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dr.strangelove

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60. I encourage everyone to make less assumptions and withhold judgment until you know everything
Fri Oct 4, 2013, 11:51 AM
Oct 2013

At first glance, this looks like a postal worker drove up on a grass, over some lawn and what appears to be a garden hose, then backed over the same things. But perhaps there a reason other than being lazy.
Before I judge anyone, I like to know what I am actually seeing. If this is a woman who just drove up on a lawn because she did nto want to walk up the pathway, then I would certainly agree with some of the anger I have read toward her. But what if there is another story being played out here. What if this is a rural route customer who refuses to comply with the postal regs, and complains when the mail is not delivered. As a rural route resident very close to NYC, I get a lot fo NYC residents who move here and do not understand the rules. They expect mail to be walked to their door. The expect to be able to buy a cheap mailbox that is too small for a rural route. Maybe the resident was warned that mail would stop unless they complied with the regs and the resident comlained that the mail could be taken to their door. Maybe the resident did somethink wrong here and this was a response. Maybe she had permission to drive up to the walkway. Maybe she is a supervisor and is doing this so that her drivers do not have to deal with this resident. Who knows. I am prepared to be angry at her and call for her to be disciplined, but only if warranted after I know the facts. Right now, I know little about this.

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Cause for termination. Nt Barack_America Oct 2013 #1
She will be. They are very strict and that is why stuff like this is so rare. grantcart Oct 2013 #46
that has got to be a joke warrior1 Oct 2013 #2
Rural and contract carriers don't, I think. Cerridwen Oct 2013 #8
You are right... pipi_k Oct 2013 #35
I do believe so sharp_stick Oct 2013 #9
I haven't seen a postal worker in a uniform in decades cali Oct 2013 #13
Ours wears a uniform enlightenment Oct 2013 #17
I'm just smiling a bit pipi_k Oct 2013 #43
I think she may enlightenment Oct 2013 #107
Ours, too. She walks her route, MineralMan Oct 2013 #92
nope - not in my small town sammytko Oct 2013 #12
Hell, here they don't even drive postal vehicles NickB79 Oct 2013 #93
Yo lady, you are about to go viral snooper2 Oct 2013 #3
true dat. lol. the way it works today. nt seabeyond Oct 2013 #6
Meet the laziest woman in America... AngryAmish Oct 2013 #7
I had one leave a package on top of my toolbox that is affixed to the bed of my truck CatWoman Oct 2013 #4
i would be firing her ass. attitude. driving on the lawn. tossing the package. at least she wore seabeyond Oct 2013 #5
and running over the garden hose! dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #18
lol. ya. and that. lol. nt seabeyond Oct 2013 #19
That lady looks like she is in pain. Nazi management at the post office probably refusing lonestarnot Oct 2013 #10
Yes, that must be it. Throd Oct 2013 #21
Nazi Management? ForgoTheConsequence Oct 2013 #45
Yes they are Nazi's when it comes to getting injured on the job over there. lonestarnot Oct 2013 #72
This is exactly like the Holocaust Capt. Obvious Oct 2013 #70
OMG. Just saw this. lonestarnot Oct 2013 #74
She probably forgot her mobility scooter Capt. Obvious Oct 2013 #11
Sad, because she looks so young. Barack_America Oct 2013 #14
We had an obese woman delivering mail for a while CBGLuthier Oct 2013 #15
Not surprising Oilwellian Oct 2013 #16
Fire her lazy ass. HappyMe Oct 2013 #20
Really that's your answer. If I may ask, how many years have you spent employed? lonestarnot Oct 2013 #25
Since 1976. HappyMe Oct 2013 #26
Ever been injured? lonestarnot Oct 2013 #27
Why? What does how long HappyMe Oct 2013 #28
37 years you've been working and apparently you have had no risk to injury or never been injured lonestarnot Oct 2013 #30
That's special of you. HappyMe Oct 2013 #37
Snort. Daddy references to union membership do not make one a union member. How much do you lonestarnot Oct 2013 #61
Derp HappyMe Oct 2013 #64
Oh now that's just ignant! lonestarnot Oct 2013 #89
I refuse to believe you aren't being satirical tkmorris Oct 2013 #94
+1 bunnies Oct 2013 #95
So, you're OK with her driving up on the lawn. Throd Oct 2013 #29
I didn't see her destroy anything, but repetitive driving on the fucking lawn may cause it to croak. lonestarnot Oct 2013 #32
Holy shit! Throd Oct 2013 #34
Holy shit people first, then the lawn. :) lonestarnot Oct 2013 #38
She should be seeing about her own damn health. HappyMe Oct 2013 #39
If she can't walk, her employer should know she can't walk, see that she gets the time off to get lonestarnot Oct 2013 #40
Part of her problem might just be a sedentary lifestyle. HappyMe Oct 2013 #47
Well lemme just say that you lack empathy skills. Judgmental snap decisions with regard to fat and lonestarnot Oct 2013 #53
Lemme just say that I hope HappyMe Oct 2013 #59
So where did you see her throw a package at the house? lonestarnot Oct 2013 #62
the only thing they lack empathy for is your imagination. cui bono Oct 2013 #102
No, I did not. I was interjecting speculation to demonstrate that all of the facts of this lonestarnot Oct 2013 #104
Then she should be doing something else. Throd Oct 2013 #41
"I see a fat, lazy person who doesn't respect other people's property in the least." Really? lonestarnot Oct 2013 #49
There's another video of her playing bad-mitten with her two kids snooper2 Oct 2013 #58
This message was self-deleted by its author lonestarnot Oct 2013 #63
Oops. Made the same day? And how do we know she didn't hurt herself at her last stop? lonestarnot Oct 2013 #69
Show me where in the video, what time-stamp, gives you an indication she is "injured" snooper2 Oct 2013 #73
I apparently observe things in the video which you did not. I observe the manner in which she got lonestarnot Oct 2013 #75
LOL, she looks fine, snooper2 Oct 2013 #78
Well of course she is going to be fired. That is not in dispute. lonestarnot Oct 2013 #80
The only pain I see in her face is sadness at having to leave her seat CBGLuthier Oct 2013 #84
A sloth. Wow. This sounds so testosteronie. lonestarnot Oct 2013 #85
not as much as that sounded sexist leftyohiolib Oct 2013 #100
Driving a car up to the porch is not doing her job. Throd Oct 2013 #68
"There just isn't any way to defend her actions. Well, not rationally." Yes. There is and I am. lonestarnot Oct 2013 #71
Actually I am. Throd Oct 2013 #76
Oh so the Aunt and Uncle stories gave you all you need to know to familiarize yourself with lonestarnot Oct 2013 #79
So anyone who defends her is not rational? I see. lonestarnot Oct 2013 #77
Does tying oneself into knots of supposition hurt much? Ikonoklast Oct 2013 #82
And that you opined here, you followed the interlacings apparently, and have done the same on the lonestarnot Oct 2013 #86
Res Ipsa Loquitur. Ikonoklast Oct 2013 #88
Yes it does, you heard one thing; I heard another. lonestarnot Oct 2013 #90
That's my position. You have yours. Good day to you, sir/ma'am. Throd Oct 2013 #83
she didnt appear to be injured at all not that that makes it ok leftyohiolib Oct 2013 #31
What do you mean, "people here?" Got something against "people here?" You are now my lonestarnot Oct 2013 #42
fixed leftyohiolib Oct 2013 #66
Thank you. lonestarnot Oct 2013 #81
Injury is one thing pipi_k Oct 2013 #57
Look at the postal worker she doesn't look like she could walk up to the driveway kimbutgar Oct 2013 #22
youre excusing her actions? leftyohiolib Oct 2013 #36
No I think she is a lazy ass who's lucky she has a job kimbutgar Oct 2013 #99
The Postal Sevice employees 522,000 people and hedgehog Oct 2013 #23
+1. Brickbat Oct 2013 #24
Seriously. TBF Oct 2013 #33
You are right, and it doesn't help when there are employees B Calm Oct 2013 #55
Thinking about it - how do we know that the homeowner hedgehog Oct 2013 #56
Yes, because the official postal service rulebook probably says to drive across the lawn Nye Bevan Oct 2013 #105
Thanks for todays reinforcement of the right wing meme, "public employees are lazy and bad workers" quinnox Oct 2013 #44
Nobody said ALL public employees HappyMe Oct 2013 #50
+1 leftstreet Oct 2013 #51
She's the one reinforcing it.... ForgoTheConsequence Oct 2013 #52
Are so saying that this woman isn't lazy? AngryAmish Oct 2013 #54
She makes Justin Bieber getting carried up the Great Wall seem like Jack LaLane. LOL B Calm Oct 2013 #65
thanks for todays leap into hyperboloe leftyohiolib Oct 2013 #101
Lazy as hell or maybe she's on light duty, LOL B Calm Oct 2013 #48
I encourage everyone to make less assumptions and withhold judgment until you know everything dr.strangelove Oct 2013 #60
! lonestarnot Oct 2013 #87
It's possible she though the drive circled the front. Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2013 #106
I thought she might throw the package like a Frisbee. aikoaiko Oct 2013 #67
I'm hoping there's more context to the story than this... Blue_Tires Oct 2013 #91
Hell mine won't even drive down my DRIVEWAY. MadrasT Oct 2013 #96
She is either a temp, called 'casual' by the USPS (most likely) or Kingofalldems Oct 2013 #97
I noticed she didn't ring the doorbell either ecstatic Oct 2013 #98
I think we know how she got so pound-challenged. kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #103
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