By Bill Brickley | June 3, 2014 | Bill Brickley, Featured, Union, USPS
Shira Goodman, North American Commercial President for Staples couldn’t hide her contempt for Postal Workers when she spoke to hundreds of Staples employees in her first ever Town Hall style meeting. Ms. Goodman chastised Postal Workers with several disparaging remarks including: “It must be nice to have a job for life” then adding”those days are over, this country can’t afford to do business as usual”. In her world Staples workers are nothing more than temporary workers always at risk to have their jobs abolished.
It comes as no surprise that Shira Goodman was on the “Jobs and Economy” Steering Committee during Mitt Romney’s transition to Massachusetts Governor in 1992. Judging by her attitude towards workers there is no doubt she buys into Romney’s hateful 47% comment made during his presidential run.
It’s also hardly shocking that Shira Goodman’s job before joining Staples in 1992 was being a manager for Bain and Company (1986-1992). Staples was one of her clients. Bain was the leader in outsourcing workers jobs for management profit. She must feel quite comfortable in outsourcing postal jobs to her transient workforce.
Staples has the worst customer service and horrible selection. It starts at the top, apparently. I shop at Costco for office supplies. They’re employees are the best. I hear they’re valued and treated very well. Go figure. Office Depot as a last resort for more selective office supplies.
Shira- Yes it is nice to know you have a job for life. It has reassured my family that bills will be paid, that funds will be available to help kids go to college, and that we will generally have a better life. These things are obviously of no value to you. You are the embodiment of what is going wrong in this country. Your ideal world would be with YOU in charge of several hundred serfs who have no rights and work for YOU. You may want to edit your comment to read ” Staples can’t afford to do business as usual”. I guess it’s the fault of the Staples employees that the company is closing so many stores. It can close the one here in my hometown for all I care as I won’t be going there anymore. I enjoy shopping in my small hometown where businesses know me by name and I see the same faces regularly, but knowing that this concept is of no value to Staples I’ll go where I’m valued.
Yes it’s nice knowing you have a job for life and I treat that with all the respect it deserves. I show up for work, do my job to serve my customers well, and earn every nickel I take home. Both you and Postal management need to watch The Profit on CNBC to learn the rudiments of running a business, the most important being value your employees. It is interesting to note that both Staples and USPS, corporations who place little value on workforce, find themselves in similar dire straits. Coincidence? I think not.
Maybe Ms. Goodman needs to be outsourced!
Last time i shop at staples
All Postal Employees and their families should boycott Staples and any subsidiaries. We have the power of economic warfare against these self righteous privateers. Her comments should just be a reminder of what people like her want for the average American worker. Low pay, no say jobs that barely provide for our families. On this anniversary of DDay I can wonder what all of the heroes that paid the ultimate price would think of these people whose only priority in life is to profit off the backs of hard working Americans whose only goal is to better their lives and proved for their families.
Matty T. When I was young, I valued a woman by her physical beauty. I used to yell out “Now cull out the scags!” after they paraded all of the heifers at the beginning of my High School’s beauty pagent. I have since learned that some of those scags are worth their considerable weight in gold in our society. Some of the beauties, not so much. Moral to the story, ugly is as ugly does.
Start shopping at Office Max
Rich , my motto is what goes around comes around eventually
One of these comments made me LAUGH…
redd foxx aka Sanford and son used to call aunt ester ugly.I can only wonder if Fred Sanford were alive to see this half rat – half giraffe looking sea creature.what would Freddy G think about this trolls beauty. aunt ester may she rest in peace was a nice looking lady compared to this staples bain capitol night crawler.
“It must be nice to have a job for life” then adding”those days are over, this country can’t afford to do business as usual”.
In these times of record corporate profits, record highs on the stock market, this bitch thinks that America can’t afford to pay a living wage to workers.
Where was she when values were passed out?
Hey Shira, Mr. Issa wants your body.
Listen everyone, so many in management could care less and treat others as sick dogs. They run their lives as such too, and could simply not care to lift a hand for most, but some are very kind, some have not only donated vast amounts of their time, but also their vast amounts of wealth. So condemn her, but try not to condemn all other of the people that we feel are rich. It is easy to do, but given some insight into the rich folk that we do not know, it would be unfair to say they are all greedy. It only takes a few to tarnish a whole group. With the GOP’ers (republican voters), we like to think they consist of mostly rich, educated, business owners. While this is part true, many do care for the people that like us, and like me, who punch a clock, who are injured (perm./or/recovering),and are on the lower side of earnings, but you should understand my meaning here. So please take a second thought and don’t condemn all people like this lady in this article. She comes off as being above all people who work very hard. Not all can be in a management environment, lady, and not all business owners take the attitude of only getting the cheapest help they can hire. Many business owners will pay good and decent workers to make their company successful. But this lady, I think with her cheap and no regards attitude for the common worker, she is nothing as a human being, bringing with her the, “I step on all employee’s and treat them like dirt attitude”. We will never get rid of such people, evil people. As long as their are good hard working and decent people alive, we should just brush off comments such as hers. For every 100 decent and moral filled people, their is 20 of her kind. Step on all living things to get ahead and to have as much money as you can.
Just a thought from a lady who is on her back most of the day, and letting her thoughts shared with the good and decent USPS workers that read POSTAL REPORTER. COM
PS: Please be patient with people that may not be informed on a subject. We’re not all perfect and many of us could use a lending hand, or, thought…Please be kind everyone.
With REGARDS,
Mrs. Sue Haymer
it is easier for a camel to walk through the eye of the needle then for a rich man/woman to enter into the kingdom of heaven
She sounds exactly like a politician.
I for one, appreciate her honesty. She would have been a lot better off if she had played politician and lied to her opponents and made them think she was really on their side. If she wants the support of our Postal family, she needs to learn to conceal her true beliefs and talk out of both sides of her mouth, like so many of our “friends” do. Gimme the honest enemy any day. At least you know where she stands.
She is as ugly as the sin she embodies!
Frank, you are right. Her job is not forever, but unlike the rest of us she has a golden parachute. She will be fine. Why don’t we ask how many Staples workers get food stamps because they can’t make it on the pay they get?
Very well said Bill! The Barbara Streisand wannabe
has much disdain for the postal service which falls
in line with the repuke parties feelings as well.
Her strong opinions do equate to a feeling of
insecurity for staples workers who are left out on
a limb with no job security. This is why you need to
be union whether you like what’s happening or not
otherwise you get thrown into the frigid waters with
sharks like this woman waiting for you. The postal
service is an historic institution that delivers
over 150 billion pieces of mail a year to every
neighborhood. It has not taken tax payer money since
1971. Ms. Goodman is another from the right wing who
beleives in corporatization and would like nothing
more then to seize a piece of the pie financially from
a collapse of this prized american delivery system that
traces back to 1775 with Benjamin Franklin as it’s
first postmaster. The communication lines that the
postal service created are well documented in our
nations history but obviously Ms. Goodman is not
much of a historian when greed is taking center stage.
Until we get postal reform that can put the service back
on track to financial freedom the absurdities from the
right will continue to haunt us.
just another “money changer” in the temple. She will answer to a higher authority
people like her,make me like stalin,more and more
And workers life has improved under Obama??? There are less people working now then when Obama took office. There are also less union members now then when Obama took office.
Thanks for the anti-semitic undertones in your article.
Ms. Goodman is but a lackey for robot Romney! Just remember, time wounds all heals . She will be cast aside for a few dollars when she isn’t needed! Don’t forget, corporations are people too! And corporations have feelings too! So be kind to our corporations.
She obviously never heard of Karma. Her job isn’t forever either.
Just another greedy, corrupt corporate …., that is an example of everything wrong in this country at this time.
MS. Goodman, The Post Office is in financial trouble because of congress. Staples is in trouble because of executives like you.
yes remember the rich are friends
Their all on my list! Bain & Company? hole lot them. Rommey, Check, Goodman, Check. You weren’t kidding about that eye of the camel thing.
Human’s! Give them a little power an money and they think their $hit don’t stink!
you really got them on that one. So much for love one another.
She not on my list. Enough said.