Former Postal Workers Sent to Prison For Assaulting Manager
According to a U.S. Attorney’s Office press release:
Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson sentenced John Bermudez, Jr., age 31, of Brooklyn, Maryland today to 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for assault of a government official and sentenced his brother, Gregory Bermudez, age 28, of Millersville, Maryland to eight months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, on the same charge, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. John Bermudez was convicted by a federal jury on August 2, 2007 after a three day trial and Gregory Bermudez pleaded guilty on July 26, 2007.
According to the guilty plea, testimony at trial and other court documents, Gregory Bermudez and John Bermudez, Jr., worked at the United States Postal Service Incoming Mail Facility (IMF) in Linthicum, Maryland. On February 8, 2006 at the IMF a supervisor instructed John Bermudez to stop playing cards and return to work. Both defendants argued with the supervisor, who sought the assistance of the manager of the work floor. When the manager responded he discovered the defendants in a heated argument with another employee. Unable to regain control of the work floor, the manager informed the defendants that he was calling the police and turned to walk away. The defendants followed the manager and, as the manager approached the phone, Gregory Bermudez struck him from behind with his fist. The victim fell to the ground and both defendants punched and kicked him as he lay on the ground. The defendants then left the facility through the loading dock area.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein thanked the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for their investigative work, and commended Assistant United States Attorneys Paul E. Budlow and Tamara L. Fine, who prosecuted the case.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:43 am
testing again
January 19th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
They got what they deserved!!!!
end of story….
January 19th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Wow, talk about 2 hot tempered employees, good thing they were fired before they became managers themselves, who knows, employees under them may have been in mental hell
January 20th, 2008 at 10:48 am
yeee ha
January 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am
Wow that is too bad, they could have been postmasters - this is how the postal service chooses their leader right?
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:15 am
I agree that they probably got what he (the Manager)got. The present conditions in the P.O. right now lends itself to this happenning over and over again. The supervisors are told to harrass and pick on all the craft employees so as to get them to retire early.
January 24th, 2008 at 4:16 am
One of the boyz musta had a good hand in the card game…Momma didn’t raise no fool! Oh yeah, Momma did raise a fool, TWO of ‘em!
January 28th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Typical psycho losers who believe the USPS owes them something. How can you justify playing cards on the clock and physical violence when your employer, who writes your paycheck, requires you to actually…dare I say, WORK???
January 29th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I’m sure they’ll be back to work with back pay
February 24th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
At what point does upper postal management take action against those supervisors that push employees until they brake and the employee get labeled in the work place my upper management instead of the supervisors who really puts all the employees at risk my their actions.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Post Office Promotes Hostility and Violence
23. March 2008 by Steve Topel.
I retired from the Post Office in Baltimore Md. in November of 2007. I worked there 22 years and was a Supervisor of clerks and mail carriers for 20 years.
The Post Office’s Management style never changed in 22 years. When I started working at the Post Office it was in the middle of some of the most horrific massacres and violence in Postal and Corporate history. The term “Going Postal ” was coined during this period. Why does the Post Office feel that like war, casualties are a part of doing Post Office Business and although unfortunate, necessary to complete our mission.
Is this insanity at the helm of our Postal ship or a well thought out reasonable approach to keeping the Post Office in the black? I say insanity. We are talking about mail. Bills,checks,advertisements,magazines and parcels. How and when did these 5 postal services become more important then human life.
The Post Office in Baltimore daily manages through fear and intimidation. Upper Manager’s reward supervisor’s and unit Manager’s who give out the most discipline and incur the most grievances from angry, fed-up employees. Much of the time so few employees want the thankless job of supervisor that many get promoted who were difficult and unreliable as craft employees. These people have no Management skills and are put in charge of dozens of people. They buy into stressing out the employees to get maximum results, which is achieving numerical goals that allows upper management to get large yearly bonuses and bragging rights as a top District.
This has to change. People are too vital to the Post Office to be regarded as casualties of war when violence strikes. This Postal cover-up has to be exposed and extinguished. How has it been able to go on this long? Why do we need to have another massacre before this issue is resolved?
As a Postal employee for 22 years I needed guidance several times when legal employment issues surfaced. For the last 8 years through the help of PrePaid Legal and attorney’s Weinstock,Friedman and Friedman and Stephen Lebow I was able to have legal counsel without excessive cost.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Go to my website and get an affordable reasonable lawyer. I worked 22 years in Baltimore, 20 as a Supervisor. I was a normal supervisor who got screwed. You have to get a lawyer to change Managements style. The lawyer can write letters, make calls and give advice. Management will not change until craft employees get balls and get the law on your side. Unions can’t do it. Get your lawyer to write to your Congress and have them threaten the media’s involvement. This is the only way change will happen. Go to reasonablelawyers.com
April 29th, 2008 at 8:30 am
These two were not regular employees but casuals who were used to the laid back atmosphere of their tour and when someone stepped on their comfort well they went “postal”. I don’t agree with what they did and punishment fits the crime. The other side of the coin is that supervisors and MDO’s still use scare tactics and pressure tactics to try and get perfomance. Daily I hear “Hurry up.”, “This is unacceptable!” and constant badgering from supervisors. The worst ones are the 204B’s which are not even real supervisors. Most of them are incompetent and I even know of one that was a lousy clerk. She is an even worse supervisor.