mrro wrote:In my office this morning our total utter clown of a dom read out his weather report and warned us of the following...
1. we were told to plan our route accordingly to the suns movements meaning that if we can possibly start the round in the shade and finish the delivery in the sun when its not at its strongest.. I dont blame anyone for not believing this as i cant believe it myself but its true...
2. also to wear long sleeve shirts and trousers to protect our skin???? yes also true why dont we just wear full scuba diving gear i asked??
3. wear those stupid austrailian style cork hats to protect our face.. when a collegue asked how are we supposed to wear those as well as our cycle helmet the dom replied (and i swear to god this is true) wear the hat under the helmet..... COME ON!!!!!
our dom has been with royal mail 25 years... no wonder our company is in the total state it is in!! TNT must be laughing there heads off.....
Anyone else had any shocking hot weather reports?
Fook me ! That dork's twin brother mis-manages my DO.
We really do work for a bunch of cants. The common sense approach would be for an employer to ensure their employees are not going to be outdoors too long.
But hey, this is Royal Mail, and Royal Mail has no respect for it's workforce.
How about our office.
No acknowledgment of the predicted warm day/sunshine.
not even a
Dont forget your
hats and water bottles today lads.
Ok we are talking 21 degrees but its that adapting time of year!
when most are switching to shorts and shirt sleeves .
I hope the dim reacts when we have a 28/30 degree.
In offices, if the temperature is too high, you are allowed to leave the building until the temperature is deemed ok.. I forget what this temp was but surely if these blocks are so hot, does that still not count..?
Lenny1883 wrote:In offices, if the temperature is too high, you are allowed to leave the building until the temperature is deemed ok.. I forget what this temp was but surely if these blocks are so hot, does that still not count..?
It's a nice idea but outside don't count.
Otherwise when it was -17c up here last winter i would have stayed in bed.
on the subject of temperatures and stopping work...
i remember seeing a form on one of the notice boards saying that if the temperature was below XX degrees or over XX degrees then it would be deemed unsafe for you to work...
however the problem with this is.. that a DOM would argue that the temperature you record where the office is.. could and probably would be different where you are delivering.. and then the usual BS about what the actual temperature (as oposed to the recorded temperature) is when your out working...
scum_opg wrote:however the problem with this is.. that a DOM would argue that the temperature you record where the office is.. could and probably would be different where you are delivering.. and then the usual BS about what the actual temperature (as oposed to the recorded temperature) is when your out working...
Funny that when we had all the snow and ice over xmas our dom would take a look at paths outside office and decide if they clear rest of town must be same.
scum_opg wrote:however the problem with this is.. that a DOM would argue that the temperature you record where the office is.. could and probably would be different where you are delivering.. and then the usual BS about what the actual temperature (as oposed to the recorded temperature) is when your out working...
Funny that when we had all the snow and ice over xmas our dom would take a look at paths outside office and decide if they clear rest of town must be same.
yeah , i remember those "decisions" and being told you could go out on delivery even though the snow was thick on the ground and still falling heavilly... only the rural drivers got their delivery load reduced and we couldnt even get those boot "chains"... and the issue of the temperature being below XX degrees never once helped because .. well the argument was the temperature at the office vs the temperature on the streets at either end of the delivery areas
and being told you could go out on delivery even though the snow was thick on the ground and still falling heavilly... only the rural drivers got their delivery load reduced and we couldnt even get those boot "chains"... and the issue of the temperature being below XX degrees never once helped because .. well the argument was the temperature at the office vs the temperature on the streets at either end of the delivery areas