PART TIMERS NEED A BREAK

[BoyGeorge]

we've a few part timers who expect there mail to be prepped ready for them ahead of your own work, then whilst out on the rounds if its a heavy day they expect you to break off your own delivery to go and give them a hand.

[lainey]

on here saying you finished at 12 shocking they are digging their own graves

[DirtyHarry]

well ive worked for 9 months in my depot and only a handfull of people make conversation. the majority of full timers look at me like im a summit they trod in!! and not a day goes by without one of them making a comment about part timers. i get 6 hours to do what they get 8 hours to do ! and most of them go home on their round anyway. and they want my support for the strike!!!! i get great pleasure going past them on the picket line. well ive got that off my chest

I've a feeling that a year, most likely less, down the road, the pleasure will be all theirs.

[munch]

im a full timer and i have no problem with part timers, its not your fault royal mail only give you a part time contract and i appreciate your just trying to make a living like the rest of us.

alot of part timers in our office took a pay off. you have the same rights as full timers if you dont want to work over then say no and stick to it., the more you say yes the more they will come back to you asking for you to do more.

[munch]

well ive worked for 9 months in my depot and only a handfull of people make conversation. the majority of full timers look at me like im a summit they trod in!! and not a day goes by without one of them making a comment about part timers. i get 6 hours to do what they get 8 hours to do ! and most of them go home on their round anyway. and they want my support for the strike!!!! i get great pleasure going past them on the picket line. well ive got that off my chest

I've a feeling that a year, most likely less, down the road, the pleasure will be all theirs.

Think its your attitude that makes them not talk to you rather than you being part time.

[infidel]

part timer need a break /need a gag ,we all need a break from the perpetual moaning blame RM not full time posties.

[munch]

we've a few part timers who expect there mail to be prepped ready for them ahead of your own work, then whilst out on the rounds if its a heavy day they expect you to break off your own delivery to go and give them a hand.

much as i agree that as full timers we are now given more work as we have to prep part timers walks. we shouldnt give grief to the part timers they are doing what they are contracted for. royal mail made the changes not the part timers.

[lainey]

thankfully our office isnt as bad as that yet but its coming what i have read give your pt a big clap they are slowly f***ing the full show

[the one]

Not all part timers. I get 2 hours to prep my walk and never get hassled to do overtime. Our office has a list of people who want to do docket and the manager goes to them first.

I can honestly say i have never felt intimidated or pressured to do anything.

And no im nor a DOM or a plant.

your one of the lucky one m8, good manager for a change, his motive is to keep his workers happy, not push them so he can have a fat bonus at the end,

[alec.t]

Full time / part time, everyone in my office gets on fine (well nearly everyone), have to say though as pt when i start at 7.15 it's soul destroying to find the ft's have their rounds prepped and have time for a chat while we have to rush to catch up before the next lot of mail comes in. Many of the pt staff come in early just to give themselves extra time. i don't, i think it's foolish of anyone to willingly give royal mail unpaid working hours.

[moggymoz]

we've a few part timers who expect there mail to be prepped ready for them ahead of your own work, then whilst out on the rounds if its a heavy day they expect you to break off your own delivery to go and give them a hand.

anyone on less than a 30 hour contract should have their entire walk thrown off for them, all they should have to do is bag up and hope the drivers not f*cked off... (I'm 30 hours bye the way) :cfo :mfo

[rhino49]

Totally agree. Full-time worker's don't want us in the workplace really.

Wrong Tailfly - we want you and need you to balance the workload - but we would like to see you get the opportunity to be full timers if you wished rather than the automatic replacement of full time duties with part time ones. As for an earlier comment by El Cartero, the part timers spend most of the early part of the morning preparing the work and doing IPS that the part timers don't. Part timers in my office come in late and go out early with virtually all their work apart from delivery done for them. Needless to say, they feel a lot better for that workload system than the full timers who were in 3 hours or more before them and and still on the streets when they have finished. The balance was a lot better when we did two deliveries and everyone was on mail sorting and the part timers finished after the then lighter morning deliveries but I suppose each system has it's merits.

I came through the system starting as an AG and getting a temporary and then permanent FT leave reserve position before getting my own walk nine years ago. Because they tend to move around more I think the walk knowledge that the part timers accrue is a talent that is wasted by them not doing IPS - we will eventually run out of people to do that and machines will never do it all.

[Acca Dacca]

we've a few part timers who expect there mail to be prepped ready for them ahead of your own work, then whilst out on the rounds if its a heavy day they expect you to break off your own delivery to go and give them a hand.

anyone on less than a 30 hour contract should have their entire walk thrown off for them, all they should have to do is bag up and hope the drivers not f*cked off... (I'm 30 hours bye the way) :cfo :mfo

Im on a 25 hour contract, whats the difference between that and 30 out of interest

[ExSG]

The fur coat and brolly brigade were seen as a scourge in my office when the agreement to part-timers was first implemented.

Our view was dramatically changed when after they had been put upon by managers for about six months they were the first out of the door when we had to strike after a suspension In fact all of them had a good reason to work and none were in other jobs and the hours meant their partners could help with the kids.

After that they asked for and got a Rep and far more acceptance. Up to that time they also had the crap work.

They have a living to earn as well so don't knock 'em just for the sake of it.

[Pat Ostman]

we've a few part timers who expect there mail to be prepped ready for them ahead of your own work, then whilst out on the rounds if its a heavy day they expect you to break off your own delivery to go and give them a hand.

anyone on less than a 30 hour contract should have their entire walk thrown off for them, all they should have to do is bag up and hope the drivers not f*cked off... (I'm 30 hours bye the way) :cfo :mfo

Im on a 25 hour contract, whats the difference between that and 30 out of interest

Your entire walk should be ready. Thats the difference.