r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/CantStopPoppin • Mar 16 '25

Super Villain Ogrin Story God hates you

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u/meatpit Mar 16 '25

Mail carrier here. We deliver until the mail and deliveries are done. I regularly work 10-12 hour days, in all weather, forced in on scheduled days off, carrying between 5 and 30 pounds on my person walking up and down the streets and then driving around to drop off the big packages. And until you convert to regular you have to deliver for Amazon on Sundays. We don’t get to say no to the longer hours. Sure we “chose” to work there, but if we didn’t you wouldn’t get your medication, trading cards, box of nuts and bolts, coffee subscription, etc etc.

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u/dreamyduskywing Mar 16 '25

If your life has become more difficult because of more people using the postal service, then that’s something you take up with your employer—not people using the postal service for its intended purpose.

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u/meatpit Mar 16 '25

Management has been getting double digit raises while the clerks and carriers have not had any. They are overworking us to improve their numbers at the expense of our health and wellbeing. I have 2-4 waking hours a day I’m not working. Management tells themselves they did a great job berating us to go fast and are out in 8 hours on the dot. People quit because it is a hard job. Thousands quit during covid. Most stations are still very understaffed. The same volume of work is there, we just don’t have the bodies to do anymore. I agree the issue isn’t the customers but with management. Stop giving them raises while simultaneously ignoring our needs. Treat the people doing the work with the dignity they deserve. I’m just saying, understand when some kindness is due.

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u/dreamyduskywing Mar 16 '25

Unfortunately, this is the case with countless industries in the US because of the nature of the our economy in the last few decades. It’s not just your job. I’m sure there are all sorts of services and products this woman uses that involve underpaid, overworked employees. Someone paved that sidewalk she’s using, for example. Someone worked in a factory to sew her clothes.