I wish you people who are so "knowledgeable" would post under ONE name even if you do not register. Random comments help very little. I like to be familiar with the person I am responding to but you guys are constantly posting under different names. What's up? Are you afraid of something?

to "wow" /m5798 - "...those doing double work to compensate for the shortage....."" There are no people who do double the work in the USPS. I'm retired now but at my BMC, the workers would have done less work if a supervisor told them to double-up their work assignments. The union , and we had a good one, would have stopped any notions of doing "doule work.' It's an "unpostal-like" proposal and would never happen. If it did, that person doing the double-work would need to be checked for mental deficiences. It just would not happen!

I agree. There are plenty of employees happy with the overtime the get from IOD's deficiencies. For the few that work their asses off to cover the shortage, it's their own fault.

I agree too scrappy. We have not had proper staffing since 2005. Ten people have left (retirement, termination, transfers and resignations) since then with no replacements. We don't have any IODs and we work at a steady pace most times, lol, but we certainly do not push to meet management's demands. I don't work overtime because I have had my years of doing it. Others work it and I am happy for them because I was once "them" too. Just my opinion, but folks are constantly talking about the injured and that is definitely not our problem. I will always maintain that it is the responsibility of management to have the proper staff. For me, everything else is a non issue.

How bout if Snowed registers before trashing other people? Phony baloney, loser.

Nice to meet you too. And I am registered, this sight just doesn't distinguish.

Remember the people who always complained "we need more people," wouldn't work overtime, but grieved everytime they were bypassed, never broke a sweat, never asked you about YOU or your FAMILY, only talked about "How wonderful they were," management did this or didn't do that, it was never, ever, anything that they personally did or did not do or thought or didn't think, and NOW, they found the internet!
You simply cannot get away.
These people find differences rather than similarities, faults rather than promises and hope.
I have been an optimist all my life based on my own willingness to care. I have HOPE because I work for it. Nobody hands it out to me and I am not waiting for any. I am a seeker. I have always been. I'm the sane man who walks into a room full of crazies. Whos then, is the
crazy" one?
You simply have to allow the wannabee experts enough leash to hang themselves and have the patience to realize the inevitability. They'll get there and "by God," they'll be "first in line!"
Unfortunately, has anyone ever seen a safe way to "lift properly" 80,000 times in a postal career? I haven't and neither has anyone else, yet the post office and nearly every other large employee populated enterprise, preaqches this "TACIT" Gospel about safety.
Even concert musicians get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome after using their hands for 30 years. Injuries go with the territory and NOTHING will improve this fact, not even a "postal disclaimer."
Show me a retired postal employee and I will show you someone with arthritis and rheumatism, to go along with their aching backs, sore knees, broken hips, bad feet, and hearing loss. Hopefully, I will also be able to show you people that are going to make it under the worst possible conditions, both emotionally and physically, because they made a career out of TOLERANCE. Without tolerance, nobody EVER makes it to retirement in the post office.
I've more than stated my case but I could write many books on the subject because I am anosy SOB, curious and interested in damn near everything. I'm just like my dad was and he managed to name five, never before named, catalogued, and identified Marine Invertebrates, and they reside in Washington, D.C., in the Smithsonian Institution. Maybe when I die, they will mount me on the wall nest to the Blue Whale in the lobby of one of the buildings where the Museum resides. You can bet your ass I'll have a shit-eating grin oon my face!

Respectfully,

Dave Kirtley

p.s. Daddy named these Sabellariids after his sisters! Check it out if you're interested in Marine Zoology. David W. Kirtley PHd.( an Oklahoma boy who went to Florida State for his Graduate Degrees, after spending 30 years in the Oilfields as a Petroleum Geologist.)

Well, kiss my griiits! We have a damned perfect specimen in our midst!

/m5806.................what is "Alice"?

...Hmmm...something that's hard to get rid of....You made your bed....

Wait...this is my fight..no one but me gets the credit. Dirty Deeds will be exposed.

"You simply have to allow the wannabee experts enough leash to hang themselves and have the patience to realize the inevitability. They'll get there and "by God," they'll be "first in line!"

You are soo transparent. You make a statement like this that does not connect in anyway in what you are trying to say. You attack others on this web and guise it with your "expertise" statements. It's no wonder your forum doesn't get any bites. The people sense integrity.

Thank you for your qualified assessment of a simple post. Try not to read anything into because you might miss my attempt to help people who can use some.
Your criticism could be put to better use but I believe that your style won't allow it.
I'm not rying to vent, win contests, or anything else. I just would like to know which people really give a hoot and who are simply frustrated with life as you appear to be to me.
I have many years of personal experience doing many things, some I even did well, but I am more than willing to share my experience in any area that could possibly help someone else.
By what you post, you are predictable and can be dealt with , just like myself, with a simple keystroke.

Dave Kirtley

Ignore them Dave. I thought it pretty obvious you are a good heart from your last post on the EEO forum. Solid stuff there. Thinking all should read and heed it.

Yeah Dave has the capability to give great advise but he most often does it with "darts" to others who are trying to help as well.

Thank You. but DirtyDart has a valid point. I need only deal directly with the issues oresented and keep any other stuff out of my posts. Lacking humility, while seeking it , presents its own challenges.
I will simply have to learn how to demonstrate my true intent better.

Dave Kirtley