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What time will you finish from May/June

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.

What time will you finish

13:00 - 13:59
30
6%
14:00 - 14:59
138
28%
15:00 - 15:59
220
45%
16:00 - 16:59
79
16%
17:00 - 17:59
27
5%
 
Total votes: 494

CarryingMGMT
EX ROYAL MAIL
Posts: 310
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Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by CarryingMGMT »

Smoothbackground wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 17:47

Random ex posties? Or just the ex posties who try to bully and demean others on this forum? I don’t think Lou has put anybody down, “random” ex posties or just ex posties at large - he has just put them back in their box following an outburst from them, albeit responding in a much politer and respectful way.
Lol what happened to you doing your utmost to ignore me? This conversation has precisely NOTHING to do with you. :wave
LouBarlow
Posts: 4709
Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by LouBarlow »

CarryingMGMT wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 14:41
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:31
CarryingMGMT wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 00:31
I'm sure if someone trawled through your post history they would find you bragging about having a 6/6.15ish start time within the last few months.
Why are you lieing about how great you've got it at your office? So strange, it's almost like you have some sort of agenda with your posts on here, although I can't work out what that would be other than trying to wind people up :no no
No, that is your agenda.

Mate, I have seen off bigger and better than you in the last few years. You are wasting your time, but if you need something to think about before going to bed, have at it. I’ll just make you look as silly as they did before they trotted off. I’m not revealing my exact start and finish times, as muppets on here have tried to dox me before, but suffice to say we will be starting...

It isn’t gloating, it is presenting an alternative experience, proving that offices can be run properly and the job be enjoyable. I appreciate I am in the minority and am appreciative of that fact. You on the other hand, are gloating and demeaning

It is all making sense now.
C'mon "Lou" you are better than just putting random ex posties on Royalmailchat.co.uk down, surely?.

Keep up your amazingly good delivery office, daily good news for the 95% suffering, reading your self absorbed nonsense. :wave

Please keep it up! :wave

What was your start time in December again? Oh aye, 6am-ish :wink:
So now you are a 9 day fortnight? Best of luck keeping that over and above 95% of genuine OPG's across the UK. Hope that works out for you :left:
This reads like a drunken ramble, which is fair enough I guess at this time on a Sunday. I will try to address your points. I don’t put anyone ‘down’. If I am met with snide comments, as there is no moderation on this site, I respond in kind. I try to be as respectful as possible, but sometimes the truth hurts the people being responded to, and they come back with personal attacks (see the ‘you are a prick’ comment elsewhere today as evidence of this)

I am not ‘keeping up’ my amazingly good office on my own. There is a reason we were in the top 10 offices for productivity last year, so it is not just my own efforts that go into such achieving such a goal. I have every sympathy for those suffering, but given that this forum represents a tiny, tiny minority of posties across the country, your 95% suffrage figure seems a tad unscientific if I am being honest.

My start time was about 6am in December yes.

I’ve not suddenly been granted a 9 day fortnight work schedule no. I have had one for at least two revisions now. Though I see you have again plucked that 95% figure out of thin air again, so I bow to your superior knowledge of the working conditions for a job you no longer even do.
CarryingMGMT
EX ROYAL MAIL
Posts: 310
Joined: 29 Jul 2023, 22:33
Gender: Male

Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by CarryingMGMT »

LouBarlow wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 19:27
CarryingMGMT wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 14:41
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:31
CarryingMGMT wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 00:31
I'm sure if someone trawled through your post history they would find you bragging about having a 6/6.15ish start time within the last few months.
Why are you lieing about how great you've got it at your office? So strange, it's almost like you have some sort of agenda with your posts on here, although I can't work out what that would be other than trying to wind people up :no no
No, that is your agenda.

Mate, I have seen off bigger and better than you in the last few years. You are wasting your time, but if you need something to think about before going to bed, have at it. I’ll just make you look as silly as they did before they trotted off. I’m not revealing my exact start and finish times, as muppets on here have tried to dox me before, but suffice to say we will be starting...

It isn’t gloating, it is presenting an alternative experience, proving that offices can be run properly and the job be enjoyable. I appreciate I am in the minority and am appreciative of that fact. You on the other hand, are gloating and demeaning

It is all making sense now.
C'mon "Lou" you are better than just putting random ex posties on Royalmailchat.co.uk down, surely?.

Keep up your amazingly good delivery office, daily good news for the 95% suffering, reading your self absorbed nonsense. :wave

Please keep it up! :wave

What was your start time in December again? Oh aye, 6am-ish :wink:
So now you are a 9 day fortnight? Best of luck keeping that over and above 95% of genuine OPG's across the UK. Hope that works out for you :left:
This reads like a drunken ramble, which is fair enough I guess at this time on a Sunday. I will try to address your points. I don’t put anyone ‘down’. If I am met with snide comments, as there is no moderation on this site, I respond in kind. I try to be as respectful as possible, but sometimes the truth hurts the people being responded to, and they come back with personal attacks (see the ‘you are a prick’ comment elsewhere today as evidence of this)

I am not ‘keeping up’ my amazingly good office on my own. There is a reason we were in the top 10 offices for productivity last year, so it is not just my own efforts that go into such achieving such a goal. I have every sympathy for those suffering, but given that this forum represents a tiny, tiny minority of posties across the country, your 95% suffrage figure seems a tad unscientific if I am being honest.

My start time was about 6am in December yes.

I’ve not suddenly been granted a 9 day fortnight work schedule no. I have had one for at least two revisions now. Though I see you have again plucked that 95% figure out of thin air again, so I bow to your superior knowledge of the working conditions for a job you no longer even do.
What is your new start time going to be?

What percentage of Delivery posties are on a 9 day fortnight? Ah yes, 5% now. Thin air you say?? Just like Smoothbackground you are awfully good at slandering people on here. Maybe get your facts right before attacking people with your keyboard on an anonymous workplace forum.
LouBarlow
Posts: 4709
Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by LouBarlow »

CarryingMGMT wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 19:35
LouBarlow wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 19:27
CarryingMGMT wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 14:41
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:31
CarryingMGMT wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 00:31
I'm sure if someone trawled through your post history they would find you bragging about having a 6/6.15ish start time within the last few months.
Why are you lieing about how great you've got it at your office? So strange, it's almost like you have some sort of agenda with your posts on here, although I can't work out what that would be other than trying to wind people up :no no
No, that is your agenda.

Mate, I have seen off bigger and better than you in the last few years. You are wasting your time, but if you need something to think about before going to bed, have at it. I’ll just make you look as silly as they did before they trotted off. I’m not revealing my exact start and finish times, as muppets on here have tried to dox me before, but suffice to say we will be starting...

It isn’t gloating, it is presenting an alternative experience, proving that offices can be run properly and the job be enjoyable. I appreciate I am in the minority and am appreciative of that fact. You on the other hand, are gloating and demeaning

It is all making sense now.
C'mon "Lou" you are better than just putting random ex posties on Royalmailchat.co.uk down, surely?.

Keep up your amazingly good delivery office, daily good news for the 95% suffering, reading your self absorbed nonsense. :wave

Please keep it up! :wave

What was your start time in December again? Oh aye, 6am-ish :wink:
So now you are a 9 day fortnight? Best of luck keeping that over and above 95% of genuine OPG's across the UK. Hope that works out for you :left:
This reads like a drunken ramble, which is fair enough I guess at this time on a Sunday. I will try to address your points. I don’t put anyone ‘down’. If I am met with snide comments, as there is no moderation on this site, I respond in kind. I try to be as respectful as possible, but sometimes the truth hurts the people being responded to, and they come back with personal attacks (see the ‘you are a prick’ comment elsewhere today as evidence of this)

I am not ‘keeping up’ my amazingly good office on my own. There is a reason we were in the top 10 offices for productivity last year, so it is not just my own efforts that go into such achieving such a goal. I have every sympathy for those suffering, but given that this forum represents a tiny, tiny minority of posties across the country, your 95% suffrage figure seems a tad unscientific if I am being honest.

My start time was about 6am in December yes.

I’ve not suddenly been granted a 9 day fortnight work schedule no. I have had one for at least two revisions now. Though I see you have again plucked that 95% figure out of thin air again, so I bow to your superior knowledge of the working conditions for a job you no longer even do.
What is your new start time going to be?

What percentage of Delivery posties are on a 9 day fortnight? Ah yes, 5% now. Thin air you say?? Just like Smoothbackground you are awfully good at slandering people on here. Maybe get your facts right before attacking people with your keyboard on an anonymous workplace forum.
You cannot ‘slander’ people on an ‘anonymous’ internet forum. You need to get back to your QC or whoever you use for legal advice. My start time, as I have said before, is changing by 15 minutes. I will not reveal my actual start time, as my name is already visible on here, and this would make it easy for weirdos to track me down, and as I seem to attract obsessives on here, I need to limit that information.
CarryingMGMT
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Gender: Male

Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by CarryingMGMT »

LouBarlow wrote:
26 Feb 2024, 05:24
CarryingMGMT wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 19:35
LouBarlow wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 19:27
CarryingMGMT wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 14:41
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:31
CarryingMGMT wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 00:31
I'm sure if someone trawled through your post history they would find you bragging about having a 6/6.15ish start time within the last few months.
Why are you lieing about how great you've got it at your office? So strange, it's almost like you have some sort of agenda with your posts on here, although I can't work out what that would be other than trying to wind people up :no no
No, that is your agenda.

Mate, I have seen off bigger and better than you in the last few years. You are wasting your time, but if you need something to think about before going to bed, have at it. I’ll just make you look as silly as they did before they trotted off. I’m not revealing my exact start and finish times, as muppets on here have tried to dox me before, but suffice to say we will be starting...

It isn’t gloating, it is presenting an alternative experience, proving that offices can be run properly and the job be enjoyable. I appreciate I am in the minority and am appreciative of that fact. You on the other hand, are gloating and demeaning

It is all making sense now.
C'mon "Lou" you are better than just putting random ex posties on Royalmailchat.co.uk down, surely?.

Keep up your amazingly good delivery office, daily good news for the 95% suffering, reading your self absorbed nonsense. :wave

Please keep it up! :wave

What was your start time in December again? Oh aye, 6am-ish :wink:
So now you are a 9 day fortnight? Best of luck keeping that over and above 95% of genuine OPG's across the UK. Hope that works out for you :left:
This reads like a drunken ramble, which is fair enough I guess at this time on a Sunday. I will try to address your points. I don’t put anyone ‘down’. If I am met with snide comments, as there is no moderation on this site, I respond in kind. I try to be as respectful as possible, but sometimes the truth hurts the people being responded to, and they come back with personal attacks (see the ‘you are a prick’ comment elsewhere today as evidence of this)

I am not ‘keeping up’ my amazingly good office on my own. There is a reason we were in the top 10 offices for productivity last year, so it is not just my own efforts that go into such achieving such a goal. I have every sympathy for those suffering, but given that this forum represents a tiny, tiny minority of posties across the country, your 95% suffrage figure seems a tad unscientific if I am being honest.

My start time was about 6am in December yes.

I’ve not suddenly been granted a 9 day fortnight work schedule no. I have had one for at least two revisions now. Though I see you have again plucked that 95% figure out of thin air again, so I bow to your superior knowledge of the working conditions for a job you no longer even do.
What is your new start time going to be?

What percentage of Delivery posties are on a 9 day fortnight? Ah yes, 5% now. Thin air you say?? Just like Smoothbackground you are awfully good at slandering people on here. Maybe get your facts right before attacking people with your keyboard on an anonymous workplace forum.
You cannot ‘slander’ people on an ‘anonymous’ internet forum. You need to get back to your QC or whoever you use for legal advice. My start time, as I have said before, is changing by 15 minutes. I will not reveal my actual start time, as my name is already visible on here, and this would make it easy for weirdos to track me down, and as I seem to attract obsessives on here, I need to limit that information.
You should get back to trolling people other than RM employees who are facing life changing work/life/survival changes within their workplaces instead of typing out some bogus lies about how great your work/life situation is. Well done
LouBarlow
Posts: 4709
Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by LouBarlow »

CarryingMGMT wrote:
26 Feb 2024, 19:08
LouBarlow wrote:
26 Feb 2024, 05:24
CarryingMGMT wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 19:35
LouBarlow wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 19:27
CarryingMGMT wrote:
25 Feb 2024, 14:41
LouBarlow wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 05:31
CarryingMGMT wrote:
23 Feb 2024, 00:31
I'm sure if someone trawled through your post history they would find you bragging about having a 6/6.15ish start time within the last few months.
Why are you lieing about how great you've got it at your office? So strange, it's almost like you have some sort of agenda with your posts on here, although I can't work out what that would be other than trying to wind people up :no no
No, that is your agenda.

Mate, I have seen off bigger and better than you in the last few years. You are wasting your time, but if you need something to think about before going to bed, have at it. I’ll just make you look as silly as they did before they trotted off. I’m not revealing my exact start and finish times, as muppets on here have tried to dox me before, but suffice to say we will be starting...

It isn’t gloating, it is presenting an alternative experience, proving that offices can be run properly and the job be enjoyable. I appreciate I am in the minority and am appreciative of that fact. You on the other hand, are gloating and demeaning

It is all making sense now.
C'mon "Lou" you are better than just putting random ex posties on Royalmailchat.co.uk down, surely?.

Keep up your amazingly good delivery office, daily good news for the 95% suffering, reading your self absorbed nonsense. :wave

Please keep it up! :wave

What was your start time in December again? Oh aye, 6am-ish :wink:
So now you are a 9 day fortnight? Best of luck keeping that over and above 95% of genuine OPG's across the UK. Hope that works out for you :left:
This reads like a drunken ramble, which is fair enough I guess at this time on a Sunday. I will try to address your points. I don’t put anyone ‘down’. If I am met with snide comments, as there is no moderation on this site, I respond in kind. I try to be as respectful as possible, but sometimes the truth hurts the people being responded to, and they come back with personal attacks (see the ‘you are a prick’ comment elsewhere today as evidence of this)

I am not ‘keeping up’ my amazingly good office on my own. There is a reason we were in the top 10 offices for productivity last year, so it is not just my own efforts that go into such achieving such a goal. I have every sympathy for those suffering, but given that this forum represents a tiny, tiny minority of posties across the country, your 95% suffrage figure seems a tad unscientific if I am being honest.

My start time was about 6am in December yes.

I’ve not suddenly been granted a 9 day fortnight work schedule no. I have had one for at least two revisions now. Though I see you have again plucked that 95% figure out of thin air again, so I bow to your superior knowledge of the working conditions for a job you no longer even do.
What is your new start time going to be?

What percentage of Delivery posties are on a 9 day fortnight? Ah yes, 5% now. Thin air you say?? Just like Smoothbackground you are awfully good at slandering people on here. Maybe get your facts right before attacking people with your keyboard on an anonymous workplace forum.
You cannot ‘slander’ people on an ‘anonymous’ internet forum. You need to get back to your QC or whoever you use for legal advice. My start time, as I have said before, is changing by 15 minutes. I will not reveal my actual start time, as my name is already visible on here, and this would make it easy for weirdos to track me down, and as I seem to attract obsessives on here, I need to limit that information.
You should get back to trolling people other than RM employees who are facing life changing work/life/survival changes within their workplaces instead of typing out some bogus lies about how great your work/life situation is. Well done
Thanks for the advice. You should stop trolling RM employees you disagree with and start posting on a forum dedicated to your current profession, if it upsets you so much. I’m not gonna change, so ignore or move on. I respond in kind. If you don’t like it, don’t dish it out.
moonjaguar
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Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by moonjaguar »

I clicked on this thread as it came up as having new comments. I was hoping for some info on the new start times but no, it's still two people arguing about something no one else gives a damn about. Could you start your own thread and stop boring the rest of us who want to read about the topic in question? Thanks.
LouBarlow
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Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by LouBarlow »

moonjaguar wrote:
26 Feb 2024, 19:20
I clicked on this thread as it came up as having new comments. I was hoping for some info on the new start times but no, it's still two people arguing about something no one else gives a damn about. Could you start your own thread and stop boring the rest of us who want to read about the topic in question? Thanks.
Well said. We have a new resident attention seeker, who has managed to quadruple his post count in a week or so because he is finally getting some attention in his life and is embracing it. There is only one person picking fights in all of the threads in this forum.
The Dominator
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Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by The Dominator »

Our starting times here in Glasgow, just 20 minutes from the mail centre is changing by 1 hour 30 minutes.
So our current finish time everyday is 14.38 and come May that will change to 16.08
I have worked here for 25 years and i could put up with that new finish time Mon-Fri but not on a Saturday. Now on the lookout for a new job and so are a quite few folk in my delivery office.
Mr Rush
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Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by Mr Rush »

The Dominator wrote:
26 Feb 2024, 20:58
I have worked here for 25 years and i could put up with that new finish time Mon-Fri but not on a Saturday.
It's been my strong suspicion for years that there's a deliberate policy to make Saturdays unbearable. It achieves two aims: it drives senior people out of the job and creates support among delivery staff for a reduction of the USO to five day letters. The last step was having the union buckle on the issue. Most would now take their chances having to do one miserable Saturday every couple of weeks on rota than endure 1-in-6 with these proposed finish times.
The machine stops.
LouBarlow
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Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by LouBarlow »

I think the finish time change is more drastic for those who have been lucky enough up to now to still finish early. We have been finishing ~3pm on our longest days, for a handful of revisions now, which is probably why we only have a small change planned. It is clear that it isn’t related to distance from the mail centre really.
Ozzvaldo
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Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by Ozzvaldo »

LouBarlow wrote:
27 Feb 2024, 05:24
I think the finish time change is more drastic for those who have been lucky enough up to now to still finish early. We have been finishing ~3pm on our longest days, for a handful of revisions now, which is probably why we only have a small change planned. It is clear that it isn’t related to distance from the mail centre really.
That certainly isn't the case where I work. Our latest finish is currently 3.30pm, and we're going to be changing by over an hour. We're 70 miles away from our mail centre.
kazardaimenu
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Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by kazardaimenu »

Our start times are moving by sub 20 mins. Finish times are being put back by 20 minutes to an hour… Be interesting to see how the network changes actually effect the morning operation.
LouBarlow
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Joined: 15 Oct 2007, 18:56

Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by LouBarlow »

Ozzvaldo wrote:
27 Feb 2024, 08:58
LouBarlow wrote:
27 Feb 2024, 05:24
I think the finish time change is more drastic for those who have been lucky enough up to now to still finish early. We have been finishing ~3pm on our longest days, for a handful of revisions now, which is probably why we only have a small change planned. It is clear that it isn’t related to distance from the mail centre really.
That certainly isn't the case where I work. Our latest finish is currently 3.30pm, and we're going to be changing by over an hour. We're 70 miles away from our mail centre.
Damn that is bad. I think ours is about 22 miles away so yeah that is a big difference.
SpacePhoenix
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Re: What time will you finish from May/June

Post by SpacePhoenix »

Sounds like possibly the DOs furthest from the MC will get their runs sent out first, maybe the lorries have to arrive back before the runs for the nearer DOs.