krussel wrote:You say you have no one to talk to in your office.
Correction: I had no-one to talk to about going on strike (just think of the trouble I would have caused, based on the reaction of most members on here to my views), apart from that I'll talk to just about anyone and share a laugh, however I am the quiet head-down sort of a guy normally, not on a par with some of the 'loud-mouths' who take most of the responsibility for keeping the office a vibrant and jovial place to work. I agree with you, that most of the posties who have lasted the years in our office are of a certain breed, generally quite out-spoken, always game for a laugh, and quite inconsiderate in who they choose to wind up - all in a spirit of camaraderie, until a manager reminds them of what they should and shouldn't be doing.
You seriously think that I would want to become someone so reviled in the office as a manager
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krussel wrote:The important thing to remember is that unless you are planning to join the management sector of the business you will be working with your colleagues well after the strike is over. On that basis i would not want to be the only one left in the office so I would support my colleagues and go on strike.
Fear of colleagues? Not a strong enough reason to get off the fence; fear does not sway me. But rather than discount the majority decision to strike, I have really let the proposition of 'strike or don't strike' test me. I am looking at the positions taken by both company and employees, and I'm still trying to work out where I belong, even if I belong in the job at all? I am taking this seriously (maybe too seriously by dvbuk55's standards, see his criticisms above), because I do wish to make a career out of working for Royal Mail. And though, as you see it, there are limited opportunities to make a career with this company as long as you remain a postie, the way I see it, if the job does not change to suit my expectations then I will find a way of making it happen beyond any limitations that may be stopping the job from moving with the times. Because as I've already said in this thread, if the job does not move with the times, then it will be left behind.
I believe that if you want a career then you make one, and if this is the right job for me (you know that as soon as you wake up in the morning, depending on whether you are still motivated by the challenges of the job) then I will find a way of bringing change about that will keep the job future-proof. I will engage with my employer and strive to bring new ideas and ways to modernise the job forward, I will fight any signs of decay (is this an ad for a mouthwash ?!) for as long as I still believe in the job and what it achieves. I will fight to make the company keep me, I refuse to become redundant to the general public as long as Royal Mail has a service to offer. Yet, if the gloom and doom merchants are proven correct, and it is too late for invention and ingenuity to save the job, that redundancies are on the cards and the management are overseeing the slow euthanasia of the company, then I may well out-grow the job, despite my best efforts to make it work. I won't stand around and watch my chosen career dissipate before my eyes. When the ship is sinking, rearranging the deckchairs will bring temporary relief, but a freshening wind may find hope on the horizon.
I do ask myself if the up-and-coming generations will long suffer the institution that is the Royal Mail, and if the Royal Mail hasn't a serious image problem as well as its in-house problems, which have contributed of-late to the perception and image of the company that the public has. And in a way, being still young myself, within the institution I could be considered to be in the up-and-coming generation of posties, who will need to be ready for change, who are already facing change so early in their careers, and on whose ability to adapt the future of the Royal Mail may depend.
- people aren't daft , they've seen & heard too much & been around too long - such is life on Planet RM
... I'd abuse him for nothing... Not often I speak up for peejay but I have started printing his missives onto hard copy, not too hard mind, then when I go for a crap I have something worthy of being flushed down the bog... Tut tut peebrain, don't tell me you have had enough criticism of your painfully overlong, verbose opinions. Could you please post a few more today I think I've got diarrhoea coming on... we should just consider ourselves lucky we're not on his email list. Just imagine being on the next frame... 
in fairness some interesting points raised there.
(I am not taking the p*ss) as I ve always found Royal Mail quite sociable and most people easy to get on with. If your ve worked there for 18 months without making friends with anyone perhaps you need to lighten up some, join in a few jokes and work on some social interaction with your work mates as the camaraderie between us is, in my opinion, is the most adhering part of the job and certainly the reason why I ve stayed so long.
) then perhaps you need to look into moving to a managerial grade which in fact you may find yourself more comfortable with and on the whole more satisfying for you. 
I hope he's not listening 
