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The "How was your day" thread.

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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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clashcityrocker wrote:effing nightmare.
as above
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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Not bad for a Wednesday. :Very Happy
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Pat Ostman
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Pat Ostman »

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
clashcityrocker wrote:effing nightmare.
as above
Yep, packets being astronomical.
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silly suffolk
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by silly suffolk »

resource meeting with 4 managers. tories the lot of them.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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nightmare council tax letters :Boo hoo!
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Dee Plish
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Dee Plish »

Absolutely horrendous - yesterday was extremely busy, today was worse. Council tax, various ballot papers, United Utilities materials. Far too much for sequencing machines to deal with - some duties walksorted, some got 2 full boxes of sequenced mail at 9 AM. Decision to do that made by SOM apparently! Line :funneh 'Managers' :left: looking even more bewildered than usual.

"Mail levels are decreasing" my a**e!!
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fb1969
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by fb1969 »

Death by packets! Crap day. Made worse by the number of mis-sorts off the IPS frame. At least it didn't rain - but it is forecast for tomorrow. Still no new contract, but I did get a pay slip and a pay rise so I guess they want me.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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got threatened by an OPG to be taken in the office for asking questions as to why he comes in early, does'nt take a break, bullies his P&L partners, won't/don't use the LWT and finishes over 2.5hours early.
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets

Illegitimi non carborundum
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monkeymutha
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by monkeymutha »

Had a heavy packet, had to walk it to door as cannot park outside. Pressed doorbell a few times (prob not working). Banged on door. Waited. Wrote out a red card. Back to van with heavy parcel (packet wtf). Went back to post more letters, door was open. Walked past it continued posting letters to doors further down. 'excuse me mr postman'.....kept walking (I'm a bit deaf)....'mr postman'....kept walking....guy catches up with me. 'hi you left this you have a packet for me?', 'yes it is in the van did you not hear me banging on your door I stood there writing out that red card you've got in your hand'. guy mumbles 'oh I was erm out the back'. 'Well you'll have to wait ten minutes now for the parcel as its in the van and I need to post these letters first'. him - 'oh ok'. Thing is I knew this guy was in he never answers the f***ing door just pisses me off. I did give him his parcel but thought about just driving off with it, I mean he had the 739 to collect. Oh well.
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by RedBagMan »

Last three days has been like Christmas vis-a-vis packets/parcels call 'em wot u like ...

... all the worse for being a van-less walkman ...
"We're under model" - oh no we're not - stick your lapse elsewhere ...
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heapsy
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by heapsy »

Felt really unwell so rang up about 05.00 telling them I wouldn't be in. Got a call about 9.30 from the line manager. She asked what was up and then tried to get me in, saying they would take half the round off me etc. :thumbdown
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by rhino49 »

heapsy wrote:Felt really unwell so rang up about 05.00 telling them I wouldn't be in. Got a call about 9.30 from the line manager. She asked what was up and then tried to get me in, saying they would take half the round off me etc. :thumbdown
I know you well enough to know that if you say you don't feel well - you must have both legs and an arm missing !!! Hope you took the time you needed to recover :)
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TrueBlueTerrier
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

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Boring - deliveries suspended.
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Twitch
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by Twitch »

This weeks just got easier and easier..

Finished at 12:45 :shock: and thats with a break :Very Happy

No doubt it will be pay back tomorrow :pray
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fb1969
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Re: The "How was your day" thread.

Post by fb1969 »

Probably the lightest day of the week for me, and my latest contract finally turned up. Loads of signed for and all but the final one was in - that always seems to be the case for me recently. Got back before the rain came.
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