I heard that last night Tour One at MLS P&DC had it's "Town Hall Meeting" with the plant manager John P. Bertolina. Also, I heard that our own Vice President Tagart was in early walking around prior to the meeting. Unfortunately, I was not able to go there last night. So, I am asking anyone of you out there to give myself and anyone else unable to attend this meeting some feedback on what took place and your own thoughts on this matter. Plus over the course of the next few days Tour Two and Three will have their own "Town Hall Meetings". Then next week will be Midway's turn for having "Town Hall Meetings".
I look forward to hearing from all of you. Please let everyone know what you think and feel about these meetings with the Plant Manager John P. Bertolina.
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That maybe true... why dont' you enlighten us to what you actually think was told to us at the meetings held at MLS P&DC. Tell us from your perspective... no matter how myopic that maybe.
Gloom and doom. Lack of mail volume. That is no lie. Everybody can see the drastic drop in mail. Going home early all the time, getting unsceduled leave any time you ask. No overtime for those hounds who can't afford to live on a regular paycheck. Sometimes coming in and finding absolutely nothing to do. It has never been like that, ever. And now it is, and its been going on for months, and months.
Fuel costs are driving overall costs to the point where they are going to look at every person in every bid for purposes of cutting any and all fat they can. I don't doubt the fuel costs are killing them. We all warned them about that when they decided to move the plant so far away from the airport and the city in general. No foresight, and now they are hurting bad. Duh.
So everyone, you better not get too attached to your bid, your days off, your start time, or anything else. And those lazy pieces of crap who stand around shooting the breeze, in front of the plant manager no less, those people are going to be responsible for the loss of jobs in their sections. Because they prove every day that they are not needed, at least on a full time basis. Problem is, it will be a harder working junior person losing their bid, because seniority is more important than anything, so lazy senior people are protected, while the junior ones who really work are shit-canned. Got to love union rules. But I digress. Can't change it, no one said life was fair.
Now back to the townhall meeting. You all were warned last week. Now, most of the sheep at the post office aren't able to think any further than a couple of days or so. And others don't believe a thing the PO has to say. Whatever. Stay in the dark if it makes you all happy. I myself am getting myself prepared for the inevitable. At least when the changescome to my section, I won't be caught unawares.
Basically the gist of the man's rap was, hang on to your hats, cuz its gonna be a wild ride from here on out. And he's right, even though we all hate to admit it. The mail is basically gone and they ain't no new people coming up that wants to use the USPS, now with text message and email and so on and so forth. And if you alls can't see it and admit it, you will be suprised when the ax comes to your section. Me, I'm expecting it and looking around for other options right now.
Transfers to other Federal jobs, Border Patrol, for example, are good options too. If you transfer to another federal job, you can take some of your benefits with you.
Some have already done this. I know its not for most of us, and with my bum knee, I don't know that they'd take me, although I do speak Spanish.
HOw about some enticements to get some of the fence sitters to retire? I am not talking about everyone, because we have a lot of senior people who still are able to work their butts off day after day. But, We do have some people just milking the system. If they had to work in automation on the DBCS, they'd retire in a heart beat. But since they are senior, they can diddle around, pretending to be productive, playing with empty letter trays in manual letters all night.
I get all around the building all night. I have seen what little some do around there. If they paid by the piece, things might be different. But there are some people there, if you watch them, will case up maybe 3 letters in fifteen minutes. If you are that tired thats all you can do, maybe you ought to put in your papers and find an assisting living facility to retire to, so someone can open your mail and pay your bills for you.
If those people really cared about their job, their co-workers, and maybe even the future as far as retiree benefits goes, they would do the right thing and retire. And postal people seem to be motivated only by money, so how about an incentive to get the fence-sitters to retire? That could probably save the jobs for those people who still have house payments, still have kids they are raising or putting thru school, aren't old enough for social security or retirement payments.
Trust me, as soon as I hit minimum retirement age, I'm gone. End of story. Only thing keeping me here is my inability to have OPM approve my request to retire.
Wait till you see what happens when Perris opens up. Many of the younger people are going to transfer up there. They will transfer mail up there too. The people left in MLS will be the super-senior ones, and they are'nt going to like filling in the gaps and going over to the DIOSS or cutting mail from the Bulk Unit all night. That, now that I think about it, may be the thing that convinces them that its time to start planning those retirement cruises. The thought of having to shed some sweat at work after 30 years of skating.
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