Goodbye RM,,,

[Red Robbo]

Did he say" I'll be back" ?

[Indy]

i hope the grass is greener. in my experience it never is.

Hmmm I've nearly left on 2 occasions. The first job sounded fantastic but after about 10 months the person that got the job (I declined it) was made redundant. The second started off great but from what I can see of it now after a few redundancies the workload has shot up and with a pay freeze etc I'm glad i didn't jump.

For me until the job market improves to the point where if what I go to doesn't work out I could easily move to another then I'm staying put at RM.

[flaminmoses]

good luck.

get a gym membership imo.

after my fitness wore off i was getting all sorts of problems...acheing arm etc.

[Stormproof]

Good Luck with the new job..........you can still come back here and listen to us moaning, so don't be a stranger

[countyboy]

i hope the grass is greener. in my experience it never is.

The guy hasn't even said what he is leaving to do.

In my experience, the grass is quite often greener before/after Royal Mail employment.

Well yes,,my philosophy is dont jump off your current horse (even if its a donkey !! ) until you have a better horse to jump onto. If you consider FT wage, decent pension, flexi time, no saturdays and not having to book your hols a year in advance greener then I would say it is !! Having said that no job is perfect and I know there will be times when I wish I was back on a walk with noone giving me grief (apart from the lino begging me to do docket,,,it was always fun saying no... )

RM are always going to lose good staff with the current system but the current labour market allows them to do it and its not helped by people running round like headless chickens to make time on the job. Cant see that changing though and its only going to get worse imo.

[Darren Bent]

What the job ?

Good luck, I would like to get a new job, but I think the job industry will be lot harder for me to get better job due to recession and I am being deaf. I doubt I will get better paid job or job security and like the floating week off perk (despite working longer hours) If there is a job I can do I will be interested but not applying via newspaper adverts / job centre / internet job site / recruitment agencies.

[postypie]

Good luck sir on your new career...as regards this job..it's not the same as it once was...everyone rushing around like headless chickens,inept managers(many failed posties),quality of service gone to pot,(i mean..10.25 am i got out this morning to start a delivery)..nah pretty crap...wish i was back in the building trade sometimes...when i get home now i just feel whacked..and often demoralized as there is no job satisfaction nowadays...just do ya bit.keep ya head down,listen to the usual work time crap every Tuesday,more d2d's than ever,less time to deliver them,(let alone prep them),heavier bags,...if i was younger i would be off with you mate

[silly suffolk]

Are you on a delivery daily now?

Have you ever been on a full delivery in the last 2 years?

If not you have simply no idea what goes on in some offices around the country



Copy and paste the whole lot.
I take it you have never been on a delivery silly suffolk? Or when you did it was 2 bags max for a whole round, try 8 bags

for the record i havent been on a walk for over 2 years , but dly work has always been hard work. when i travel to different dly offices i still see this obsession with making time, rushing about, being held in high esteem if you can cut a dly to ribbons. perhaps im wrong but there must be a better way. the more and more workload that is loaded on to dly staff there always seems to be a percentage of staff who will get it done. the more you do the more they will want i was told.