“That’s normal anywhere.”
That’s not normal anywhere else! He was threatened by the other workers so he just took the jeep home and studied or slept. BTW he’s now a well known attorney in Las Vegas, and a very ethical one at that! By your words, you are making the case for why something substantive should be done about the USPS. You may get “to complete the ride,” but I’d advise a young person to try some place else to start a “career.” The USPS will not survive as it is currently constituted, the Constitutional Requirement not withstanding. The money will run out!
I was assigned to the battlion motor pool for a couple of weeks when I first arrived at a TOE outfit.
Infantry motor pool guys have a traditional hazing practice ~ now that's a threat!
Here, in your friend's case, sounds like he was 'threatened by a supervisor' ~ and that's what i referred to as normal anywhere.
The other trick supervisors are always watching for is the guy who gets done with his route fast because he tossed the mail down the sewer or took it home to store in his basement. We had a bunch in Northern Virginia who regularly got through their routes in about 5 hours then stopped at a bowling alley in Annandale. One day Bill Bolger, then Postmaster General, stopped by that alley and talked to them while they bowled. They didn't recognize him. Of course at the same time postal inspectors were out in the lot securing their postal vehicles.
it's not that a newbie can't do a route fast and deliver all the mail ~ the point is those routes are engineered to take 8 hours ~ so in most cases if there's a serious time deviation something else may have gone wrong! Supervisors hate to have to explain such events to tour superintendents. it's still quasi-military in the ranks.