Irate Arkansas man rams SUV, car into post office

[ToyotaNSaturn]

It's a busy news day.

Irate Arkansas man rams SUV, car into post office
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/220812/


The chief said Sparling told him he used to be a federal employee and that he wasn’t paid fully for his work.

“He told me he hit the post office because it was the closest government building around,” Montgomery said...

He will face several charges in Randolph County District Court today, including driving while intoxicated.

 

[Pablo]

I thought maybe they wouldn't ship his oil sample.....

 

[Steve S]

Government worker...They never seem to be happy with what they get paid.

 

[Louie's gone fishing]

It appears that being around a US Post Office and their employees is dangerous. You could get seriously killed or fatally injured.

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: Steve S
Government worker...They never seem to be happy with what they get paid.


neither does anyone else... so your point is?

My government engineer colleagues are better trained, more efficient and cost significantly lower man-hour and man-year rates than contractors.

JMH

 

[Gary Allan]

Now we're getting into "cross training in dysfunction". He combined
Road Rage and "going postal" ..all in one neat package.

 

[Cutehumor]

My dad retired from the US postal service with 25 years of service at age 48. He's been collecting a pension for almost twenty years. seems to work good for him. but as a child, I remember him complaining everyday about his job. An inspector following him around timing his lunch breaks. Watching how long you took in the bathroom etc, rude customers harassing him for their unemployment checks when he was two streets over from their house.

 

[MrCritical]

The wonderful world of dealing with the public.

 

[The_Jeff]

Originally Posted By: Cutehumor
rude customers harassing him for their unemployment checks when he was two streets over from their house.


That's rich. But I have to admit doing this once to intercept a report card.

My mailman was an eccentric genius who just happened to deliver the mail as an "occupation", best description. He was amenable to my conspiracy.

 

[Audi Junkie]

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Now we're getting into "cross training in dysfunction". He combined
Road Rage and "going postal" ..all in one neat package.


Are we seeing the fist hints of a new Olympic event???

 

[Julian]

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Now we're getting into "cross training in dysfunction". He combined
Road Rage and "going postal" ..all in one neat package.
Someone gave me this article the other day, I'm still laughing: http://the217.com/articles/view/incarceration_nation

 

[Gary Allan]

(sing along in time) Shanks ..for the memories..

 

[Aldaris]

Just like Homer Simpson kicking the blue USPS mail box on the sidewalk with Barney Gumble encouraging him: "GO HOMER! FIGHT THE POWER!"

 

[Tosh]

Originally Posted By: Cutehumor
An inspector following him around timing his lunch breaks. Watching how long you took in the bathroom etc, rude customers harassing him for their unemployment checks when he was two streets over from their house.

And thanks to that inspector, the post office is running at a profit.

 

[Cutehumor]

Originally Posted By: Tosh

And thanks to that inspector, the post office is running at a profit.


Actually, I was thinking thanks to the inspector that they drove the postal employees mad so they bring guns and shoot everyone. but hey profit is important too..whatever floats your boat

 

[Cutehumor]

Originally Posted By: Cutehumor
rude customers harassing him for their unemployment checks when he was two streets over from their house.


If he was delivering mail at 2pm, many people would drive up in their cars to stop him to get their unemployment check or food stamps. It would cause everyone's else mail to be late. then you get people filing complaints at the post office. The supervisors would get on his case about it. It's a never ending cycle. Back then, there were no direct deposits or debit food stamp cards.

 

[Cutehumor]

Here's another story. I remember being out of school for the summer. My dad one time got to deliver mail in our neighborhood where we lived when the regular mailman went on summer vacation for two weeks. There was almost a 1000 homes in our big neighborhood. The first day on his route, he decided to eat lunch at home and park his mail truck in our drive way. A lady called the post office and said "there's a mailman staying in someone's house!" She reported his truck number and everything. My dad had to talk to the supervisor after work that he was eating lunch at our home. They had a good laugh at his expense.

 

[Tosh]

And thanks to that lady, the post office is running at a profit.

Does your dad have any stories about using his doggie pepper spray?

 

[Steve S]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: Steve S
Government worker...They never seem to be happy with what they get paid.


neither does anyone else... so your point is?

My government engineer colleagues are better trained, more efficient and cost significantly lower man-hour and man-year rates than contractors.

JMH

The government pays the contractors too much also .....from the sloptrough of the tax payers.

 

[javacontour]

Perhaps they do. There are good and bad aspects to doing projects both ways.

I worked on one project that the US Army was trying to do in house, and for 5 years, this project was "6 months from completion."

The technical folks were really no better or worse than in the private sector, so it wasn't a matter of technical ability. It was management, scope creep of the project. It was a joint services project, so getting "buy in" from all the branches was tough. The Everyone wanted something added themselves, which kept expanding the scope and scale of the program.

Our company came in with two other contractors, working in a collaboration with one another, and using the work that had been done. Our programmers, again, no better or worse than the GS programmers. But the management was better. That combined with a price tag associated with every change did a great job at eliminating all but a trickle of changes to the project. Because now changes required a change to the statement of work in the contract with the associated additional costs.

When this was being done by all GS folks, there was little or no consideration given to how these changes added time and labor costs to the project.

So in 12-18 months, the thing was completed, largely because the private contractor made it more difficult to add on to the scale and scope of the project.

So I can see an argument both ways. I'm sure we got paid more than our GS counter parts. However, by completing the project in a shorter period of time, the total cost may have been less, than allowing it to continue in the US Army/GS system.

I think the value provided by contracting things out is in this aspect, fixing the scale and scope and ultimately cost of the project.

If the government wants changes, they usually cost more money.

Is that to say that contractors don't miss deadlines and ask for more money? Nope not at all. I've seen contractors "fired" for failing to meet the contract. I don't know what happens to the money in cases like these. I would hope our government protects itself against contractors who fail to deliver as promised.