As its my rest day I ve just spent a depressing 20 mins reading through the public comments from the Daily Mail report.
I find it depressing because nearly all the comments appear to come from fellow human beings without an ounce of compassion between them. Quotes such as “sack the lot of them”, “only want to work 4 hour a day” and “lazy and skiving” seem the norm. Its saddening to find these people are still willing to see Victorian values within the workplace and just because a worker protests about his job conditions he should be sacked on the spot and his job offered to the mass of un-employed (or the great un-washed as they seem to view them).
After reading the comments ( I recommend you take time to do so) I truly believe that these people would love to see the re-introduction of workhouses and children placed up chimneys, its quite shocking.
The rest of the comments are typical of Joe public jumping on the band wagon each with their own Royal Mail horror story of lost/stolen letters and miss delivered packets. We all know that with such a large industry mistakes will happen but these are isolated over a long period of time and lets be honest if you used any service daily for many years you would at some point encounter an error of some description.
The people who sit at their computers writing such comments would be truly horrified if they were to attempt employment as a postie under the current Royal mail practice. Coming from the private sector they would be deeply shocked at the threatening and bulling attitude of some RM managers. As for the workload expected and actual conditions found out on the streets I doubt that they have ever experienced such exhausting repetitive work and most would not be in a good enough physical condition to see a week at Royal Mail out. Its a shame and a pity but people who write such things clearly are living in a different world.
Yes we are in the mid of a bad recession and should we be grateful for a job, any job? well maybe yes but not at any costs.
Its also true that the private sector is indeed suffering with greater expected workloads, longer working hours and pay freezes but the conditions in the private sector will quickly change and bounce back once the economy lifts. Its always been the same.
Then you will see larger than inflation pay increases and bounses which unlike ours will not make national news headlines.
However with us its not so simple as RM will use the current conditions to squash us down into agreeing to some repressive working practice (i.e.; 2007 agreement) which will continue long into the future even when the recession is but a distant memory in the private sector.
So do we have public support, well it would appear not or indeed very little. But personally i really dont want the support from such folks who made the comments below.
Just an example of the caring comments left about us :
what kind of jobs, and pay do these royal mail staff expect to get if they lose their jobs at royal mail? It's like all these people on benefits, a lot of them want a 50k/year job , and of course they haven't got the skills/experience for it , but consider themselves to be worth more than low paying jobs.
My Mum and I both posted birthday cards to my daughter in the same post box on the same day. Mum's card arrived but mine did not. No doubt it was opened in case it contained money and was then thrown away. Mail now gets "lost" on a regular basis and for anything really important it is necessary to pay for expensive recorded delivery. If there was a private alternative to Royal Mail I would use it like a shot. They are a disgrace and not fit for purpose
Regarding the parcels scam by lazy posties:
A few months ago, I heard the letterbox gently go as I was sat at the computer and so went to investigate.
It was a Royal Mail form stating I hadn't been in when they tried to deliver a parcel.
Yet he hadn't even knocked.
I immediately glanced outside - only to see the lazy swine already a hundred yards away obviously trying to disappear out of sight as fast as he could
Sack them, we need to make an example of them. We are all finding times hard, yet these idiots make things worse. Give the jobs to people that would like to have a JOB and earn SOME money. They really make me sick.
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