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the beautiful bd south
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Agency staff

Post by the beautiful bd south »

Has any other office had agency staff in during/after industrial action?
We had them in on wednesday night and again on thursday although they didn't do a great deal.
Seems like it was just managments way of sticking 2 fingers up at us.....
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Zorro
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Post by Zorro »

They are being used at our MC. Line Managers ask us to show them what to do and we refuse.

They are causing more problems as they cant do half the jobs going, only purpose they seem to serve is for the Line Managers to pathetically attempt to chat the women up.

The agencys are making a pretty penny as they are charging RM £15 an hour for each worker. The worker gets about £5 or minimum wage an hour.
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ROCKY
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Post by ROCKY »

no offence to agency staff but they are a complete waste of time and money rm have tried this ploy time and time again and it never works,they move mail around to make things look good but it soon winds up back with us to deal with
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POSTMAN
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Post by POSTMAN »

Yeah we had them,came to my house and delivered my mail.
10 mins later came to my house and delivered mail.
Same house number different streets.
Told them where they had gone wrong in the bermuda triangle 10 minutes.
Pointed them to go right,they went left.

Yes we had agency staff!
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stephen500
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Re: Agency staff

Post by stephen500 »

the beautiful bd south wrote:Has any other office had agency staff in during/after industrial action?
We had them in on wednesday night and again on thursday although they didn't do a great deal.
Seems like it was just managments way of sticking 2 fingers up at us.....
Having Agency staff whilst industrial action is in progress, ie while we are on strike, is illegal..
see this union Branch circ:
http://www.cwu.org/members/action.asp?s ... 0&catid=21
LTB 673/2007 - National Guidelines for the Two Week Programme for Industrial Action
23 July 2007
•The use of agency staff will still be illegal where Units are on strike however clearly the business will seek to use agency staff before and after each strike and throughout the period in offices that are still due to be operationally working.
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dubdaz
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Post by dubdaz »

We had a guy go sick (one of many )on Harry Potter saturday whos walk was covered by a casual,then on monday his walk was'nt taken out as the screws had had enough by 3pm covering other walks so it was left!The regular guy came back on the tuesday,gets to his first bag drop and there sitting in the porch is most of the mail the casual had taken out on saturday :shock: :funneh
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BoltonPostie
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Post by BoltonPostie »

dubdaz wrote:We had a guy go sick (one of many )on Harry Potter saturday whos walk was covered by a casual,then on monday his walk was'nt taken out as the screws had had enough by 3pm covering other walks so it was left!The regular guy came back on the tuesday,gets to his first bag drop and there sitting in the porch is most of the mail the casual had taken out on saturday :shock: :funneh
Did the regular guy get sacked then?
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ROCKY
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Post by ROCKY »

when i was bossin i had a walk covered by an agency bloke,he came in and i showed him what to do and how to throw off and left him to it,i got my o/t walks out and was going for something to eat about 1200 when he came to me and said he was finished,having been out off the office most of the morning i was really impressed untill i follwed him to his frame and realised as he put his coat on that he had just finished throwing off and he was heading home i broke the news that he was expected to deliver it as well and the look on his face was amusing to say the least,any way he went out and i dropped him at his start point but of course most of it was there when i came back in the morning,some of the agency staff do work very hard because working for us is a hell of an improvement over what they have got,but training and know how says it all,as a boss i would have given some of these lads a job but the situation they were in and what was expected off them was out of order
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The Third Best Postman.
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Post by The Third Best Postman. »

Zorro wrote: The agencys are making a pretty penny as they are charging RM £15 an hour for each worker. .
I was led to believe that R.M. are skint
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Re: Agency staff

Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
the beautiful bd south wrote:Has any other office had agency staff in during/after industrial action?
We had them in on wednesday night and again on thursday although they didn't do a great deal.
Seems like it was just managments way of sticking 2 fingers up at us.....
One of your drivers was telling us about them on this mornings picket apparently mostly polish and cant speak English that well (explains the missorts we got Thursday/Friday) Great lad hope he enjoyed his bacon buttie. If he is off sick Monday you know why now.
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dubdaz
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Post by dubdaz »

BoltonPostie wrote:
dubdaz wrote:We had a guy go sick (one of many )on Harry Potter saturday whos walk was covered by a casual,then on monday his walk was'nt taken out as the screws had had enough by 3pm covering other walks so it was left!The regular guy came back on the tuesday,gets to his first bag drop and there sitting in the porch is most of the mail the casual had taken out on saturday :shock: :funneh
Did the regular guy get sacked then?
No,why would he?
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Jonboy
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Post by Jonboy »

Agency staff in our office Saturday night
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A TNT driver offered me his letter today to post so i told him to put it in the postbox as i cannot accept mail off the public he called me a F***ing prick i told him to use DSA Down stream arseholes he soon disappeared.

Bullshit all i see is Leighton and Crozier Bullshit
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stephen500
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Post by stephen500 »

The Third Best Postman. wrote:
Zorro wrote: The agencys are making a pretty penny as they are charging RM £15 an hour for each worker. .
I was led to believe that R.M. are skint
Did they tell you that on those fancy new plasma screens!
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The Third Best Postman.
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Post by The Third Best Postman. »

stephen500 wrote:
The Third Best Postman. wrote:
Zorro wrote: The agencys are making a pretty penny as they are charging RM £15 an hour for each worker. .
I was led to believe that R.M. are skint
Did they tell you that on those fancy new plasma screens!
No but I'm sure they will.
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