cross roads

Well got a decent job at the post office... IF you stick with it and don't mess around it will be a good place to stay and make a chunk of change...

If I get the pitiful little job over at GSI, I'll make less money, be putting my life on the line, and generally have a much tougher time getting to work every day and could end up late. Taking the mass transit system is a gamble. I could easily get to the baychester postal office every day, 10 minute trip. I've never been truly late to work. I'm just not feeling secure.

this is the story. You cannot fire a postal worker. That's why you see them enjoying their job despite it being a lot of rough stuff to do. Their union is solid as a rock. Unless YOU want to get fired, the post masters can't touch the postal force. Their union will fight tooth and nail to keep you in your job secure, safe, unharmed. Unless you do something ludicrous. The union is solid, REAL union.

IF I make regular at the post office, I'll be in a nice tight safe position without potential for firing and never have to worry about it. I can even apply for other positions too, much easier shit like shit where you work indoors. It's truly a secure job like no other job in this world. You can even transfer to other post offices anywhere in the country and live and work at other places if you want to.

Where's the downside to this job besides the work itself which is ass.

I don't intend to leave it. It's a gamble though. They've already made it clear, they can mess me up and fire me if they so choose. That's a bad sign. That's the joke, you get hired, you bust your ass, then they fire you cuz they can. They can't fire the regulars since they'll call the union and the union will put up a fight. There's nothing to save CCA's so we're just lambs to the slaughter is all...

Heh, is there any job out there that I could just do every day and not take shit from anyone. I like the postal shit though. I get the mail I got to deliver and that's it, I'm on my own tossing mail all fucking day. No supervisor harassing you, no one to deal with as a coworker. It's just me and the annoying people I deliver shit to. It's NOT what you think it is. It's a lot of walking walking walking walking up and down stairs, getting fucked with by wasps and bees, dogs, it's not a job you want as a long term career. This is kids work I think. If I was younger and more energetic, this would be nothing. I am 30 now. My body is telling me it wants to shut down and rest a hell of a lot more now than I've ever gotten that feeling before.

We'll see. I don't like jobs, any of them. And it's not going to be any better ta GSI. There will be a dick head supervisor over there too threatening to fire me for not tossing luggage properly or something stuuuuuupid.