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CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

Post by packmule »

With all the money we all pay in subs each week surely it would be so easy to take out a full page spead in the national press to put forward our case ?

unless its all gone to pay billy's pay rise
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

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General Mannerheim wrote:Lets face it the general public are well....morons.
Reality check sir, as someone once reminded me when I was a postman:-

"Remember, you are just one up from binman."

And without trying to sound insulting, the person who said that to me was infact right.
All this union bullsh1t gives you fellas a very warped view on reality, you are not revolutionary freedom fighters, you are just unskilled scruffy men doing a job that anyone can do.

Think it through before you start throwing harsh words around chap.
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Locker Dave wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:Lets face it the general public are well....morons.
Reality check sir, as someone once reminded me when I was a postman:-

"Remember, you are just one up from binman."

And without trying to sound insulting, the person who said that to me was infact right.
All this union bullsh1t gives you fellas a very warped view on reality, you are not revolutionary freedom fighters, you are just unskilled scruffy men doing a job that anyone can do.

Think it through before you start throwing harsh words around chap.
Yes and we are all human. Who are these people that think they are any better than a bin person. I'm nothing special but there is no one better than me and I am no better than them. But there is one difference, we are in a position of trust. And I know there are the minority that are not trustworthy. Just because some muppet makes a comment like that doesn't mean I'm not gonna fight for our rights.
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

Post by mh80 »

Locker Dave wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:Lets face it the general public are well....morons.
Reality check sir, as someone once reminded me when I was a postman:-

"Remember, you are just one up from binman."

And without trying to sound insulting, the person who said that to me was infact right.
All this union bullsh1t gives you fellas a very warped view on reality, you are not revolutionary freedom fighters, you are just unskilled scruffy men doing a job that anyone can do.

Think it through before you start throwing harsh words around chap.
I agree maybe his choice of words was harsh, but did you read the rest of his post about the media, it's true.
and Scruffy?? I have a wash and shave once a month, whether I need it or not big boy, so there. :nana

ps. How long were you a postman for, and when? It's a hard job, I have done others outside RM, and tbh I don't plan on staying here, but why should the service decline for the public, just so the fat cats can make a profit?? They aren't even a good example of free market capitalism, you've got to admit that, they aren't entrepreneurs or true innovators, they have just lept on a national service trying to make a quick buck.
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

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Locker Dave wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:Lets face it the general public are well....morons.
Reality check sir, as someone once reminded me when I was a postman:-

"Remember, you are just one up from binman."

And without trying to sound insulting, the person who said that to me was infact right.
All this union bullsh1t gives you fellas a very warped view on reality, you are not revolutionary freedom fighters, you are just unskilled scruffy men doing a job that anyone can do.

Think it through before you start throwing harsh words around chap.
Well this freedom fighter is prepared to listen to union bullshit so the below does not happen regularly to my fellow freedom fighting bullshit listening colleagues.
YOU wrote: I was a postman OPG for 5 years, didn't like the way that the managers bullied old men and so quit before I become one of their 'vunerable' victims.
Leaving RM was through my choice and I went back to the classroom and 5 years later doubled my wages and don't have to tolerate the cr>p hours/cr;p management that I used to have to endure 6 days a week.
PS:Wonder if binmen leave their jobs for the same reason you did.
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

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Locker Dave wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:Lets face it the general public are well....morons.
Reality check sir, as someone once reminded me when I was a postman:-

"Remember, you are just one up from binman."

And without trying to sound insulting, the person who said that to me was infact right.
All this union bullsh1t gives you fellas a very warped view on reality, you are not revolutionary freedom fighters, you are just unskilled scruffy men doing a job that anyone can do.

Think it through before you start throwing harsh words around chap.
And it really seams to get up your nose that we have rights and we will exercise those rights maybe you would have us in galleys cracking the whip to the beat of a drum!. I AM SPARTACUS!.
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

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:sad: :sad: I just love the way my post has gone off the topic i asked?
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somerset wrote::sad: :sad: I just love the way my post has gone off the topic i asked?
I tend to think of threads as organic, they seem to take a life of their own until such times as they come to the end of their natural life :cool .

Now, your inital post was about Tesco selling longer condoms :crazy: :nervous or something :chuckle :chuckle
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

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disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
somerset wrote::sad: :sad: I just love the way my post has gone off the topic i asked?

Now, your inital post was about Tesco selling longer condoms :crazy: :nervous or something :chuckle :chuckle
Excuse me but what planet our you on? It is about CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC ? Stay of the guinness mate ?
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

Post by shadow »

disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
somerset wrote::sad: :sad: I just love the way my post has gone off the topic i asked?
I tend to think of threads as organic, they seem to take a life of their own until such times as they come to the end of their natural life :cool .

Now, your inital post was about Tesco selling longer condoms :crazy: :nervous or something :chuckle :chuckle
:chuckle :chuckle No shadow you'll get banned. :chuckle :chuckle :oops:
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

Post by General Mannerheim »

Locker Dave wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:Lets face it the general public are well....morons.
Reality check sir, as someone once reminded me when I was a postman:-

"Remember, you are just one up from binman."

And without trying to sound insulting, the person who said that to me was infact right.
All this union bullsh1t gives you fellas a very warped view on reality, you are not revolutionary freedom fighters, you are just unskilled scruffy men doing a job that anyone can do.

Think it through before you start throwing harsh words around chap.
Oh and did you bother to read the rest of my post before getting your knickers in a twist?
Was the remark of your just one up from a binman off a member of the public perchance?Oh yes it was :roll: Seems abit moronic to me.
Would this be the same general public that has an opinion on Binmen,Posties and manual workers as all scruffy twats and that anybody can do the job...your words not mine...as I pointed out in my post just because a job looks easy doesn`t mean that anybody can do it,it may look easy being a binman or postie or cleaning up dog s**t from the park doesn`t mean that some stuck up arsehole with a chip on his shoulder can do it or should have the right to belittle somebody actually doing the job...afterall we can`t all be ex locker arsewipes with their air of a superiority complex now can we.
P.S I`m not unskilled thank you very much so better luck next time on your fishing trip.
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

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somerset wrote:
disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
somerset wrote::sad: :sad: I just love the way my post has gone off the topic i asked?

Now, your inital post was about Tesco selling longer condoms :crazy: :nervous or something :chuckle :chuckle
Excuse me but what planet our you on? It is about CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC ? Stay of the guinness mate ?
It was a joke, if you don't learn to relax you'll end up blowing a fuse, now, did you say you where getting me a guinness :wink: it'll go along with those longer condoms that I need ;liar
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

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:chuckle :chuckle you wish.stop telling ;liar
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

Post by Ralph Wiggum »

You`ll hear comments like "we get the post later and later to the lazy postmen and now they want to strike" - thats how uninformed the public at large are when its RM that is 100% to blame for later deliveries.

Very true. I totally agree with the opening post. The public think we are after more money again and keep complaining when im delivering their post later and later. They think its OUR fault and we must be lazy and 'on a go-slow'. This really gets me mad.
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Re: CWU v RM v THE PUBLIC

Post by hairyjack »

So who are the morons exactly? :d'oh!