How bad have you got to be to not get through the probation?

postslippete · Post by **postslippete** » 02 Dec 2018, 20:28

Aye, I wonder about the standards of recruits these days. Yes, its not their fault that there are on different deliveries every time but the jobs hardly rocket science. If someone is regularly making a few mistakes every day plus whilst also claiming 2 hours overtime, how low is the bar actually set??

twoloops · Post by **twoloops** » 02 Dec 2018, 20:32

I think the quite stringent online testing should help eradicate the looney tunes & deadheads RM used to employ? When I get paired up with some old time postie I feel like Ive spent a day doing care in the community

Post by **Brandy** » 02 Dec 2018, 20:53

mattycash wrote:I think the quite stringent online testing should help eradicate the looney tunes & deadheads RM used to employ? When I get paired up with some old time postie I feel like Ive spent a day doing care in the community

Shame on you.You should show the older posties more respect.

LaggyBand · Post by **LaggyBand** » 02 Dec 2018, 22:52

Eighteen years in and never seen a new recruit finish involuntarily.

I’ve seen vans crashed, licences lost through drunk driving, mail fed back into the system, door to doors sent back as excess when really the postie couldn’t be bothered, managers report office as clear when it’s not, about a million ghost hours booked, customers allowed to help themselves to a frame, people caught on the sick and abroad, and the only two people I’ve ever known sacked both involved long term stealing of post items - both were caught by police led investigations rather than suspicions raised by management (ie hands were tied).

Standards are remarkably low in practice.