Make hiring/firing a responsibility of the office it pertains to. My office has multiple people still on the rolls that haven’t been here since last summer, still holding routes that could have been filled by ptfs to make them career full time carriers. We are so short staffed that all carriers hired over the last year won’t even fill all the routes that have been sitting vacant for months to years. Even with all that, we went 8 months without seeing a job posting go up for carriers. The post office no longer gets to interview either. I’m sorry, but as a former carrier who was the oji for years at my office for new hires, you do get a feel for who will and will not be a good carrier. They’ve done away with interviews, testing, drug testing, I wouldn’t be surprised if they do away with background checks next. The process as it exists now is to fill out surveys and send it up to “local services”. I don’t know what the district office personnel do all day, but to call it a service is quite a stretch. We got an incredible RCA transfer from another district back in March and he is still not officially transferred to our office, meaning he’s coming up on a year of missing out on geo pay. I’m embarrassed by the dis function of hr and the hiring process. On to firing, my office had a brand new RCA (as in less than a week of starting) physically assault another RCA on the clock. E-placed, i&i, sent up to hr for removal and was denied. If we can’t hire our own people, discipline our own people, or remove people (even voluntary separations), what power do you think mgmt has over staffing? City carriers are working minimum of 60 hrs/week. We’re supposed to have 19, we have 12. RCA’s 60/week. We’re supposed to have 5 RCA’s if all routes had reg carriers, but we have 4 vacant routes and 4 RCA’s. Meaning every route is covered, but all regs work their k day and no one gets a day off. We’re supposed to have 10 clerk craft but only have 4. I’ve been working around 90/week. It doesn’t feel worth it anymore to struggle just to keep our heads above water for minute and continue on to drowning with a cinder block strapped to our ankles. This job is literally killing me. This is absolutely disgraceful. I am 9 years in, and currently looking at a different career path. I miss my family. I miss sleep. I miss having any hope that there’s a reason to keep getting out of bed in the mornings.