i hope my buddy comes with the young handicap guy right here. what's up day for a male? a good day. bye. be careful medicaid getting them on the august mail for him and he'll come out and give him his ma'am. with coming up, i'd just rather mail or something like that and they get things like on like their medicine shacks, you know? so you know when that's coming and they know sometimes with special attention about

on the job when you get to that point. so it's not even like a job, you know, it's just like a normal family thing that you know, with a letter on your door, it will be handled to a spot, thousands of miles away in the most remote corner. the night is really great. i mean, i don't live in the world a miracle right there. takes 3 or 4 hours to get my normal cup of coffee. if you get this letter anywhere in the world and you trust it's going to go that the postal service delivers a $155000000000.00 pieces of mail every year. approximately 40 percent of the

world's name. you can actually see the people that you're touching and i'm a people person. so a 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 is the post office and you know, the postmaster if there are clerks there, you know them, you know, they're there to serve you, they feed job that they get to talk about things that are happening and what they need to get involved in town. it could be all it takes, it 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. the post office is kind of

a window on the world. you 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 boys, box clark, window choir. 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. 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 if you did, and i like to get it today. i like to help people. i care about them and i want to give them the best service and most knowledgeable service that i put in after hearing the stories for 27 years. and watching what he went through to keep his job and i set out to uncover what happened to him. what's happening everywhere. mm 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 i work in the text to land

a street and the meal i was working at was close and i when i started at the post office, i was 27 years old with 2 children and i had 3 jobs working at the mall and were all minimum wage jobs. and there's no way i could support my children that i couldn't find about a job. money was great hours, and it was just a great place to work. but as time window a i had never been messed with in my whole career staff that are 50 war with so many years, almost like they'd have a usefulness out of me and it was time for me to go don't talk to nobody deliver to mail. you can cut the law on climate y'all, or somebody pushes they would they actually call you that they're trying to get

used, but you didn't mandate any time. get you to break safety measures with it . i got your with things i did pardon. my chest was pumping in my head was about like a mutual distrust. you know, the you don't trust the man. imagine i don't trust the workers. we work on the side or on the other. i mean, the system right now is supposed to serve as operates. it's counterproductive in many places. it's a day to day battle. i was taught by several post masters and supervisors throughout my career. i will follow you till i catch you. do something wrong in the portal culture. you're the enemy. if you speak up, we'll find a way to get at you opening your mouth. i

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 cross hairs? see nowhere out, no way out, and decide to fire back. what if i'm at 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 eel 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 him, i said, we're giving you this paper, this petition. because we don't want to sit around and watch tv at the 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 disaster tuesday morning. we're steve spencer. i'm committed suicide in the bathroom of the annex. 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. mm. or stay a voice. hey, was this happy face?

he was 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 will be coming out and following steve me at 1st it was just every once in a while, but in the last 3 months he was alive. it has to be

3 or 4 times here. take your lunch break usually and pass by or pull end of the place. you can stop and look and look at their watch. get out. check safe, your vehicles lock located. no and all the time, but you're watching and they move on. and that's to me, that's harassment me. i believe they were following him to shake steve up. hopefully i would find him doing something like the listing for that i can find that they can never do diane. i think that's why and i followed him for so i

will be the kind of he will been the kind of guy that would be a sacrificial lamb to make things right. everybody else. it was just again our 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 steve a lot of days, i probably couldn't roll 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 where part of the problem came in today were truly afraid of being me. he was

the one that they were determined to see blame the puzzles her own. i wasn't surprised at what happened last week because 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 in 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

that 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. i get nervous. busy i get hands, i said, what's your definition of going postal? now when i said that to majid, keith threw himself back into the computer. the girl that 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 a 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.

back breaking toil forced labor stress industrial injury. corporal punishment. oh no. words with which we're all familiar. are you certain that the world you live in abolish slavery long ago? ah, where are you at?

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. coastal employees can't to work aiming for their bosses, leaving awake of collateral damage as dozens of postal workers were killed or injured. i think i really need to clear a new jersey. there were 2 whole school 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 me every incident, post office, a violence 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 blood in the 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 twist sir mines. and it 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've seen a lot of people waiting in their delay. those labor management relations delay stress. i just don't think it is with shooting rebates or getting who was in came in at about 8 o'clock and had his gun under his coat. he sat cruise 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 everyone. and while you knew it was coming and most knew the government by name mckelvey 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, and 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. what 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, she is, audrey, you seem to have some kind of personal problems. have you thought about seeing if i guys, i'm hopeful supervisory appears to have been killed by a coworker who later turned the gun on himself. postal employees were told not to comment as specifics to discipline already that information were either released. both of these employees are very well liked 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 or by a with a union person in the local office. that takes care of any problems with management and any of the other employees. just the part of my make that i cannot see another human being being really,

really harassed or to humanize any or shot of me without me getting up and try to assist them in. just say the, just, this is a, you know, one, i'm either going to go nuts or i'm going to go do something. and that's one of the things that made me steward. and invariably, you'll find that to 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, and that is showing both arms because i believe in human rights in this and i believe are morality. there's always some type of retaliation whenever you get a really good settlement, whenever you, as, 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 after he had lost a large arbitration to grievance with me. and he took me outside on my 40 birthday without it, without any near shot of anyone else say i may fire you for no reason at all and you'll be on the outside. look at it for 6 months. a 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 a 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 reports. 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 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. and 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 the buyer? they can find with trying to figure out now that you will get your job back with bobby bobby farb, what are you trying to do?

he's trying to start with. yeah, i had one manager, many offices is the way the best way to, to take care your employees, the by your best employee and find something he's doing wrong and get my water away . 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 reform, i'm thinking, well, that is one of 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 checks out there in one is largely a fear and intimidation a day because we're very getting. however,

when you do that, you're still told you feel you feel you feel the answer to everything is different, different than to your voice or you just because there's no reason why people are afraid of world. well, with my next with they always say one thing. what your pro, somebody who does completely 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. when a united states congress or washington post office and, and reams out the manager,

you get a response. i mean, that's, it's unfortunate that, that 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 audit team's miraculously showing up at your door or 5 o'clock in the morning to look for your records. you michelle, want to block the 47 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. you like to 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 there are so focused on the binary code off the, off the numbers a what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have, it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is on a very dramatic development. only personally, i'm getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult. time time to sit down and talk with you a tool that was bad fuel. isn't your post. yeah. that it would stop you from having

real friends and finding a girlfriend. but what they fail to mention is that you can make thousands of dollars every weekend by simply playing video getting this station use in a couple of them because i always wanted to listen to one sleep, a little room to profit. you personally thought georgia resume because much putting it okay much what we do accept his goal. of course, to make video games a high paying job. you have to be gifted and quick with it. hang on to a squint despite the ticket underneath name, fitness to listen you bottom in desanto, adopted bentley up amongst the booth, but even started yet gala boy, when you mouse told me i'm of his deal with accumulate mules, blood you guy of the owner. but i would that be cool, it will still be stuck. it's easy to do. i also use a

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