[TiberiusAD]

This post is all about where you work, and what your customers don't know. If that would be that you spit in the pickles before lunch was served... static... then that would be your post.

I wanted to do this because where I work, most people have absolutley no idea what is really going on... for those of you who are American, I'm sure you fit into this stereotype as well.

U.S.P.S. (U.S.Postal Service) RCA (Rural Carrier Associate)

My job, is quite simply to deliver your mail. Here is what you may think you know:

1. Your Tax Dollars form my salary:
False- The Post Office is actually a fully functioning self-dependant organization of the Federal Government. Tax dollars have not been alocated to the Post Office since just after the Civil War.
So how do I get paid? Well you buy stamps don't you?

2. All I do is drive a little truck, someone else sorts MY mail:
False- I start work at 6:30AM begining with some of your mail from yesterday night. I will continue to sort, as per individual box until about lunch time when the big truck from Atlanta gets to the office.
All mail that I handle, including the stuff off the truck must be sorted and bunched togather per box.
So why can't you get me & my neibors mail right? I have 658 boxes on my route. All of which have forwards (previous residents) with it. I must sort the mail, and try to catch those folks that have moved. I must also be back by 5PM to catch the last truck of the day... 658 in 5 hours sometimes causes minor errors.

3. The Post Office is closed on Sunday, and Federal Holidays:
False- The post office operates 365 days a year, and often throught the night. Just because you don't get delivery does not mean that nobody is at the office.

4. I dont have to use the mail service if I dont want to:
True- Mail service is not a requirement, nor a right. You decide whether or not you feel the need for a delivery service.
--Side Note-- UPS & FedEx are actually partners with the USPS... not competitors. No one else in America delivers to every house everywhere, so these companies depend on the USPS to deliver your mail!

Feel free to ask any questions if anyone is interested.

[Arkan]

I knew all about that....my pops was a mailman.

As for me, only thing you need to know is....I'm the Boss. What i say goes, everything else isn't important!

....now get back to work!!

[Drew]

Originally Posted by Arkan

I knew all about that....my pops was a mailman.

As for me, only thing you need to know is....I'm the Boss. What i say goes, everything else isn't important!

....now get back to work!!

What do you manage? oOo:

I'm in Resort Management for Fairfield Resorts.

I don't know what to tell you that you wouldn't already know. Don't buy a timeshare?

[TiberiusAD]

Hah,

+1 for the Cigar man..

Here are a couple more:

5. What is with the damned Junk Mail!:
- Junk mail is called Business bulk, and is simply mail that some business has paid the post office to deliver. We have no control over this... but it does account for a signifigant part of our saleries!
--Side Note-- I make $16.48 an hour!

6. Will you go Postal?
- Yes.
--Actually the Public School system & Wal-Mart have worse reconds for employee & Customer freak-outs--

[dr nein]

Tell us about your exploits in the land of the twin peaks, Herr Noctars.

[ninty]

I got out of the customer service jobs.

Worked in Canadian Tire auto department and you couldn't believe the stupid questions I got about cars there.

Now I work for a manufacturing company where I put together wireline trucks. Don't have to deal with customers.

I'm also in the army. Something that comes up a lot is that we kill babies. This is true.

[TiberiusAD]

Originally Posted by ninty9

I'm also in the army. Something that comes up a lot is that we kill babies. This is true.

happy:

[strvs]

Boston pizza... just quit though.

Really any resturaunt you work at you find out things you dont want to know. + you get a look at just how 'sanitary' most resturaunt kitchens are. Especially when its teenagers who cook the food... Teenagers + Food preperation = Not a good mix

[Albow0001]

I'm a projectionist at a local theater, its got about 8 theaters running.

I've worked there over 2 years, and i've climbed my way up from serving you your food and drinks to cleaning up your kid's puke to finally being in complete control of everything you see.

1: Projectionists put porn in movies: Yeah...wouldn't you? We just dont do it often. I'm really lazy, and in order to put a few scenes of porn into a kids movie, i have to find the porn, pull out an appropriate scene while holding it over a shitty light, splice it off its reel, tape the reel back together, open up the kids reel, splice the film in, and then tape all that shit together too...so, not that often. Just for ones i hate, like fucking Robots.

2: You are being ripped off on popcorn False

You are being ripped off on popcorn, drinks, candy, food, tickets, and even the free napkins. A bag of 50 pounds of popcorn seed that could fill over 200 large bags of popcorn costs us $25 by bulk costs, and a stack of 100 plastic bags for popcorn holding costs us 75c ... we sell the large bags for $5.75 ... do the math (Sloi). The drinks, i mean come on, a slip of syrup costs us 20 bucks, and when diluted with water we can make over 300 drinks with that...we're just raping you utterly...
Top that with the fact that in our theater, we keep the ice holders right across from the popcorn poppers, and between each till for serving, so when someone coughs, or a nickle is lost, or a stray dozen popcorn kernels zoom into the air, it winds up being scooped into someone's drink. Yeah...one time, a friend who'd had his hand hit with a baseball bat lost the fingernail and the bandage that was holding it on into the ice...yeah.

3: Everything gets swept under the seats anyways! Tricky...depends on the theater. If it takes your local theater 2 minutes to clean the whole place, then yes....but at mine, we tend to clean up almost every bit in the theater, so thats not a definitive...it just depends how lazy the teens in your area are.

4: If there was a fire alarm, you'd all be fucked. Yup. Now i'm not saying whether i agree with this or not, i'm just stating out training. Our fire escapes are so clogged with refuse from the zellers downstairs, coupled with the fact that we havn't changed the lights in probably a decade, that when i went to go down one 6 months ago i needed a flashlight and half an hour to make it 100 feet. Couple this with the fact that we are trained to abandon the handicapped in the event of an emergency. Training states that if there's a fire, we warn them that we will be warning the fire crews that they are in there, then we leave them in the theaters and are not allowed to help them for risk of holding back other guests. "They knew the risks when they left the house" is the policy.

5: Fuck you and your short attention span. You didnt read any of this anyways, even though its probably going to be very important to you when you go to see a movie next. True

[Unknown_Sniper]

im never goign into a theater again. But really that whole handicapped thing makes sense.
My job.. oh I do kinda have one
I am a periodicles person at my schools library. That means I go through and shelf and rearrange all the magazines and newspapers and otehr periodicals.
1) Working in a library is easy
False. Fuck you it sucks. We have to "read shelves". That means at least for one hour per week we have to go throug han entire section of books and read every single fucking number on them to make sure they are in order.

2) the magazines magically re order themselves. I can put them where ever I want. And if there is a sign saying place on cart do not reshelf, that doesnt apply to me.
False - Fuck you again. I have to rearange all the magazines. PLace the god damn books and shit on the cart. It makes our life easier.

3) Working in a library is for wusses.
Maybe but then again how often have you had the oppertunity to carry a large amount of heavy books and bend down and shelf them

Ok so it might not be soooo bad. But it does suck. I end up just reading all the magazines for half the time im there.

[Albow0001]

Hot bookworm chicks?

Hardcore female anatomy study sessions? anything redeeming?

[Unknown_Sniper]

yes. there are some hot girls that work in the library. No I dont get any of them as they are lesbos or 22+ years old. rolleyes:

working at a construction site:

Working for your dad is easy
FALSE FALSE AND FALSE AGAIN. my dad gets pissed off at me more than if someone else screws up.

Construction workers make good money
True, i made 800$ in a month.

Union is better than self employed
False, at least in our case. my father is self-employed, but hes got so many connections and referrals, hes always in work. he sets his own hours, his own lunch break, and gets paid pretty well

Working construction is hard
Yes, it is, it is alot. It is fun sometimes, but some of the jobs suck, like removing wallpaper. dont work construction, get a good education instead. You dont want to spend your life doing hard labour.

[Unknown_Sniper]

$800 a month is not good money unless you are in highschool and have nothing ot pay for. right now I have no plan for next year but if I get accepted to the school I want to go to I have to be making hopefully $400-$500 a week.

[Drew]

Originally Posted by Acideyez

Construction workers make good money
True, i made 800$ in a month.

I hate to break it to you, mang, but I'm ridiculously underpaid since I'm still in school and I still net much more than $800 in a month.

And as far as the handicapped policy...

I'm one of the directors for my resort's Emergency Rapid Response team (we're the first to get called if there is a fire, etc). Anyway, we have 6 buildings on our property. I'm responsible for a 20-story tower that is host to about 1200 at full capacity. Evacuating that building is a bitch when we have advanced warning and time to get it done (hurricane evacs) but evacuating for a fire is insane. Got way off topic there, but the reason I said all that was to get to the reason that you leave the handicapped folks behind. It's a liability issue. If you are assisting them in escaping from the fire and they are harmed in any way while being assisted, they can sue you or your organization. You'd think the Good Samaritan law would protect you, but technically you are doing something that is outside your skill level. Therefore you are unprotected. I would personally be protected because I was trained by the Fire Department on emergency high-rise evacuations, but most of my staff has not had that training.