Sunday, March 23, 2008

Camp Speicher Military Post Office

I did not realize I hadn't posted since I arrived here at Speicher. My how time flies when you're having fun! I arrived, along with three other people, here at Camp Speicher on January 25. Of the four of us, only one guy and myself remain. One person left after three days here. She had spent a year at the post office in the Green Zone, and was expecting something similar here. What she got was a small room with a room mate in the women's dorm, and what she was expecting was a room three times the size of the one she was in, along with a queen size bed, and no room mate. The other person that left either de-mobilized (de-mobed) or transferred, no one is sure which. The reason he might have been able to get a transfer is because the supervisor who was here when I arrived was a bigot. Were it not for the fact the previous supervisor was a bigot, the guy should have been sent home. When he left, I noticed no change in my work load. Another girl was sent to Baghdad, because she was fraternizing with the client. Another girl found a job with another company over here. We had another guy that went home three days ago. The last girl that left sorted letters, which is what I am doing. If she had been a good worker, my workload would have doubled. It didn't. The last guy that left made no change in my workload when he left. There is one more for sure, and possibly another guy that needs to leave. If the one leaves, the other one might become a worthwhile individual, but I sort of doubt it. As it is, the post office has two less people working here now, than they had before I arrived. The post office was short staffed before I arrived here. Such is the company. I have decided I won't do R&R, as I am having so much fun here, if I leave, I may never come back, so we will see how long I can hold out without a vacation. I think next available day off is some time in April, then one in August. When I get eight sick days built up, I will start taking one sick day every month, and that may help. We can accumulate up to eight sick days, then we lose what we don't use. Right now, I have four available, and April first, I will have five available. At least here at Speicher, it is a five minute walk to everywhere I need to go, which beats the thirty minute bus ride each direction every day . Well, that is about all I can think of to say for now.