We all agree that The Pony will have to get used to the physicality of his post office carrier job. But it could be worse...
In the two-block drive from the Gas Station Chicken Store to Country Mart, I had to wait for these electric crews to snip a wire. Seriously. That's what they did. There are two men in that bucket. The one you can see had a giant pair of bolt-cutters. Looked like the ones our custodian used to bring out when he had to cut a lock of a student's locker. Only bigger. Good thing there wasn't juice in those wires!
By the time I got this picture, they were folding up the bucket to move it out of the way. In the background is the big gray building where Neighbor Tommy got his first job. The rat poison factory.
Anyhoo... I wouldn't want The Pony up on a lift cutting electrical wires. Nor working in a rat poison factory. He should be able to adapt to walking and carrying. The driving part will probably be hardest for him. He got his training information on Monday. Three days down in Casino Town, and four days in Springfield. Then a couple of job-shadowing days back here in the local post office where he will work. All paid hours.
Of course he will still be seeking chemical engineering jobs in the meantime.
Postal work is not easy, and from a few workers I know there is a running battle between management and postal union workers with management being stopwatch wielding ass-hats which explains why some workers "go postal" anyway that is what my friends said...always of course two sides to a story.
ReplyDeleteI hope The Pony doesn't turn into a NEWMAN!
DeleteIt will be an interesting diversion for him until he gets that tech engineering job and after all that walking he can say he has earned his nightly two hour soak in the tub.
ReplyDeleteAs the weather is warming up, The Pony might prefer a 2-hour float in POOLIO!
DeleteMy nephew had just gotten a job as a mail carrier, he has to use his own vehicle, as it is a rural route. He is 51, though, not young like the Pony. He lost his job at the pharmacy he was working at, he didn't say why, but the fact that the new wife is a drug addict might have had something to do with it. He was allowed to quit because the man who owned the pharmacy did not want to cause my sister more grief than she was already dealing with. She pretty much shut me out the last two years and I had no idea just how hellish her life had become. Makes me sad and mad.
ReplyDeleteSorry for your sadness, it's a long process. :(
DeleteOur rural carriers used to have the metallic USPS sign on their private vehicles, but for the past 6 months or more, our carrier has been driving one of the in-town square trucks with the right-hand steering wheel.