Postal Service Terminates Disabled Iraq War Vet for Unacceptable Attendance
Update: Postal Service Reinstates Disabled Iraq War Veteran - Ryan Kutz, U.S. Army Iraq War veteran turned USPS employee in Springfield MO, was terminated from the Postal Service for missing 19 days of work during his probationary period. According to a Kutz supporter: Kutz’s attendance problems were due to PTSD and colon cancer, and he should be given another chance with the Postal Service.Well, Ryan will get that second chance. Kutz got an early Christmas present on the morning of December 23rd. It came in the form of an Express Mail envelope that contained a statement from the plant manager to the effect that, Ryan Kutz is reinstated and is instructed to report for duty 23 December 2006 at 10:30 PM.Please keep Ryan in your thoughts as he battles his cancer and PTSD.” Read Full Story
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:26 pm
This is unacceptable. But in the USPS this is reality. I tell people some stories about this outfit and they think I’m making it up. One of the bad things about this is that the people who perpetrated this whole thing will go unpunished. In all likelihood, they’ll get a bonus.
Sad.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:57 am
you are so right. There are a lot of people who judge the postal service by the employees and the things that they hear on a daily basis that is wrong with the delivery system. Most of the outsiders would quit within the first two weeks of employment, because they would not tolerate that kind of behavior from the “Professional” management staff that the usps prides itself in providing for us.