greybyte

I read an article that paints the USPS in a rather bad light. (This was posted on r/foodforthought). The author worked as a CCA and experienced numerous problems ranging from yelling, micromanaging bosses to an expectation to work off the clock to an indifference to worker safety (i.e. dog bites).

The author seems to be somewhere in Texas and seems convinced that management problems are endemic and go all the way up to the Postmaster General. Many (perhaps all) organizations suffer from poor middle and lower level management tha

I remember a man exploring the inside of an alien or possibly an alien ship or other alien environment. There were different aliens inside that seemed to be mostly mindless but moved about and performed different functions. I believe the idea was that it was if they were part of a larger organism and these smaller creatures inside each performed different tasks to keep the whole system going. He learned how to manipulate some of them to do things to help him, such as bringing him things or moving him places. He eventually finds intelligence and it doesn't go well for him. This is all to the best of my recollection, at least.

This is a sci-fi short story. I read it in an anthology about 10 y