Texasgal...the steward should have refused to give an opinion. So often the stewards are not too bright or they are sucking up to management for favors. If he said anything it should have been that you were in fine shape and then force management to prove otherwise.

First time on the site. I have a question. Can I file an EEO on how Management is creating a Hostile Work Environment Harassment Discrimination?
I had 4 II's (Pre-D) one of the II's was for requested 2:09 OT and used 2:00 2 LOW one unjustified overtime, Ask for 2:07 OT used 2:08 had another carrier carried 13 min on the same, the other LOW Poor work performance. A Sup. went with me but they did not count the mail, and she found that I used 3-5 sec to turn on the fan when I entered the LLV. Station Manager stands in the middle of workroom floor and just watches curtain carriers on his hit list. He calls them his top 10 worst performers. I am white, 52 years old.

forget about it,unless you are black,woman or minority it ain't gonna stick

ROB, the supervisor asked the union steward if I was capable of doing somethng that was expressly forbidden by my medical restrictions. Union Steward was dumb and said "I don't see a problem with making her do that"
Maybe the other unions are more informed but the rural carrier one does not teach their stewards anything about on the job injury or feca, or cop, or owcp, so when you are in a pre-d with one of this underinformed stewards, it pretty much means you are between a rock and a hard place.

IAllen & turd; or vice versa. I pondered whether or not to say anything about your "contributions"... maybe I'm just in a bad mood so I will. I don't like them; that is just my opinion take it for what it is worth.

IAllen... I beseech you to consider that this is not a "snitch" site, whatever that may be. It is a bulletin board, a meeting room, a classroom,a research site, a source of solace and companionship, but not a "snitch" site.

I wondered why you or anyone would see it as a snitch site. I came to the conclusion that if you see the postings here as snitches...then you must be viewing them from the other side of the fence. That is okay I guess and your right to have an opinion is to be respected... even if it is wrong.

If I understand "snitch" that means reporting a miscreant to an authority that is in a position to act. This forum is full of "private attorney generals" but the word "snitch" does not fit. I see people re-telling their situations...but I haven't seen a posting where someone is turning in a law-breaker to the Cops... so to speak.

turd: I see that you have chosen to be known by one name... and it has the beauty of simplicity and no doubt the accuracy of a laser with a meta-physically acute grip on description. Of course, you know yourself better than anyone else does and the name you have chosen speaks volumes. Words speak the mind.

You sound bitter as well as bigoted. Perhaps you have been hurt in the past and are blaming others; perhaps you are just a victim of your upbringing; a victim of your heritage. I do not know... You seem not to have noticed that the World has moved past the childish and destructive paradigm of discrimination.

I could be wrong... I'm just guessing you know. Maybe you are not a victim; maybe you were raised right but have gone astray; maybe you're just another neo-fascist. It could be xenophobia... try not to be fearful of and resentful of people unlike yourself turd. That name...so apt!

By the way... I have represented many people; different genders, races, colors, religions... you name it and the male white majority has just as good a chance to prove a discrimination complaint as anyone else. You see turd.. your enemies are not the folks of different genders or colors etc. your enemy is a system; a management culture that views the worker as expendable, that scoffs at federal law, and worships the short-term bottom-line; even though in the long-term their discriminatory actions are more costly than simply obeying the law would be.

Mike,
I always enjoy reading what you write. I always get a really good laugh. I don't know anyone that can get such a big point across with just a few eloquent words.

As for IAllen & turd; or vice versa:
"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt" Abraham Lincoln
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BigMike-
Re: your recent 5512 post.
Well said: I was going to say the very same thing, but you beat me to it.
LOL- Have a great weekend forum!
Pivotman has left the building for a short getaway to Cambria.

EEOC FARCE!
I have waited almost three years for the oportunity for a court date in the federal court.

I just receieve a letter from the courts saying my case against the USPS was dismissed for failure to prosecute. In went in poor without an attorney because attorneys in NWIndiana are frightend of the USPS.

Never receive a court date or the decision of dismissal notice!

Is there any justice anymore. What everhappened to the NOFEARS ACT.

We have to march.
I am planning on making a large sandwich sign and walking the sidewalk of the EEOC Dallas Office because the judge told the agency through his decision that it was ok to discrimminate against the disable.
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WINK M/5515. I think you might be able to appeal the dismissal stating you were waiting for the court to schedule the hearing. You should have the copy of your "request for a hearing" in the record they sent you as proof you were waiting for them to act. Look in the EEOC procedure booklet you were sent to see who to appeal to. It might be a 30 day time frame so don't wait. The EEOC unfortunately seems to act in favor of the Agency. My judge seems very biased towards the Agency and also suffering from job burn out and just wants to get rid of cases.

Texasgal M/5510. I was a rural carrier too and the rural union is about useless. We used to have a strong steward but he retired and was replaced by a real push over. Your steward is wrong. See if he will go to management with you to discuss it and give them copies of your medical restrictions. If you can't convince him to change what he did I'd go over his head to the State Stewards office. As a rule the steward should always side with the carrier and force management to make their case. He's the one who has to file the grievance.

It would seem that a good faith effort requires that the agency provide an accommodation that it later discovers is not effective. In Fowler v. Postmaster General, 05A60440 (2006), the Commission found there was not a good faith effort at accommodation where the complainant’s job assignment was outside of her medical restrictions. In holding that the agency was liable, the Commission noted that “our focus is on the knowledge that was available to the agency before it offered the position to complainant. This was not a situation where an agency provided accommodation and later discovered that it was not effective. Here, the agency knew or should have known that its job offer was not within complainant’s medical restrictions when the offer was made.”
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Wouldn't human resources or the supervisor know if an injury is covered under the owcp laws even if the injured person does not know, that s/he should or can file a claim? Wouldn't it be unethical for the supervisor to know that the employee has an owcp injury and not advise the employee to either file or go to the doctor?
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slingshot how are you