RMCtv : Grant McPherson : "I am disappointed to report the CWU has now given us formal notification of a ballot ..."

[postieblueshirt]

After being in the job for years and years and years, I no longer feel valued and I really don’t care anymore. I’ve never felt so down because of this crap. I never take sick days, I never have to communicate with the dim as I just do my job and feel I work at a good speed and am one of the workers. I’m not young anymore but I’m still as fast as the young ones and I never start early. I feel I’ve taken the biggest kick in the teeth and most of us in my office feel the same. Most of our lapsing takes anything from 1 to 2 hours. This is an absolute joke. Trying to fit 7 hours of delivery into 4 and a half hours is taking its toll.

I wonder how many other jobs are flat out from the second you walk in the door to the second you walk out except for my meal break. My partner and I sometimes have so much we can’t get it all into our Peugeot van. I’m always being told the Mail is down, what a joke that is.
We have lost many good full and part time staff recently and I think others and myself won’t be far behind. This is the worst I’ve ever seen it and I have been here well in excess of 35 years plus. What ever happened to a fair days work for a fair days pay? I feel for the youngsters. There’s no future here.

Why are you trying to fit 7hrs of delivery into 4 1/2 hrs especially somebody who has done 35 yrs???

He's not royal mail are...

[aiden01]

After being in the job for years and years and years, I no longer feel valued and I really don’t care anymore. I’ve never felt so down because of this crap. I never take sick days, I never have to communicate with the dim as I just do my job and feel I work at a good speed and am one of the workers. I’m not young anymore but I’m still as fast as the young ones and I never start early. I feel I’ve taken the biggest kick in the teeth and most of us in my office feel the same. Most of our lapsing takes anything from 1 to 2 hours. This is an absolute joke. Trying to fit 7 hours of delivery into 4 and a half hours is taking its toll.

I wonder how many other jobs are flat out from the second you walk in the door to the second you walk out except for my meal break. My partner and I sometimes have so much we can’t get it all into our Peugeot van. I’m always being told the Mail is down, what a joke that is.
We have lost many good full and part time staff recently and I think others and myself won’t be far behind. This is the worst I’ve ever seen it and I have been here well in excess of 35 years plus. What ever happened to a fair days work for a fair days pay? I feel for the youngsters. There’s no future here.

Why are you trying to fit 7hrs of delivery into 4 1/2 hrs especially somebody who has done 35 yrs???

He's not royal mail are...

No he clearly says trying to fit 7hrs into 4 1/2 hrs??

[jagger]

I wonder how many other jobs are flat out from the second you walk in the door to the second you walk out except for my meal break.

This is something i think about a lot, and it doesn't get mentioned enough on here.

So you think people in other jobs like factories just walk in, piss about, do some s**t, f**k about a bit more and go home?

This job has got worse and worse, but there are far harder, more physical and more stressful jobs out there. Some pay more, some don’t.

[jagger]

I am disappointed to report that Royal Mail haven't communicated with us who work for the company directly exactly the changes that it is that they want. We seem to be finding everything out from the CWU who are really not holding back with the information.

And it is just as well that the Union are because they are exposing Simon and his team as the cheating, low life, greedy money grabbers that they truly are.


The 2% pay increase they are offering in their letter is akin to giving half a tin of baked beans to a food bank instead of a generous bag of shopping! How much is 2% really?? The fact that staff would actually be better off dragging their duty out for a few hours and claiming overtime instead tells you everything about how p*ss poor their first initial offer is and how much they thought of us; a glorified overpaid courier company who deliver a few letters on the side.

Have you not read all “The Changes we Need” crap they have been putting out? All over here, workplace and photocopied sheets in our office.

[postslippete]

Have you not read all “The Changes we Need” crap they have been putting out? All over here, workplace and photocopied sheets in our office.

!. There are no photocopied sheets in our office. Are the screws hoping we won't go on strike??
2. I don't bother with workplace at all.
3. So all I have learnt regarding the "Changes we need" we need has been on here.


Oh, we did have a Union meeting a while back but I don't know if anyone attended