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Information on this page is provided by Roseanne Jefferson.
Roseanne is a retired USPS employee with an extensive background in USPS
retirement, disability retirement, OWCP, EEO, Labor Relations and HR.
She conducts individual and group counseling and is able to
comprehensively discuss the pros and cons of employees who are on OWCP,
disability retirement and regular retirement. Roseanne will be happy
to answer your postal retirement questions. Contact Roseanne at
roseanne.jefferson@yahoo.com.
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Good Day
Postal Employees
10/15/2010
Today is my first column and I am honored to be able to share with
you knowledge, tips and encouragement to my extended postal family.
If any of you have gone to a training facility; or a class that
employees from other post offices; districts or Area's attended, I
am sure you have found that your issues, problems and concerns were
shared by all. Typically this information is found out during
break-out sessions, or perhaps when groups gather for dinner. A
clerk in San Antonio will have the problems that a clerk in Chicago
will have. But that's not to say that all post offices run the same.
They DO NOT. The "standards & procedures" may be the same, but each
office, each Postmaster and each Supervisor will run their
operations differently. We have strived for years to standardize our
operating procedures in every function that we do, (sometimes to the
point of being ridiculous) but carrying out those standards are
always office, plant, BMC, district and area specific. That is a
FACT. I am sure I would be challenged on that statement, but
nevertheless, it's true.
I am laying a foundation in PostalMag for us to build upon as we
journey through answered Q&A's, and columns that I will write
addressing specific subjects. I had a statement that I used for
years during my employment (specifically when I was in Management)
"My integrity is not for sale, and it is not for rent either". Not a
popular statement with upper management. I have always felt that
postal employees deserved far more than what they were getting, in
many different circumstances, information being the biggest. Not so
much what is going on with the organization, although that true, but
of benefits, and your rights. More times than not, you find out
something about the PO through the 6pm news broadcast. If you work
in a district, you may even have 3 or 4 flat screen TV's dedicated
to postal news. But that only touches the very few. You may have the
same in a Plant or BMC, but with a 15 minute break or 30 minute
lunch, you have little time to digest your food, let alone postal
information. I have come to understand many things in the various
positions I held, both Form 50 positions and details, and that is
YOU HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF YOU. Yes, I know easy statement, hard to
live by in the environment you work in. Understand I am not talking
about the slackers, and we all know who they are. They are in every
facility that we have. I am talking to you, those who care about
their job and their employer as well. As employees we can't take,
take, take and not give back to this organization with a fair day's
work, because we all know we are paid very well. Be proactive about
your health & safety, your career and your finances. I am looking
forward to a great relationship with you all....Roseanne |
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