Comments on: PMG earned $857,459 in FY 2008

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:45:33 +0000

JR is right. The money the USPS is dumping into Accenture is ridiculous. Now they are putting Accenture in charge of major projects so it is as if Postal employees are being contracted out to Accenture… Not to mention the risky business of giving them access to the USPS sensitive detailed system designs…. unbelievable.

By: Betty

Betty — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:50:23 +0000

This is really stupid. Just like all the machines the postal services buys and then they get rid of after a couple of years. They money WASTED. This guy and his fat cats under him AND this goes all the way down to the poor managers who make 80,000 a year boo hoo. I don’t even feel sorry for them.
They don’t lift their fingers let alone a Mail bag or 50 pound parcels. Our Manager doesn’t want to get us change for the window or STAMPS TO SELL. She is to busy. It might cut into her time talking and laughing to her friends on the phone or while she pays her personal bills.
And they all probably do the same. They get paid to sit on their butts in their warm offices (next to heaters) while carriers freeze in the winter or in air in the summer. AND WHY ARE THEY COMPLAINING???
AND THE POST OFFICE IS WONDERING WHY THEY ARE LOOSING MONEY???
GET A GRIP. START WHERE YOU NEED TO START AND CUT THOSE JOBS.
NOT PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY WORK.
OUR MANAGER HANGS UP ON CUSTOMERS AND YELLS AT THEM ON THE PHONE AND THEN SAYS THEY ARE RUDE BECAUSE SHE IS A BLACK WOMAN.
WHAT A BUNCH OF BULL. WE need to take care of our customers get rid of Managers that act this way. Get the postal service back to the people who actually work for a living.

By: Amalia

Amalia — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:46:16 +0000

Jeff said, he is worth every dollar?! You must be at the top of management team. Good for you! I’m sure you had your great bonus as well, like the rest of all the manager and Supervisors who feels very deserving? Can’t complain, eh?! Wow, but it shouldn’t ever be that much, and at a time like this? Most of you people don’t even know what being a postal employee is about. Or, even much about the hard laborer you call the blue collars. Look around you! There are millions out there who build this so called country AMERICA with their bare hands. I’m sure the PMG never started at the bottom to even experience the labor of mail processing. Never even broke a sweat to sort a handful of mail. Alot of people who climbs up at the top always forgets where they came from and how they started. Seriously people, who the heck delivers your mail?! Doing all the dirty job and hard labor of processing, sorting, and delivering these mails that you get each day? Do you people ever even think about how these postal clerks, mailhandlers laboring at night processing mail for the next day delivery while many of you are sleeping? And, carriers who has to always carry heavy loads of mail, walk for miles and even take care not to get bitten by dogs as they deliver? And, all getting paid just an average annual salary of $53,000 even after 20 years? Believe it! 20 1/2 years & $52,600.00. Even if they say that doesn’t include the health, and vacation benefits. It’s not breaking through $80,000. Really! Some don’t even have enough to retire on, people are working well into their 70’s, 80’s and won’t even receive enough once they retire. Most CSRS employees will only receive about $1,200 a month, some are not even that? Who can live on that? And, would most likely die not even experiencing retirement. Really, talk to these people and you will know. I don’t think it should matter so much that he is overseeing over 650,000 employees, the point is, is not what he is getting paid for now enough? Aren’t all the CEO’s getting paid enough? These are all people who are Degree holders, white collar pencil pushers that sits behind an enormous desk, expensive leather seats, with a big grin on their face and never breaking a sweat. GREED, is the destruction of what most of you Americans has started building in this country, and shame on all of you for contributing to this mess. We should all go back to living simply, with contentment, and focus on how we can all make peace in the world around us. Rather than creating all this self destruction among us all, in the environment, economy, globally, and all because of the POWER and GREED.
Ok, I said my peace! I may not be highly educated like most of you I assume, but I know how to live by my means. American wake up and look back to where you all came from and how the nation all got started!

By: JR

JR — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:29:14 +0000

You think the PMG’s pay is bad, one should look at their consultant Accenture. The Postal Service is paying them so much for consulting that Accenture’s top consultant who runs the Post Service consulting team is making almost as much as the PMG. Incredible the amount they pay their consultant when they are losing so much money and asking their employees and others to forgo raises and go without… You never hear about the money the Government pays these consultants but someone should look into it…

By: Jeff O'Cconnell

Jeff O'Cconnell — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:21:24 +0000

He is worth ever dollar… Especially considering what Countries are paying their PMG’s.

By: ET

ET — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:55:12 +0000

To See Clearly, you are part of the problem. You think that you are better than the rest. Just remember where you came from. The first rule of leadership is not to ask a person to do something you will not do yourself, second, never mess with a mans pay. If you follow these two simple rules, you will be a God amongst your workers. People follow those whom are right and do the right thing, even if nobody is there to see it. This is called “Ethics.” I have lead many men in my past military history and not one time have I ever asked anyone to do anything I would not. I had many people volunteer in my place so I could manage and take care of the rest of my Company. I hope this matter with Jack Potter puts him in jail or fired, this is unexceptable and down right dirty pool.

By: Billy Davis

Billy Davis — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:08:04 +0000

They should look at the remodeling going on at the Area offices at the Margaret Sellers P&DC in San Diego, Why is this being done in a new facility?

By: craig

craig — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:57:52 +0000

big holy crap,,,, reason more stamps raise.cause of him..
thank you,,, also no more overtimes ,, we work for nothing like retarded…

By: Bushhackers

Bushhackers — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:09:21 +0000

Does anyone see what has taken place here????? The PMG got a 40% raise with perks not all of us managers receive. Come on people…………………40% and they are asking us to not take a dime this year? What is wrong with this picture. We are no longer managers but micro-managed pee-ons. What has become of the USPS. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. How about getting rid of the chip off the shoulder and asking the government to give us a little relief here? This is nuts!!!!

By: truth hurts

truth hurts — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:22:51 +0000

I think in this time of financial hardship it is outrageous for any CEO to benefit from such a large amount of money, but having said that it’s easy to say all the Posts Offices problems are the fault of one person and look how much money he’s getting blah, blah, blah, but the truth is there has been so many people and organizations within the Post Office that for years has been greedy, selfish, and down right unethical about how they have pillaged the Post Office. I certainty am not singling out anyone group, there has been mismanagement from top to bottom, and there has never been any real level of cooperation from any union. The truth of the matter is that we could all sit and point fingers at each other for months about why we’re here, having to face such dramatic change just to survive. Many employees are set in what they think they need to do and what they think they deserve, it’s going to take sacrifice from EAS, every craft, and union to get thru this peerless time, and if you are not willing to make a change or sacrifice then I feel you will be very unhappy about what is going to be coming, and good luck finding work with our pay and benefits anywhere else.