Call the 800# sick/call out line to schedule your EAP. (You can still fill out leave slip, if you like.)
Ask for it to be FMLA. That will generate the paperwork. You'll have the packet mailed to you.
Talk to the people on the EAP hotline. They will help you pick out a counselor, and you can change counselors if you don't like the first one. They emailed me a bunch of info that was a tremendous help. They gave me some counseling on the phone.
You can call them 24/7. I called them 3a.m. on a Saturday morning because my lazy supervisor had not delivered the stalker's mail for a week. (You get so upset you forget they are there 24/7.)
The USPS zero tolerance policy mandates the USPS is to keep you safe. (Thank you for that gem of info, btdtret) Yes, I read that to my incompetent supervisor during that week.
You have every reason to feel threatened. We are not hard for peeps to find. There are things the counselors will teach you that can be a tremendous help.
FMLA is not a bad thing! It helps protect you from unprofessional PMs. The counselor will fill out most of it. In my experience, if there is a fee for that, the USPS pays it.
My abrasive PM tried to mess with my EAP time off....oh HELL no.
My DR was threatened by someone on his route, and after he went through the channels he had the state police following him on his route for a few days. Those threats involved firearms.
A phone call to your DR may give you more tools to help you.
After 4 years of enduring harassment from my creepy stalker they finally had me stop delivering his mail. That occurred after my eighth call to the postal inspectors. (It helps to speak to them yourself. Mine gave me their direct phone number.)
(I would never touch stalker's box with a bare hand, always put on a glove. I was concerned about him trying to drug me. Bombs never entered my mind until suggested to me as a concern of someone on this site.)
Do all you can to learn, go up the food chain and let those people jump up and down on your unconcerned PMs head. They will make her care.
Uhh, are you aware a "talon" may be in reference to rounds?
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Not at all surprised.
MPOO is now a psychiatrist and she thinks these two men or calming down.
So what if they're "calming down!" They have broken the law and should suffer consequences.
Second, I met with my PM and had Step 1 discussion. She told me the zero tolerance policy did not apply outside workroom floor & it was meant to protect you from other employees?.
Wrong. She, as your boss and is required to keep you safe. Any incident is deemed preventable, especially one involving written plans disseminated on a public forum.
I wholeheartedly disagreed & explained my route is my workplace.
You are correct, but then, you have a brain in your head.
She asked me again if they had threatened me to my face.
Immaterial. Their posts constitute legal threats.
From one woman to another, seriously???? I responded I didn’t that was a qualifier to be considered a threat.
You are correct.
I swear the Post Office is riddled with ignorant, stupid ass managers.
You are correct.
She then had the audacity to say, you don’t think I have ever been threatened?
It's her responsibility to handle those threats,too.
These men came to the window twice in a ten day period and her chicken shit, dumbass wouldn’t speak to them. She had managers give them a number. That worked real well.
Lame, unprofessional and dangerous. She can get USPS help to handle the problem. The Postal Inspectors went to my stalker's house wearing their guns, and spoke to him. What does she want to do, give them a "time out?"
I told her how nice it must be to have a door between you and the person threatening you. Your asking me to service their box and stop right next to there home 3 times daily.
Rational, valid observation. Unfortunately, those qualities cut no ice with her limited view of her responsibility to you. Unforgivable.
She also told me I was worrying to much about it????
No, someone needs to be worrying about it. She is clueless.
No, this is not new knowledge. They just don’t believe they are a real threat. No way I can work that route again knowing how unstable they are. The lies and slander are the icing on the cake.So now he/she is threatening the PM....I bet it becomes more serious, very quickly. I feel for you. I'll never understand these people who claim to love their dogs so much but allow them to just run around...chasing cars all day.
No, this is not new knowledge. They just don’t believe they are a real threat. No way I can work that route again knowing how unstable they are. The lies and slander are the icing on the cake.
No, this is not new knowledge. They just don’t believe they are a real threat. No way I can work that route again knowing how unstable they are. The lies and slander are the icing on the cake.