"Leader" Experiences

[TopperGas]

Sounds like the official title should be "mug" if they are doing all that on a basic postie's salary.

[Frankie15]

Why would anyone want to do all those things though is beyond me

[Jaggs]

Looking for experiences of others that fill a leader type role in their office. In my case, i don't quite qualify for leader allowance, but do a lot of jobs that apparently aren't seen as important enough to attract an extra payment. I look after ORA. I look after Route Manager. I look after FDS and SISO. I run collections in the evening and make sure all collections are completed, and sort any that are missed. All on the wage of an OPG, but with added stress and responsibility. I also cover manage saturdays and dual role as PHG as they have every saturday off. All a bit much some days. I enjoy the job but feel a bit overloaded at times. Is anyone else in the same boat?

ORA and Route Manager should be done by a workplace coach. I don't know what FDS is but SISO should be done by a manager. For the collections you should get the OPG to OSG allowance and for the Saturday if you are doing the managers role you should get an OPG to lowest grade managers allowance.

So if your office has work place coaches they should be doing some of what you are doing and for the other stuff you should either not be doing it or being paid for doing it.

[postslippete]

ORA and Route Manager should be done by a workplace coach. I don't know what FDS is but SISO should be done by a manager. For the collections you should get the OPG to OSG allowance and for the Saturday if you are doing the managers role you should get an OPG to lowest grade managers allowance.

So if your office has work place coaches they should be doing some of what you are doing and for the other stuff you should either not be doing it or being paid for doing it.

Yeah, in all honesty I didn't actually know what that was! But if they are doing a managers role then they should be looking at actually applying for a managers role as they clearly have some experience of it.

[Rumple]

If you don't like your duty just do a normal OPG duty, ie walks.

Are you a leader?

No, are you an OPG?

I should have made it a bit clearer that i wanted the experiences of other leaders. The title and mention in the main body clearly wasn't enough for you. I'll use pictures and crayons next time

To answer your question, i'm no longer an OPG, but do delivery when the need arises. I'd probably do your own walk more efficiently and with no complaints
Have a great weekend.

What is your current official job title?

[TopperGas]

"FDS" in the context of Royal Mail typically refers to Fletcher Data Services Ltd, an approved data capture and indexer for Royal Mail since 1996."

Sounds like the system managers use to track the Tracked etc delivery items?

[ted_e_bear]

Why would anyone want to do all those things though is beyond me

It's preferable to doing a duty ?

[Woody84]

What is OSG and are you entitled to the £ if you cover the full time collections person once a week?

I’m guessing no

[BELIAL]

Take me to your leader

[k979aaa]

So you take responsibility and when the s**t hit's the fan which it will for nothing smart move.

[Barnacle]

If your doing all this what the hell are your “managers” doing all day?

Good question

What's a leader? Is it a workplace coach? In all my 28 years I've never heard of a leader!!

Me neither sounds like a cross between former Phg/trainee manager/workplace coach/managers pet office brown noser etc.

Exactly.

[SillySinStorm]

Looking for experiences of others that fill a leader type role in their office. In my case, i don't quite qualify for leader allowance, but do a lot of jobs that apparently aren't seen as important enough to attract an extra payment. I look after ORA. I look after Route Manager. I look after FDS and SISO. I run collections in the evening and make sure all collections are completed, and sort any that are missed. All on the wage of an OPG, but with added stress and responsibility. I also cover manage saturdays and dual role as PHG as they have every saturday off. All a bit much some days. I enjoy the job but feel a bit overloaded at times. Is anyone else in the same boat?

ORA and Route Manager should be done by a workplace coach. I don't know what FDS is but SISO should be done by a manager. For the collections you should get the OPG to OSG allowance and for the Saturday if you are doing the managers role you should get an OPG to lowest grade managers allowance.

So if your office has work place coaches they should be doing some of what you are doing and for the other stuff you should either not be doing it or being paid for doing it.

Thanks for the in-depth reply.

[Barnacle]

Looking for experiences of others that fill a leader type role in their office. In my case, i don't quite qualify for leader allowance, but do a lot of jobs that apparently aren't seen as important enough to attract an extra payment. I look after ORA. I look after Route Manager. I look after FDS and SISO. I run collections in the evening and make sure all collections are completed, and sort any that are missed. All on the wage of an OPG, but with added stress and responsibility. I also cover manage saturdays and dual role as PHG as they have every saturday off. All a bit much some days. I enjoy the job but feel a bit overloaded at times. Is anyone else in the same boat?

If you want to be paid extra for being the managers dog’s body, apply to be a work coach or a cover manager. Those are the proper routes.

They won’t pay you extra if you are willingly doing it for free. Being a brown nose will not get you promoted. You have to apply for the job.

[SillySinStorm]

Looking for experiences of others that fill a leader type role in their office. In my case, i don't quite qualify for leader allowance, but do a lot of jobs that apparently aren't seen as important enough to attract an extra payment. I look after ORA. I look after Route Manager. I look after FDS and SISO. I run collections in the evening and make sure all collections are completed, and sort any that are missed. All on the wage of an OPG, but with added stress and responsibility. I also cover manage saturdays and dual role as PHG as they have every saturday off. All a bit much some days. I enjoy the job but feel a bit overloaded at times. Is anyone else in the same boat?

If you want to be paid extra for being the managers dog’s body, apply to be a work coach or a cover manager. Those are the proper routes.

They won’t pay you extra if you are willingly doing it for free. Being a brown nose will not get you promoted. You have to apply for the job.

There really are quite a few sad old men on here. Is everything okay at home? Brown nose indeed. Grow up.

[SillySinStorm]

Looking for experiences of others that fill a leader type role in their office. In my case, i don't quite qualify for leader allowance, but do a lot of jobs that apparently aren't seen as important enough to attract an extra payment. I look after ORA. I look after Route Manager. I look after FDS and SISO. I run collections in the evening and make sure all collections are completed, and sort any that are missed. All on the wage of an OPG, but with added stress and responsibility. I also cover manage saturdays and dual role as PHG as they have every saturday off. All a bit much some days. I enjoy the job but feel a bit overloaded at times. Is anyone else in the same boat?

ORA and Route Manager should be done by a workplace coach. I don't know what FDS is but SISO should be done by a manager. For the collections you should get the OPG to OSG allowance and for the Saturday if you are doing the managers role you should get an OPG to lowest grade managers allowance.

So if your office has work place coaches they should be doing some of what you are doing and for the other stuff you should either not be doing it or being paid for doing it.

What is OSG, exactly?