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Episode 2 Christmas OT and Daily Struggles · United We Scan

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Thank you. Welcome to episode 2.
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How are you guys doing tonight? Mom, I'm doing.
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Well, sat around all day watching football, so I can go
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to bed early and have at it tomorrow.
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I'm doing pretty well. Myself until the realization
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that I actually have to go back to work tomorrow sticking a
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little bit ago. I'm loving life.
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I I go in every day, I called confirmation and stress.
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And I laugh at him and they say, can you help one another route
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and then I just throw their rules back in her face and say
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no can do and and they do you not being very nice.
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I said, I never was yeah, you know, but we need to know about
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your constipation. I mean, you know folks, yeah,
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I'm not the one that made these rules.
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You are, you know, I have to live by him.
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I have to work by him and guess what?
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I'm by the book. Especially when the book Works
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in my favor yep, I was just telling somebody the other day
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I'm like, I know there. I know there are rules to their
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game. I know how to use their their
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brains than for their dream again, and they don't like that.
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And my situational knowledge is now he knowledge is power power,
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controls the money, and that's why the national board has been
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sitting there for years. Yeah, we just laughing at us as
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the crap. That's why I might get those
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hats made up thing. We the craft or pissed off.
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Once you start putting them on Facebook to sell, you know, my
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situation got even a little bit more interesting because this
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past Monday, our other RCA quit. So that leaves me myself and I
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luckily my office is not as big as your guys's.
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Thank goodness at this point, but that still leaves me
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covering all six routes in the aux route on a, nearly daily
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basis. Now you're you're the senior sub
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2. I yes, I have been such a
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temper. I've been the senior substance
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September when the last one we have regular, but there is
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really yeah, really senior now, But that's beside the point.
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I mean you know it's pretty sad that I see more offices having
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problems and that offices that are well off.
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You know, I did, I do know of an office that is Just over 50
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miles away. She's our state chaplain.
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She's also secretary treasurer of our local county unit.
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Her office actually has a full complement of RCA's.
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Now, I am jealous. Yeah, because it's me myself and
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I and it's not like we have anybody.
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We can borrow the office just you know, 15 miles.
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South of us has no subs. The, there's nobody that we can
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even borrow to help out So I'm about ready to say.
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All right, we need to start training the CCAA over there and
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some of these rural routes because I'm getting pretty.
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Pretty desperate at the moment. He's been, he's been talking
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about, maybe switching over to the rural Sykes, I think he sees
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where the, where the hours are now, is on the rural side, and
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not so much City side. When you've got two full and
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one, auxiliary City route with two full-time carriers, a PT F,
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Ana CA so, Yeah, our newest come our new sub the pieces.
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I need to get hours. I says, don't worry, I says say
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goodbye to your family cuz you're not going to see him till
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after January 1st. Yeah.
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And he started laughing and Isis.
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What's so funny. He goes you're serious and I saw
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you had serious and it didn't work as big seven days for this
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in. September's we came back from
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the convention. I've been working nearly six
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days. As a week for most.
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Well, since probably April, when it was just myself in the other
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sub, after our one left eye, I do wish her safe travels.
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If she listens, they are moving across the country this weekend.
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So but you know and then he went regular why?
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We were well, the day I was coming home from convention.
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He officially went full-time and that bump me up and we know we
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had one other sub that hired on this summer and he's the one
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that just left. So, So yeah, it's you know, I'll
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have eight years in come in a couple weeks and this it's one
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of those Christmases. I was like, this is payback from
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last year when my daughter came down with covid at Thanksgiving
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time and they may quarantine for 14 days.
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So I got to sit at home. During the beginning Christmas
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over time. So I kind of guess this is
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payback and then the other one is careful what you wish for.
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Because when you have that one particular person who really is
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not a team player and can't hold their own and you're still
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having to clean up after him. And your think I might as well
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just do this job myself. Well, now I am so it's my
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situation. Yeah, we have a nice route where
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it is. Young lady has some family
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issues has failed to Holly AP. She's got a letter warning for
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attendance, already. She got a letter of warning for
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screaming at the postmaster on the floor.
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And then she took Wednesday off because Thursday's are dropped
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day and then turned around came in Friday.
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Took out half the, you took all the mail brought half of it back
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and then called out Saturday and I'm sitting there going well,
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and I have to defend her You know, what do I say?
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Yeah, she's a lazy inconsiderate.
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Bitch. I mean what do you want me to
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say? I mean, there's not much I can
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do get out. Oh, she has family issues.
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You have been telling her for a month and a half to get a hold
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of EAP, you know, get get something on paper showing that
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you're having issues. And, you know, it's like having
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FMLA but, you know, for, you know, emotional or family issues
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at least get some documentation down.
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So I can fight for you. Oh yeah, exactly.
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I tell, you know, I tell my co-workers all the time I can't
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do this for you. If you want something to change
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I need stuff II. Need something in black and
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white. I need proof in order to back it
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up. Or like white, my non-union
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member going, you know, I think I'm owed hours for being over
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2080. Ice is really as we want, you
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get the form so you can track the hours.
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He says, how do you get that? I see.
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All new Union web page Bill. I'm not a union member.
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I said sucks, doesn't it? Of course, I gave it to him but
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you know, I made him. Wait a couple days.
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Because I'm like that what the benefits of membership or not
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pay your dues fine, you know? What is I get it?
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I really do. You know, I you know, We're like
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a welfare state. Yeah, we have to support
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everybody else and I'm tired of it.
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Yeah, there's actually there's actually a laborer for labor
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ruling saying that we have to provide information to the
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members who are represented by us because they have to live
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under the same terms of the contract.
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That's negotiated form. And I'm like, oh hell no, it's
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not really available for them to get.
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That's a shame that they can't get it.
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But I mean, you know what, dude, like I said, it's like being in
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a welfare state. You're paying for people not
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working, you know, same thing here.
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We're you know, providing information for the people who
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don't, you know, our members. How can they figure that they're
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in 2080 issues of the year just started over and out for last
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year? Oh well you know.
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Well okay as I say they try to give you a prize it's too.
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But how good is that after a couple weeks you know?
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They've already tried that in another office and I got a phone
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call about it and I said, you know that's I just laugh at them
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and I can't do that but I can't. You laugh at them?
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Two weeks ago. I saw someone posted on Facebook
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that they were both Masters supervisor.
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Someone said that, let them know that they were. 20 and having
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2080 issues of Mike. How?
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Yeah. How could you have already?
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You know, you got to wait until at least.
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I would say February before you can start getting a true
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representation of what your hours are, you know, projected
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hours. And even then that still early
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No. Yeah I think it's quite a
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better. Well you know it true that the
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problems it is that you know these people were getting nudge
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from both and the people above have no idea what they're
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talking about. So, you know, they're Lemmings.
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They're being told what to do and they're doing it without
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even understanding why? I mean, it did, you know, I got
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for supervisors have no idea what our contract is.
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Let's see how they turn around steak.
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They tell you. Well, I was told from above who,
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The postmaster, I got a postmaster.
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Who told you this? Well I got it from District who
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you got it from District? Yeah.
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Yeah. To get it in writing or an email
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or something like that. Let I want to know who Well, I
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can't tell you and we have every right to put a request in for a
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copy of that email. And exactly.
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It's like my postmaster trying to pull out the contract, the
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other day. And she's like right here and I
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said, no, that's not the new updated one because it hasn't
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been printed and bound and released to us yet.
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I said, I have my bound to copy from my printed copy from the
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union, which I let my supervisor broke because she wanted
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something to read to learn and educate herself and I let her
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know. I did want it back but I said
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here, I have a copy right here. Let me to explain to you what it
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says. But don't try to tell me you're
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pulling out an expired contract. And this is what it says when we
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have a new and updated one, especially for that section of
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leave that you're wanting to discuss with.
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I like the part where they sit there and say, well, this is
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what it means. No, that's not what it means.
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It's what it says, it's not what you think it means.
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Yeah, it says what? It says, it's in black and
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white. There's no, you, no, you no
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ambiguity. In regards to what it's Police
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say don't interpret it is that's in English already.
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Don't make up with a new meaning for the words.
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So were they supposed to come up with the our cam?
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And that has yet to be really? Yeah, I have yet to receive any.
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We've been our cam Yeah, I saw something on that in the wrecks
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thing for it, the other day, and it's like, wow, they're still
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working on it. But, you know, yet have that
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done before the wreck stuff studies done.
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All right, want to bet on it. I'll put I'll put 100 on there.
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Yeah, those are long shot. Very long shot.
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Yeah, exactly. It's like yeah you were talking
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about discussing the Christmas over time and second trips and
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the first thing you know, somebody said to me was, well,
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how do we get paid for second trips during Christmas ever
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time? I said by the hour, And they
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said well how do you record it on your 4240?
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Well, how do I know I'm getting paid for it?
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Well photocopy, your timesheet you dumbass are, you know, I'd
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the first thing. I first thing I told this new
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kid on Saturday morning. I I called him up Friday night
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at his house and told him you be there Saturday morning, first
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thing Saturday morning, I told him you make sure that you keep
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track of every hour. You get that that you were your
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green card when you sign the 4240.
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I said every day right at get into the habit of writing it
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down every day. I says because invariably it
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will disappear one day and your hours will be short.
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I said, so let's prevent it before it even starts.
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All right, and that's going to bring us to the Hot Topic
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tonight of Christmas over time. Since the start of this next,
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this coming Saturday, December third ending on the 23rd
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Christmas over time. So, what does that mean?
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Well for RCA is like myself, it's business as usual unless
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you're covering an ox route. You're not going to get paid the
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evaluation. You're going to get paid
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straight time for running the Oxford.
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Other than that for RCA's, it's business.
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As usual for the most part for regulars.
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This is where things change bill.
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I'll let you explain the Christmas over time for
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regulars. Christmas over time.
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You get paid for every hour that you work period.
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The problem is from the beginning of the guaranteed
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period in October. What was that October seventh or
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ninth? Thanks. 8j.
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I was closed until December 2nd. All the hours that you have
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worked is put into a formula. Based on your routes evaluation.
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So, when they put this formula together, they come up with a
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number that isn't actually time-and-a-half folks.
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You are getting paid a percentage based on the amount
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of hours you went over your evaluation.
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It's a confusing for Mia and it's even harder to find but
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that's how you pay. I remember the first time it
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happened to me and I question why I'm not getting time and a
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half but it was easy to take my hourly rate and multiply it
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times 1.5 and was coming out short of that amount.
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That's the catch another catch that we have in our contract
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that allows them to adjust our overtime rate based on the hours
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from the beginning of the of the over.
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I've already guarantee period on October 8.
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So you know, if you haven't maintained your hours and most
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of us haven't don't look for time-and-a-half, look for, like,
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time in the quarter because that's what's closer to be like,
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Otherwise, you're going to get paid overtime for every hour at
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your at your rate that you've earned all the way up to the
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cember 23rd. And then on December 24th, you
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go back to the normal system. If you're on the oh you dropped
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a, you'll be getting paid for the overtime and on your routes
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evaluation and that's it. If you're if you're at your
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regular, drop down. If your regular work day, jay
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day or whatever, however, some people call it.
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You're going to be paid at, you're standing evaluation.
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And yeah the vicar the kicker about is that if you're on your,
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if you're working your drop date, you're getting paid for
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you, over overtime on your valuation and that's it.
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Not for any hours over and above that.
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Yeah, it does. If you like a regular as a
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regular only, now now if you're an RCA you still get paid second
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trips separately. However, if you are a regular,
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you do not get paid, additionally for second trips.
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It's computed into your your hours for the week.
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The only thing additional you would get is if you are a POV
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wrote, you would get that additional EMA for those.
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I could trip miles. Okay.
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Think over 40 miles? Yes.
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Because you're automatically paid a minimum of 48 mph.
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Ma. Yeah.
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If your daily total miles go over 40.
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Yes. I we are one POV routes 93
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Miles. Most of the POV routes I've ever
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ran have been you know an excess of 50 plus miles so I haven't
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really dealt with a POV wrote under 40 miles, other than my Ox
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ropes, right? well, you got to keep in mind
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where I'm at is a lot more urban and most of the routes are
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Averaging, 25 miles. Somewhere between 20 and 30 on
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average. For the route miles. you know,
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there's a few that are less than that and there's a few that are
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more than that, but So, there are some that are, you know,
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that are less. Yeah, that pretty much sums up
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the Christmas over time period. I know we had a couple
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questions. What constitutes, as a second
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trap, this came in from a friend of ours fact, I think I ended up
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on a phone call with him and one of our hosts here, you know,
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basically what's constituting as a second trip.
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That's actually outlined in the F21.
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Am I correct bill? Yeah.
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You're in there. You got it.
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Yeah, which I have and I was going to pull it up and I didn't
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right away. I have 21, you know, I used to
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have this one right on the homepage of my phone.
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If that counts is how sad I am is.
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It's not right there anymore yet.
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I have the Matrix guideline the P 603 the contract.
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Yeah and a few other things right there.
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I think I even have a copy of the M38 on a home screen too.
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But my F21 basically your second trip, I have 21 time and
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attendance right here, second trips.
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And additional trip is when management authorizes requires a
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carrier to make deliveries, after returning from their
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standard Street duties. This is a, then it tells you a
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three-digit field in the role certificates.
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When they're fill-in stuff out, the carrier's, regular and leave
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Replacements will be compensated at 2 minutes per mile for each
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mile. I'll involved in the additional
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trips. The compensation factor for
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leave Replacements is valid when a leave Replacements compensated
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based on the evaluation of the regular or auxiliary route
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served and when actual work hours do not exceed 40 hours per
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week so that is correct RCA's if your time goes over 40 hours per
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week and you have a second trip in there, you're going to get
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paid the straight time. Carriers authorized.
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Complete second trip, carriers, required to travel 10 miles to
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make an eight-minute, slow the vehicle, the regulars, 38 miles
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per day. That's just go.
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That's just given the computation basically.
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It's anything that They require you to go out for whether it's
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packages. It couldn't fit the first time
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out or it's Miss Thrones or stuff that came in late that
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they're required to get out or stuff that doesn't get taken out
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when it was supposed to buy auxiliary systems and you come
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back and there's a gurney, a package of sitting there.
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Yes, that will be a second trip. Well, sounds like the carriers
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are getting screwed over again. Yes.
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Let's, let's have management come up and say, please leave
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this hour, two hours, whatever it was to get you back.
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And I'll take that out yet, then they turn around and give it to
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a CCA, to take out and you come back from running your route.
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And there's a whole Gurney of packages that didn't get taken
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out for that section. Yeah, that was the scenario that
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was being questioned. Where they come up with the one
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that, well, look, you can't get take these out and deliver them.
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So just take them off the property and scan them as access
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denied and you sit there and say request tonight.
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I'm not falsifying the data. They have a fit over that one.
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They want, they want it, they want to fall survive and they
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can falsify, ya know, we we won't ours will not do packets.
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You know the packets got it was a sleeper in a case and it was
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going on 7:00 and she's like, I'll take it out and she took it
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out to Over it instead of just scan it, you know, return to
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validate address or return to post office for address or
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whatever. Just stop the clock no access
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now. No, it went out.
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That return return for address. Verification does not stop the
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clock. Did I like I like I like the one
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where they turn around and they have the Integrity scan and I've
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got I've got cop, I've got two copies of those where they were
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received after 6 p.m. you know, on different days.
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And then I got copies of the dispatch log from the from the
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dock showing, there was no truck to there at that time.
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Now he's yeah, we when they want to talk Integrity, scan them and
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say what Integrity you have none. that is the funniest thing
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when I heard that the first time I heard Integrity, scan Isis,
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what they go out and buy some so But it is what your guys's ideas
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of ways. And I know our biggest, I think
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our biggest issue was retaining RCA's anymore or even hiring
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them. Number one is pay and
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management. Do you agree with me on that?
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I doubt this I have to say, Retaining.
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The RCA's is difficult enough. But the problem of retaining
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them is linked to the piss poor management that we have.
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Yes, I think that is the biggest one in my, in my experience,
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especially with the amount of RCA's.
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I've seen go through my office in the last couple years, I
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guess, when I transferred in, I already had three and a half
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almost four years under my belt, when I transferred into this
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office. So, you know, and I'd already
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dealt with a couple different managers.
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So different as well. So I had that run-in for me, but
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when you get somebody new in off the streets and I'm not, you
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know, not necessarily even the young kids.
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I mean, we've had the last three people that we had hired on and
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the last three that resigned were all in the mid 40s to Two.
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I'm going to say they're older ones being around 60, retired,
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school teacher. I he worked one day and brought
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his resignation in the next day, mainly because of the way
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management. Talk to him.
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The other, you know, the other one is like, I just don't think
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this job is for me, which I get this job is not for everybody.
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Well, I completely and this is, this is not somebody who, who
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didn't work hard for a living. I, he was a hard worker and me
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and the reggae music remember, this is the one you were saying.
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It was doing really good, you know, he had great potential.
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I mean he Not afraid of hard work, but I think a lot of it
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not necessarily the management end of it, but I think a lot of
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it was the multitasking while you're trying to drive down the
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road, like the scanner, I know aggravated him so much, of
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course, they aggravate us to but you know, when you're trying to
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go to scan something and it's not scan in or it's wanting to
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escape out and asking if you want to log off, you know,
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changing screens on you, that was really kind of aggravating
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him a bit. I see those things and then the
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other one is this. Couldn't handle heavy days.
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Never found his Groove again. Just I don't think he's the type
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of person. It was cut out for this job.
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Yeah, we at even I'll give the offer of some more training and
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you know, he he didn't want it so but you know I it's becoming
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a crisis across the country and we all know this, we all, you
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know, all of our offices of everybody on here is we're
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suffering in one way or another, and it's due to lack of relief
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carriers. I think part of it also is the
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length of time for onboarding. Oh, definitely.
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They they, they need to restructure the hiring process
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to streamline it a lot after they need to bring it back to
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get rid of this fast track hiring, Fast, Track hiring is
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not fast track. Hiring by any means bring it
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back down to the individual property level.
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Or the individual office level. Your vocals are bad, very bad.
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You're right, this guy. Andrew our.
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We just brought on Saturday. I first met him on September
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14th. And he just got through his
29:32
training last week and, you know, started working as of
29:35
Saturday, two months, it took over two months to hire
29:39
somebody. Yep.
29:42
That makes no sense for a long time.
29:53
I know what my State Convention they were talking about.
30:00
That there was a new process, they were looking into that.
30:03
It was actually at legal at that point to see if they could
30:07
potentially which that system would. make it a lot faster
30:13
onboarding people from the time that they apply and are deemed a
30:20
valid candidate Well, they streamlined our system in PA is
30:29
the Delaware PA 2's District, because you're not doing drug
30:33
screening anymore. It still took two months to hire
30:36
somebody but they're not doing the drug screening anymore.
30:40
They're only, that's why we got this pothead, they're only doing
30:44
the drug testing. I know in my district.
30:48
For carriers, the ones that are driving Vehicles clerks aren't
30:51
doing it. That's and they weren't doing
30:54
well, but they just brought back the drug testing for the
30:59
carriers. well, I know for awhile, they weren't doing
31:03
background checks, for new hires, Oh, that I know they're
31:08
doing all they hired me that proves it.
31:10
Yeah. So I know they're doing the
31:14
background checks because we had one that got his offer
31:17
rescinded, after his background check came back.
31:28
Wonder how bad was it? I don't know the details, but
31:35
let's just say I'm not surprised.
31:38
I'm just I just like I've been saying for a while, I wish they
31:41
would take down the big banner outside her office.
31:44
It says Heroes work here and just replace it with a we're
31:47
hiring sign. Well, you know it's funny
31:54
because we never had a full complement for the last four
31:58
years as far as Subs are concerned.
32:01
But we had a core group of 55 stubs.
32:04
That could handle any situation, they could take take three
32:08
routes. Split it up, take care of it
32:10
address every situation on their own without management.
32:14
And what they don't realize is that we don't need management,
32:18
they meet us for. Yeah, day in and day out, we can
32:22
do our jobs and get them done without management.
32:25
They can't do jack shit without us.
32:27
But when I when I got this kid and you Egan is job back for,
32:32
you know, after an EP for sexual harassment, when the ADR settled
32:37
for his job with no back pay. He walked away, you know, or
32:43
even already had a job somewhere else and said, I'll stay there.
32:46
I'm not putting up with the post office, you know, a month and a
32:49
half later. One of our senior Subs, turn
32:51
around and left us to work. At the prison, it was better
32:54
working at the prison than it was at the post office.
32:57
And then, you know, it one day, kid came back and that you had a
33:01
half a parcel to said, you got to take these out.
33:04
He says, no. I don't like quick.
33:06
I mean, you know, the the whole atmosphere at work just adds To
33:11
the whole situation where these people say, it's not worth it.
33:15
You've got regular Courier well walking off the job because it's
33:19
just not worth it anymore. Yeah.
33:23
I think I can from the time I was hired up until probably
33:30
About four years or so ago, we've always had 65 to 75
33:35
percent compliment. Subs, you know, Subs to reggae,
33:40
you know, to full two routes. Now.
33:47
If we have 25 to 30 percent of, I'll be shocked. you know, I
33:53
don't know how many RCA's we actually have in the city, but
34:00
it's definitely not an up, we have Christ.
34:03
We have. What out of 200 and something
34:06
routes. Will Formula office only less
34:11
than 80 of them are allowed to have Saturday off.
34:17
We have a full opposite as not allowed to have any day off, you
34:22
know, it's just not small town but you know you know Josh
34:27
you're in Charlotte North Carolina.
34:30
I mean that's a huge that's not like the small town issues like
34:34
I have in my little town of right.
34:36
You know. My tiny little town.
34:41
It's not, you know, Mike's and a bigger city bills, not in a
34:45
small town either, so it's not. It's spread amongst all
34:49
demographics. Yeah, right.
34:55
Yeah, I was just looking at the numbers.
34:57
I mean, when I, when I transferred to this office, the
35:00
office I work at now, we always see up until recently, we always
35:05
seem to be around about 50%. Like, when I got there, we had
35:10
42 routes and 21 RCA's Right now, we're up to 50 routes and
35:18
we have 14 RCA. So we're down to about 28 about
35:21
28%, less than 30% coverage, and they just went through.
35:26
We just went to another round of carriers losing Saturday, hot
35:31
losing their Saturday, K days because we don't have enough or
35:36
leave Replacements to cover them.
35:40
Right now we're down to I think we're down to like mint, just
35:43
nine people who can have Saturday off.
35:47
Something like that. Yeah, we had 18 routes and
35:51
nobody's getting off. Well we're not even talking
35:55
about the being able to get all four.
35:57
Just saying Yo, what York a relief?
36:01
Drop day is Because no one's they've had up for almost a
36:08
year. Now on are Swinging Doors out
36:10
today are two. Other vehicles are Okay, you
36:15
know, all carriers are mandated to work this includes rural on
36:18
your or five and are our three days.
36:23
They're not even given us our threes, they're just paying our
36:26
finds right off the bat. Yeah, you know.
36:42
Next few weeks being that we have one RCA now who also has
36:47
the whole are. You know, also has the ox route
36:49
is, why can't we have? We have to To Monday, K days to
36:56
Saturday, K days. And then we have our Jays and R1
37:02
catterick Saturday. K day.
37:03
She gets hers. and, the Monday's now are going to have to rotate,
37:10
but You know why can't wait for the next few weeks?
37:15
Have all hands on deck on Mondays so I could run my Ox
37:19
route and then I can also run Exhilarate assistance on Mondays
37:23
to help out because our office is not allowing us to come in on
37:27
Sundays to run Parcels. God help me tomorrow morning
37:31
because I'm running two routes. you know, is it that, you know,
37:38
it's at the point now, where They can't redo the formula
37:46
because that would put us to where there's would be more. for
37:54
non Saturday, relief days on any one particular day of the week,
37:59
then Saturday, which is not contractual
38:12
well, all I know is that we can't redo the formula because
38:16
the fact that Jim is nobody to put it down, Yeah, they're
38:22
paying us, they're paying us. The are fives because they can't
38:26
give us the damn, you know, X day during the over time, very
38:29
well, the Christmas tree, because folks, guess what?
38:32
There's nobody there, right? So they're just paying us the
38:37
money. I mean, it's such a sad
38:41
situation and I don't see, like I said, it took two months from
38:45
this guy to get hired and are you kidding me?
38:48
I would have loved to have him a month ago.
38:51
Well, here's You know the here's my feet on this shit.
38:54
Yeah and here's my scenario to I mean, it's not even just getting
38:58
funny, you know, people to apply and get hired on its retaining
39:02
them. And, you know, I, I'm looking at
39:05
going regularly at the end of next summer, what's going to
39:09
happen? Then if they, we don't get
39:11
anybody in the door to stay. Well, with this new, this new
39:16
guy, they I said, I told him. I said, yeah, you can use them,
39:19
run Parcels Isis but he's not getting on any other route and I
39:23
says because if he does I'll tell him the walk and I said,
39:27
I'll walk out with him. I said I'm tired of this.
39:29
I said you know this shit is why we have nobody says you keep
39:33
bouncing around. You don't let him get in
39:35
familiar with the scanners with the procedures and everything
39:38
else that we do here, you just want to chill them up.
39:41
Like they're damn dog meat and I says, you know, And you can't
39:44
keep doing that. Yeah, this is why we don't have
39:47
but, you know, 1 PT, f 1 sub right now and the subs, got the
39:51
whole two days experience under his belt.
39:54
And in the city carriers, they had 11 guys, retired this year
39:57
early just to get out of the fucking office and now you
40:01
laying down 22 routes per day. How many say I got City cares?
40:08
I got City carriers walking by going.
40:10
Hey Bill. You got to get mailed today.
40:11
Oh, that's nice. How many City care?
40:14
How many City routes you have in your office?
40:15
Bill? 68.
40:18
Wow. Not used to that.
40:22
See both both officers, I've worked in had only two full and
40:27
one auxiliary even my first office that had 16 while now has
40:31
17 routes. And they actually just went
40:33
formula this past summer because they can't keep anybody.
40:36
And when I started, we had a full complement.
40:39
But yeah, there's only three City routes in that office.
40:42
There's only three City routes in my office.
40:45
And we like I said, we've got to city and an auxiliary yet we
40:49
have two full-time City carrier. One PTF and one CCA.
40:54
So the PT f is learning how to be a 204 B and we pick on him
40:58
when he comes out to have a smoke or like, hey, the plumes
41:00
here. He's nicknamed the Puma and
41:05
training, though. We have a supervisor come out
41:09
with their little, you know, vaping pain.
41:12
The other day, we told her, sorry, this is the craft area.
41:15
You're down the other end, huh? Wow.
41:21
Hey, I don't I'm not just nicknamed the big, a I earned
41:26
it. Yeah, we know, we know, I don't
41:31
die. I never questioned that one from
41:33
you Bill. Well, we had a pre-thanksgiving
41:38
you Smorgasbord on Wednesday. Uh-huh.
41:41
Yeah. People brought locate food in
41:43
your no, we're not allowed to do that anymore.
41:50
In the postmaster come over. He says this food for anybody.
41:54
I said, Dad's for working people get away from it.
41:58
Yeah, our Postmaster doesn't allow us to do that anymore.
42:01
She's very anti anti. Anybody having any type of fun
42:06
at work? No, that's a great atmosphere.
42:11
Oh, I know funds. Oh yeah, it really with her.
42:15
There is the no-fun Zone. Yeah, but it's been II.
42:22
Will say I've had quite the satisfaction.
42:24
The last couple days of her lips are being super glued to my rear
42:29
end right now. Being that I'm the only RCA and
42:33
when I have to run a full route, I'm running my Ox route as well.
42:36
So she has Been giving me a partial assistance herself, so
42:42
I'm making sure she gets her worked in when needed.
42:47
Mhm. It's we're at a Tipping Point
42:55
right now. We really are.
42:57
Yeah, we are and I don't, I don't know what the solution is
43:03
besides just Bobby's, and, you know, getting rid of the
43:07
management. We are management is so, so
43:09
piss-poor, I had a supervisor, she's I'm not going to say
43:14
stupid, she's just Dumb. I wanted her to sign a grievance
43:25
is being submitted as timely and she's like, well, I don't want
43:29
to put my name on this. I says you're not you're just
43:32
initialing that it was timely and she is but I don't want to
43:35
be associated with this. I said it's your job and she
43:40
goes, no, I can't sign it, I said and you wonder what's wrong
43:42
with this fucking place? I said, people like you don't
43:45
even know what the hell you're doing.
43:47
And I That you can talk to me like that and I turned around
43:50
and snapped at her and I told her I said I'll talk.
43:52
Anyway, I want to you. I says because somebody is
43:55
stupid as you shouldn't be sitting in that fucking chair.
44:00
Well, that's where we go. That's when you just write
44:03
management refused to her. Science 3A.
44:08
Yep. And my old Dr. Said if they
44:14
refuse to sign it, you know, to if they refuse to sign and date
44:17
it it makes those. They can't say it's untimely.
44:20
Yep. And I got it.
44:22
Damn. You know dot stamp to Circle
44:24
stamp on there and said yeah there you go.
44:29
And I had the clerk, get an initial it with the date stamp
44:32
on there, too. You know, but that's the type of
44:37
people that are in managing the post office guys.
44:41
How scary is that my put it to three weeks ago at this point?
44:48
I put in for Tuesday, Wednesday, this week.
44:54
The supervisor fumbled around the desk for a moment.
44:58
I don't even think it was a full minute so I can't find the
45:01
calendar to see if there's availability and marked it
45:05
denied. I said, how can you detect you
45:10
can't see it with no ability to approve it.
45:12
How can you deny it, right? Nor did she reach out to any
45:18
other station within the city to see if there's availability for
45:23
coverage or any offices within the area?
45:31
Just to see if I had someone to cover which is the contention I
45:35
put in my statement but when I send it up to my rap and my rep
45:41
was there went last Wednesday and he sitting there waiting
45:46
Well he's waiting to talk to someone, he interviewed her and
45:51
ask her the same questions and then say Esther she reached out
45:55
to anyone. She said I didn't know, I was
45:57
supposed to Check it on. The station's, there were 22 of
46:03
the stations that he really you know that he reached out to
46:07
asking them for their their leave calendars.
46:10
Their schedule. Sent it actually said I'm the
46:15
stuff to of the stations had at least one RCA each.
46:19
That could have come and got carried my route Tuesday and
46:22
Wednesday by the way did you follow the order of
46:25
consideration which tells you that you call around to the
46:29
other offices? Yeah but if he's what's many
46:34
consideration And that's where you're dealing with, how many
46:39
stations are underneath your 11 main.
46:44
That's all considered one office.
46:50
It's like 9 or 10 that have rural route from them.
46:55
So I think there's like 15 15 stations total 2 or 3, or just
47:07
PO box and Retail and it's like 9.
47:11
I think they have rural routes. Oh, yeah, she should have
47:14
reached out to all, you know, and it's an email to all the
47:17
rules saying is they're available.
47:20
You know, do you have an RCA available?
47:22
Oh, yeah, because you're still technically one big office.
47:25
You're just in soda. Different stackable multiple
47:29
buildings basically across the city, right?
47:32
Where it's not Or mpos cuz it's all one office.
47:40
Yeah. You know, case Miss are actually
47:44
his all birth is on the second floor of the plant.
47:48
He's not in an actual delivery in it.
47:53
Well, it's like our office. We've got 26 offices with rural
47:58
carriers within 25 miles of us and they don't call nobody.
48:06
They don't check for nothing nohow, no way.
48:11
And I just sit there, like, you know, that this is not how you
48:14
run a post office folks. But yeah, that again, a lot of
48:18
the supervisors in my office, don't even talk to each other.
48:21
Let alone somebody at another office, right?
48:24
Exactly. Yeah.
48:25
It'd be unheard of that. They picked up the phone and ask
48:28
him for help. Customers says, to me, says
48:30
bill. I can't get through to anybody
48:32
at the post office to complain about the mail.
48:34
I said, well, you know, don't do that.
48:36
Call Christie woollett. Houlihan's number.
48:39
She's a congresswoman here. And yeah, this is yeah, why I
48:43
said because she'll come over here and start shit.
48:46
I said, but they have the phone silence in our office so nobody
48:50
picks him up and let you go through the 800 number.
48:53
Yeah, and that's, it doesn't say, this was one of my
48:56
customers, it was somebody who's visiting and they, you know,
48:59
they know me. So they have some, what did he,
49:02
what do you do? I said best thing to do is, call
49:04
you congresswoman. Yeah.
49:07
Well that's they my office. They had the phones.
49:10
Yeah, the Bringers turned off but they actually have the
49:13
display so they can see when it rings but as a caller ID so that
49:17
they know if it's the same customer calling over and over
49:20
again and just not answer it. I mean yeah and I are off so I
49:26
know how much we spend on I.T as the the post office but boy I'm
49:31
tired of hearing, we don't have Internet, we don't have it, we
49:34
can't print the holes. We can't print the premium for
49:37
words, we don't have internet, but you're my son over here to
49:40
hook it up for you, okay? So they just helped was wrong.
49:44
Yeah. You don't have internet and they
49:46
just upgraded ours this past summer.
49:50
But the computer you don't have internet in our office.
49:56
If you don't have internet, you can't open the retail window.
50:03
How about that, folks? Oh yeah.
50:09
It's Yeah. It is being run, run by a bunch
50:15
of idiots with the joy, trying to get rid of these extra 50,000
50:19
positions and people are going into job.
50:23
We have people from operations going into HR department.
50:28
And they're calling the postmaster to find out how to
50:31
post a job. Yeah, breaking sad is that Yeah,
50:44
this is I unless yeah I don't see where anything is going to
50:49
get better. I mean I we I just all had our
50:53
general wage increases but that's nothing to even.
50:59
Think about, I mean, RCA's are still only at 1994 an hour you
51:04
want to keep people like, you know, it just went up to 1994 as
51:10
of the 19th of November. Yeah.
51:13
But it didn't kick in yet, on a paycheck that it will be in.
51:17
Or did it get the paycheck that we're currently in?
51:23
Right. So this the yeah we're currently
51:25
on the new pay period of what it just started, right?
51:30
So yeah, we haven't even seen it yet.
51:33
But still, I mean, will you can still go into almost any?
51:37
We're making 15 to $20 an hour and not having to deal with the
51:43
issues that we have to do with. Yeah, well, with the bullshit
51:48
and I mean, if I didn't have so much time invested in, I
51:53
wouldn't be staying. you know, I my time doesn't even count
51:57
towards anything right now even We have a supervisor to comes to
52:03
us to ask how to break up a route.
52:06
What route is near what route, you know, just go away, just
52:10
just go find a fucking corner and we'll take care of it
52:12
because you know, like I said, management needs us.
52:16
We don't need management if we took a couple carriers from, you
52:20
know, each side of the aisle and and just you know, told
52:25
management to stay home. We could run the place better.
52:27
Oh, completely. Here we don't.
52:31
Need Management in that office to tell us how to do our jobs.
52:34
And I'm not going to say my supervisor, never do the job,
52:37
she actually started as an RCA. Then she went to clerk craft,
52:41
and then she went to City side and in she was City, carry
52:43
before she took over supervisor, but she was too old for obesity
52:47
Carrie, she gets it. You know, she wants to learn,
52:51
she's at she goes. If I'm doing something wrong,
52:53
please. Please tell me.
52:55
Please show me, you know, that way I can correct it and get it
52:59
done properly for, you know, And so she really her and I work
53:02
together really well that way. My postmaster on the other side
53:06
other started as a clerk in the same office then move it up to
53:10
supervisor and now she's the postmaster and the same office
53:14
she started in so, if that tells you anything, I can't make any
53:24
comments or judgments because I'm biased in regards to the
53:27
management my office, and it's good, and it's completely
53:32
founded in reality. That is not the center Prejudice
53:36
or anything like that, it's just the plain fucking truth and it's
53:41
sad. I mean, these people if you have
53:45
three open routes on the rural carrier side, okay, And we do
53:49
everything to get the parcels out and all that.
53:52
And you got one route that's backed up with 32 feet of mail,
53:55
instead of sitting on your asses and letting us hear you laughing
53:59
giggle. When we come back at 6:30, 7:00
54:01
at night, how come you're not in the case of throwing the mail?
54:05
No. See I don't have that.
54:06
Why aren't you? You know why don't why don't you
54:10
have the gumption to get the hell up off your fat ass and do
54:15
something? I mean you know it's as plain
54:20
and simple as that if you want us to work as a team then you
54:24
have to participate. Okay, that exactly.
54:27
Yes. I got our D20 ones.
54:31
Next to me, Aldo has four days of DPS and FSS sitting there
54:38
when he comes back Wednesday. He'll have six days.
54:43
And then they've done nothing about it.
54:45
When I offered to go in on Thanksgiving morning and run his
54:50
DPS for three days, right? You can't, you might you'll go
54:55
over 60 hours. Okay, okay.
55:03
Fine. Yeah.
55:04
Yeah, I'll go over 60 hours, I won't come in then.
55:08
And then when you cut, when this guy comes back, he's going to
55:10
give four full days of relief for free.
55:13
Yeah, that's a, that's a grievance on filing War,
55:17
funding. Are they making you guys up
55:21
there? Spell out what was left and
55:24
using the formula? Nope.
55:28
Okay? Because because when mail is
55:32
left, it has to be at the direction of the supervisor.
55:37
And they're supposed to tag it. We're not authorized to that
55:41
delay. Any mail whatsoever. like for
55:45
example, when I when I come you know came back from Being off
55:53
for a while and I have all the male sitting there from all the
55:56
days I was going going because I would just set my stop watch and
56:01
say this is how long it took me to clean up.
56:02
Alright. No can't do that.
56:04
You have to you, we have to put down or it was four tubs of now
56:11
it was We Three Trees a GPS, a tray of raw or, you know, it's
56:18
spelled out and they use the formula to calculate how, how
56:24
long it should take in, I think on the, for the one, when I was
56:29
going in June for the week for my State Convention, I had 187
56:36
minutes and based off of Poland, the end of run reports for that
56:42
week and calculating everything. The ADR came up with 200 in 43
56:48
minutes. I'm like, okay.
56:52
What do with that, exactly. I'm like, we don't even, yeah,
56:58
I've got, I've got the postmaster to the point where,
57:01
what I do is I turn around and say, okay, that the parcels went
57:05
and the male stayed, Ergo? I want six hours for each day
57:12
because you took two hours of work off the carrier.
57:15
Right, and if the routes 8.8, I 16.8 hours.
57:20
Okay, yeah, and you know I get no argument over at all.
57:28
Yeah a yeah. Yeah.
57:32
That what the last Tuesday I had 15 pay adjustments approved.
57:38
What one girl is. She's getting a little over
57:40
eleven hundred dollars. There's Billy, I still still
57:47
fighting with them that because nobody in h.r., can go back to
57:51
December last year when she would go came off the hold down.
57:56
And give me the number of the sick days and annual leave that,
58:00
she approved because they can't find it.
58:06
This would mean can't find it? It's it, it's in the system.
58:09
They said. Yeah, but we're not familiar
58:11
with the system. Yay.
58:14
What are you doing in a jar? Yeah, but kippa co worker hours
58:20
for her based off of what they'd have to be able to figure that
58:23
out. Josh.
58:25
Hmm. Oh my God.
58:31
Sorry. No, no, no.
58:41
That makes sense. Yeah, these payroll.
58:56
Can I start a company like ATP ATP or paychecks?
59:01
Could figure it out? I don't think they would have, I
59:08
don't think they would have a computer.
59:15
Yeah, it's up to date like the post office member.
59:18
Yeah, that's why you're here. They couldn't, you know, that's
59:23
why it took four months to actually get a pay increase in
59:28
place. But how long are we waiting for
59:30
that back pay? still in RCA's are waiting on
59:36
that, that that agreed amount in lieu of annual for those first
59:43
two periods that they couldn't get it situated after having six
59:46
months, to figure it out, And then it just magically appears
59:52
after two more weeks or two more pay periods, really?
59:58
With. It's amazing.
1:00:01
You know, we've known for years, their computers were, you know,
1:00:05
outdated and the sheet and what have you done to, you know, the
1:00:11
push all this stuff forward. Nothing nothing.
1:00:17
Yeah. It's like, it's like crying
1:00:19
wolf. Yeah, you can cry wolf all day
1:00:22
long, but if you don't do anything, guess what folks?
1:00:28
Let's see. Pay schedules.
1:00:35
Yeah, the 19th is moving that went into effect beginning of
1:00:39
this pay period. Yeah, yeah.
1:00:44
In the beginning of the next paper starts Christmas OT.
1:00:51
It doesn't even matter. I get up in the morning.
1:00:54
I get dressed. I go to work.
1:00:55
I come home, I eat. I do my homework and then I go
1:00:59
to bed. I get up in the morning.
1:01:01
Get dressed. Go to work, you know.
1:01:03
Yeah come home. Yeah, rinse.
1:01:05
And repeat the next day I hear you.
1:01:07
I wasn't. I was into overtime Friday.
1:01:09
By the time I left the office to you know, go to the routes.
1:01:15
I say plural anymore routes and, you know, the week prior that I
1:01:20
had gotten that one Friday off out of the sake of having the
1:01:25
mou that allows other carriers to volunteer to assist in other
1:01:28
routes and and, you know, my, my primary for my five and one he
1:01:33
said I, he didn't get Amazon in that day because like I said,
1:01:37
hurry amazigh contractors messed up and he's like, I will go
1:01:41
ahead and take the aux route for you today.
1:01:44
So you can Have a day off. I said, absolutely.
1:01:47
Thank you because when I asked her Thursday evening, when I got
1:01:50
back from running in my routes, how many hours I had, we looked
1:01:53
it up and I was already at forty eight point two hours on
1:01:56
Thursday. So, yeah, you know, I it's it's
1:02:05
getting to be insane. Unbelievable.
1:02:11
Yeah you know it Christmas is just right around the corner.
1:02:14
I it's how you know I'm willing to work that seventh day on
1:02:19
Sundays to lighten. The load on Mondays just for the
1:02:21
fair share fact that I know I have to run two routes on
1:02:25
Mondays. But nope, let's not do that.
1:02:30
Because that makes sense and do this.
1:02:33
This this is how bad it is in Westchester out of the 68 City
1:02:39
routes that we have, okay? And they normally lay down at
1:02:42
approximately 14 a day. It's up to 22 right now.
1:02:47
But out of the 47 carriers, they have 47. 39 of them are over a
1:02:54
hundred thousand dollars this year.
1:02:57
Yeah. 15 are over 140,000 dollars.
1:03:05
Wow. Yes, that's yeah.
1:03:10
Wow. That's that's amazing.
1:03:16
The one carry, they actually. Chris the only reason he won't
1:03:19
make over 150,000 this year's, they suspended him for a month.
1:03:26
for those for delaying male last Christmas, but he'll still break
1:03:31
a hundred thousand dollars. That's just that, that's crazy.
1:03:36
Yeah, I mean I know we've got it.
1:03:39
We've got a we got a 75 year old clerk.
1:03:42
Has been in the post office for 54 years.
1:03:46
And this guy, this guy works every bit of overtime.
1:03:49
They offer which is funny because he's there but he
1:03:52
doesn't work. He makes over a hundred thousand
1:03:56
dollars a year and he's a civil service.
1:03:59
His retirement, tag down in the corner is ninety six.
1:04:02
Thousand dollars a year. Hi guys.
1:04:06
Nice. That's what that.
1:04:08
What the hell you doing working? I have a big family to support.
1:04:13
Shut the hell up. Yeah.
1:04:16
Yeah. Your Civil Service.
1:04:19
You're of age to collect full Social Security.
1:04:23
And the Civil Service. Pension dude, you could be
1:04:25
living just fine and dandy at home.
1:04:29
Jesus. Omega live anywhere that kind of
1:04:32
money, you know, shit and that doesn't count if he decided to
1:04:36
do any tfp. Well, yeah, the, the funny thing
1:04:42
about is that, you know, if he retires, nobody will miss his
1:04:46
work, he wants wanted he once took a break and this is no like
1:04:54
and you know, I go in the bathroom, he's in the bathroom,
1:04:58
he's combing his hair. Well he doesn't have enough.
1:05:00
Of hair to comb and and he comes out of the bathroom after I can
1:05:05
run it in the supervisor says it's, you know, Jesus Where Have
1:05:08
You Been? He says I was in the bathroom.
1:05:10
He said what are you doing? He says coming my hair.
1:05:13
The supervisory Authority, is he looks down.
1:05:15
He goes what hair? Because he has no hair on the
1:05:19
top of his head, but he was in there for 20 minutes.
1:05:25
Oh, you know, sometimes things things take time.
1:05:31
If you like with us in my station, we have a clerk who is
1:05:37
in her low to mid 70s. She's probably close to 40 years
1:05:43
on the job. Rick, she's the only one that's
1:05:49
worth a crap in our building and she's getting ready to go.
1:05:53
Now she does it. You know, where the last seven
1:05:57
years she's worked six days through you know her draw.
1:06:01
Her relief day is Saturday, or non-skid is Saturday.
1:06:05
The last couple months. She hasn't been coming in on
1:06:08
Saturdays. She's burning time.
1:06:11
Left him right now. To, is this a matter of Time
1:06:15
before she actually goes goes. And we're going to be hurting
1:06:25
when that happens because like I said, she's the only one
1:06:27
actually gets any work done of the clerks.
1:06:33
But it's like we have one clerk that knows the scheme for both
1:06:37
ZIP codes in our office. And when she, when she gets a
1:06:41
day off, we don't get any mail. Okay?
1:06:45
Claire, any clerk mail that the following day we get powered,
1:06:49
you know, because she comes in three hours earlier that this
1:06:53
they try to catch up on there. Yeah and they go well you know
1:06:56
you have 42 feet of mail to go through today, huh?
1:06:59
What? Yeah, you know, just ended to
1:07:04
the plant. Okay.
1:07:06
Right. Well Jen she's the only scheme.
1:07:10
We have in the building. We he only knows the ones own
1:07:16
even though we have three zones in there now, They just give the
1:07:20
PSC the little finger thing, the little finger scanner with a
1:07:23
laptop, and they just opened the bar code on the letters.
1:07:27
If they don't know what they put it off to the side till they're
1:07:29
done and then they go and look at the actual scheme and figure
1:07:33
it out. Yeah.
1:07:35
It's it's a, it's a shame. I mean, when we used to have
1:07:41
this guy Eddie used to do the throw parcels, And this guy
1:07:46
through Parcels, you know, not using machine, okay, from
1:07:50
knowing every route in the office and that's back when we
1:07:52
had 102 City carry, it should be routes and 2022, rural routes
1:07:58
and he would throw quarrels breath knowing where each one
1:08:01
went. Oh yeah.
1:08:04
Yeah. And that's the one thing my
1:08:06
postmaster, you know, being a clerk in that office for so
1:08:09
long. If she has to help toss Parcels,
1:08:12
she could toss some parcels. I'll give the woman that
1:08:14
correct. Yeah.
1:08:15
No, she could toss the parcels but these two newer PCS that we
1:08:19
have for our to our mpo offices. You know, the one will still
1:08:24
have the finger scanner on telling you, where to go, where
1:08:27
it goes, but it still ends up in the wrong PIN.
1:08:31
Yeah, that happens a lot. And it's, you know, it's is
1:08:35
that's why they worked in the post office, not in the NBA.
1:08:38
All right, right. There's a difference because
1:08:43
routes Evans is right in front of you and Route. 2's is at the
1:08:46
end of the row. So tell me how to's ends up in
1:08:49
sevens. I mean I get City six and Rule
1:08:53
6, you know, they're on the opposite sides, but come on now.
1:08:59
What was the what I got? I got a package in my hamper the
1:09:02
other week. Massapequa Massachusetts or
1:09:06
something like that? Uh-huh.
1:09:08
What it was. It was Rural Route. 22.
1:09:11
Yep. So, build a.
1:09:14
Yeah. Oh yeah.
1:09:15
Those too. Up.
1:09:51
Yeah, or I routinely get stuff. In my cage, I'm rolling out. 60,
1:09:56
60. I routinely get things for City.
1:10:01
16, rural 16. Sometimes I get stuff for rule
1:10:07
50. What?
1:10:08
They don't understand other than if they're just looking at the
1:10:11
numbers and you know, 50 60, Those bother me, I don't mind.
1:10:17
You know the cages that are round mine like you know, 58 is
1:10:22
right next to mine and he always pulls his Parcels wait.
1:10:27
So If he's if his cage is overflowing and it bumps into
1:10:33
mine, I, it doesn't bother me then, you know, then they're
1:10:37
trying to get to rule 68, which is behind.
1:10:40
You know, my my page sits in front of their.
1:10:42
So if they throw rule 68 short, it'll end up in mind and then I
1:10:47
have the same problem. 69 being nice to my cage.
1:10:51
So sometimes the first case is overflowing or they just missed.
1:10:55
Those are the ones I expect what we're looking at.
1:10:58
Okay, we're all sick. You know, if you something for
1:11:01
Shannon street at the, well, that's either 50 or 16 because I
1:11:04
don't have Shannon put it online.
1:11:07
So But what we have in one of the other zones, there's a
1:11:15
memorial picking 3, there's a city pickit 3, but in one of the
1:11:19
other zones and in that zone there Gurney's are.
1:11:25
Not near. Where my GE is where my journey
1:11:29
is like they're completely separate areas like they're near
1:11:32
but they're not together. At least, 23 times a week, I got
1:11:41
packages for you. Which means that they're coming
1:11:47
in and being sorted to the wrong Zone in the first place.
1:11:55
Like I said, they spending a billion dollars a year on it and
1:11:58
they can't get it right? I have seen wait but shortly
1:12:06
after we got there. Package itself.
1:12:25
Oh wait, they do and they still screw it up.
1:12:33
Hey, that takes up for okay. Be you know you you're
1:12:41
downplaying. The amount of effort they put in
1:12:43
the Miss throwing bars. I look at them.
1:12:53
Stop at once. I look at hamper, fulls of
1:12:57
mis-sent parcels that come from the plant to us.
1:13:00
Yeah. I mean, how do you do that,
1:13:06
right? I mean I'll be going through my
1:13:12
my tubs of, you know, route sorted raw flats.
1:13:17
And it's just like, okay not me. Not me, not me, not me, not me,
1:13:23
not me, not me, not me. Yeah, it's crazy.
1:13:29
Sometimes I have to look at the label on the the tub you like
1:13:32
okay is this supposed to be for this route or the thin this
1:13:36
whole city somewhere else? I just want to get something
1:13:42
that's like coming from Arizona for Wisconsin and I get it.
1:14:03
I've had a piece of mail that I've had a piece of mail that I
1:14:07
keep throwing in the missense and blocking out the the
1:14:10
barcodes that supposed to go to California and it still keeps
1:14:15
coming back to Route 11 because I've handled this piece three
1:14:19
times and I looked at and I finally just chalked it in the
1:14:22
ovum because that's what it was. Anyways, Yeah, I have a shit fit
1:14:31
when the electronic address request.
1:14:34
You know their birth requested and yeah you put it in there it
1:14:39
comes back at the L, put it in, there comes back, put it in.
1:14:43
There comes back with the yellow sticker this time.
1:14:46
It's like boats. I can't do anything more with
1:14:48
this, you know, it's going into into the yellow, to the hell
1:14:52
with you. Like yeah, yeah, I'm done with
1:14:55
you. Yeah, you do.
1:14:58
It's like burnt for all that we do for all the mechanisms that
1:15:04
are in place to make the post office.
1:15:06
Efficient, it fights itself. It really does.
1:15:11
Yeah. And it inflates us and it's
1:15:14
like, you know, are you kidding me?
1:15:15
I mean, you can't be that stupid and the machines can't be that
1:15:19
stupid. I mean, you know, they're their
1:15:21
computers. They don't know any different,
1:15:24
but God, you know why is this? It just happened a day in, and
1:15:28
day out, all year long. Just remember.
1:15:32
Bill, the computer is only as smart as Amanda programmed it.
1:15:37
Oh you you mean like the rural carrier specialist that put 42
1:15:43
houses on the end of a route that was already a 46k and you
1:15:48
know three other carriers go right by them but you have to go
1:15:52
three and a half miles off the end of this route that service
1:15:54
the damn things. I'll finger you can't make
1:15:59
adjustments now because of the men email survey and all that
1:16:02
bullshit. All right, see that.
1:16:09
A girl that's already in the high 60 or low 70 standard hours
1:16:16
and they added a whole new subdivision because I had to go
1:16:19
somewhere. Okay.
1:16:23
Oh, raised U. K--, 48.
1:16:29
That's getting a new development.
1:16:30
That includes 712. Deliveries.
1:16:33
Holy shit. That's a whole nother routing
1:16:35
itself. Yes, it is.
1:16:38
Yeah, could be a whole nother K 48 in itself right there.
1:16:43
Yes, it can be because it's 70 miles to get to the first stop.
1:16:51
Wow, unbelievable. Wow, I would say unbelievable.
1:16:56
I work for the Post Office long enough to know that it's
1:16:58
believable. It's believable.
1:16:59
Yeah, you can't make Common Sense, common sense and common,
1:17:10
courtesy stopped at the door. Yes, yes, it does.
1:17:14
Well, on that note guys, we're gonna wrap it up for tonight and
1:17:20
we'll come back next week. so any final words, Mike Now, just
1:17:27
just, just remember, it be safe out there.
1:17:33
I'm sure we will touch on it, but just to be safe.
1:17:39
Don't don't let the, it's only male, it's only Parcels.
1:17:43
Don't let it, don't let it stress you out. it just speaking
1:17:55
of, Don't like you said, don't don't let yourself get stressed
1:18:00
out if you feel yourself, getting overwhelmed, take it.
1:18:03
That step back. Take a deep breath and step.
1:18:06
Back in there, be safe, especially with it getting
1:18:12
darker earlier. I know here at 4:30.
1:18:15
It was already dusk. So, Yeah, just be safe aware
1:18:24
aware of your surroundings. Try to have a good week.
1:18:39
What's your last thoughts? Dear Well, like I always say,
1:18:44
don't get stressed closet, it's a great Pastime, but Bo realize
1:18:50
folks that there are things out of our control that you can't do
1:18:54
anything. About there is no need to sit
1:18:58
there and worry about them get get get like I said, get
1:19:02
stressed out about you what you can do, do it well and the most
1:19:07
important delivery days you. So, you know, you keep yourself
1:19:11
safe. You get home to your loved ones
1:19:13
and the job will be there tomorrow, no matter how much, or
1:19:16
how little you do, it'll still be there tomorrow.
1:19:19
And whether you show up or not, the post office will be there
1:19:22
tomorrow. So take care of yourself and get
1:19:25
your ass home to your loved ones because that's the most
1:19:29
important delivery of the day. Yes, I agree.
1:19:34
Let's go Eagles II. Did want to do a shout out for
1:19:39
my a Michigan Wolverine to happen to kick the ass of Ohio
1:19:44
State Saturday? I unfortunately didn't get to
1:19:46
see the game but go Blue. Um, but yes, on that note,
1:19:54
following up with Bill. You are the most important
1:19:56
delivery a little quote, that a friend of mine.
1:19:59
He posted on Facebook earlier today is says, leaving your home
1:20:01
and return I'm safely is such an underrated blessing.
1:20:05
That's right, where we're at. She posed for all my PO peeps,
1:20:10
we know this to be true. Please pay attention to those
1:20:13
working on the sides of the roads, bringing your cyber deals
1:20:15
to homes Across the Nation. We are not part of the scenery,
1:20:19
we have family and pets who depend on us and we need to get
1:20:22
home safely every night too. So that's a shout-out to Tasha.
1:20:26
I love you, dear. And on that note people like I
1:20:29
said, each day is a new day. I'm dreading tomorrow.
1:20:32
Morrow morning, but you know what?
1:20:34
I'm going to go and Tackle. Those two routes, get home after
1:20:38
dark. Go sit in my hot tub.
1:20:40
Go to bed, get up the next morning, do it all over again.
1:20:45
So, and that note, Everybody Take It.
1:20:48
Easy, stay safe and we will talk at you later.