Where Have I Been?

[sarahcb1208]

Yeah, I seem to have a problem with regularly updating here.
Maybe I should just copy-pasta when I blog @ TM2TS, but that might be too much work.
Yeah, I’m lazy with that.

Nothing much is going on. We haven’t done too much at all. Josh starts in Topeka on the 10th.
We’ve already gotten word that he’ll be the bottom of two, as one person already made regular.
There’s talk of that PTF making reg (the one currently), and then maybe one more, within a few weeks.
That’s NOT taking into account the carriers who are worried about what this winter will be like, and NOT staying.
So, Josh might be regular by the end of the year. We’ll take the loss of $1 an hour, knowing he has paid holidays

Also, this area doesn’t seem to care about V-Time, simply because they CAN’T! They’re down at least 10 positions.

Comments

[heartsick]

Uggggh I want to have lengthy chats with you about the post office.

[sarahcb1208]

Good or bad? Pretty much the whole family is USPS ... even his family in Virginia :D

[heartsick]

Aha, bad! Mostly. I didn't realize how crazy the USPS was until Joe started doing so much work there. Now I am sort of desperate to know if it's just OUR post office or everyone's.

Also, I think you should cross-post back to LJ or put up an RSS feed or something. I never remember to check blogs that aren't LJ.

[sarahcb1208]

There was an RSS feed somewhere. I can *easily* crosspost since I use WLW.

It's BAD here, too, at least for the carriers. Josh is transferring to a station that has NO PTF's ("part-time" with benefits but few guaranteed hours) or TE's (the temps). *shudder* At least it's not as bad as Lawrence where the carriers don't give a shit about anything but themselves and are running so they can get off at 2pm, instead of 4, and then bitch that their route gets added on to.

[heartsick]

It's not the carriers Joe has issues with. Mainly it's the post office itself and the things they keep asking him to do that seem, uh, not very legit. And then the things he gets in trouble for! It's very bizarre.

[sarahcb1208]

Josh got in trouble recently because he saw a flicker of a flame through a window, so he took a peek. Dude got all huffy (stranger on the STREET), and then called the office about it. NO police were called, so the guy was just pissy because a package got lost ... OVERSEAS (it hadn't even REACHED the post office in the States).

Yeah, they're getting more and more "iffy" on rules. Stupid rules are being broken by them. The more grievances against them, apparently, the better management looks :O

[heartsick]

I always wondered, if Josh isn't full-time, what does he do to get the extra hours?

Joe runs the express mail, and he's been told that if he can't deliver a package on time he's supposed to scan it as "attempted" before the cut-off and then leave a slip later saying no one was home. Seems like our PO only cares about the paperwork being correct and not the actual work. Joe got written up because he delivered an express on time to a customer but forgot to scan it in one day when he was sick and just...out of it, so even though the package GOT TO THE PERSON ON TIME, he was written up as "failing" the delivery. wtf.

[sarahcb1208]

A lot of times, they do that in Lawrence (and Topeka). It's because they use private companies to run it from the sorting stations to the post offices themselves. Sometimes they don't show up until AFTER the first attempt time.

Josh, thankfully, hasn't been written up for things, though he has missed a few scans. Most of the time, it's because he's never "regular" on that route, and they toss him extra pieces and don't always mark down where it's going (because that would mess up their precious times).

Paperwork is Top Priority, always, I've noticed.