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Advent calender

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tonyt450
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Advent calender

Post by tonyt450 »

Soo we had the first opening of the Royal Mail advent calender this week 17 days too late. The rewards for the best performers o a plastic coffee cup and a £10 voucher whoopie!
ted_e_bear
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Re: Advent calender

Post by ted_e_bear »

That sums up do management, can't be arsed to do their jobs, and what's more disappointing they get away with it.
tramssirhc
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Re: Advent calender

Post by tramssirhc »

tonyt450 wrote:
18 Dec 2024, 19:28
Soo we had the first opening of the Royal Mail advent calender this week 17 days too late. The rewards for the best performers o a plastic coffee cup and a £10 voucher whoopie!
It's causing all sorts of unhappiness across the country. Imagine a scenario where on the same day one worker got £50 worth of vouchers and another worker got a water bottle.

Some workers are asking how this is fair. And what happened to the previous scheme that saw money being paid out to workers.
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Smoothbackground
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Re: Advent calender

Post by Smoothbackground »

We’ve had ours opened consistently. I won a £25 voucher on the first day. Prizes seem to have gone downhill from there though — the £10 voucher won by one of my workmates seems a bit stingy/insulting imho, the Christmas jumper won by someone else seemed so thin it looked threadbare, and the Bluetooth speaker my colleague won is laughable. Not sure if the value of the prize is somehow linked to how busy a day it really was on the day your performance (according to MyPerformance) was the office best?
Perseus
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Re: Advent calender

Post by Perseus »

Are days 20-24 EVR packages? :nana
Sputters
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Re: Advent calender

Post by Sputters »

The advent calendar is very unfair . Most people are working to the best of their abilities and trying hard to get things done this time of year .
Everyone should be treated equally.
If someone suffers from anxiety and they are doing the best they can , how will they feel if someone eles wins prizes .it will probably make them feel they are not good enough.
This time of year we are all doing our best and working harder people should not be singled out . When we are all doing our best .
Wullie10
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Re: Advent calender

Post by Wullie10 »

It's a joke. The perennial sickie guy won the £50. I won a water bottle which to be honest I need a new one to pee in the back of the van.
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Barnacle
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Re: Advent calender

Post by Barnacle »

It’s an unfair reward scheme with unclear targets.
’You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.’
sindba
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Re: Advent calender

Post by sindba »

I can't believe any of you even care. It's passed by almost unnoticed in our office.
Sean06
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Re: Advent calender

Post by Sean06 »

Got air pods.xmas dinner paid by union.an £4 voucher off management to be used in canteen.
qw
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Re: Advent calender

Post by qw »

Same people winning prizes in our office but whatever. I normally have a large s**t when all that is going on anyway.
goneaway
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Re: Advent calender

Post by goneaway »

Is it true you can't be registered as the best performer to qualify for one of the prizes if you don't drive a van equipped with a Trimble tracking device, as there is no safety score recorded on your PDA data? If true, that is really unfair. The majority of the van fleet in our office is 15 years old and these vans were never fitted with Trimble.
fadetogrey63
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Re: Advent calender

Post by fadetogrey63 »

Our office has a daily draw, everyone's name in a bag and one picked out every morn, seems the fairest way, only down side is theres over 40 people in our place and just 24 prizes, so half will miss out completely..
pinstripe
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Re: Advent calender

Post by pinstripe »

Ours is based on your performance and SISO. So if, for example, not naming names, you are not a driver and deliver to a really sh** area with no safe places to dump parcels and you were one of the half dozen in your office that a SISO glitch affected 6 weeks ago, you ain’t getting nothing.
Londonsburning
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Re: Advent calender

Post by Londonsburning »

Sean06 wrote:
18 Dec 2024, 22:11
Got air pods.xmas dinner paid by union.an £4 voucher off management to be used in canteen.
Airpods... :left: :left: :left: :left: