RTP wrote: ↑04 Oct 2022, 23:1695% of posties have pride in their jobs. They are a face in the community and are doing a service to the community. During covid that pride and will to serve the community was there in such a strange time when so much of the country was locked down in their safe homes on government furlough, gardening by day and watching netflix by night with ale and crisps on tap.
When there were more bicycles on the roads than cars and nobody knew much about the virus or had a cure or treatment for covid we were working with no sanatizer, because all the selfish bog roll, pasta, rice and sanatizer horders had cleaned up. We were paranoind about touching covid gates, covid parcels, covid letters , breathing covid air at work. Nobody dare so much as sneeze , but we ploughed on. That was the early days of covid. We weren't alone, but we were key workers.
And then it started. The British public got more confident and started ordering parcel after parcel after parcel. Sanatizer finally arrived along with company masks. We worked our bollocks of for two years and we took pride in our jobs like we always did. Some of our team died or lost loved ones through covid. Some of our team suffered mental anxiety through it all, but we ploughed on.
Fast forward over two years later. We are given 2% payrise when inflation is running at 10%. Our terms and conditions are about to be ripped to shreds. Talk about kicking a person when they are down. Were we used to be threatened with conduct for bringing back or leaving one letter, we are now told to stream letters. Stream as much as you have to. Doesn't matter if they don't go today or tomorrow just as long as they aren't NHS letters, because of course they have to go today. Sod the rest of the letters if you haven't got time, its ok they can go another day.
Oh and now we are a parcels company that delivers letters. If you haven't got time, just remember to deliver all the special deliveries and tracked parcels. Maybe even the recorded ones. If you haven't got time to deliver all the others, because the rounds are to big and we need you to take you lapsed out don't worry about then. They can go tomorrow or whenever.
Yep morale is low, very low and the pride has long been beaten out of us.
Excellent summary of what it was like to work through the lockdowns.