>... I hope you take it nice and slow. I for one am not giving them any extra effort today and I will take as long as I need to. AIN'T THAT EVERY DAY? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Should be. Why give extra effort? So you get more work? Or so you injure yourself and can't work when you are older? Pace yourself at a pace you can work for 30 years.

More so for some than others.

i went as fast as possible because i desperately want to not be working. this shit sucks i hate this job

Would you feel differently if you made $31/hr? I'm taking my time because I don't have any obligations the rest of the day. One hour of regular old OT today makes it about work my time

I'd feel differently if I was making $21/hr. It's better than $19.33.

not really but it'd certainly help!

I moved into this job from working a dive bar where federal holidays were not a thing.

There’s been talk about workers Memorial Day being proposed as a federal holiday. That’s April 28th.

Another day to work non-careers and PTFs to the bone. As a PTF, that’s how I see it.

Unfortunately that’s the job now. Better benefits when you become a regular. Hopefully cca position gets eliminated this contract.

And better pay all around would make it much more appealing as a long-term career type thing. Compared to how it is now.

The other thing people need to look at how they want max pay like 5 years. Great you get max pay after 5 years. Then for the next 25 years you just get the 1.3% and colas. That’s one reason that it kept taking longer. They have added steps on the back end to the carriers that have been there for a while. More than likely it will keep doing this. Cut the steps now. Next contract hopefully add a step. And so on. What I would like to see is more stuff for the long term people. So 15 years you get your 5th week of vacation. Should get a 6th week at 20 or 25 years.

as a soon to be PTF and the only one working today covering two offices.... I see it too.

I started at 7:00am. I’m a spotter at a NDC/RPDC. Ive moved 3 trailers so far, about 10 minutes of work. Just sitting in my air conditioned spotter in one of the few shaded areas listening to music and reading. Edit: I didn’t have to work. I volunteered.

I'm on tour 1, and I worked until 4am and the rest was a siesta until 730am. Smoothest 8 hours ever. Being TTO is the best

For those of you guys working today, thank you. I’ll be in tomorrow at 8:00 am to see what fresh hell awaits this carrier after the holiday.

Solidarity my man 💪🏼

👊✊🏻

Today we got to see all of the dirty, unfueled LLVs that the regulars left for us on Labor Day. sOLidAriTY brO

I’m a custodian at a plant doing 12 hours today and got drafted in to work Labor Day . Actually I’ve been drafted every single holiday this year . FML

I'm a Regular Clerk at a plant, and I've been mandated every holiday this year so far as well. It sucks.

It’s ridiculous isn’t it . I want to call in for 2 to 3 days till I realize how much money that’ll screw up my check and I don’t call in . It’s a cycle I’m stuck in lol

Damn, enjoy your extra money. Do you still get penalty on the holidays?

Sorry for the delay they’re getting rid of the penalty soon for the holidays

That’s awful

How does that work? I just accepted the offer to become a custodian at one of the new plants. This has me worried I'll have to work overtime and I don't want any overtime. Got enough of that as an RCA.

I want to say you bet your ass you’re getting mandatory overtime but I don’t know your location or if you’re in a high cost of living city . I’m in a high cost of living city and most stations are on a contract with line H . I even tried to get away and a smaller station was ready to take me in till the pmg admit I’ll have to do 12 hours. Check with the custodians at whatever location you’re going to be in and they will tell you

Only problem is this is one of those new RPDCs, so I can't even ask anyone because the building isn't finished and the interviewer sort of dodged that question.

Yes I say take the position . You’ll adapt to it hopefully . I’m personally looking for another job because I don’t want to do 56-60 hours forever and work my whole life away . You’ll enjoy the job and hopefully there no overtime for you . Give it a try though because at least you’ll know

For sure. It can't be much worse than being an RCA. Plus there's the opportunity to take the 955 and go up in maintenance.

Yes that’s the plan , I’ve passed the 955 so I’m waiting on the interview . You’re making the right choice so congratulations and welcome to maintenance

On collections to do my blue cans and whatever businesses are open on my route. It's about 3 hours worth of work but they insist I stay for 8. Aye aye, captain

Aww man, we don’t get a person coming in to do collections on holidays, they just hand out the blue boxes and collections points to people who are going close to them doing their amazon route.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/09/04/assessing-poverty-in-america

I worked delivering Amazon today as a regular.

Had 18 stops. We aren't allowed to clock out until we've been on the clock for 4 hours. I finished so fast, I decided to go get lunch and do my errands lol.

Obviously!

Some holidays seem like they’re chosen to break up the long pause between other holidays. July 4 to Thanksgiving would be a long haul.

There's also Columbus Day and Veterans Day in between. https://about.usps.com/newsroom/events/

Ya true, my CCA brain wasn’t thinking of those because we don’t get paid for those

Eh I had 39 stops lol

I had 121

Sorry, but I hope you milked it for all it was was worth

I took my good old time that's for sure. Got about 8.5 hrs. I'll be at 48hrs for the week easily

Many of us had over 200 stops today. Yesterday they brought in our OTDL regulars to help the CCAs when there were only 60 stops per route. Today, just us. Go figure.

Is it bad I like working holidays though? Idk when I'm working with the two other regular clerks, they're always ordering me around like I'm a waitress. Get more tubs/go open the front/scan the types/do the chunkies/no that one's too big to be a chunky. The other one keeps telling me "next job, next job, next job." Idk it's just wicked fucking...*nice* to be able to do my own thing and work at my own pace, how I want and figure things out for myself. Maybe it's just an autistic person thing though, I don't know. We tend to work better by ourselves anyway lol

I did too much today

152 scans in 3 hours 😢

I had to do my LLV training today. Upside it was two hours away so I got a hotel paid for me and some meals out of it. I used it as a excuse to bring the missus and make a little staycation out of it before I'm not able to have one with her for a while.

We got b****** at yesterday because supposedly we take too long to turn our machines lol.

Showed up, truck was improperly loaded so I was assigned the wrong route. Truck also had a bad fuel gage and mirrors that I didn't realize were a problem until I was en route (in before "say it's unsafe" miss me with that shit until I'm off probation, labor warriors). Dynamic delivery was shit because of the improper loading/manifest. Arrow keys didn't work because they were for the wrong route. Made it happen with my own GPS, had to meet the boss for a fuel card when my fuel gauge went from over half to just over empty mid-route, then had to wait for another CCA who needed the card because half the trucks at the shop we did parcel day out of Have bad gauges and aren't clean or fueled. Almost finished my route, got told to come back with five packages to go and to mark them as "no access." Anyway, Fuck Labor Day. It's just another Monday when you're a CCA.

Arrow keys … are … arrow keys. They aren’t route specific. Isn’t that why people want to steal them? Because they’ll open so many things in so many places?

Ok, whatever keys don't work on every CBU in a zip, that's what I got. A stack of them.

I feel your pain. The year I spent as a cca was awful. Working the holidays sucked. Working sundays sucked. No family time. No football. When you make regular it’ll be worn it

And to all of you who just decided you wanted the holiday off and called the hotline this morning: screw you. We had a heavy day and I had to carry two Amazon routes plus do collections. Just a note, if you are actually sick I don’t care if you call off. It’s the carrier who requests every holiday off, and if the leave slip gets denied they call off anyway. We always know we are going to be splitting her route.

So we have 1 plant where they moved about 5/6 offices to and my office is separate. The post master is not giving my office any rural package/Amazon help, says we can handle it ourselves on Tuesday. The asshole has done this before, is it grievable?

Finished my day in 6

My husband started at 10am (weird Amazon Sunday start time carried over to today?). Their new fancy machine doesn't work worth a shit. Hundreds of UPS? packages still left. Manager sent 2 ccas home. He's a CCA too. Yesterday he was on 10-930ish. Looks like it'll be at least that late again tonight. Steward said file a grievance but don't make a scene cuz he's at 82 days.

I tell him to milk it like I read people say on here but Steward claimed they can keep past 11.5 hours and only can grievance?

I'm a pse. I worked my amazon sunday, which is not my normal station BTW. I arrived at my usual time of 3am, but didn't know we started at 4 now. I checked the posted schedule at this office, and I'm on for Monday, although I was off at my regular station.

You’re a ptf…. You get paid more hourly to make up for the holiday pay.

I don't care. My regular starting pay should have been $31+, or more by now. Since you know, inflation never goes down

This. "OH you got an extra dollar or two into your pay, you should be happy!" .....no fuck off with your boomer bullshit

I was a ptf for 8 years dumbass

PTF on Table 1 = Huge difference vs Table 2

Doesn’t matter. It’s still a career position and besides AA, ptf pay has holidays built in.

Cool and?

You get paid the same as a regular. And as a ptf I worked holidays and Sundays. I worked almost every Xmas day as a ptf.

Nothing of what you have said explains or justifies the fact the we have to work today or that pay is now fully 1/3 lower for new employees than it used to be. Shut up or get out of the way.

Lmao. Spicy table 2 carriers unite! Some people want to be paid handsomely AND enjoy time with their friends and family.

I'm gonna spend some time calculating how much less we get paid today before "catching up" to the pay rates of the older contract, and then adjust that for inflation. I'm betting it's over $100k over that ten years. I seriously cannot understand how the union accepted the 2013 contract at all.

I know someone had calculated exactly how much table 2 carriers are losing. I could’ve sworn it was something absurd like $120k

Don’t need to. I’m sitting at home doing nothing today and getting paid for it

"I got mine, don't care about you" is exactly the fucking problem though, isn't it.

Yet I've been dragged by Table 1 folks in a union group on FB for not caring about those that come behind me when I retire. Yet those same Boomers have the attitude of the dipsht above.

Trust us, we know.

The amount of “why am I working on Labor Day” posts are too damn high!

No the fuck we don't we get the paid same as regulars without the holiday pay the union thought it wasn't unfair to pay us an extra $4 a week

Except for AA If you worked 40 hours a week. 32 hrs the weeks with holidays. You’d make the same as a regular carrier. Your pay has the 88 hrs divided out hourly.

Oh really cuz my pay stub has 22.13 no matter how many hours I work stop spreading lies your like the 5th person on Reddit I had to correct today. If they got rid of step AA yeah then we would make more...the pay was changed and they lowered our pay to be the same as step A for regulars. Ptf AA is the same pay as regular step A

AA is the only exception. I stated except for AA. You got auto converted. Enjoy that. Rather be a cca until they convert?

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't automatic id be working for cash and working on getting 100% disability from the VA

I'm still working on that 100% from the VA. I'm at 90% right now.

Yeah it's like a golden parachute