Trenton Metro Area Local
American Postal Workers Union
AFL-CIO
Executive Secretary
Bev Fletcher
Proud to be Union
It's
obvious now that times are hard
Our nation's image is deeply scarred.
The government gives the Unions blame,
And too many of us accept the shame.
Instead of applying the things we've learned,
We take for granted what our forefathers earned.
Our newest enemy is our Sister or Brother.
Ignorance says we fight each other.
These back-stabbing people are so confused,
They're not Union Members, they just pay their dues,
Members don't tell on their Brother man,
Or refuse to help when they know they can!
It's easy to talk, to complain and cuss,
But our Union's future depends on us!!
We can put dignity back in our label.
It won't be easy, but I know we're able.
Being strong takes more than a few,
It takes everyone, and that includes you!!
Let's all be proud to be Union!!
Author Unknown reprinted from the August 2003 issue of Atlanta Metro
Report, Atlanta, GA
Frightening
This may remind you of people you work with.
The most frightening thing about this is that is happens!
Recently, when I went to McDonald’s I saw on the menu
that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I asked for a half dozen nuggets. “We
don’t have half dozen nuggets,” said the teenager at the counter.
“You don’t?” I replied. “We
only have six, nine or twelve,” was the reply.”
“So I can’t order a half-dozen nuggets, but I can order six?”
“That’s right.” So I shook my
head and ordered six McNuggets.
The paragraph above doesn’t amaze me because of what
happened a couple of months ago. I
was checking out at the local Foodland with just a few items and the lady behind
me put her things on the belt close to mine.
I picked up one of those “Dividers” that they keep by the cash
register and placed it between our things so they wouldn’t get mixed.
After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the
“Divider” looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.
Not finding the bar code she said to me, “Do you know how much this
is?” and I said to her “I’ve changed my mind, I don’t think I’ll buy
that today.” She said “OK” and I paid her for the things and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened!
A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her
floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the
Internet and they kept asking for accredit card number, so she was using the ATM
“thingy.”
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her
car. Do you need some help?
I asked. She replied, “I
knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door UN-locker.
Now I can’t get into my car. Do
you think they (pointing to a distant convenient store) would have a battery to
fit this?” Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm too?”
I asked, “No, just this remote thingy,” she answered, handing it and
the car keys to me. As I took the
key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, “Why don’t you drive over
there and check about the batteries. It’s
a long walk.
Several years ago, we had an intern who was none too swift.
One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, “I’m
almost out of typing paper. What do
I do?” “Just use copier machine paper,” the secretary told her.
With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put
it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five “blank” copies.
I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large motor
home was towed into the garage. The
front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and the whole thing generally
looked like an extra in Twister. I
asked the manager what had happened. He
told me that the driver had set the “cruise control” and then went in the
back to make a sandwich.
Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by
placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy
machine. The message “He’s
lying” was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time
they thought the suspect wasn’t telling the truth. Believing the “lie detector” was working, the suspect
confessed.
CONCLUSION: “Life is tough. But it’s a lot tougher if you’re Stupid.”
Reprint from the “Reflections”
newsletter from Olympia Local APWU 2354 September issue.
2003 Picnic
Hi All,
I would like to start out with a great big Thank you to everyone from those of you who sold tickets to those of you who helped unload/load stuff going to and from the picnic or even asked to help. I appreciate all the kind gestures. I think this years picnic was a great success - and I guess we'll be going for another picnic next year since the turnout was well beyond our quota this year!
Those of you that came out for the picnic, I hope you had a great time - even though the rain put a damper on things for a bit and yes also as you are well aware, it was more than hot and humid out there as usual!!! It looks like everyone that was in attendance had a pretty good time. To those of you who didn't make the picnic, I hope to see you there next year! I believe you can ask anyone that went if they had a good time and I hope they'd say yes!
It was nice to see NBA's Jeff Kehlert and Eric Wilson and National Director of Motor Vehicle Division, Bob Pritchard.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions that they feel can make the picnic better than what we have going now, please feel free to send me an email - I'm game for any new things out there, I'll look in to all possibilities.
Thanks to all of you that attended and made for a nice picnic day! Enjoy the rest of your summer - hope to see ya's again soon!
Bev Fletcher