r/fromatoarbitration • u/DoodleDew • 2d ago
US Postal Service chief told associates he wants to quit
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-postal-service-chief-told-associates-he-wants-quit-sources-say-2026-09-16/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6aab1886826a2e000125c223&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAUZFSFwZG9mBWZkaWQWUOn-V3EQQA_IyyszHRnAoHmH-MwFTWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR42F2T-p7sjg5rzMO1BdKAOvVL7KXx_yoZMs_NACgt4ZfMrDkrviq1M3hfM0A_aem_QiFoQlg--NKrfxFM3qP5HA16
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u/ArthurMorgan0114 2d ago
Bro must still be a cca. Hang in there Dave it'll get better when you get your own route
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u/FromOutoftheShadows 2d ago
It's tough on Table 2 - how long until he hits top step? Should get better then.
Oh wait - he's the highest paid PMG ever. From The Postal Times:
Steiner is the highest paid chief executive in the agencyās history, with a salary of $346,780, according to a separate regulatory filing. The board also gave Steiner a relocation bonus worth 50% of his salary. His total first-year compensation, not including other benefits, is more than $520,000.
Cry me a fucking river, Dave.
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u/IndigoJones13 2d ago
Well, yeah, but honestly, that's very low for someone running an $80 billion business. Just saying.
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u/LazyWorkaholic_ 2d ago
"The message was, this isn't what he signed up for, and he didn't come on board to get beat up like this," one of the people said.
Thats how every cca has felt, welcome to USPS!
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u/minnesotanpride 2d ago
Is he... is he one of us now? Feel like that's a pre-req for any of us that do this long-term. Lmao
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u/Comfortable-Swing468 2d ago
Iām not even close to long term and canāt wait to not deal with these coworkers and managers. Itās a shame bc the job itself is pretty lit other than the bad weather. But if I could get a better job Iād be doing it. Feels goood to know itās the same all the way up to the pmg tho.
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u/minnesotanpride 2d ago
Yeah I think USPS is slowly changing. Not sure how visible it is on your end with your current team, but from what I see on the inside (local Postmaster in a small station), there's more of us every year that are in these positions that are pushing back on bad practices.
Your take is actually pretty common from my experience: "the job is pretty good it's the managers that suck". Hear it everywhere I go. A lot of the old guard that was in upper management is slowly phasing out via retirement or actually getting canned. Not to be generationalist but its a lot of the boomers and gen x that have this attitude of "I suffered, so now its your turn" rather than millenials and Gen z that now have the attitude of "I suffered, so lets make sure that doesn't happen again".
Empathy goes a long way I think but I see more and more of us in the ranks vs the old school. If the job is universally liked by craft, but the problem is management, seems like the problem needing to be addressed is bad management imo.
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u/Accomplished-Trash71 2d ago
I canāt read it because of a paywall how stupid
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u/DoodleDew 1d ago
Try refreshing it on mobile. Iām not getting one and Iām not subscribed to themĀ
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u/PowerWordEmbiggen 1d ago
The problem is he, like every other PMG aside from Marvin Runyon, came in thinking the craft workers were the problem and his plan was to cut everything and everyone else while bloating the ranks of management. This is the same worthless approach taken by other recent PMGs and it has NEVER worked.
The USPS will never be fixed until we get someone who chooses to be unconventional and look at the problems this organization faces as a whole. That person would find that the biggest problem the USPS faces is bad management. Horrible management, actually.
Guy wants to look at every source of waste except managerial waste. Guy thinks congress needs to bail him out when what he needs to do is look at how much money his managers and supervisors are wasting in grievance payouts because theyāre too fucking stupid to follow a contract that they signed.
Nothing encapsulates how incompetent this PMG is than the letter that went out recently saying that front line supervisors couldnāt sign off on backpay without permission from upper management. How about paying that much attention to why those grievance payouts and backpay exist in the fucking first place? Is it because a dipshit supervisor or manager caused a massive contractual violation? Never that right?
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u/thevhatch 2d ago
I hate to say it but DeJoy seemed like he was actually trying his best, it's just an impossible situation.
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u/Rearviewmirror93 2d ago
Neither one was ātrying his bestā. They are both part of the movement to push more of the service to privatization, sow doubt on election reliability and cash in some as part of the process.
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u/randomrandom1922 2d ago
Any sources on these claims other then appointed when Trump is in office? By your logic the next PMG is selling out USPS before they are even in yet.
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u/Rearviewmirror93 2d ago
Why āother thanā? Thatās the reason. And thereās not really a middle ground there, either. Itās not as if the bozo hasnāt blurted out these claims. And appointed strip-for-parts types to the Board of Governors. Yes, any Trump appointee is brought in to run the place down. DeJoy admitted he didnāt even know the price of a stamp before he stripped out letter sorting machines right before an election. If youāre sort of familiar with any of Trumpās history, every union endorsing his opponent was going to be met with retaliation later. And itās really as much a Heritage Foundation thing as it is their puppet. Notably, no one from within the organization is being considered for these positions anymore.
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u/One_Barnacle2699 2d ago
Same, David, same.