@NorCal . Your buddy is right. My 25 years at the post office I seen it all. Too many cheifs and not enough Indians.
My buddy has been with them for around 15 years? Started in 2007'ish. His first office was small, so it was more of tight group who got along. Few years ago he moved out of state and landed at a much larger office. He said it was really night and day. His new office is huge, and I guess is
well known for mgmt issues. They often get their mgmt pool from supervisors they cannot fire from surrounding offices, so they all land there. Some managers have to communte 3-4 hours (one way) just to get there. So its a revolving door of bad mgmt as none of them stay long before they find digs closer to their homes.
He was telling me a few months ago a pallet of packages had been sitting in at the main office for 2 months. . . . I repeat . . .
2 months without being delivered. His office got so many complaints, head honcho's (from somewhere?) decided to pay his office a visit to determine what was happening. He said his mgmt tried to
hide the pallet (instead of working to get the packages delivered). He said he had never seen or heard of such a thing, as nothing even close to that blatant would have ever occurred at his old office. My buddy is really taken back by the entire situation, but he's also a union stewert, so he's seen or heard it all; especially at the office he is now.
I've been on both sides, union and mgmt. So I'm a firm believer that there are always two sides to every story. So I'm just hearing one side but my buddy is pretty grounded, so I tend to trust his judgment and/or observations. However, he has never been in mgmt, so he doesn't have first hand experience on what is delt with on that side of the house and inherant challenges that can follow.