Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Pennsylvania post office clerk sent home for wearing pro-Trump merch to work: ‘Violated and embarrassed’
NY Post ^ | 11/12/2024 | SWNS

Posted on 11/12/2024 10:58:58 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A United States Post Office clerk went into work the day after the 2024 presidential election wearing Trump attire and was asked to change clothes.

Michelle Albert, 57, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, says she felt “violated and embarrassed” soon after beginning her shift at the distribution center in Warrendale.

“It’s the day after he won,” she says. “You should be able to wear what you want.

Michelle began her workday like any other. “At 3:00 PM, I clocked in and I was staying there waiting for our pre-sort,” she recalls.

“My MDO [manager, distribution operations] walked up to me. She came charging out of the office and she came right up to me and pointed at me. And she said, ‘You can’t wear that here.’ I said, ‘Why can’t I? The election is over. Trump won.’”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: clerk; embarrassed; goingpostal; pennsylvania; pittsburgh; postoffice; protrump; tds; usps; violated
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last
To: FlingWingFlyer

Because whoever the sitting president is, that’s their boss.

You’ll find the picture of the current president in every government department/agency.

I think Presidents only go on stamps long after their terms.


21 posted on 11/12/2024 12:12:18 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630

Therefore, she was wearing a picture of her boss.


22 posted on 11/12/2024 12:14:30 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We're taking our country back! You RATS can keep your "Democrazy" and take it when you go.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: lastchance

Discrimination. The election is over. That woman can’t tell her what she can or can not wear.


23 posted on 11/12/2024 12:16:04 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to descalation of tho it for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

If the Pennsylvania post office clerk was wearing pro-lemming gear he would got a raise and a office.


24 posted on 11/12/2024 12:16:18 PM PST by Vaduz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FlingWingFlyer

He’s not, yet.


25 posted on 11/12/2024 12:16:52 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: FlingWingFlyer

Is there a picture of Harris hanging in the Office? VPs photos normally are not included in the “chain of command”, but I’d be surprised if her photo wasn’t plastered on government office walls after she became the nominee.


26 posted on 11/12/2024 12:22:12 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

I guess this doesn’t bother me if it is a general rule, enforced across the spectrum. I’d prefer to go into a govt office and find them wearing business attire.


27 posted on 11/12/2024 12:28:19 PM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The Hatch act has been re-clarified several times; I don’t know what the guidance is on an election that is over. But I still find it improper to show one’s political preference - whatever it is - while working as a civil servant.

I think we should go back to the days where people never discussed politics or religion in any workplace. It’s just asking for trouble and hard feelings among people.


28 posted on 11/12/2024 12:30:00 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: where's_the_Outrage?

Yeah. And if she’d have won, yesterday would have been changed from Veterans day to World’s First Woman of Color U.S. President’s Day and everyone at the damn PO Would have been wearing the shirts with her mug on them.


29 posted on 11/12/2024 12:30:15 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We're taking our country back! You RATS can keep your "Democrazy" and take it when you go.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: where's_the_Outrage?

They wouldn’t put her picture there until she was inaugurated.


30 posted on 11/12/2024 12:30:57 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630
I think Presidents only go on stamps long after their terms.

Only after they are dead. No living person, president or otherwise, can appear on US Postage stamps.

31 posted on 11/12/2024 12:31:34 PM PST by Ditto
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

I worked as an Air Force contractor during 2020 and the message we got was that electioneering on Government property or using government resources was not allowed. I do not recall any instances of anyone bringing up politics. Our shop was about half service members, half civilians, the civilians being 50-50 civil servants and contractors. My guess, and it’s only a guess, is that the place was 60-70% Democrat. Like I said no electioneering at work or on government property.

At MIT/LL were I was in 2024, they sent out a polite email asking people to show respect. MIT/LL is located about half on MIT property and half on Air Force property, not counting satellite offices on military locations. Again, no signs of electioneering. Probably about 80% Democrat would be my guess.


32 posted on 11/12/2024 12:35:03 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630
They wouldn’t shouldn't put her picture there until she was inaugurated. Fixed for you.
33 posted on 11/12/2024 12:35:54 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Freee-dame

“ Just wear a plain red shirt.”
*************************

Like Dr. Jill Biden.


34 posted on 11/12/2024 12:42:19 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: where's_the_Outrage?

I don’t think they would do it whether they wanted to or felt they should or not. There’s protocol attached to all of that, and people in charge of it.


35 posted on 11/12/2024 12:42:53 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Revel

:: The election was over. ::

Actually, they were still counting in PA.
Counting the Mail-in ballots.


36 posted on 11/12/2024 12:55:08 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Jamestown1630

You have more faith in government employees than I do as I worked with them for over 25 years. Just look for a recent posting about FEMA employees skipping houses with Trump signs.

So they shouldn’t do it, but I’d be surprised if they didn’t as the left does not care about the regulations.


37 posted on 11/12/2024 12:59:03 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Freee-dame

“Just wear a plain red shirt.“

Or a red cap with “made you look” in white…


38 posted on 11/12/2024 1:00:27 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: where's_the_Outrage?

Well, I’ll wait to be outraged when we hear that it’s actually been done somewhere.

I think we would have heard if there were any picture other than Biden’s in a US post office.


39 posted on 11/12/2024 1:03:56 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: Ditto; All

A stamp for The Beatles was issued..it had a pic of the Yellow Submarine, so they got
around that.
Postal unions big on liberals but at the
sorting facility where I work I see some
Trump bumper stickers on cars. There’s
some kind of Hatch Act restrictions
against candidate t shirts in the bldg. Etc.
Current postmaster general is a Trump
appointee, Louis DeJoy.


40 posted on 11/12/2024 1:30:32 PM PST by raccoonradio
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson