Co-worker forces me to do his job so I accidentally get him fired by exposing his affair.

Here's what happened.

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Sit back and enjoy a story about some revenge I achieved at the U.S. Postal Service back in the 1990s.

That cost a bullying full-time carrier his union job.

In summer of 1991, I found a summer job as a casual carrier for the USPS.

They used to hire summer temps to cover for all the full-time carriers who mostly took their vacations in the summer.

The USPS had rules that things had to be delivered within certain time windows.

People could get fired if they took too long to do tasks.

Carriers were both openly and secretly monitored and timed on tasks.

And we had the first computerized time system I ever saw.

They would be secretly followed a few times per year to be sure they were working hard the

entire time they were outside the post office.

The post office building even had secret back hallways, passive sound monitoring, and hidden-reased viewing areas where they could see the sorting floor unobserved.

Cameras and microphones were hell expensive back then.

So this was all done using tricky architecture and the eyes

and ears of the postal inspectors. We were supposed to walk over and punch in and out of tasks

so that they could track productivity to the second.

People walking a delivery route were expected to do it fast,

and better routes went to faster carriers.

Slow carriers got mercilessly hassle to be faster faster and were disciplined for slowness.

Look at Newman on Seinfeld.

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