US Postal Service reviews

Several managers are rude (and reporting them seems to do nothing). Training is a joke; you won't learn the job until you're working the floor. You're not eligible for benefits until you've been employed for more than a year. At least three weeks in December, you will work twelve hours, six days a week. Mandatory overtime can be called at any time, and during slow months (spring/summer), you may be forced to leave early. Sitting at a computer for hours, with short breaks each hour - and no talking. (A small area is reserved for talkers, but you may not get that area every day.) Lots of red tape. Updates, changes, improvements take lots of time and are sometimes virtually impossible. This position attracts antisocial personalities. Before you're promoted to career, you're expendable, and you will have to wait years before you're promoted. (About two years, at the least, but some employees have waited over five years.) The process to get to career conversion is long and frustrating: First the postal test, then the application, then an interview and group orientation, then two weeks of "training" (You must pass a long series of tests within two weeks - or you're fired). After that, you have three months of probation (where you cannot miss days and must hit certain goals, or may be fired). Then, you have a year before getting benefits, and you have to wait for a career position - but before you're converted, you have to go through another three months of probation.

People not judged on ability to do job in Management but on how much butt is kissed or who looks good in a skirt Too many teleconferences with no solutions Too top heavy with upper level managers who are completely out of touch with the employees and lower level Management Too much favoritism and nepotism If you are not a favorite of someone you are stuck no matter what you do Unions have unrealistic expectations of how company should be ran No recognition for doing a good job unless you are a higher level Manager (PCES)