Buh bye, Staples. My personal and business entities will never darken your doorstep again.

This is perfect. I really try to not buy new whenever possible. I need to work on this more. Support local shops and second hand sales. Do not give any cash to to Corps.

before I ever set foot in one.

Office Max is probably just as bad in many ways, but the staff there has always been helpful.

Sorry for your loss.

Speaking of stocks, if I had some money to invest I'd be looking at companies who make pitchforks and torches.

To repair the bullet-pocked, bloodstained walls vermin like her might just find themselves standing in front of some day...

They have to work hard. Not like those lazy bums who just walk around all day putting letters in people's mail boxes. People like my father. He's just a moocher, I guess.

On the bright side, we have a new poster child for cluelessness.

Of course, if she last 18 months, she's set for life anyway. But she'd be in forced retirement. The horror!

Yeah, that whole "job security" thing - what a sucko thing for business. Motivated, content workers who can sleep well at night . . . who needs THAT shit going on, right? We need to continue that whole "Culture of Fear" thing that's worked so well for the United Snakes of Captivity for 40-some years.

That was so, yesterday. Let them eat cake.

USPS employs 750,000 workers, including 235,985 veterans and 47,937 employees with disabilities.

http://www.jobsfed.com/fjdpaper/Jumps4_11_03/JumpSpec1_4_11.htm

Clueless, aren't they?

They are SO lame.

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Asked them what are you doing here on Sunday and again asked on Memorial day.

The post office is not hiring any more official 'mailmen'. These are new hires, and they work 7 days a week and holidays delivering stuff in the official mail trucks.

A person I know who is a mailman for over 20 years says constant high pressure to take 'early retirement'.

Looks like the 'for profit' private businessmen are or have taken over the American dream for a decent job with time off and real benefits.

Insecure workers don't ask for wages, don't strike, and don't ask for benefits. They will serve their masters gladly and passively.

we "can't afford" the "old way" of doing business.

Translation:"My profits need to go up because I only made 2.2 billion last year instead of 2.201 billion so you have to eat less and have crappier jobs so I can stuff more money into my overstuffed investment accounts."

Such a fucking pantload. What a moran.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Ugh. Just.....UGH!

what fucking PLANET are these psychopaths from? Like WTF? We "can't afford". No. A single mother with 2 part time jobs "can't afford", YOU are just a fucking selfish asspuke.

ARGH!!

jeeeezus h. christ, and she announced it to her employees. You know, those rank and file peons who are disposable to her.

Ugh. Fucking ugh. Bet she feels so virtuous too, cuz she's married to a big shot rabbi. Its a shunda for the goyim.

And just what happens to people like her when that hate finally erupts into action...

All become CEOs who don't actually work but rip off money from the peasants who do. I guess they will seek employment from scum of the earth like Staples.

Mr k spent just over 33 years at USPS. He worked every shift there was. He made sure he knew every aspect of every position he held. He was a letter carrier the last 4 years before he retired, and destroyed his feet and knees on a walking route.

All the money he EARNED, plus the retirement he'll collect won't be as much as the bonus you'll likely receive this year.

As a former APWU member, local officer and shop steward, I will wholeheartedly support this boycott of your company. May your tenure there be short-lived.

here:

http://staples.newshq.businesswire.com/leadership/leadership/shira-goodman#axzz33gF5nDj4

wouldn't go near that face.

don't have the job.

The destruction of the Middle Class is a sure avenue to eventual violent revolt. What do you suppose would happen if the Republicans take control of the Senate and as many have suggested push for the impeachment of the first Black president.

I hope something painful happens to her.

They can get their own mail.

Gee, another rich asshole, whoda thunk it.

Asshole. And a perfect example of why ALL American workers need to stand up to shit like this.

must be spinning in his grave. As someone who believes in karma, I can't wait for it to bite this bitch in the ass.

Done with Staples.

Corporations like staples had to have help from the re-pubic party.
During the bush era, they Imposed that burden of paying billions into the postal employees pension fund, hence, it appears they are going broke, so the uninformed public thinks it's a good thing too privatize it.
A few years back, here in Missouri our chickenshit R governor (matt blunt) privatized the dept. of motor vehicles & soon after our fees doubled. He took the infrastructure that the public built & sold it too a private concern for pennies on the dollar. So now we are at the mercy of some billionaire??
Whats next? education, police, fire, highways??

You know, that archaic idea that there should be a core set of public services and functions to meet the ongoing needs of the population as a whole. Benefits of being part of a nation, a community; the reason we pay taxes.

Those services would go to all - and they be managed equitably for rural, suburban, urban and business customers. And where those employees don't work at the whim of a CEO angling for market shares and stock prices.

I love the idea of a Public Commons. IMHO, key functions such as schools, roads and public safety need to be public common resources. Postal services should not be part of a corporation and it's bottom line; it needs to be answerable (at least in theory) to the public. A common enterprise also needs to be treated fairly by Congress so it can be successful and forward moving. I shouldn't be burdened by pension provisions and creatively shackled when it wants to innovate. Big $$ private enterprises like Staples would NEVER have tolerated the abuses heaped on USPS by the Republican side of Congress. Those corps would have unleashed a stampede of lobbyists so fast DC would think it had an earthquake.

Where I live we have many alternatives to Staples. I will use them.

Why should our ability to earn a living and feed ourselves be subject to the whims and vagaries of private employers and the so-called "free market"? Boycott Staples!

and good on your for boycotting Staples!

We can't afford to do business with Staples anymore. Show solidarity and stop shopping at Staples. There are companies that are decent stewards and there are those who aren't. Vote with your wallet.

And then go to another company only to loot again. You can't spell "hive of locusts" without CEO.

And the Bush crime family

That's how I would describe a postal job. It is beyond the reach of most Americans today. And it is not as good as it one was. Just America has gotten worse for most. So the postal service "looks" better.

How anti union, pro lowering minimum wage are you?

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Ah great. Nice to see Unions strangling the life out of yet another struggling American company
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5048370

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Wow! What a flagrantly anti union, worker bashing, victim blaming post! "Nice to see Unions strangling the life out of yet another struggling American company" is said without any indication of sarcasm at all!

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You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Wed Jun 4, 2014, 11:10 AM, and the Jury voted 6-1 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Ah, great. Another person who has fallen for the right wing idiocy that unions are the ones costing the jobs. Dear 951, Here's a joke: a finance guy, a union guy and a non-union guy order an 8 slice pizza and all chip in for it. The finance guy greets the delivery person at the door and eats 7 slices of the pie. He brings the remaining slice into the kitchen and says to the non-union guy, "You better hurry up and eat that slice before this union asshole steals your share." Which character are you in this story? (Hint. You fell for it!!!)
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: This is a good one to be refuted / challenged in thread, imo. Voting to leave.
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Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: We don't need Koch bother talking points on DU.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Ah jeeze. Anti-worker sentiment like this is strangling the life out of our nation. Please hide. Right-wing talking points are an embarrassment to this forum.
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Fuck you and your lies asshole!
Hostess was shut down by BANKERS jerk.
Get your facts straight.
Not only am I voting to hide this post but I'm putting 951-Riverside on full ignore.
Time to head over to Discussionist asshat.
That's the site for lying assholes.


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I loved the comments.

As a post it would have been hidden, but as a juror comment...priceless.

probably better his post not here I guess. probably would just waste people's time showing him for what he is.

Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Ah, great. Another person who has fallen for the right wing idiocy that unions are the ones costing the jobs. Dear 951, Here's a joke: a finance guy, a union guy and a non-union guy order an 8 slice pizza and all chip in for it. The finance guy greets the delivery person at the door and eats 7 slices of the pie. He brings the remaining slice into the kitchen and says to the non-union guy, "You better hurry up and eat that slice before this union asshole steals your share." Which character are you in this story? (Hint. You fell for it!!!)

If you do not publish it as one, can I? I am serious.

i'm thinking the person probably doesn't belong here.

Can't reply to that deleted pile of crap anti-union post full of right-wing lies, so I'll just leave this here.


http://www.salon.com/2012/11/20/vulture_capitalism_not_unions_killed_twinkies/

Hedge funds bought Hostess, loaded it up with debt, looted it totally, and blamed it on the union.

Confirmed what I suspected about the poster, though. The scabs just can't help but out themselves sooner or later.

lowering the minimum wage.... are you for paying no wages at all?

Haters gonna hate, tyrants gonna tyrannize.

That seems to be the bottom line for a lot of business/Republican "leaders." Despotic control freaks can't stand to see people who have rights and benefits and don't have to live in constant fear and grovel for every crumb.

Fuck Staples.

In other words, "Boycott Staples."

I LOVE YOU.

We'd have a much better society if everybody had a job for life if they wanted it.