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The "How was your day" thread.

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toonshola
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Post by toonshola »

Postmandan17 wrote:Today was absolutely f***ing mental. Christmas is gonna be unbelievable. How much is it gonna take for everyone to just say "f**k this" and refuse to work? Everyone has their breaking point and there's not much Royal Mail can do, we live in a horrible consumer culture and people are too far removed from the process of them getting their cheap plastic s**t for them to stop buying. Click, consume, repeat. Like f***ing locusts.

Bring on the meteorite
Yep today was mad and if today was a sign of the Christmas to come then god help us. It’s about time the union came out and said something now the silence on all the issues they are discussing is f***ing disgraceful. If I see one more video of Dave ward in his bunker talking about how he understands how hard it is out there I’ll bloody scream.
SpacePhoenix
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Postmandan17 wrote:Today was absolutely f***ing mental. Christmas is gonna be unbelievable. How much is it gonna take for everyone to just say "f**k this" and refuse to work? Everyone has their breaking point and there's not much Royal Mail can do, we live in a horrible consumer culture and people are too far removed from the process of them getting their cheap plastic s**t for them to stop buying. Click, consume, repeat. Like f***ing locusts.
Unfortunately with so many people being out of work or out of work once the furlough ends, RM would have a very long queue of people willing to take your job
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SpacePhoenix wrote:
Postmandan17 wrote:Today was absolutely f***ing mental. Christmas is gonna be unbelievable. How much is it gonna take for everyone to just say "f**k this" and refuse to work? Everyone has their breaking point and there's not much Royal Mail can do, we live in a horrible consumer culture and people are too far removed from the process of them getting their cheap plastic s**t for them to stop buying. Click, consume, repeat. Like f***ing locusts.
Unfortunately with so many people being out of work or out of work once the furlough ends, RM would have a very long queue of people willing to take your job
how many of them would be able to make it past Christmas time and at a time when RM parcels will be at the highest in history?
Munchboii
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Post by Munchboii »

Yes let's get a shelf stacker and put him on a walk with 1200 calls and expect him to make no missorts and finish in time

Yeah plenty of people want our jobs but many not capable
k979aaa
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Post by k979aaa »

It was busy but it will get a lot worse this year than any year in the history of Royal Mail mark my words you aint seen nothing yet!
Munchboii
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k979aaa wrote:It was busy but it will get a lot worse this year than any year in the history of Royal Mail mark my words you aint seen nothing yet!
On letters too?
toonshola
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Post by toonshola »

Absolutely shite day. Packets are at Black Friday levels already, and to top it off an agency worker prepped my frame which is nearly all double slots, and flipped the letters on the back slot the opposite way around. Didn’t notice until I got out on delivery, f***ing nightmare to say the least.
Grumpyoldmailman
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Post by Grumpyoldmailman »

Crap day here also. Left 2 loops behind as I had 2 York’s worth of parcels, still didn’t get back till just after 3.
SpacePhoenix
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Post by SpacePhoenix »

The usual Xmas equipment shortages have started early. Probably the larger MCs hoarding equipment
rambo1
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Post by rambo1 »

Postmandan17 wrote:Tracked, first class, signed fors, flats, mech, amazon, the entire f***ing confection
Packets maybe, but you can't be right about the mail. Remember, we don't get mail any more!
Sir Henry
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Post by Sir Henry »

Postmandan17 wrote:Today was absolutely f***ing mental. Christmas is gonna be unbelievable. How much is it gonna take for everyone to just say "f**k this" and refuse to work? Everyone has their breaking point and there's not much Royal Mail can do, we live in a horrible consumer culture and people are too far removed from the process of them getting their cheap plastic s**t for them to stop buying. Click, consume, repeat. Like f***ing locusts.

Bring on the meteorite
I like the cut of this one's jib.
"A third of the world's farmland is now useless due to soil degradation, yet we still keep producing mouths to feed. And what's you answer to that? Energy saving lightbulbs?"
rambo1
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Post by rambo1 »

toonshola wrote:Absolutely shite day. Packets are at Black Friday levels already, and to top it off an agency worker prepped my frame which is nearly all double slots, and flipped the letters on the back slot the opposite way around. Didn’t notice until I got out on delivery, f***ing nightmare to say the least.
What would make someone do that? I mean it would take twice as long to prep. Who the hell told em to do that?
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Post by Sir Henry »

toonshola wrote:Absolutely shite day. Packets are at Black Friday levels already, and to top it off an agency worker prepped my frame which is nearly all double slots, and flipped the letters on the back slot the opposite way around. Didn’t notice until I got out on delivery, f***ing nightmare to say the least.

Never EVER seen an agency worker at our DO
"A third of the world's farmland is now useless due to soil degradation, yet we still keep producing mouths to feed. And what's you answer to that? Energy saving lightbulbs?"
rambo1
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Post by rambo1 »

k979aaa wrote:It was busy but it will get a lot worse this year than any year in the history of Royal Mail mark my words you aint seen nothing yet!
They'll have a plan for Christmas right? They must have a plan. They always have a plan! We'll go home on time (aka early) and you can stay out into the night. That's the normal plan.
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Post by Sir Henry »

rambo1 wrote:
k979aaa wrote:It was busy but it will get a lot worse this year than any year in the history of Royal Mail mark my words you aint seen nothing yet!
They'll have a plan for Christmas right? They must have a plan. They always have a plan! We'll go home on time (aka early) and you can stay out into the night. That's the normal plan.
I'll break out the old annual RM Xmas Plan video, seems to get an airing earlier every year

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"A third of the world's farmland is now useless due to soil degradation, yet we still keep producing mouths to feed. And what's you answer to that? Energy saving lightbulbs?"