Bosses vs. Workers

Its so easy when you're on the job to get focused on peripherals and forget the essentials. In the midst of conflict I alway try to take a deep breath and remember what my priorities are. What's your most important priority? I once had a fellow letter carrier tell me that the principles he used in dealing with his bosses ensured that he would always walk away a winner. That showed me that his main priority was to be victorious.

Craft workers: do you view your boss as an opponent that must be vanquished at all costs?

Bosses: are those you have charge over opponents that must be dominated?

There is by the very nature of the supervisor to supervisee relationship a certain amount of tension. This is nothing peculiar to the Postal Service. But I believe great strides can be made in workplace relationships by stressing the importance of recognizing every individual as a unique person whose greatest value is something bigger than how much production or overtime you can get out of them. Pie in the sky? Maybe so. But when all is said and done I want to be remembered as someone who respected people: even postal bosses and postal workers. Remember that everybody is first a person created in God's image: everything else will pass.