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Post Office workers face £1,000 penalty
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Post Office workers face £1,000 penalty
Post Office workers face £1,000 penalty
By Tom Harper, Sunday Telegraph
Thousands of Post Office staff have been "gagged" to prevent criticism of branch mergers with W H Smith stores, prompting fresh accusations of blackmail.
More than 1,500 employees working in Crown Post Offices will be penalised financially if they fail to toe the company line on the mass relocation. Staff, who earn about £10 an hour, say the mergers of 85 branches with the retailer will create severe hardship.
W H Smith pays close to the minimum wage of £5.35 an hour. Yet those affected have been threatened with a £1,000 penalty if they protest publicly.
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Re: Post Office workers face £1,000 penalty
Slightly different(but same theme) in D/MAILNEWS wrote:
Post Office workers face £1,000 penalty
By Tom Harper, Sunday Telegraph
Thousands of Post Office staff have been "gagged" to prevent criticism of branch mergers with W H Smith stores, prompting fresh accusations of blackmail.
More than 1,500 employees working in Crown Post Offices will be penalised financially if they fail to toe the company line on the mass relocation. Staff, who earn about £10 an hour, say the mergers of 85 branches with the retailer will create severe hardship.
W H Smith pays close to the minimum wage of £5.35 an hour. Yet those affected have been threatened with a £1,000 penalty if they protest publicly.
SCUM
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Scum...........
Sums up quite nicely , the sort of men & women allowed into what should be positions of responsibility , and not
forgetting, accountability , in the UK's postal industry.
forgetting, accountability , in the UK's postal industry.
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coppertop
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Post Offices
I think that WHS getting the P O contract is awfull WHS stores near me are in a dreadfull state , dirty and messy staff could not give two hoots about you , but then again this is Crozier all the way stuff customer care and quality of service. As long as he gets his nice little earner out off it he could not give a s**t. But then dose not our Mr Layton have a vested interest in WHS.
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crap money
how many other firms are going to pay staff s**t money!!!
nobody will afford to live soon with higher costs of living.
you'll have to have 10 part-time f****g jobs.---------but thats what they want.
nobody will afford to live soon with higher costs of living.
you'll have to have 10 part-time f****g jobs.---------but thats what they want.
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bristolchris
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Mr COOKs CV? put in the job by hatchet man Leighton.
I want to be the man to fix the Post Office
Jeff Prestridge, Mail on Sunday
22 July 2007
Reader comments (1)
I want to be the man who fixed the Post Office Jeff Prestridge, Mail on Sunday Alan Cook is happiest when confronting a crisis. So as managing director of Post Office Limited, it seems he has found the perfect job as he sets about axeing 2,500 branches between now and November next year against a backdrop of increasing public anger.
Cook, 53, is known as 'Mr Fixit' and was brought in 16 months ago by Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton and paid £250,000 a year to plug losses of £4m a week, with the promise of a large bonus if he could rescue the sinking business.
'I like fixing things, fixing businesses,' he says. 'I'm at my best when I go in somewhere and things are looking desperate. Then after a while employees start saying "good - things are changing for the better I like that.'
But that is the opposite of what many disheartened employees are saying about the new hard-sell approach. Since Cook came on board, the Post Office has shifted more than 550,000 financial products - everything from car cover to travel insurance.
As Financial Mail reported last week, many staff say the aggressive selling to customers risks damaging the Post Office's trusted brand.
Cook counters by saying that a more business-like approach is essential for survival.
Fixing, axeing, whatever you want to call it, certainly dominates his CV, especially in the latter half of his career. In the early Nineties, towards the last third of a commendably loyal 31 years at Prudential, which involved stints in most parts of the business, he was responsible as head of general insurance operations for cutting 26 administrative centres to five, with the loss of 2,000 jobs.
A little later, during three years at the Pru's American offshoot, Jackson National Life, he was asked to consolidate the company's outlying administrative offices into its Michigan-based head office.
Indeed, one of his most cherished possessions on his open-plan desk at the Post Office's headquarters on the northern edge of the City is a clock presented to him for displaying ' outstanding leadership in taking Jackson National Life to new horizons'.
'There's not a trace of blood on it,' he says with a straight face.
A four-year stint as boss of National Savings required Cook to do little axe wielding, but the Post Office has presented him with his biggest challenge.
Already he has stealthily reduced the number of staff directly employed by Post Office Ltd from 11,300 to 10,000.
But that pruning pales into insignificance compared with what he is now doing with post office branches. He has already sent out 'hit teams' to nine of the 47 areas into which he has broken-the network. Their job is to identify-those branches to be included in the first wave of closures that will take place in the New Year.
Cook seems to be relishing it all. 'Look, the Post Office has been dogged by uncertainty for far too long,' he says.
" yes let`s get rid of the uncertainty LET`S FIRE EVERYONE what a P******."
Jeff Prestridge, Mail on Sunday
22 July 2007
Reader comments (1)
I want to be the man who fixed the Post Office Jeff Prestridge, Mail on Sunday Alan Cook is happiest when confronting a crisis. So as managing director of Post Office Limited, it seems he has found the perfect job as he sets about axeing 2,500 branches between now and November next year against a backdrop of increasing public anger.
Cook, 53, is known as 'Mr Fixit' and was brought in 16 months ago by Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton and paid £250,000 a year to plug losses of £4m a week, with the promise of a large bonus if he could rescue the sinking business.
'I like fixing things, fixing businesses,' he says. 'I'm at my best when I go in somewhere and things are looking desperate. Then after a while employees start saying "good - things are changing for the better I like that.'
But that is the opposite of what many disheartened employees are saying about the new hard-sell approach. Since Cook came on board, the Post Office has shifted more than 550,000 financial products - everything from car cover to travel insurance.
As Financial Mail reported last week, many staff say the aggressive selling to customers risks damaging the Post Office's trusted brand.
Cook counters by saying that a more business-like approach is essential for survival.
Fixing, axeing, whatever you want to call it, certainly dominates his CV, especially in the latter half of his career. In the early Nineties, towards the last third of a commendably loyal 31 years at Prudential, which involved stints in most parts of the business, he was responsible as head of general insurance operations for cutting 26 administrative centres to five, with the loss of 2,000 jobs.
A little later, during three years at the Pru's American offshoot, Jackson National Life, he was asked to consolidate the company's outlying administrative offices into its Michigan-based head office.
Indeed, one of his most cherished possessions on his open-plan desk at the Post Office's headquarters on the northern edge of the City is a clock presented to him for displaying ' outstanding leadership in taking Jackson National Life to new horizons'.
'There's not a trace of blood on it,' he says with a straight face.
A four-year stint as boss of National Savings required Cook to do little axe wielding, but the Post Office has presented him with his biggest challenge.
Already he has stealthily reduced the number of staff directly employed by Post Office Ltd from 11,300 to 10,000.
But that pruning pales into insignificance compared with what he is now doing with post office branches. He has already sent out 'hit teams' to nine of the 47 areas into which he has broken-the network. Their job is to identify-those branches to be included in the first wave of closures that will take place in the New Year.
Cook seems to be relishing it all. 'Look, the Post Office has been dogged by uncertainty for far too long,' he says.
" yes let`s get rid of the uncertainty LET`S FIRE EVERYONE what a P******."
BristolChris