Jessica Rice was in the Army for four and a half years, serving two tours in Afghanistan.
MARIETTA, Ga. – A Marietta Army veteran says she was forced to go to court to get her job back when she returned from serving her country.
Jessica Rice was a mail carrier with the United States Postal Service before she joined the military.
Rice was in the Army for four and a half years, serving two tours in Afghanistan. When she came home to Georgia in 2012, she tried to get her job back, but was told there were no open positions available.
“He told me there were no open positions available and that my best opportunity was to accept a position in Kentucky and transfer down,” Rice said.
She told Channel 2’s Liz Artz she had to start over as a new employee. As a veteran her employment status is protected by law.
“They should have reinstated her — given all of her seniority she accrued before military and the time she was in the military,” her attorney Chuck Bachman said. Read more
This is just another example of how stupid management runs the PO. In a case settled a few years ago Sgt. Maj Richard Erickson vs USPS, the PO was ordered by the courts to pay Erickson 14 years of back pay and all legal fees and reinstate his position with promotions. Management was supposed to go through additional training on USERRA. You can not teach a monkey anything. They keep doing the same stupid act over ad over.
Tools and thugs. Evil human beings that eat their
young if necessary. FIRE THEM ALL.
No shame here.
That’s a crying shame. Shame on you USPS. The USPS needs training for management on how to correctly handle situations like this and fire management that handles that handles it the wrong way.
just another reason we need the 2017 Postal Deregulation Act……..this outlaw agency has become a criminal organization and should be busted up under RICO and sold off to UPS and FDX. upper bureaucrat level should get jail time….they set the policy that is against the law. they think they are above the law….they should be taught a lesson that they are not! all mismanagement involved in this case should be arrested, jailed, and then fired!
I agree. USPS does not uphold the laws set in place to protect ones rights even though they push us to constantly post and say we do. I am a supervisor in new York and I have great employees and not so great employees and if one great employee makes a mistake they want me to take action right away. I refused I know when I should and when I shouldnt. They try to circumvent the rules and the laws, all to appease the bosses boss, boss. It all trickles down to us working at the front lines. All to make numbers look better. Unfortunately the union does the same thing too. I believe everyone should do what is right, work with pride work with morals. If someone serves our country in the armed forces they should get any same level position they left with any where they want to work at. It’s the least we can do for them. We are alive because of them, we need to remember that. Yes we need to work, yes we need money, yes we need to increase revenue at the USPS in order to be employed, but we all must remember we are all human beings, we all go home to our families. We are One. We need to be proud of where we live and work The United States of America and we still have this country because of our armed forces. ♡
The USPS has no shame. Our office had a couple National Guard soldiers activated and sent to Kuwait in the first Gulf War, and they didn’t have to worry about their jobs or routes, although a particularly mean and psychotic supervisor was calling one of the soldiers’ wives and harassing her because we were down a route. That got stopped in a hurry when we carriers found out about it.
But the Service is lying out its worthless collective ass when it says it appreciates veterans or active Army service. They are interested only in their numbers game and making money through bogus performance bonuses and who knows what other under the table deals get passed. These are the same people who demanded that employees in a New Jersey office during hurricane Sandy report to work although the city was under mandatory evacuation. Those workers had to be airlifted off the roof after the building quickly went under water.
Management’s response: “We always obey the laws of our communities.”
Got news for you liars and thoughtless jerks: nobody in the USPS or the public at large believes anything you say. You let people die because you forbid employees to dial 9-11. You let five people die from methane poisoning because you’re too fucking lazy to make sure the sensors were working properly, which they weren’t. You branded a maintenance man a terrorist because he tried to warn you of a carbon monoxide leak and horrendous safety violations.
You are despicable and continue to be. You will pay one day for your actions. What goes around comes around eventually.
Shame!
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The ONLY problem with the Post Office is management – P E R I O D.
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