21 Feb 2012 4:08 pm
Yeah, I'd say "gaming" is a good choice of words.You got paid overtime for working weekends, shift differential for working nights, etc.,Shows how much you don't know.You don't get paid overtime for working weekends Bunkey. Those were regular work days for me.You have to work in the Post Office for many years before you have enough seniority to get a job with weekends off.Yes you get paid a little extra for working nights, but try working Midnight to 8:30 AM for years on end, and tell me you don't deserve a little extra.Misty: Ask my husband what it was like out on the tarmack at JFK Airport when it was 98 degrees in the summer or 15 degrees in the winter. White POS Bread: Big deal! I spent 2 weeks in the Weirton Steel Plant with a 120F ambient temperature running a hot mill lubricant trial and the first 8 weeks of 2008 in frozen, snow-covered Ontario. Pobrecito. Ten whole weeks? ROFLMy husband worked on the tarmack for 30 years, not 10 **** weeks.The difference between me and you is that I would never begrudge you a penny that you made for working hard under those lousy conditions.White POS Bread: You should be grateful that the Federal Government kept your employer from going belly-up a hundred times. You're so inefficient that we've had to float you cash just about every year of yourt existence. If you had to survive in the real world, FedEX and UPS would have eaten your lunch and you'd all be unemployed!!Once again, like Clem you display your ignorance on this subject.Maybe you can provide the proof (which Clem could not) that the Postal Service received all these supposed bailouts, in your words, 'about every year' of it's existence?White POS Bread:1. Public servants (there's an oxymoron for you, LOL) make ~20% more than their private counterparts.2. Public servants earn 26 vacation days after 15 year of service. (That's 5 weeks and a day much faster than private industry.) 3. Public servants that get 13 sick days/year and are acruable from year to year. Not happening in private industry.4. Prior military service counts towards your years of USPS service.Yeah, I'd say "gaming" is a good choice of words.I see. So in the 'Free Market' it's okay for Hedge Fund managers, Speculators or Wall Street CEO's who actually do game the system, to make obscene amounts of money, but people who do actual work, should do it for a mere pittance and be grateful at that.Free Market my ***.BTW if you think that 'public servants' have it made in the shade, there's nothing stopping you from getting one of those terrific jobs, is there?You sound a little jealous.White POS Bread: You're so inefficient that we've had to float you cash just about every year of your existence.You know I didn't run the place right? Here's how inefficient I was, Bunkey.I know you think I slept for 8 hours on the job.For years I worked on a letter sorting machine (before the days of optical scanners), where 60 letters a minute passed in front of me, and I had to key in the zipcodes on a keyboard. That's one letter every second.I did this from Midnight to 8:30 AM, with a 15 minute coffee break and a half hour (unpaid) lunch. I did that day after day, year after year for many years, most times on very little sleep.We were audited regularly, and I always managed to maintain a 99% accuracy rating.See I actually cared if people got their mail. Edited by MistyBlue, 21 February 2012 - 05:28 PM.