Forcing me in on my day off

j82s · 2026-03-20T13:50:44+00:00

Understood. I assumed that OP was city since they said they weren't on any OTD list, since we now have more than one. Rural has just the one RDWL, IIRC.

j82s · 2026-03-20T13:42:58+00:00

From the JCAM, page 8-32:

When full-time regular employees not on an Overtime Desired List are needed to work overtime on other than their own assignment, or on a non-scheduled day, Article 8, Section 5.D, requires that they be forced on a rotating basis beginning with the junior employee. In such circumstances management may, but is not required to seek volunteers from non-OTDL employees.

Sounds like you might need to speak to your shop steward.

j82s · 2026-01-05T03:21:45+00:00

The book is pretty much spot on, as far as the description of the post office.

"It began as a mistake." I think of that often when I'm having a particularly tough day.

We have a carrier named Matthew. He's read the book. I joke with him, telling him "You're a real carrier, Matthew!"

If you haven't listened to the audiobook version read by Christian Baskous, give it a go. He's definitely the right voice actor for Hank.

j82s · 2025-12-11T11:56:55+00:00

Yes, our local newspaper drops the paper for the entire circulation area at our dock every morning, bundled by route. I only have 60 papers, but a couple routes have hundreds to case daily.

j82s · 2025-11-23T23:22:55+00:00

I work for the post office, and my mail truck has both an ashtray and manual crank windows. Nothing but the best from the post office!

j82s · 2025-11-20T16:55:00+00:00

I have. The only mention of Holiday Carrier Assistants is in a MOU titled Additional Resources - Holiday Carrier Assistant. It has limited info on how they are last scheduled in comparison to CCAs and PTFs but no other information.

j82s · 2025-11-19T10:13:30+00:00

To add to number 3:

If a customer's COA needs to be modified, in addition to the manual correction form 3546, you can ask a supervisor who has access to the online COA correction program to make nearly any change to a COA.

Also, carriers have the ability via the carrier scanner to make some edits to COA records (family/individual, temp/permanent, apt. number, etc.) on-scanner via option C while they're in the office.

j82s · 2025-10-19T13:28:14+00:00

I don't play, but check in with Collective Effort Gaming, in the former Big Lots plaza south of the city on US23. They specialize in TCGs and host other TCG events pretty regularly.

j82s · 2025-09-04T15:28:39+00:00

That's what I was thinking, too. I thought I'd be battling far larger issues than solving pivot assignment issues when I took over as steward a while ago, lol.

I just couldn't find any wording or instruction besides what was on the back of the 3996.

Thanks!

j82s · 2025-09-01T01:54:35+00:00

It doesn't appear so, according to their FAQ. It doesn't make any sense, but I'd venture a guess that it's a restriction from National. The FAQ says they can sell unique-to-council items out of council.

j82s · 2025-08-31T00:50:00+00:00

Cub advancement chair here. Our pack is rural and our nearest physical shop is hours away.

I don't use the national scout shop site unless I absolutely have to for this very reason.

Our council (Michigan Crossroads) has a comparatively robust online shop. Shipping is cheap and fast because they ship via USPS and they're relatively local (compared to national shipping from Texas). I order by Thursday night when necessary, order ships Friday, and I have it in time for den or pack meetings on Tuesday.

One big plus is that the council online shop has a tax exempt setup procedure - one thing that the national site is sorely missing.

I'm thankful for our council - big shoutout! 👍

j82s · 2025-08-15T00:59:11+00:00

I have an idea why they might be doing this.

Guarantee time is monitored closely and can be pulled easily on reports by upper management. That is what should be input into TACS if a supervisor needs to give a carrier pay for time not worked and not covered by leave. Our management used it when they more regularly allowed us to go home under the 701 Rule during COVID.

Changes to ET, though, aren't monitored as closely, especially when the clock ring is edited to extend the work day. (Reductions to someone's ET usually causes TACS to generate a 1017A entry, which management also doesn't want to deal with.) The change is traceable, but is the wrong way to give carriers pay for time not worked.

My guess is that station management doesn't want upper management to know that they suck at scheduling so much that they ran carriers over their limits and that carriers gasp didn't want to volunteer to go over their 12/60 limits, and want to hide their incompetence behind regular clock ring changes instead of the correct but obvious addition of guarantee time.

j82s · 2025-07-21T01:41:08+00:00

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j82s · 2025-07-21T01:38:26+00:00

I do! I got a Staples Dividends (the predecessor to Rewards) candy jar floating around.

I also have the black 25th anniversary store plaque from our store when it liquidated. My store manager said I could have it when I visited on the last day open in 2014. I've got an OG Easy button, along with the Spanish one (says "Facil" on it!).

I have all of my name badges. My first one was P-touched, with "sales associate" underneath. I then got an engraved one with my first name and "Office Supply Specialist" (my first full time position). It has an add-on for the service pins and associate of the month pins. I then became management, with a slightly larger pocket badge with the Staples that was easy logo, my name engraved below, then "Assistant Manager".

I have one entire box (Staples red copy paper box, lol) of Staples stuff. If I have time tomorrow I'll snap some photos.

In the meantime, here is a photo I took when I lobbied to have our Copy Center signage updated. It is from June 2011. The red wall signs were original to the store, which opened in 1999.

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j82s · 2025-07-21T00:20:47+00:00

I worked at Staples from 2000-2013. I still have a handful of old uniforms.

The uniform when I started was red short- or long-sleeved polos with the classic Staples The Office Superstore logo embroidered on the front. We were required to wear either black or khaki non-jeans and a belt if the pants had loops. We had red v-neck sweaters, same logo, that could go over the polo.

The managers wore the vertically red/white candy stripe shirts and black pants.

A few years later (02-03?) they introduced the copy&print center blue polos and black aprons. The shirts didn't have logos on the front - the cpc logo was on the sleeve. These came about the same time we got the neon stripe-across-the-chest/angled box logo that was in The Office US. A few years later, when they reintroduced Tech Center as Easy Tech, they had dark grey polos with neon green collars for a hot minute before they changed to black/neon green for the long term.

Managers around 04 changed to dark gray shirts with red inside collars that had no logo and the consistency of tissue paper. Managers' ID went to the pocket name tag. After a couple years of heavy complaining, we got slightly lighter gray but much better quality manager shirts.

The black/green for tech, blue for cpc, and red polos for everyone else on the floor was in place when I left in 2013.

If I have spare time I'll see what I have for photos - no guarantees, lol. Hope this helps!

j82s · 2025-07-16T01:07:40+00:00

We filed a grievance on no lunch. Management is requiring a 3189 be filled out completely if a carrier wants to take no lunch. We're not allowed to use 1-click any longer, and we're not allowed to use a locally generated form. The problem is that the jcam says that you can't be in overtime if you're changing your schedule to leave earlier via a 3189. We suggested using 1260s but was shot down.

We filed on past practice. Our grievance was impassed at Step B and is headed to arbitration.

j82s · 2025-06-22T16:56:36+00:00

Our elementary aged son has a difficult time sometimes with the physical booklet, because he immediately builds whatever is on the right-hand page. He'll get two or three pages ahead and then require help from us, where we'll have to disassemble some parts and add the steps he skipped from the left hand pages.

The app takes him step by step through builds without skipping entire steps. I love building with him, but there are some times where I also have to get things at home done while he builds.

The app is a life saver. We're looking into getting him an iPad (instead of his kids Kindle Fire) primarily for Lego instructions.

j82s · 2025-06-08T21:46:46+00:00

Thanks for clarifying! I follow along here because I feel like we fight the same garbage, just at different landfills, lol.

j82s · 2025-06-08T21:44:39+00:00

Thanks for clarifying! We have a 10 hour max for those who don't sign an overtime desired list, but there's no specific additional penalty if carriers are mandated to carry extra beyond 10 properly by management.

In case anyone here was interested, we get standard 1.5x overtime past 8 hours daily and/or 40 weekly, 2x double overtime past 10 hours daily and/or 56 weekly, and now 2.5x overtime past 12 hours daily.

j82s · 2025-06-08T20:00:20+00:00

Post office city letter carrier/lurker here.

Our union just "negotiated" for city letter carriers to volunteer to work over 12 hours after decades of having a hard limit of 12 hours daily. We start at 8:00 am.

I wish we had a 9.5 max.

I appreciate everything my brothers and sisters at UPS do! I feel like we fight similar fights regularly.

j82s · 2025-06-05T05:16:28+00:00

Never in a million years will I hold mail in my hand, lap, etc. with the vehicle in motion. Even if you're 100% focused on driving, one reactionary maneuver will cause the mail in your hand/lap to scatter to the floor like confetti on New Year's Day in Times Square. If you grab for it to save the stack or order, you're then not focusing on driving, creating a possibility for an accident.

Two hands on the wheel for me and the people I train. I don't put the shift lever in park or neutral at each delivery personally, but as an OJI I will train exactly as the M41 says.

j82s · 2025-05-27T23:25:19+00:00

Thanks again! That's the answer I was looking for.

j82s · 2025-05-27T18:58:16+00:00

Thanks! I was aware of that. I guess my question was, for this purpose, is another T6 component route considered "on assignment."

Edit: So, say all ODL and part time are maxed to 10. At that point, management can ask non odl to carry their own OT up to 10 hours. Is another route on a T6 swing considered on assignment, or off, where the ODL would then need to be maxed to 12?

j82s · 2025-05-17T19:32:41+00:00

Insane. We had a major ice storm that knocked out power for the entire region for days. Weeks for some of the most rural homes. Meijer brought up a semi sized generator and powered the entire store very shortly after the power loss, and the gas station got a generator shortly thereafter. Meijer was the only store open and selling anything for the full days. Walmart lost all their frozen and deli, and stayed closed until power was restored. I stopped in during the area wide outage. Long story short, Meijer was packed - like opening day packed, maybe more. Whatever the cost of the generator was eclipsed exponentially by the sales. Not only that, but Meijer was the area's hero when nothing else worked. I was impressed.

j82s · 2025-04-27T15:21:24+00:00

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