-Virtually no need to speak with a manager about workload and what can be completed / what hasn't been completed. Toxic culture eradicated.
-Less managers needed.
Exactly why it will be put in Room 101. Our office got rid of the DOM role but after a year they brought it back in again. Royal Mail is a really strange organisation that desperately needs rid of these non-productive roles but somehow they always find a way to create more jobs in management.
You have to remember, most managers are ex posties and fecking lazy ones usually. Keep dreaming up new roles so they can have less to do further up the chain of command.
And they have the cheek to call us lazy and overpaid.
Royal Mail have ballsed it up again. They really should have introduced the shorter working week AFTER all the election cr*p has been delivered.
To be fair to RM, they didn’t know when in the year 2024 the election would be called.
And although it would make sense to defer the shorter working week until after the election propaganda, the union stops any degree of flexibility like this – the dates for seasonal variation are probably written in tablets of stone, years in advance, which can’t be amended.
Fair point, but both Royal Mail and the CWU had an agreement that allowed us to work an additional 5 week "low season" in January and February 2024. The decision to introduce this reduction was an attempt to better align work hours to traffic during the period and to give some hours back to employees prior to the end of the financial year. Personally, I would have preferred it if they just kept the hours the same back then and gave us more annual leave off in the summer like they originally promised. But if they could adjust our hours back then, why couldn't they have done it now and just kept us working normal hours?
Good god Pete, you have come up with a sensible option, consider yourself ready for a management role...... but not in this company.
Now if you could dream up a way for us humble posties to do all the work for half the pay then they would welcome you with open arms.
Royal Mail have ballsed it up again. They really should have introduced the shorter working week AFTER all the election cr*p has been delivered.
To be fair to RM, they didn’t know when in the year 2024 the election would be called.
And although it would make sense to defer the shorter working week until after the election propaganda, the union stops any degree of flexibility like this – the dates for seasonal variation are probably written in tablets of stone, years in advance, which can’t be amended.
Fair point, but both Royal Mail and the CWU had an agreement that allowed us to work an additional 5 week "low season" in January and February 2024. The decision to introduce this reduction was an attempt to better align work hours to traffic during the period and to give some hours back to employees prior to the end of the financial year. Personally, I would have preferred it if they just kept the hours the same back then and gave us more annual leave off in the summer like they originally promised. But if they could adjust our hours back then, why couldn't they have done it now and just kept us working normal hours?
but you are right re January, which had slipped my mind, which perhaps means those tablets of stone I earlier mentioned can be rewritten after all! That being the case, there should be some adjustment now.
Good god Pete, you have come up with a sensible option, consider yourself ready for a management role...... but not in this company.
Now if you could dream up a way for us humble posties to do all the work for half the pay then they would welcome you with open arms.
10 years ago maybe...but I would never dream of being a manager in Royal Mail now. Management in RM has become toxic with colleagues on the team trying to outdo each other leaving other managers in the sh*t. On top of that they face all the daily pressures and stress of trying to maintain some quality of service having to rely on certain posties to help them out whilst also trying to be fair to everyone else. While the job is well paid for what it is - at least I don't need to take headache tablets everyday.
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world.
