USPS Express Service Downgrade

@coinpalice said:
alot of the baby boomers are retireing and they are getting replaced by gen Z'ers, and usps is now the worse as it's ever been

THANK YOU!!!! You are exactly right. I'm retired from the Post Office after working there for 31 years. Employees that started in my later years did not have the same work ethic that my generation had. And it's not just in the PO. It's with every job. They think they're owed something and shouldn't have to work for it.

While I'll make a general concession that the work ethic of the average Gen Z'er is is inferior to that of a boomer, that is far from the primary reason that every company, both public and private sector, is a pathetic parody of what it once was. I grew up in construction and I could work circles around most my age when I did, but anyone with above average work ethic and a above average IQ seen't want to spend his days in the sweltering heat listening to Latino F.M. radio for $16 an hour.

@erscolo said:

@MWallace said:

@coinpalice said:
alot of the baby boomers are retireing and they are getting replaced by gen Z'ers, and usps is now the worse as it's ever been

THANK YOU!!!! You are exactly right. I'm retired from the Post Office after working there for 31 years. Employees that started in my later years did not have the same work ethic that my generation had. And it's not just in the PO. It's with every job. They think they're owed something and shouldn't have to work for it.

and that is not unique to USPS or any service business, that applies across the board. The same was said forty-five years ago when I entered the construction industry with less of a work ethic than the greatest generation. I am still working, helps keep the brain sane of the body moving forward.

Alot of this is due to the "everyone should go to college" mantra that has been force fed to kids in school for the past 30 years. No shop class, negative stigma about tradesman, and never taught to take pride in your own craftsmanship. All these different subjects but never one we end up using later in life. AFAIR They never tried to to teach us how to think, only what to think.