stewards are getting pissed off?
40:46
Because shit like that. Above, you happening every damn
40:49
time. It's almost like this.
40:51
This Dr. Is on their fucking bed.
40:54
They roll. Ya think oh, most is right.
41:07
But yeah, that just, you know, you do all that work, you know,
41:11
provide on documentation and everything and they they give
41:15
you that. Yeah.
41:15
It's like are you kidding me? I mean, why bother why bother
41:24
the yellow you doing it? Well, I do it because this is
41:27
all this, I guess somewhere, you know your postmaster would
41:35
actually have to be in the office in order to upset our oh
41:39
sorry I'm talking about mine. Yeah.
41:46
Sounds like a personal problem. May be there.
41:48
Working remotely. Sure, why not?
41:56
I don't know how you want. Yeah
42:16
and just put up a we're hiring. So we don't keep it up.
42:20
We don't have the heroes work here sign, but we do have two
42:24
were Hiring signs out there. We do, we do have a, we're
42:31
hiring sign up at our office, do you know where it is?
42:38
It's all the entrance doors from the from the loading dock.
42:43
We've got two banners one in the entrance Drive in one of the
42:46
exit drive out front. We've had numerous we've had
42:54
several job. Fairs.
42:57
But with no advertising. So and when and when people
43:06
comment and if people do come in because you know, there's a sign
43:10
on the door like an eight, by eleven eight by ten printed out.
43:16
Piece of paper on the door that says job fair from.
43:20
I don't know, 10 a.m. or 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on this Tuesday or
43:25
what not and people do come in all that's done.
43:30
Is they get handed? A pamphlet that tells them where
43:35
to go online to hide to apply. And that's it.
43:43
Oh, isn't it, though? Before or like in our office.
43:49
Where did they do the job fair? And they're in the advertising
43:52
for cca's only if it's like I last one was plc's and RCA's but
44:00
we're good on the city Side. They keep smelling stuff.
44:05
So I don't know what you're talking about.
44:07
Hey, let me right. But you, but you but you are
44:15
right. I mean, you know, these people
44:17
do their, a special kind of stupid.
44:21
Oh, I'm telling you. They really go out of the way to
44:26
prove their ineptitude. I agree.
44:29
It's like no you don't have to really, we believe you dumbass.
44:36
Oh yeah, we believe you will take you at your word and trying
44:41
to train a new. A newcomer on the biggest route
44:47
in the office. That also happens to be the most
44:50
parcel, have a route in the office.
44:54
Yeah. That didn't work out so well.
44:58
He left after five days of training.
45:14
It was my first. My first trainee is the o.j.
45:20
I, and I thought he, I mean, he was finding a Groove that third
45:26
day out with him and bad, then the next two times, he worked,
45:33
he only took half of the route, Out on his own.
45:36
And that second day, he just come back and said, yeah, this
45:40
isn't for me and left You're breaking up again, really bad.
45:48
Am I? Okay, I'll have to work out some
45:50
bugs. Yeah, it was me.
45:55
I was drinking but it's not it myself out.
46:13
Okay, somebody work. Then you know, I've never had
46:16
that it try it. They tried it Saturday morning.
46:23
At work and I did not say that. I'm not denying it.
46:40
All right. Did they like it?
46:43
Oh God, you can put cream in there.
46:59
You don't need any sugar. Just put the screwball in there
47:03
and I do like the run the RumChata in place of creamer at
47:09
times too. Yeah, that one.
47:12
I gotta try. I haven't tried that one.
47:13
That one is good. Yes, Bailey's.
47:15
Of course, you know, I like let me tell you something.
47:26
No, we're not supposed to be drinking at work.
47:27
I'm not. You are.
47:29
Yeah, this is all disclaimer. This is all hypothetical
47:41
situations and I lose actually happens.
47:44
Yeah, we do not condone the use of illicit illegal, or illicit
47:49
substances on the job. We don't why not?
47:55
Not because that would be wrong. Hear no evil.
48:03
See. No evil speak.
48:04
No evil. Pretty much assume that we can.
48:10
Yeah. Well, I, you know it was a
48:14
harmless situation. All right guys, you ready to
48:21
wrap it in for the night? All right.
48:27
Yeah, we can wrap it up. All right, we're going to try
48:30
and keep these short and sweet to begin with.
48:33
You can't, you probably got some white, you know, it's all good.
48:47
Package covered up with enough tape.
48:51
Hahaha. Are you a duck tape wrapper?
49:02
Go stand in the corner. That was bad.
49:13
I think it was my good. I think it was my brother.
49:18
One. Christmas wrapped a present was
49:21
zip ties. Well, I open up the wrap, my
49:28
wife's presence in duct tape. Yeah, he has this habit of
49:32
breaking into them to find out what's inside.
49:39
Do you do you use pretty colored idea?
49:46
It was famous. Now it's all versicolor.
49:58
My dad was my. Dad was famous for wrapping
50:00
Christmas presents like those Russian nesting dolls.
50:07
Yeah good one. I got my dad.
50:19
Got Got one year, when I was young, got my mom, a exercise
50:24
yoga mat thing foam thing for Christmas, we'd like nothing put
50:28
it in this big box. Well, put it in a box inside of
50:32
a big box and put bricks on both ends of the that bigger box.
50:37
And you literally there's a picture of my mom, my Christmas
50:41
morning holding up a brick that she pulled out of the box.
50:47
Yeah, my dad did that one time to that.
50:50
He ordered something. For Christmas and it didn't
50:54
come. So he cut out a picture of it
50:57
tape that to a brick wrapped a perk up in the box.
51:02
That's great. This is coming.
51:08
You were talking about the nesting dolls.
51:10
Might, again I've done that, where, you know, I've had 14
51:13
boxes and when one would get them to the bottom and there's a
51:16
note saying it's upstairs. Yeah, ideas ideas, what you
51:25
said, it was a gift. Not a white elephant, John, it's
51:29
great being an asshole. Yeah.
51:33
Yeah, but you're a lovable asshole, it's all good.
51:39
Thank you. Thank you.
51:40
You're welcome. All right guys.
51:47
Yeah, your postmaster pile of me as much as I love you.
51:52
Oh God. Alright Josh any hey Josh you
52:00
got any final words this evening.
52:08
It's that time of year. Even though we're not hot out
52:21
anymore, you still need to hydrate.
52:25
And I will see y'all next time, Mike.
52:35
It is, it is headlamp season. Put a battery in your headlamp,
52:40
I know it starts. It really starts to get
52:44
noticeably darker here in the Midwest about 2:30 3:00.
52:51
So you know, don't be afraid to don't be afraid to use a head
52:56
lamp or something to illuminate. So you can see what the heck
52:59
you're doing. Use the dome light in your truck
53:03
if it's not working, right. It up cargo light works but
53:09
Yeah, make sure your headlamp Works, put a new battery in it,
53:12
if it doesn't, make sure your headlights, your dome lights
53:15
work, your cargo light works but in the end folks they're just
53:21
they're just Parcels. You know, I know there's going
53:27
to be a lot of pressure to get them out, get them delivered but
53:31
they're just Parcels, you know, they can be real.
53:38
Take me. Placed you cannot reach.
53:43
So take that for what it's worth for someone else.
53:47
It was boasting about having the flashlight gloves, and then
53:54
Kristen was if she still there. Read.
54:04
Configuring my mic. Yes, I have a couple pairs
54:08
actually, I got one set first in.
54:13
I'm here, I'm here a there. Yeah, I had to, I went and
54:20
reconfigured. My microphone plug in Real
54:23
quick. Yeah.
54:43
But you built any last word? Well, is it public service
54:47
announcement? If you have an FF V you don't
54:52
like yeah. Well your overhead light in the
54:55
air passenger area, reflects off the windshield.
54:59
Not allowing these you to see outside when it's dark.
55:02
So, if you take a piece of cardboard and you kind of
55:06
recorder Circle at four and a half inch diameter, with a
55:10
radius of the four and a half per 4 and 1/4 inches, not And
55:13
F4. It kind of light reflector which
55:22
keeps the light off the windshield, making it easier to
55:25
see outside. This is a professional service
55:28
announcement. I do this every year.
55:32
Same way, I cover up my radiator so that you know I can get some
55:35
heat in the damn truck. Yes don't cover up the small
55:39
little radiator to that's for your transmission, cover up your
55:43
big radiator and that way you get more heat into your truck.
55:47
Other than that, folks go out be safe.
55:51
Get home to your loved ones. We may stay there only
55:55
particles, they're not worth your life and you're sure as
55:59
hell not getting paid to put your life on the line for the
56:01
Post Office. And if you think you do, just
56:05
what they'll have you replaced tomorrow.
56:07
So, you know, don't don't sweat it.
56:11
Do the best you can and then go home because you're the most
56:14
important delivery of the day. Can you guys hear me?
56:17
Member member two words. A live mic.
56:20
Don't get stressed. Cause it, can you hear me now?
56:26
Yes. All right.
56:28
I was plugging my microphone it. Yes.
56:29
I have those finger gloves that have the lights on the thumb and
56:35
the index finger, and I absolutely love them because I
56:39
can turn them off. I can turn them on.
56:42
I could see him as I'm flipping through the mail, I can see it.
56:45
When I go put the mail in the Box, you know, I got vision of
56:48
the box if I have to use them to walk up to the door.
56:51
There, Bright, I have a Pair that are rechargeable.
56:57
And then I have another one that isn't rechargeable, just a
57:01
battery replacement. But I love my rechargeable ones
57:05
and I made sure that they're both fully charged.
57:07
And I've already used them a couple times this year.
57:10
So yeah, definitely. Maybe I'll post a link to where
57:15
you got those from, got those from Amazon.
57:20
Now that what, that was Amazon? Yeah, I know our Nemesis, but
57:31
once in a while, you kind of have to break down in order
57:34
something there, but, you know, I've seen ads all over Facebook
57:38
for them. I would definitely, they they're
57:42
awesome. I can't speak highly enough
57:44
about. Um I'm not a headlamp person
57:46
because I'm short and like with the overhead lights in the FF
57:51
he's and sometimes the LVS that stuff reflects right off.
57:55
You can't see what's out in front of you.
57:59
I've almost hit dear when I've had even just using the cargo
58:02
lamp in the back. Yeah, so I will post a picture
58:08
and some links of some they not that expensive.
58:12
So if anybody's interested Stood, I'll get those up on the
58:16
Facebook page. But other than that stay safe, I
58:22
mean the season is creeping up on us and is already here for
58:27
some of us. So be safe out.
58:29
There will probably will. Like I said, we're going to be
58:32
recording our first several episodes until at least after
58:34
the holidays, and then, we'll try and go live.
58:37
Anybody has ideas topics will have, we've got the Discord
58:42
Channel, we've got the Facebook page, so just give us a shout
58:46
out and we'll be happy. Me to toss things up around for
58:53
you. And on that note, we will talk
59:01
to you guys next time. Have a good night.