Postal Pulse
New program aims to better engage employees
USPS to replace Voice of the Employee survey
February 27, 2015 – USPS will soon introduce the Postal Pulse, a program that aims to improve postal workplaces by better engaging employees and leveraging their ideas and feedback.
The Postal Pulse will replace the Voice of the Employee survey.
The new program will include one survey of the entire USPS workforce in 2015. This survey will be administered in March.
Beginning in 2016, all employees will be surveyed twice a year.
The Postal Pulse also will include resources to help supervisors interpret the results and put employees’ ideas into action.
The initiative aligns with PMG Megan Brennan’s goal to invest in postal employees.
“As Postmaster General Brennan says, our employees are the bedrock of our success, and their ideas and insights are crucial to our future,” said Chief Human Resources Officer Jeff Williamson. “Through the Postal Pulse program, we’ll work together to strengthen our workplaces and continue moving our organization forward.”
Additional details will be announced soon.
I participated in one survey 20 or so years ago. Never again. Don’t waste my time.
The last time we I got one I threw it in the trash in front of the supervisor. He told me I could not do that and that I had to participate, even if I checked the “refuse” block. I said okay, then tore it into tiny pieces. I thought the superv was gonna have a cardiac arrest!
Why keep taking surveys if nothing ever gets changed ..yes a waste of time .. and money…The post office has really changed in the last 20 years…safety along with everything else don’t seem to matter anymore… Just keep hiring CCAs that don’t stay very long…being on the street 8 hour days when you’ve never carried mail before is a very hard task to do…I feel very sorry for their 30 year carrier..will they make it 30 yrs…I am hoping an early out for the carriers…I am so ready to go…
Yep. Will come out in March 2015. Lets see…what’s happening in March and April? Oh that’s right, contract talks with the APWU. Can anyone guess what questions they will be asking? Bet the question (or something like it) will read: “Are you content with your current standard of living?”
New name, same old tactics. Problem is, management is the one that is too damn stupid to see that we can see through this!
If the new PMG wants to put her money where her mouth is, give us a good new contract. Stop giving our work away to staples and staff our window units appropriately. Words are cheap, her actions will speak volumes. We want a good contract!
why have a survey we all know USPS managers are a bunch of dirty dogs X tenth power
What a complete waste of time and money again…… Just like the VOE was
lmfao! we used to shred them whenever we got em. shred em again!
Are you suggesting management is capable of reading and paying attention?
Unless Management reads and pays ATTENTION , no matter how much spent on high dollar paper work programs , will just add cost to cost !
Something else for me to return to sender due to lack of interest.
Additional details will be announced on 4/1/2015. He aid with tongue in cheek.
Half the questions should come from the employees who management wants to “invest in”.
How soon will the resources to help supervisors interpret the results be turned from putting employees ideas into action into a method to imtimidate and chastize the very same employees? What will management do to prevent this from becoming a reality?
Good idea in theory, hard to implement and maintain the goals.
VOE – Pulse both BS
my advice to all postal employee workers…….invest 5% of your income in UPS & FDX stock………..best hedge against corrupt, incompentent, po mismanagement. voice of the employee was a joke, postal plus will be too! do not look at what is in front of your eyes, just look at the smoke and mirrors and the shadows on the wall. roflmfao.
“help supervisors interpret the results” another way of saying how can we screw these people…
another total waste of time,management-such as it is-doesnt care about what employees think,never have,never will.mangers had to take a 2 hour course every year to “help” their employees fill out the survey to make HQ happy,no extremes just middle of the road answers that make it look like everyone-who took the survey-was content.there was no secrets involved my manager know who took the survey,yes that little number on the survey is known be the managers,they know what you said.like safety,the voice of the employee was and is a sick f ing joke.the only people who took the survey were 240 wanna b’s.
It probably KILLED Williamson to have to acknowledge the craft employees in a complimentary light, or any light at all, for that matter. Since when does management ever listen to us? On the local level, they are powerless to initiate anything without going up the line, from POOM to District to Area to D.C. Not to lambaste local management, which I do not want to imply I’m doing, they have been tied down and shut down for years, as district micromanages them as well as the craft, so they can do almost nothing on their own.
Example: I deliver in a high crime area where mail is routinely stolen out of mailboxes by the kids of the skank who live there after school and after I’ve gone through. One customer got a PO box, which I recommend or getting a security style box that can only be opened by a key. I’ve told management about this over and over and told them about a need for cluster boxes and I get nowhere. They say they won’t unless a bunch of customers complain, but since they all steal from each other, what makes District think they want to attract the attention of the police? That’s like setting up a neighborhood watch program in a jail.
So now we get “Postal Pulse”. I’m sure it will not ask any questions that matter, and will be so fluffy and vague they will interpret it however they damn well please.
So skip my participation in the survey until you start asking questions like these:
1) Is management over-managing carriers to an obsessive degree while ignoring their own shortcomings?
2) Should management listen to customers and not close plants and reduce service?
3) Is there a real problem with abusive management, and if so, will management remove these psychos when it’s obvious they’re terrible people, and not just shift them to some other office to continue their abuse, sexual assault and harassment at the new location?
4) Will management fast track replacing the death trap LLV fleet and make some damn sense out of the new design, like higher decks you can stand up in, racks on the sidewalls, windows in the back that can open and shut to help keep the truck a bit cooler in the summer, and heaters that actually work in the winter? Or how about just a regular AM/FM radio?
I don’t think these questions will be on any survey.
Oh, goodie, another recycled program with a new name that no one will respond to, knowing that whatever they answer will be turned around to fit management’s goals. Good ideas will still be ignored, and so will negative feedback. I hope someone in Headquarters/Are/District gets a big bonus for this.
PS, if management would stop treating the craft workers like a lower life form, and actually listen to them, you would not even need a program like this.
Does this mean that employees may take the survey, tell about the abusive, retaliation, verbal scolding, everything against postal handbooks, manuals, contracts, treatment without dignity & respect to the employees, etc. And then expect the local Mngt. to adhere to correcting their ways or even up to removing themselves? Additionally our area has been in the process of installing signs ie.. trash, parcels, outgoing dispatch, etc. We employees of 20-40 years of service each do not need to be told what & where the operations are. Therefore USPS are wasting time & money on these projects (money they claim that they do not have). Maybe this is for the less than 10 years of service Mngt. to remind them of what the workers are doing? Also everyone needs a over $1000.00 platform in their Po to oversee their new kingdom!! Again I say Good Luck!
all the sign program is a make work project for HQ deadbeats