Manager calling on rest week

[Tman]

You shouldn’t even be contacted by your manager while having a break, let alone on a rest-day/week.

Who do you think you are, a train driver? Highly institutionalised, anyway.

[LouBarlow]

You shouldn’t even be contacted by your manager while having a break, let alone on a rest-day/week.

Who do you think you are, a train driver? Highly institutionalised, anyway.

Someone who appreciates their life/work balance I guess. If i am on a break I am disconnected from work entirely. If a manager contacts me during it then my break restarts. I am entitled to a period of time not thinking of work. I guess you have been ground down by the corporate machine and believe we have to bend over in order to justify the working class wage we have been allowed to have by our corporate overlords? Thank you sir! Sorry for a having a break I’m entitled to sir!

[Barnacle]

You shouldn’t even be contacted by your manager while having a break, let alone on a rest-day/week.

Who do you think you are, a train driver? Highly institutionalised, anyway.

It’s a fact. If a manager interrupts your break, you start your break again. They know they are supposed to leave you alone.

[Tman]

Someone who appreciates their life/work balance I guess. If i am on a break I am disconnected from work entirely. If a manager contacts me during it then my break restarts. I am entitled to a period of time not thinking of work. I guess you have been ground down by the corporate machine and believe we have to bend over in order to justify the working class wage we have been allowed to have by our corporate overlords? Thank you sir! Sorry for a having a break I’m entitled to sir!

Tripe. There's a big difference between some daft manager cutting your break short and trying to get you to return to work (which would clearly be wrong), and someone just talking/contacting you.
It's easy to see why some are dubbed the "Dinosaurs of the Left". It's like Red Robbo and the 1970s all over again.

[Barnacle]

Someone who appreciates their life/work balance I guess. If i am on a break I am disconnected from work entirely. If a manager contacts me during it then my break restarts. I am entitled to a period of time not thinking of work. I guess you have been ground down by the corporate machine and believe we have to bend over in order to justify the working class wage we have been allowed to have by our corporate overlords? Thank you sir! Sorry for a having a break I’m entitled to sir!

Tripe. There's a big difference between some daft manager cutting your break short and trying to get you to return to work (which would clearly be wrong), and someone just talking/contacting you.
It's easy to see why some are dubbed the "Dinosaurs of the Left". It's like Red Robbo and the 1970s all over again.

And that is how, by saying ‘what does it matter?’, you end up with no paid breaks, no delivery supplement, Delivery 2.0 hell, and then you wonder where your job went.

[Tman]

That's a non-sequiter argument typical of you and your protege Barlow.
Tenuous and fanciful rather than in any way factual.

[Barnacle]

That's a non-sequiter argument typical of you and your protege Barlow.
Tenuous and fanciful rather than in any way factual.

The new contracts do not have paid breaks, do not have the delivery supplement, and Delivery 2.0 is aimed at getting rid of seniority and they hope, making legacy contract workers leave.

Entirely factual.

[Tman]

Entirely factual.

It is, but in no way connected to being spoken to by some manager when you're on a break.

[Barnacle]

Entirely factual.

It is, but in no way connected to being spoken to by some manager when you're on a break.

You mean like ‘dinosaurs’, ‘The left’ and the ‘1970s’?

[LouBarlow]

Someone who appreciates their life/work balance I guess. If i am on a break I am disconnected from work entirely. If a manager contacts me during it then my break restarts. I am entitled to a period of time not thinking of work. I guess you have been ground down by the corporate machine and believe we have to bend over in order to justify the working class wage we have been allowed to have by our corporate overlords? Thank you sir! Sorry for a having a break I’m entitled to sir!

Tripe. There's a big difference between some daft manager cutting your break short and trying to get you to return to work (which would clearly be wrong), and someone just talking/contacting you.
It's easy to see why some are dubbed the "Dinosaurs of the Left". It's like Red Robbo and the 1970s all over again.

You can believe what you want. Can’t do enough for a good boss after all. Keep greasing the cogs of the corporate machine and get back to work.

[Tman]

As others have pointed out in various threads, you two have a lot of trouble in following the thread, keeping to the point and actually making a sensible on-topic reply.
Classic diversionary tactics, I suppose..

[LouBarlow]

As others have pointed out in various threads, you two have a lot of trouble in following the thread, keeping to the point and actually making a sensible on-topic reply.
Classic diversionary tactics, I suppose..

I think you’ll find we responded directly and concisely to the posts you yourself quoted us on. It isn’t our fault you didn’t like our replies.

[Pidleypoo]

To the op.

Ignore most of the other childish and pathetic nonsense in this thread from the biggest babies you will ever hear from in your life.

No it’s not ok at all for them to contact you whilst you’re off work and on leave.

My advice is to have a word with your manager and state clearly you do not want to be contacted whilst on leave.

Make it clear that any more of this and you’ll take it down the grievance/harassment route in future.

You don’t necessarily need to say the second part yet.

[Dexydog]

Just ask politely ask they don't contact you.
If it happens again put a grievance in.
By the way, as I can't be bothered arguing with everyone and their dog-, here goes-
I am a postie on a part time contract.
I work 3 days a week on a DPR route.
As I offer to come in early for those 3 days to help out the understaffed earlies, I am allowed to take a van home.
It's back in the morning for anyone else whose duty normally takes it.
Sometimes it's big, sometimes it's small.
Sometimes it's disgusting, sometimes newish and I'm grateful when it is.
Sometimes I deliver spare loops.
Sometimes I deliver smaller tracked that posties don't have time to take.
And then I do my DPR route when a van becomes available for that.
If one isn't available just then, I might go throw in a few d2d to help out the earlies who might otherwise struggle.
I have filled in all the appropriate retention forms.
It's called give and take.
Mostly I like the job.
Sometimes I'd rather not be there.
Like most jobs.
I get on with most managers as they know I work hard , do my share, don't take the piss and am flexible if my time allows.
I am not an arse licker.
Clear enough to anyone that wants to take umbridge?

[scotchy1962]

Just ask politely ask they don't contact you.
If it happens again put a grievance in.
By the way, as I can't be bothered arguing with everyone and their dog-, here goes-
I am a postie on a part time contract.
I work 3 days a week on a DPR route.
As I offer to come in early for those 3 days to help out the understaffed earlies, I am allowed to take a van home.
It's back in the morning for anyone else whose duty normally takes it.
Sometimes it's big, sometimes it's small.
Sometimes it's disgusting, sometimes newish and I'm grateful when it is.
Sometimes I deliver spare loops.
Sometimes I deliver smaller tracked that posties don't have time to take.
And then I do my DPR route when a van becomes available for that.
If one isn't available just then, I might go throw in a few d2d to help out the earlies who might otherwise struggle.
I have filled in all the appropriate retention forms.
It's called give and take.
Mostly I like the job.
Sometimes I'd rather not be there.
Like most jobs.
I get on with most managers as they know I work hard , do my share, don't take the piss and am flexible if my time allows.
I am not an arse licker.
Clear enough to anyone that wants to take umbridge?

I expect some people will, me i believe this long and concise statement should suffice most on this forum, but probably not everyone.