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In our office as in most offices around the country we are very short handed. Going down the road I heard a major radio station with a commercial that the post office is hiring for all positions and we also have a big banner in front of our p.o. trying to get people hired and we also had a box holder today letting people know we are hiring. I'm not saying it's going to work but at least they are trying.
What good is all of that if they don't take applications? Don't no about yall but if I wanted to sell something I wouldn't take the add down until it was filled. If they really wanted to hire then let the individual offices take applications at the office,
 
I followed in my own car when I started way back when my office was all POV. What else would you do on a POV route? But agreedā€”a waste of time, but I was getting paid so ā€¦
Well, I also started way back when all were POV. Frankly, it wasn't a problem to sit in the vehicle at all. I also trained many people riding in my car. But that was back in the day when you could fit an extra person, all your mail, and all our routes were 46K!!
 
It continues to astound me that a job hunter can't walk into their local office and say, "I want to work " and be interviewed and hired by the pm in a reasonable amount of time. The centralization of hiring has failed. Anyone see that. How about changing that. I'm tired of task forces discussing new and better ways to deal with problematic issues. What do I Know? I'm just a carrier like the rest of us. I didn't go to an ivy league school or a private academy. Just like the rest of us. Some of our fellow carriers are pretty smart: old f art, neciat, Ethel Ann, pastothiry, bdret, suprised, all have great ideas yet I sense their frustration in never being taken seriously by the powers that be, SMH.
 
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It continues to astound me that a job hunter can't walk into their local office and say, "I want to work " and be interviewed and hired by the pm in a reasonable amount of time. The centralization of hiring has failed. Anyone see that. How about changing that. I'm tired of task forces discussing new and better ways to deal with problematic issues. What do I Know? I'm just a carrier like the rest of us. I didn't go to an ivy league school or a private academy. Just like the rest of us.
I did walk into local PO and ask if they were hiring. PM at the time talked with me then showed me everything I needed to do to start the process. Could be why from that day it only took 3 weeks before I was scheduled for shadow day and academy. given I worked Sunday and a cpl other days running parcels before academy and after shadow day šŸ˜‚.
 
That is my contention: structure it more like an apprenticeship bringing people in under very general, permissive terms, working and learning ā€œcraft lessā€ and ā€œassigned office-lessā€ for 90 calendar days doing a mostly balanced combination of clerk and carrier work, like what pse and arc employees are permitted to do. Let them set their own availability up to 24 hours a week. Hire twice as many as we think we can stand, as it wonā€™t be enough.

Toward the end of 90 days, if they have accrued enough working hours, invite them to test for a craft(s). If after 180 days if they havenā€™t worked enough hours or there are issues or concerns, cut them loose. Having too many bad employees is worse than not having more mediocre or good ones. If they pass then give them a list of offices with openings and let them choose where to ā€œstartā€.

Continue structured, guided training through two years, and after each carrier must do a set of continuing education employer led classes each year that is split in some not necessarily equal proportion between safety and job-specific knowledge or technique. Shift most of the time (and money) from the stand ups towards this program, and save local stand ups for the rare but consequential local issues.

Secondly, they have to resolve the mandated and ā€œad hoc work without incentiveā€. They need to offer a substantial premium for Sunday and normal non business day work. If no one is volunteering, the problem isnā€™t the people, it is the program.
This'll never work for the USPS, it's too sensible.
 
We got the hiring RCA cards to deliver today, I didnā€™t have enough for the whole route, so I cherry picked who got one. Elderlyā€¦ nope. Own a camperā€¦ nope, you probably like weekends off so no need to waste their time. Ritzy houseā€¦nope, not with our Table 2.šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø
 
What good is all of that if they don't take applications? Don't no about yall but if I wanted to sell something I wouldn't take the add down until it was filled. If they really wanted to hire then let the individual offices take applications at the office,
This I don't agree with, only because in our small station we have had too many relatives and friends being brought in. Since this new way of hiring, we have cut that down to 2 best buddies and 1 relative. An improvement from husband and wife, best friend to the clerk, father, and son, and 1 relative.
 
This I don't agree with, only because in our small station we have had too many relatives and friends being brought in. Since this new way of hiring, we have cut that down to 2 best buddies and 1 relative. An improvement from husband and wife, best friend to the clerk, father, and son, and 1 relative.
And this is one of the reasons why we have the inefficient system we have now. So much of the BS we go through today is because in the past people in the position of authority werenā€™t ā€œfairā€ and itā€™s trying to bring a measure of fairness to the process.
 
I'm a little surprised the guy who wrote the article seemed surprised they have issues hiring people.
Because itā€™s still perceived as a good paying, good benefits, stable job (which is is, for those of us in career positions) because the general public is not aware of the hurdles new hires face. And the RCA position is unique in so many ways that makes their situation far worse and more difficult to hire for.

Iā€™m thinking about this now and up until the last two years or so, when an effort was made to hire (The absolute minimal effort of actually posting the job opening on the website) we never had a problem get applicants. We had a problem keeping RCAs. Only in the last couple of years have we seen a lack of applicants.
 
"Data suggests other factors are playing a larger role, according to economists. They cite ongoing health concerns, child-care issues and expanded savings among a host of issues sidelining workers even amid record job openings."

The above is from an MSNBC article. I sort of cringe at the deception. If you give people extra money to stay home, they can watch their own kids. They don't pay childcare; therefore, saving money in the bank. If you set a federal moratorium on rent and mortgages, people bank the money. It's incredibly disingenuous to deny the money played a big role in the loss of interest in working.
 
Perhaps we should let the kids know they need their own money. We aren't in a generous mood these day, I guess. Nothing like being forced to house these brats forever. Do we put it on the hiring posters? šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£
 
In our last mailed paycheck stubs today we had a we're hiring card. Really? In a paycheck stub for a job we already have.
Friends and relatives are a good source of employees. Not trying to recruit you, but hoping someone in your circle sees the card or you pass it on to someone.
 
This I don't agree with, only because in our small station we have had too many relatives and friends being brought in. Since this new way of hiring, we have cut that down to 2 best buddies and 1 relative. An improvement from husband and wife, best friend to the clerk, father, and son, and 1 relative.
Which of us would recommend this job to a ā€œlovedā€ relative in the last 10 years?
I had to tell the truth to a customer the other day, they didnā€™t apply. When they see us coming by at 8 pm who wants to jump on that job?
 
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