lets solve cutting off and confrontation

[SexyLegs]

Post Bitch - quite simply this is the most ridiculous post I have ever seen. Do you have children to collect 10 mins after your official finish time?, if you did you'd realise what an idiotic post this is.

[dvbuk55]

Whats a Satisfactory Length Postbitch.

your contracted hours or 8 inches

Could you manage with less..................erm a lot less Looks like sexylegs doesn't measure up

[NewPostieUK]

In my previous job there similar fluctuations. We were expected to work 'reasonable' overtime (it was in our contracts). Many people were spoken to, and some warnings handed out for not working this overtime. One week I was asked to work 4 hrs on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I offered one hour and was told no, 4 hrs or nothing. On the Friday I was called in to the office, apparently to be given a warning. I explained I was more than happy to be flexible and work up to one hour every single day, and occasionally sat and sun mornings. I argued this was most 'reasonable', and wasn't given the warning. By the way, overtime was paid at the proper going rate, ie time and a half no matter how many hours you worked, and double time on a Sunday.

I agree that some people refuse to be flexible, and the nature of the job, these fluctuations in workload, requires people to work longer hours some days. However what is deemed 'reasonable'? Also, not being paid for work done, and the ridiculous overtime rate (standard rate for me, £8-odd) is very good reason not to work any overtime at all.

[blue1873]

Whats a Satisfactory Length Postbitch.

your contracted hours or 8 inches

Or possibly 12 inches but don't use it as a rule

........Coat...............

[Lincox]

To be fair to Postbitch, I understand her concern regarding confrontation with management and how this can be eradicated from the job. The simple way is to make the job a professional salaried position, paying a salary that a family can live on, and the job is full time, start to finish each day, swings and roundabouts with early and late finish. Yes, I know that there is as much chance of this as Royal Mail not being privatised.

[dvbuk55]

Whats a Satisfactory Length Postbitch.

your contracted hours or 8 inches

Or possibly 12 inches but don't use it as a rule

........Coat...............

Naughty room---------------------------

[post_bitch]

[dvbuk55]

That's disgusting

[mclovin]

I'll do 2 hours extra on heavier/peak times.

I'll start 2 hours earlier for docket, but no way am I working 2 hours over, no fecking thank you.

A lot of us have kids who need piced up from school, because our partners have to work because RM wage aint gonna pay the bills.

I didnt sign up to work til 4 or 5pm.

RM 20 years or so ago would guarantee 20 hours docket per week at Xmas when people were working from 5am to 5pm but they stopped it.

[S6 Stroller]

]Also, not being paid for work done[/b], and the ridiculous overtime rate (standard rate for me, £8-odd) is very good reason not to work any overtime at all.

That's what gets me wound up more than anything and will be the thing that pushes me over the edge i.e refusing to do any O/T whatsoever. You do the work. You claim the O/T. Lino signs it off. Come pay day 2 hours of it (or whatever) hasn't been paid. WTF? This happens time and again and you're expected to find time during your working day to go and beg for it to be paid. Totally pisses me off.