Leighton here to stay?

[F0zziebear]

Need I say more?

[POSTMAN]

Need I say more?

[L Tommo]

:Confused Wot the fecking ell U on about fozzieboy?? Lord Byron? Monkey Nuts??? Cancer as Closure??? Nat west Building??? Pass us the Bong fozzie and the dictionary!!! "Earth calling fozzie earth calling Spaceship fozzie come in" ?????
POSTMAN, U recon old fozzarelle has bn on the Skunk? Me thinks ur right!!! WATCH OUT 4 THE FLYING TNT/KRAUTPOST MNGR....

OUT.....

DONT LET THE MIND BENDING DRUGS BRING U DOWN FOZZ....

[johno47]

Dear Allan Leighton i dont know if you read this or not, but if you do i hope you feel proud of the fact that your managers have sacked a 63 year old man with 18 months left before he retires, for something that could have been dealt with by a slap on the wrist and maybe something on his record. Now you wont ever have to reach that age before you retire, you could probably retire now at 49, some of us have to live in the real world including this man.
YOU AND ROYAL MAIL SHOULD FEEL VERY PROUD TO HAVE PUT SOMEONE WHO IS COMING UP TO RETIREMENT THROUGH THIS: DISGRACEFULL.

P.S If you want people to believe that you really do have your finger on the pulse then do something about this.

[Carnoustie]

Fozz,

The simple reason many people don't become DOM's is that they aren't prepared to become puppets.

Managers are instructed what to do, and are not allowed to manage. They have no skills in people management, so simply bully and harass to try and get their way.

And that applies all the way up the food chain - managers who simply won't say NO to their own manager.

And before you say not all are like that, I'll grant you there is the odd one - but 99.9% are.

At the end of the day, I would not, could not, and ever will not treat other people like sh*te, and that's why I'll never be a gaffer.

The office I'm in has been getting bad scores on the 'Have Your Say' survey, especially on the question 'Have you experienced bullying or harrassment at work in the last 12 months' (or whatever the exact wording is).
If we tick the YES box, we have to say whether the bullying was by colleagues, managers or by customers. Our scores for bullying by managers were so bad in April last year (after getting steadily worse year-on-year), that we are now in a 'safety net' and had to be surveyed again last October.
OK, so we do have one or two lazy people who will claim it's harrassment any time they are asked to do a bit of work, which might account for well under 1% of the bad score. But 22% of the people on one shift saying they are basically treated like shite ? That speaks volumes about the poor quality of the managers we have.
And do you know what strategy has been put in place to try to ensure a lower score ? Managers changing their attitudes, treating people better, being polite instead of acting like a d!ckhead ?
Nope. A guy who's just given up as an acting manager on lates accidentally let slip that he was recently briefed to go easy on the permanent late staff, and chase up the agency staff and anyone who is on docket to do the bulk of the work, the brilliant theory from his bosses being that since we're only supposed to base our scores on our own shift manager's performance, we'll all say on our next survey that all is sweetness and light in our world :Confused
So what they're really saying, then, is if you think you're being treated badly now, just wait until you are foolish enough to do some overtime to boost the crap money we pay you

[Carnoustie]

P.S If you want people to believe that you really do have your finger on the pulse then do something about this.

A spokesman for Mr Leighton said
'Alan sympathises but regrets that all of his fingers are in the pie at present, and are likely to remain so until he takes up his new position at Sainsburys'

[F0zziebear]

I don't work for RM anymore. I did try and influence the senior management about my experiences and perspective on things. SUccessful companies invest in decent training in their workforce, not cut it whenever budget cuts come along.

As for B&H, any system is open to abuse and it doesn't surprise me that Ops mgmt in some places try to skew the figures rather than genuinely try and resolve things. A symptom of short-sighted approach, and possibly some bonus-related views (never understood the bonus system and seemed to get about 80% of regardless of performance!)

As for Big Al, well with a forehead that size he can juggle lots of jobs. I think they cal it the inner-circle and once you have a story backed up by success everyone wants a piece of it:

His is a simple triangle: Top Senior mgmt (never says how many, but wants very few), then frontline mgmt, and then frontline workers. Everything in the middle treacle.

To be fair to him he does genuinely attempt to do this, and he recommends this approach for the NHS amongst others.

Is he good at actualy doing this? I would argue that those who have to implement this are usually the treacle. I rarely see turkey's selling Xmas lunches!

In the news:
You might slag off your senior bosses, but this story will help keep you in the jobs for a little longer - http://www.brandrepublic.com/login/News/637091/
http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/direc ... 40276.html
http://www.qas.co.uk/company/data-quali ... il_358.htm

Let me know what you think

F0zzieleighton

[Geordie]

Fozz,

Everyone seems to think you're a bloke.

I reckon you're a woman.

As in:-

1. Female
2. A bird
3. Lass
4. Wifey
5. Not a bloke
6. Never has been a bloke, nor ever will be

Excuse the non pc, I don't mean to be derogatory or otherwise, just seems to me that you sound/talk like a lass, not a bloke.

Talk to you when I'm sober.....

Orry Vwor

ps Leighton is crap - always has been, and always will be

pps Being a woman means I'll be nice before I kick you in the bollocks

ppps As opposed to just kicking you in the bollocks

pppps And if you ARE a bloke, I'd better sober up pretty sharpish

[F0zziebear]

Some say I'm in touch with my feminine side, others say I'm a metrosexual, yet most think I'm a male chauvanist pig. I like to think I change depending on what the situation needs!

As someone pointed out the other day some sleuthing may well have exposed my identity, or at least part of it.

I have taken some steps to reduce this, but promise to say who I am and my background if/when I leave the industry.

I like to think I provide an objective outlook (well subjective because it's my opinion) and could get in trouble if what I have shared so far was traced back to me. The only people to lose out if that happpened would be me and yourselves.

Hetrosexually yours

Fozzina

[baggee]

Good Day to you Fozzy,

Looking forward to knowing who you really are, and we could all be pissing up the wrong POSTBOX ADAM.

[POSTMAN]

As someone pointed out the other day some sleuthing may well have exposed my identity, or at least part of it.

Who dat,where dat,how did i miss that!!!!!!!!somebody PM MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[johno47]

Dear ms Fozzie, surely the only people you could possibly upset are people in RM, so if your bid for sainsbury is succesfull in april you can spill the beans, or maybe your tiny Adam, he seems to be well in touch with his feminine side.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

As someone pointed out the other day some sleuthing may well have exposed my identity, or at least part of it.

Who dat,where dat,how did i miss that!!!!!!!!somebody PM MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It was me but I PM'd him and said I would not divulge unless he said I could.

[POSTMAN]

:Confused

[F0zziebear]

True story that I went looking for a Fozzie teddy and there's nothing out there. Postman where do I get it from?

F0zzie cries for nanny