The "How was your day" thread.

Chupacabra74 · Post by **Chupacabra74** » 23 Dec 2018, 12:53

CPTNemoUK wrote:Was told to deliver all parcels and if need be leave mail in frame. So left 6 loops in frame and spent 3 hours driving round to clear the parcels. Then a 1hr and 30 mins to do the 4 loops I took out. Got back to the office to a clear frame.

Well done for not doing your job so someone else got screwed over

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 23 Dec 2018, 13:22

kookoo32 wrote:Yesterday there was a duty in our office that had 52 Specials. Just happy it wasn't mine!

Bulk of them going to a single firm?

The Postman · Post by **The Postman** » 23 Dec 2018, 14:16

Danielson1974 wrote:
CPTNemoUK wrote:Was told to deliver all parcels and if need be leave mail in frame. So left 6 loops in frame and spent 3 hours driving round to clear the parcels. Then a 1hr and 30 mins to do the 4 loops I took out. Got back to the office to a clear frame.
Well done for not doing your job so someone else got screwed over

He did do his job. As directed.

yellowbelly · Post by **yellowbelly** » 23 Dec 2018, 14:38

Danielson1974 wrote:
CPTNemoUK wrote:Was told to deliver all parcels and if need be leave mail in frame. So left 6 loops in frame and spent 3 hours driving round to clear the parcels. Then a 1hr and 30 mins to do the 4 loops I took out. Got back to the office to a clear frame.
Well done for not doing your job so someone else got screwed over

He didn't 'not do his job' - if anybody is not doing their job it's the manager - not resourcing correctly!

Chupacabra74 · Post by **Chupacabra74** » 23 Dec 2018, 15:04

The Postman wrote:
Danielson1974 wrote:
CPTNemoUK wrote:Was told to deliver all parcels and if need be leave mail in frame. So left 6 loops in frame and spent 3 hours driving round to clear the parcels. Then a 1hr and 30 mins to do the 4 loops I took out. Got back to the office to a clear frame.
Well done for not doing your job so someone else got screwed over
He did do his job. As directed.

If you say so. No wonder the Royal Mail is on it’s arse...

kookoo32 · Post by **kookoo32** » 23 Dec 2018, 16:28

SpacePhoenix wrote:
kookoo32 wrote:Yesterday there was a duty in our office that had 52 Specials. Just happy it wasn't mine!
Bulk of them going to a single firm?

No. It was on a residential duty. We still have the Amazon contract.

Post by **CPTNemoUK** » 23 Dec 2018, 17:57

Danielson1974 wrote:
The Postman wrote:
Danielson1974 wrote:
CPTNemoUK wrote:Was told to deliver all parcels and if need be leave mail in frame. So left 6 loops in frame and spent 3 hours driving round to clear the parcels. Then a 1hr and 30 mins to do the 4 loops I took out. Got back to the office to a clear frame.
Well done for not doing your job so someone else got screwed over
He did do his job. As directed.
If you say so. No wonder the Royal Mail is on it’s arse...

I don't have to explain myself to you but I will. I have followed management instructions all Christmas to the T. I can't go over for personal reasons. I have worked to my time/had breaks all Christmas. It's not my fault RM can't organise a Christmas after over 400 attempts. I don't even blame our management (they got instructed from above). Anyway my walk is clear now just tomorrow to clear.

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 24 Dec 2018, 14:23

Danielson1974 wrote:
The Postman wrote:
Danielson1974 wrote:
CPTNemoUK wrote:Was told to deliver all parcels and if need be leave mail in frame. So left 6 loops in frame and spent 3 hours driving round to clear the parcels. Then a 1hr and 30 mins to do the 4 loops I took out. Got back to the office to a clear frame.
Well done for not doing your job so someone else got screwed over
He did do his job. As directed.
If you say so. No wonder the Royal Mail is on it’s arse...

Right, so he went to the manager, was given guidance/instructions what he should do, he complied with them and worked to his time. Remembering that all overtime is voluntary so the someone getting screwed over had an option to refuse if they went over, and if they wanted it they would be paid for it.

Yet you reckon he wasn't doing his job,

At least we agree on your last sentence, it's just that we disagree with the reason. You think its "lazy" posties doing the job the way they are told, whereas I think its managers who either can't resource correctly or worse are only following orders.

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 27 Dec 2018, 16:27

RMs plan for this Xmas was to leave the letters/mail in the frame and concentrate on the various forms of packets and parcels. We were told fairly early in November that this was the plan based on how the previous Xmas turned out with all the snow and backlogs of mail. RM like everyone else does not have a crystal ball so could not know in advance if we would get snowed in again. As it turned out everything went well and we are being told there are no backlogs at the MCs either and our DO cleared everything each day. Supposedly there were more parcels this year although it is difficult for us to quantify that. There certainly were more smaller to medium sized packets this year that could be fitted into the frame. I personally get the impression people were being more careful in their spending this Xmas but I might be wrong.

antcpfc · Post by **antcpfc** » 27 Dec 2018, 17:45

Very light day.Most back an hour before finish time.

crimson king · Post by **crimson king** » 27 Dec 2018, 18:48

Our DO thanked us for all our endeavours before Christmas by giving us lapsing today

Mr Rush · Post by **Mr Rush** » 29 Dec 2018, 20:10

crimson king wrote:Our DO thanked us for all our endeavours before Christmas by giving us lapsing today

Summer came early here too. Special GDPR-apocalypse level lapsing. If signing for a walk is going to be meaningless, could RM at least be honest about it.

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » 30 Dec 2018, 15:09

crimson king wrote:Our DO thanked us for all our endeavours before Christmas by giving us lapsing today

We had lapsing yesterday. Saturday.

Utter and complete bastards we slave for, and that's a fact.

jd9442 · Post by **jd9442** » 30 Dec 2018, 17:23

We were all away by 11:30
Fully staffed

crimson king · Post by **crimson king** » 30 Dec 2018, 19:12

DirtyHarry wrote:
crimson king wrote:Our DO thanked us for all our endeavours before Christmas by giving us lapsing today
We had lapsing yesterday. Saturday.

Utter and complete bastards we slave for, and that's a fact.

Absolutely. We've had lapsing every day since coming back after Christmas. We haven't had time to deliver it and keep bringing it back (we refuse, out of sheer basic principle, to do it in even a minute of overtime- if only others would do this instead of just doing it and then moaning!) and they keep telling us to deliver it and we keep bringing it back and they keep telling us to deliver it and we keep...

We have now started started affectionately calling our lapsing 'Boomerang.'

EDIT: 'We' being my van share partner and I, as against the whole DO. If only.