taurus88 wrote:edit: And I heard a crazy rumour today. A crazy rumour that as of next week our overtime budget is going to be ... 0. It wouldn't bother me in the slightest as I don't do overtime any more, but in terms of the office and any of the rounds being in any way complete-able sans overtime ... I just don't see it. Surely that is utter bullsh*t of the ninth variety.
Next week you're on the budget side of the famous Royal Mail new revision budget/quality flip-flop.
Walks will fail,conference calls will get heated,managers will be forced to dust off the walking gear and the following week you will flop back on to quality with an unlimited overtime budget.
It's a fun ride...enjoy it.
"It's your day off."
"Rota says Saturday."
"Well, it's today." (no "oh sh*t, I'm sorry, I didn't realise", just a mechanical consultation of various sheets followed by a stone face - as if it was my fault more than anything)
I don't understand how difficult it is to put a name against each duty, for every day and display it in advance for all to see.
The problems begin when you try to shaft the reserves with having every Tuesday off etc. Which isn't all right but when you have people without the required intelligence to do the staffing for a whole week ahead, the whole thing becomes farcical.
It would be much easier if we just went back to the old days on the docks when loads of people turned up and some were given work and others sent home, or raced off to another DO because there was a rumour there was a shortage there. This is the only method of staffing these people would be able to cope with and then they could just give the work to their buddies and the ones they know won't claim any overtime or cut off.
Anyway:
Today - band of rain.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
No.
Partly because of geography and mostly because they are a miserable lot Glasgow creates rain and exports it from west to east across the entire central belt in what is optimistically called a band.
A band would however suggest some end to it....
No.
Partly because of geography and mostly because they are a miserable lot Glasgow creates rain and exports it from west to east across the entire central belt in what is optimistically called a band.
A band would however suggest some end to it....
Its been lovely down ere, even more so as I'm on 2 weeks leave going to Londinium next week to see if the streets are paved with gold
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
taurus88 wrote:"It's your day off."
"Rota says Saturday."
"Well, it's today." (no "oh sh*t, I'm sorry, I didn't realise", just a mechanical consultation of various sheets followed by a stone face - as if it was my fault more than anything)
I don't understand how difficult it is to put a name against each duty, for every day and display it in advance for all to see.
The problems begin when you try to shaft the reserves with having every Tuesday off etc.
That's what they do at our D.O.! It's just that it's often wrong ... or else, the managers claim that it is wrong. It's not my problem if it's wrong, though, is it? I've spent £150 already making plans for Saturday, so I ain't going anywhere near work because somebody made a mess of the rota. As is always the case in our D.O., management try to throw the problem back at you so that it's yours to sort out. Not a f*cking chance.
fishtank wrote:Walks will fail,conference calls will get heated,managers will be forced to dust off the walking gear and the following week you will flop back on to quality with an unlimited overtime budget.
Walks are failing already. I cannot say whether conference calls are getting heated. Management are in no shape to dust off the walking gear!
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Stormproof wrote:
Its been lovely down ere, even more so as I'm on 2 weeks leave going to Londinium next week to see if the streets are paved with gold
Pop in for a cuppa.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been. My BFF Clash The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
Stormproof wrote:
Its been lovely down ere, even more so as I'm on 2 weeks leave going to Londinium next week to see if the streets are paved with gold
Pop in for a cuppa.
Will you be baking a cake or have you been evicted from the kitchen?
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
My day well got in on time, rural delivery, ran round, got back 1.5 hours early, sent out to do packets then still finished 1 hour early. Woulda been ok if it wasn't for getting sent back out. Volumes seem to be up though espec for a Saturday.
not to bad, i work with absalute idiots so hyper on a sat its unbaleivable, first sat the doms been in since xmas and there running about like maniacs, loads tying up at 10 past 7 out for haf7, thatll be double lapsing next sat no doubt, finished an hour and half early and i was one the last ones out aswell
Packets down again. Mail wasn't great. Raining all day. In fact I got up just before 4am for the loo and it was already raining then. Day off tomorrow.
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Day off tomorrow.