The postal system is in financial trouble but the CBS 2 Investigators uncovered a boss at the federal agency who is anywhere but at work in the middle of his government day.
“I’m doing fine”, said United States Postal Service Northbrook Postmaster Ronald Weddington when confronted outside his Park Ridge home.
Postmaster Weddington entered the Northbrook Post Office branch at 9:11 a.m. on this day and left his government job at 11:01 a.m. He drove to his home 10 miles away in Park Ridge and stayed inside until 1:45 p.m. when asked upon leaving his house why he is home so much during the work day Weddington replied, “No. I’m not home a lot.”
Postmaster Ronald Weddington is paid to run and keep a watchful eye on the entire branch of the U.S. Post Office in Northbrook, but who is keeping an eye on him? CBS 2 surveillance cameras documented the postmaster gone for long breaks in the middle of day, two hour, three hour and nearly four hour breaks along questionably late start times and early departure times from his full time job.
A spokesperson for The United States Postal Service declined CBS 2?s request for an interview.
Instead, CBS 2 was told that postmasters are allowed to work irregular schedules in order to fulfill their many responsibilities. The spokesperson would not tell us how postmasters are scheduled or if anyone is keeping track of how many hours worked. The spokesperson did tell CBS 2 that the Northbrook Post office delivers 120,000 pieces of mail daily
via 2 Investigators: Postmaster Taking Long Breaks In Middle Of Work Day « CBS Chicago.
and TSP says: wah wah wah
Not one comment in favor of our work conditions. Sad, wheres the PO patriotism?
This also happens in Ca too. If you call in for 10 mins of help they say no! Then threaten your job, tell you it will lead to an II if you go over.
I guess its hard to realize why a carrier would ask when its 99ยบ out, on the sixth day of our 10-12 hour work days.
By the way, thats only if the PM answers the phone.
This is the way the postal service runs their business. No surprise!
This is a typical of postal service supervisors, managers and postmasters, while treating employees like slaves.
you know in our branch office the union leaders have a postmaster sleeping on the job. Pictures and were taken. In fact they know about his sleeping before hand when his own boss showed up when he was taking a nap in the postmaster office in his official nap chair. The union did nothing with the pictures and it continues to this day. When this postmaster was a light duty rural carrier he used to take naps every day. Then he became a supervisor and continued to take naps. For 30 years he has taken naps almost every day. It is a shame that the working class must do what they say. I can say I give him NO respect. He is not a leader I would want to follow. I was always taught hard pays off but not working with the postal service. For management it’s nap time that pays off.
This is our Postmaster
It’s gone on for 6 years.
the prickmaster should be disciplined for deviating from his route, or I forgot, management is never disciplined, only promoted!
I hope they turn PO to a private Co, then we’ll see how long Postmaster will be on the job…I bet that Not more than a week, he will start applying for an Unemployment check…I love to see that happen.!!!
he needs to cut back; he’s is still exceeding the normal work day of his union employees;
he should be out watching the craft employees do the same thing. some managers and some craft employees (both) are hypocrites and lazy. period. not all in either case. maybe more in some offices and less in others. all employees should be under a system like the rural route carriers, including managers. the worse (lazy) employees are the ones who hate that idea. the ones that state slow for the dough, you know who they are. Sadly, they do not know themselves. they look in the mirror and afterwards they forget what they look like.
Just like many jobs, there a few lazy bad apples. But most of us postmasters work our butts off. If this pm is screwing the system it needs to be addressed. It makes the rest of is look bad.
Damn, Thirty years at the PO and this is typical of most of the management staff I have worked with, sleeping on the job, shopping on the job, being stupid on the job. An culture of high paid lazy , un educated bags of crap. Goes on everywhere and someone is just now seeing it and reporting it. This guy is no differnet than the other management personnel and has a great defense, “past practice”. Who’s going to fight to remove one of there own that has the same privileges exteneded them.
Makes you want to cry, don’t it?
The video clip revealed the postal service management’s hypocrisy and deceit.
That lousy postmaster should have been fired along time ago, but the problem is there is no accountability at the USPS. USPS won’t do anything to him, it’s the way the postal service runs the business, while treating employees like s….
As usual with the scum in eas/mgmt., there will be no accountability what so ever.
This has been a major problem with all upper management during the 40 years I spent with the Postal Service. Management seldom work a 40 hour work week. Some have been disciplined because of this abuse, but few are. A proper accounting of their work hours would justify reduction in the number of their positions.
yeah this video is representative of the majority of pm’s who work in large po’s
In our office there’s one woman supervisor who is absolutely worthless and is not the first supervisor or manager to be that bad, trust me. But she has long blonde hair and a nice figure and was a secretary to a POOM, so that’s all the qualification she needs. The city carrier supervisor has to do all his and her work too, and they usually have a pet city carrier, who is also pretty, who they think needs to 204-B even when they’re all present. Of course, she’s doing what work the city carrier supervisor can’t get done trying to do two peoples’ work. And that ain’t much as she spends ninety percent of her time on the phone with personal calls, out on the dock smoking or yakking with the clerk supervisor about anything but work. So if they do nothing on the premises that’s one thing, and a different thing if they just don’t bother to even be in the building?
Reportedly the POOM has even said the clerk supervisor is worthless and does nothing but my question then is why are you allowing it? I went over 29 years without any discipline and this woman, even after I told her for a month as she was OIC my scanner was messing up badly and losing power. Well, other scanners were doing the same thing and they dealt with it by giving 11 letters of warning to any carrier including myself who had scanner problems. I could prove my scanner’s problem as it was purging the last two MSP points on my route and losing battery power, but that made no difference. The letters were removed a bit later, but only because we were about to file a joint statement against violence and behavior grievance for creating a horrible work environment. I produced reams of material showing how scanners malfunctioned and they basically were in a corner. But it still stung that I went my whole career discipline free and when I finally got a LOW it was for equipment failure that was totally out of my control. I said to her, “why don’t you give me a LOW when I have a flat on my LLV or the battery dies?” She said “Well, we wouldn’t do that because you had no control over it.” Really. I said I had no control over scanner problems either and no prior history of regularly missing scans, but she couldn’t make the connection.
It is no myth that managers are inept, mean, stupid and cutthroats. The 204-B who is supposedly a letter carrier on those rare occasions and has only been there about two years and already thinks she’s seen it all and knows it all can’t understand why the other carriers are avoiding her. Who needs a snitch on your route? (She’s a T-6 now but has yet to carry any route on her string.) When she does carry it’s like a tornado but not as accurate. I’ve had her on my route and she throws the mail all over the place, shoves mail in vacant slots, pays no attention to names or what street she’s on and has no clue how to handle mark-up or CFS mail. Just throw it in a slot and get rid of it. And I have to take orders from her.
Let the PM stay out of his office. He’s probably doing a lot less damage that way.
It’s none of your business CBS, go find some worthy news.
You all make an income on gossip, bending the truth, etc, etc.
You people are disgusting period!
This is nothing new! We have a PM, in Smethport ,PA never shows up for work, till later in the morning on most days. Clerks, and carriers do his electronic reports for him!! Then leaves whenever he wants. No TACS report on his time, or even Annual Leave usage. Same old game run by PMs for a long time. And everyone wonders where the Postal Service’s money goes!! You figure it out.
Craft and management fall under different work rules. With so many vacant jobs currently, I know of quite a few postmasters who are forced to open up in the morning and stay to close up in the evening because there’s no one else to take over. They can be required to take a two hour break, or longer because the Post Office doesn’t want to pay them for all those hours. In effect, they’re on call for about fourteen hours a day, but getting paid for eight. If there are any problems, they will get the phone calls even though they’re on “lunch.”
How many of us would like that?
They bust carriers all day for not going fast enough, but a LOT of postmasters head home during the day, it’s a very common practice, and frustrating for employees. And they always get backing, no accountability .
That post master should be promoted to General Post Master.
And the point of this “investigation” is?. I have no idea why this Postmaster had this schedule on this particular day, and neither do these so called “investigators”. Did he have annual leave? Was he using comp time? Sick leave? Was he splitting his work day up to spend other time in the office during off hours? Does he do some work at home? Is he flsa exempt?. Even though he is home or elsewhere, does he conduct postal business over the phone? Why not “investigate” something meaningful, like why CBS will sell the general public out to any scam artist willing to pay for airtime? Reverse mortgage, anyone?
typical hypocrite management. they micro-manage the craft employees while they screw off all day. fire him!…he would fire a carrier who did far worse.
While management is stealing money while treating employee like slaves.
This is the way USPS management runs the business. USPS is covering up to extremely lousy supervisors and managers for their wrong doing. It has always been a culture of USPS.
You can tell from the first picture he is USPS management… Notice the
Mandatory 60 inch waist!!!!
We have a female sup who turns down PM jobs because she would be on salary. Instead she remains a supervisor ( acting OIC) and works her 12 hour days 6 days a week and makes more than the pooms, and she never lifts a finger, just walks around. Besides, many PM’s are required to do 2 to 5 hours a day of craft work, but since she isn’t a PM, she gets around that also. Yes, she comes and goes on the clock, while getting paid and runs all her errands and takes long lunches out of town with family and friends and thinks its ok while still making 25 to 30 hours of OT each week. Why do you think they are still trying to downsize the number of PM’s .
With work habits like this, we will be promoting him to a district level job in no time at all.
Most of them at least in NJ including supervisors have been doing it in NJ for ye4ars and years
Employees days are watched every minute of the day and often questioned as to why a function took them so long. The highest paid employees (PostMasters) often conduct personal business during the day and are never held accountable.
sorry spoke before I watched the clip, yea he is a sorry ass postmaster, there are thousands of them as you can see the station functions just fine without him.
So the real story is that postmasters are on salary and are not required to work regular hours and the CBS 2 “investigators” were clueless to that fact and made fools of themselves “investigating” a story with no basis in fact. Nice.
if that was a craft employee, they would get a PDI and depending on who you in the post office they would try to fire you. Management has two sets of standards one for them and one for craft employee’s. let him stay at home most stations around the country can operate without a supervisor anyway. they have gotten rid of so many routes nation wide they don’t need supervisors in most station’s.
So this is news? Everyone knows postmasters do nothing but collect big checks and even bigger bonus money.
You want real news? Find a apostmaster working. Now thats news.
This is news? anyone who works for the PO knows this goes on all over. But god for bid we take an extra 5 min on our 10 min break. If we get caught we get written up. If only the public knew about how the craft works their fingers to the bone and management spends 1/2 the day on lunch. Let Issa deal with that over cutting 6 day delivery.
They should have to carry gps tracking like the employees do…or at least submit cell phone tracking app. to higher management, if they ever show up for work…
Anyone try to find anyone at a District Office after noon on Fridays, never going to happen.