If you did work there you would know that the “employee for live” attitude ended in the late 1980s.
This ain’t you father’s post office.
I don’t know how to answer you, because no matter what I know as a fact, you challenge me because you know different facts.
You can’t change what I know. It seems our facts are different based on our experiences regarding the PO. But your facts don’t change my facts. I can only conclude that you’re offended for some reason, and I didn’t mean to do that.
There are a lot of hardworking employees at the PO, and I know probably 20 or so of them. They’re highly skilled at what they do. Most are former military, some have technical school training, but none of them make 6 figures as many like to complain about - however, there’s no doubt they would make more money in the private sector using the same skills.
My husband even had a good friend who was murdered while on the job by another employee. The murderer still collects a paycheck because he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
I’ll just say this regarding the policy you mentioned ... relying on a policy being in effect is only as good as enforcement of that policy. Political correctness is rampant at the PO and policy is being ignored for PC reasons, and factor in help by the union.
I’m thinking the Hatch Act is still a policy at the PO. If so, it’s also ignored for PC reasons.
I will admit, there are some things that absolutely will get an employee fired ... stealing from the PO is one, being caught doing drugs on the job is another.
However, laziness and lack of knowledge for an assigned job is most definitely tolerated. They handle laziness with a slap on the hand - a letter of reprimand and maybe a couple of weeks on the street without pay. Then the union steps in.
If they don’t know the job, they’re sent off to a tech school located out west. If that doesn’t work, they handle it by mixing the know-nothings in with others who do know what they’re doing. As the skilled employees retire, what happens is anyone’s guess.