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The "How was your day" thread.

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
dave72
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by dave72 »

Finally the end of another brutal week :sad:

Started off with light rain then the last half hour torrential :sad: Sun came out as I parked the van up for the day :arrrghhh
payetwhu
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by payetwhu »

Mental. 6 full mech boxes :shock:
heapsy
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

Finished about 4pm yesterday after doing a row of another walk. Call rate was really high although packets were not too bad.
Barbel
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Barbel »

A really busy couple of weeks. We've been warned that next week is going to be horrendous too. :arrrghhh
DGP1
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by DGP1 »

Barbel wrote:A really busy couple of weeks. We've been warned that next week is going to be horrendous too. :arrrghhh
That's not possible, mail is falling. :nervous
I'm preparing myself for the zombie invasion, rule number 1 - Cardio
jimmynailsalive
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by jimmynailsalive »

Finished on time 3 days, and one early and one late finish last week and that was with no DTD's.

They can keep their lapsing this week if we are at a similar level.
dave72
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by dave72 »

A steady day ruined with 5 lots of D2Ds and 2 of those are magazines :sad:
greengiant
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by greengiant »

Stairtastic :Boo hoo!
At least the lifts were working, which saved a fair bit of ascending! :dance
Ulysses
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Location: Hampshire

Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Ulysses »

My 1st day as an employee!

Full day Induction at Shirley, Southampton. Only 4 of us on the course, all on 20 hour contracts.

Seems the Induction day content has changed recently with a "game" format in the afternoon. Designed and built specifically for RM, takes participants through a range of business scenarios, quizzes and the like. Enjoyed it really.

Tomorrow is 1st day in the delivery office...
Life is what you make it.......I make mine my own.
heapsy
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

Heavy.
WOBBLY
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by WOBBLY »

Sh*t :arrrghhh
jimmynailsalive
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by jimmynailsalive »

Was on a new walk and asked the holder what time they finished yesterday, over an hour over so said to lino we had no chance of finishing on time today if we were doing lapsing.

He agreed with walk holder to pay him OT for lapsing and I took my car to the walk and save the other chap driving me back, finished 8 minutes before my time (excluding lapsing) which would have put me over had we had to drive back and check in parcels etc. So all in they got a fair days labour and I got a fair day's pay and can't grumble. :Very Happy
heapsy
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

A busy week although, strangely, it was easier today with fewer parcels.
ewancurze
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by ewancurze »

Yay! absorbtion officially ended on Monday September 14th.
Unfortunately our dom has started it again on Saturday September 19th,he don't work Saturdays...surprise!....nor do our 3 Union Reps.
DirtyHarry
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Location: London

Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by DirtyHarry »

Postal workers, especially in deliveries, have to be the hardest working people in Britain.
I have never known such exhaustion, such fatigue, such pain.
And another brutally hard week comes mercifully to an end.