and we come here for the news, we come here for our mail for the kids to play. i mean, this is just kind of our social point of them. it's a post office and you know, the postmaster, if there are clerks there, you know them, you know, they're there to serve. you, they gather, they get to talk about things that are happening and what they need to get involved in town. it could be politics that can be a bond issue. it can be that if there's a forest fire 2 miles down the road coming year away, each place is composed of different people on every. everybody's got a story to tell people the post office is kind of a window on the world to look forward to it. it's a nice interval. hi jack. how are things in a little bit of information about the neighborhood and the community take did pick

a real life spice in the community. the 1st thing i learned when i came to the postal service was free work, the sanctity of the male. i'm jay and this is my dad right now where our front a maple crush station in maplewood, new jersey. my job was box car, window fire. and i spent many wonderful years here taking care of beautiful customers. he always had a lot to say about his job at the post office and i felt a feeling of accomplishment every day i came home from work, a lot of the added to those that work here get very hard and they get you did. and i like to get it, i like to help people and i care about them. and i want to give them the best service and most knowledgeable service for hearing the stories for 27 years

and watching what he went through to keep his job. and i said in i love my job when i went to work, post office, it was a tough job. a lot of the jobs for play and out around here at the time the i worked in the text to land district. and the meal i was working at was closed and i am when i started at the post office, i was 27 years old with 2 children. and i had 3 jobs working at the mall. they were all minimum wage job. and there's no way i could support my children. i couldn't find about a job. you know, money was great hours and it was just

a great place to work. but as time when i had never been messed with my whole career staff that are big to work with so many years, almost like they've had they used full is out of me and it was time for me to go don't talk to nobody deliver to mail you can cut the lawns, climb will be over, somebody butch's, they would, they actually call you that. they're trying to get you in beta and mandy, if anytime get you to break safety measures. but i will tell you that is because i got to go with the gate. my check for pumping in my head was about to a mutual distress. you know that you don't chose to either. the managers don't

trust the workers. a war is on your, on one side or on the other. the system right now is supposed to service operates it's counterproductive in many places it's. it's a day to day battle. i was told by several host masters and supervisors throughout my career. i will follow you till i catch you. do something wrong in this cultural culture. you're the enemy. if you speak up, we'll find a way to get at you opening you amount in i worry about someone going postal. this is not an option for me, but what about someone that has put their life into the post office? what if they find themselves in brian's crosshairs? see nowhere out, no way out, and decide to fire back. what if i'm up work that day and get caught in the crossfire? i warned them, i put it in writing and i sent it to the

e. o investigator. and i know i know that somebody took notice because the e o investigator sent it to charlotte who sent the guy down to interview me for an hour to make sure that to make sure that i wasn't contemplating something, that the district manager was having a job with the town hall meeting, i told them i said we're giving you this paper, this petition. because we don't want to sit around and watch tv at 11 o'clock news . and something crazy happens in the post office. and we look at the tv and see you guys on there saying we didn't know anything was wrong. mm. so we'll put you on notice if we have a problem. and then of course we have this

her tuesday morning worsting spencer. i committed suicide in the bathroom of the antics i was totally shock. we had no one we. we didn't have anybody to talk to the carrier. we sent 2 people to the hospital after that. it's just a tragedy that they had to work through that me or stay with this happy face. he was just happy face that you'd say in the morning this friendly guy. he didn't have any problems. not on the outside. stay was straight up fella. he always willing to take lead and all the things that the union and, and the postal service needed for the community. he was

a timeless worker. me . this was the management supervisors that when they coming out and following steve me 1st it was just every once in a while, but in the last 3 love, he was allowed to be 3 or 4 times here. take your lunch break usually and pass by or pull end of the place. you stop and look and look at their watch. can get out to sleep. your vehicles loc. locating no one all the time that you're watching and then they move on. and that's to me, that's her asthma. i believe they were following him to shake

steve up. hopefully i would find him doing something like the listing for that i can but they can never, diane. i think that's why i followed him for so i will be the kind of he will have been the kind of guy that would be a sacrificial lamb to make things right for everybody else. he was just good. how are you steve spencer was my secretary when i was present. the thing that i was shocked about is why steve didn't come to somebody for help

because everybody used to go to steve for help be real honest, which if it was a steve a lot of days, i probably could that role to people, even the president of the union would come to him for advice because they knew, well, everyone knew the post management knew of the union members all the ne, knew that he has so much knowledge. and i think that's for a problem. the problem came in. they were truly afraid having me, he was the one that they were determined to see played the puzzles her own.

i wasn't surprised at what happened last week cuz i've seen it come and there's, there's going to be a lot more coming to if, if they don't stop doing the stress level walking into the building. i think people feel like their jobs are on the line. i think they feel like that if they say something that they're going to be after, they're gonna find things to go after them for that. i'll find things to try to get them out when we were voicing our opinions about what this guy's saying and doing. the problem interviewed 6 people, all 6 people said, i feel my blood pressure coming up when i see this manager, the hair on my arm stands up when i get nervous, i get tense. i said, what's your definition of going postal? when i said that to majid, he threw himself back into the computer,

the girl was taking notes, dropped her pen, and he says, we don't like to talk about going postal. i said, okay, well then let's change the word. you tell me what the word is. that we'd use instead of going postal. he says that, you know, i don't want to talk about going postal. they don't want to talk about that. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah with ah

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it will still be stuck with these odd to do. i also need i saw a message from an unknown account because it had a self re, with my passport as its profile picture. i saw pictures of my documents, it will say also send a credit contract. i had just 3 days. comply with their demands to see if i didn't send money. i late sent up an online hate campaign. i was supposed to be a very dangerous man. with ah, an old hungarian proverb says you can't put everything under one hat. it means that the same rules can't be applied to every one. and yet this is what beauty passed,

signed up to when it entered the european union in 2004, today hungry is accused of all possible sins. again, democracy now does the or bank government feel about its future and place in the european family? ah, where are you? in on august 18th, 1983 perry smith carried a 12 gauge shotgun to the post office where he worked for 25 years. he chased the postmaster to a nearby store and killed him shooting to former co workers in the process. less than 4 months later, it happened again in alabama than georgia in new york city. for more than 2 decades and kept happening. postal employees came to work aiming for their bosses, leaving a week of collateral damage as dozens of postal workers were killed or injured.

a millimeter, so they started a mock lawyer in new jersey. there were 2 coastal employees killed, 2 people from the general public and one main for life. i went and sat outside that office that night and had tears in my eyes because i wonder if i should go back to work because of the fact that this could happen to me. but it could happen to anybody in any walk a life. and i had so much to give up to leave the postal service every incident of post office violates back then i was involved in, i was called in dr. mike man, tell an expert in dealing with mass trauma arrived today. i remember talking about

how quickly they cleaned up the it is a bullet holes and how some of the post office workers said there's still some bull holes in the wall. and it turns our stomach and it turns twists our minds and affects us deeply. and it was just get back to work. don't worry about it, get over it. don't just take a file cabinet and move it over to cover a bullet hole. clean it up. i see a lot of people there waiting in there to lay those at the labor management relations delayed out those drafts. i just don't think is is legitimate value. michigan. i know the pulls in only shooting rebates or getting supervisor in came in at about 8 o'clock and had his gun under his coat. he sat, chris carlyle and the head. 5 times came out to other supervisors and went

upstairs and i guess he shot some people who were injury count and somebody jumped out of a window incredibly every wanted more. you knew it was coming and most knew the government by name michael vain was their main target. they went after the guy for everything. they went after him because his shorts weren't the right length . that he went to the bathroom too many times. the day that he was actually fired and it duck 3 management people got in a car and followed him out to his route. they were following like within inches of his bumper. and that then he flowed down to, you know, 10 or 15 miles an hour. they said that he tried to hit them with you know, flam on the brakes and make them hit him. when it came down to was that he would

not submit to them. and so when i came to san francisco, i was just shocked that the manager there was the same kind of manager that i had seen in royal oak. you know, barking at everybody screaming at him, you know, scream from across the room for you to come to her desk. so she could yell at you and for everybody in the, in the place is frightening to me, to be in there and the times that i went to the postmaster in san francisco and personally asked, what can we do because the morale is so bad that i can see how another royal oak will happen here. and the response always was to me. well, g is audrey. you seem to have some kind of personal problems. have you thought about seeing a psychiatrist about the supervisory appears to have been killed by

a co worker who later turned the gun on himself. post the employees were told not to comment as specifics to disciplinary that information were either released. both of these employees are very well, like they don't have any idea. no one could possibly know why he did it. how can that be, that you just have the same situation so many times over and over? how can that possibly be? it has to be the mentality of the post office a . 7

i the union 1st and then the local post office that takes care of any problems with management and any of the other employees just to part of my make up. that i cannot see another human being being easily harassed or to humanize any or shot of me without me getting up and try to assist them with me. just see the injustice. and he said, you know what, i'm either going to go nuts or i'm going to go do something about it. that's one of the things that made me steward. invariably, you'll find that the stewards or people that grew up standing in between a bully and somebody who either couldn't or wouldn't defend themselves. i am not an individual that likes to fight. i like to sit down and negotiate. but if i'm back

into the corner to knock on that swing or both arms, because i believe in human rights in earnest, and i believe are morality. there's always some type of retaliation. whenever you get a really good settlement, whenever you, as that, as i would say, just nail a once they want to come back and get you, but it's just business. it's not supposed to get personal. as a shop steward, my dad had an adversarial relationship with many of the bosses around the dinner table. i hear stories like this one there. he had lost a large arbitration, a grievance with me and he took me outside my 45th birthday without it without any your show to anyone else and say, i may fire you for no reason at all and you'll be on the outside every 6 months.

the year you get to arbitration in 1997 local management postal inspectors following me. and filming me on a daily basis. they accuse me of stealing $500.00 over 10 year period and put me out of work this time. i understand bob is suspended without pay, pending the outcome of a criminal investigation regarding mileage expense report. it was the spring of my senior year and the future was suddenly uncertain in the federal sector. and especially in the postal service. they have incredible mays of how to resolve problems. it's totally designed to take as long as possible israel, my mileage vouchers for 10 years, which route only came to 2 miles a day, 7 miles. wherever i went, that they had asked me to go plus the letters,

hundreds and hundreds of letters from customers that i service over the years. and i've never had a financial shortage. never took anything from the postal service. with us workplaces your presumed guilty until proven innocent workers are routinely fired, suspended, held out, starved, and it is a disciplining tool on the part of management. most working class people can't sustain a, you know, a single paycheck much less several months of waiting for a grievance case to be heard by an arbitrator or through a grievance panel. there's always a fear. you're not going to get the job back in many people give up and take the punishment as i've known, single mothers and single fathers that had to feed their families and took the deal

and made it look like they were guilty of something they never did. what do they get that are they can find with trying to figure out now that you will get your job back with a a trying to start with . yeah, i had one manager many offices in some way. the best way to, to take care your employees, the by your best employee and find something he's doing wrong. and you have my letter or warning. and i would say to myself, why in a world what i want to do that? well, they figured that if you wrote up your best employee, the other 4 employees will fall in line thinking. well, the best guy in the office for some minor little detail,

they want to intimidate everybody. ah, the working environment in the postal service is combative. now we're getting warning letters with chicks are out there in one is largely a fear and intimidation a day because we're very getting. however, when you do that yourself whole you feel you feel you feel the answer to everything is different, different from your voice, or you just because there's no reason why people will or phrases world well with my neck with they always say one thing to promote somebody who does the opposite?

when you say, i've had particular managers who i've received hundreds of complaints on. i've had to go out to the post office. i've had a shut down and have a come to jesus meeting with that manager about what their responsibility is and how they should be treating their workers and united states congress and washington post office and, and reams out the manager. you get a response. i mean that's, it's unfortunate that bad, it has to happen, but, you know, sometimes that has to happen. and if you have a disagreement, the bar you might be suspended, you might be called in for an investigative interview. you'll see a audit team's miraculously showing up at your door or 5 o'clock in the morning to look for your records. initial one will block the $47.00 walks. also you're being disciplined. i was told to lay off back off. you don't want something to happen to

you. if you go to a post office and they have 60 routes, they'll probably have enough personnel to operate 46 routes. they'll probably have enough vehicles for 43 routes and they'll be short on everything they need to run that office in that respect. it's hostile, it's own, every little delivery number you are answerable for every single day in your post office, like say on any given day on the street. it's not the same day to different 24 hours management doesn't allow for that because they're so focused on the binary code off the, off the numbers. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even foundation,

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