Special Agents from the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) raided the Hicksville, NY Vehicle Maintenance Facility early Friday morning. The VMF has been under investigation since June 2013 after receiving a tip that night shift workers were sleeping on the job.
In October 2014 a Hicksville VMF Lead Automotive Technician died in a workplace accident.
A Hicksville postal facility was raided early Friday by U.S. Postal Service special agents in a probe that could lead to criminal charges against some employees, authorities said.
In a meeting with employees Friday, the facility’s manager said all 10 workers on the 11 p.m.-to-7 a.m. shift — who do mechanical and body work — are to be fired for sleeping on the job, according to a worker who attended the meeting.
(PR note: if the VMF facility manager told employees about pending discipline he or she could be in some hot water for privacy violations. The employees have been working for USPS from 5 to over 30 years. Just because they were caught sleeping on the job does not mean an automatic firing from USPS. ) The employees more than likely were placed on paid leave pending formal actions from USPS. )
At the 24-hour maintenance facility on Ludy Street, the misconduct was common knowledge, with graveyard-shift workers often sleeping on bedrolls and blankets in postal trucks or in supervisors’ offices, with windows covered by cardboard, the employee said.
The employee said those workers locked the gates with their own chains and locks so others wouldn’t catch them sleeping.
They’d position a truck near the gates and hang a baby monitor to watch and hear anyone coming, the worker said.At the meeting Friday, facility manager Robert Kasten told employees that surveillance cameras have been installed, the employee said. Kasten told the workers that investigators took pictures during the raid, then “woke them all up,” the employee said. “How sad is that?”
Read more: Hicksville postal facility raided in criminal probe of workers, officials say – Newsday.
maybe UPS or FDX will hire them……..you think?
I had to change my stage name from Matty t because this Matty war dog clown can’t come up with his own creative thought brainless copycat loser had to steal my name. must be a pathetic night shift custodian with a credit score that would get denied approval to buy a ball point pen.
what does that manager know he’s only there a year and 10 months besides he’s from the mail department
Ha, Ha, Ha, we slept on the jobs in our section at ISC/JFK ….We work the 11PM – 7AM shift too, what do you suspect? Working these night hours… Supervisior is also sleeping….
I have to wake up my supervisor at least 5x per day. He still has his job.
No surprise American highways marked with crosses with people that fall asleep at the wheel, Go work graveyard and say you never dozed off, it happens were human, lucky to get home safe after that shift, it’s been know to break up couples. Good luck
Duh!! What do ya expect from Hicksville.. The towns name says it all…
normally when you catch ten lazy USPS cats sleeping on bedrolls cots and cardboard that’s just the tip of mount everest. there’s usually stolen car parts’ power tools’ saws’ laptops’ socket wrench sets you name it in the homes of these 10 slick alley cats.
No wonder the number of non working vehicles has piled up in New York.