I started this blog so that people with a variety of interests could post different threads. I'm a law school grad and a former Marine so I have a STRONG feeling about the First Amendment and the ability to exchange ideas and opposing viewpoints.
That being said, I urge prospective posters to keep the language clean and watch the flames. Any post I deem profane or inflammatory WILL be deleted.
This is NOT a blog for those of you who wish to bash former coworkers or bosses. I know there is a fine line between sharing an experience and tearing off on your place of work, but I also believe that you are intellignet enough to be critical without negatively ranting.
So tell us about yourself: Where do you work? What are your interests? What is going on in the world today that concerns or pleases you?
I'm Joe. I worked for the USPS for 15 years. I left on August 2nd, 2009. I grauated law school back in May and accepted an offer from the United States Department of Labor as an investigator with the Wage and Hour division. I began work on August 3rd. Before I go any further, I just want to say one thing about postal employment: it was a stable, secure job that provided great pay and benefits. It was nice to know that no matter what, you could count on having a job to go to.
Anyway... I was a clerk in the Post Office at the Brockton, Massachusetts Processing and Distribution Center. My last position was as a Small Package and Bundle Sorter Operator.
What I miss most about the job is my coworkers. Most of them were great people and it was a lot of fun seeing them every night. Many of us hung out off the job and back in the day, we partied as hard as we worked. We used to come off tour at 8:00 on Saturday mornings and go to a little dive bar in the old industrial part of Brockton and drink and shoot pool. Somewhere along the line though, we stopped doing that. We all got older, some of us had kids and life changed.
The job has changed too. Until about 4 years ago, it was a tough job, but it was fun. And while I can't speak for every facility out there, I know in my old plant, as long as you got the mail done, nobody sweated you. Were that still the case...
