WHY TURN A BLIND EYE ?

[dvbuk55]

Ars* lickers allowance - now thats a new slant on the wage structure.

I think they used to call it leadership allowance Dv....potato/tomato.

Now there's a thing, I always wanted to be a leader, but I am afraid I am too humble, withdrawn and busy doing all those little extra things that makes me so invaluable to the management In fact one of the managers is mortified that I have decided not to retire when I am 65 because I am so invaluable. Well I think mortified is the word!

[Cheetah]

There really should be an up-dated system for Grading Posties. With Different Pay Scales. Something that not only looks at Length of Service but also incorporates such things as Attendance...Discipline...Flexibility...Knowledge of Duties within the Office...Additional Skills such as H & S/First Aid/Driving.

I'm sure there's some sort of Computer tool that can work this out. Just because someone's served 20 years (and managed to survive undetected) is not good enough......IF they're a Lazy....Uncooperative...Inflexible....Racist...Bullying...Workshy...Asshole! If you want to put in Minimum Effort and Argue the Toss at ever Minor Problem, then Fair Enough! But if you are the working like a Demon.. Covering Countless Duties and Stepping in at minimum notice.... To basically get the job done then why shouldn't you be rewarded?

Much better surely to be employing a better quality of Postie? Only problem is whose going to be grading them? Incompetent management? Awaiting Incoming!

Sorry absolutally dead in the water from me...... Main reason totaly incompetent management.....

Bonus payments are the root to nothing but evil and division in industry..... I am not in the slightest bit scared of a hard days work and consider myself as very concencious BUT Royal Mail pay me to do a days work so why then should they pay me a bonus because I have succeded in doing that days work . Haven't we seen enough mess with the banking crises all fueled by a greedy bonus system . Which allways has and allways will be abused.

Attendance: ( I believe my record is quite satisfactory having took a total of 10 days sick in 18 years employment) Why reward someone who has been lucky enough not to be unwell in the last 12 months when others have been genuinally unable to work..... Why don't management make some effort to sort out GENUINE skivers, we all know who they are, but don't (like they do) tar all with the same brush i.e if you go into hospital etc conduct code them Er your not skiving if your in hospital and should not count on your record .....

Discipline: Rm management choose who and what level they administer discipline to. You can comit a so called minor offence and get conduct coded, then one of the fliers / toadies comit the same offence or a more serious indescretion Nothing !!!!!!

Flexibility: Constantly abused!!!! e.g, same person everytime asked to be flexible (i.e work from a different office due to staff shortages) toadies / fliers allways stay at regular office because they cover overtime another facility spoilt by management abuse......

Knowledge of duties: the only way you can get knowledge of other duties is by doing overtime nowadays..... What happened to training, then we can all cover specialist duties.....

R.M is run like a P... up at a brewry with favouritism being the order of the day...... Put them in charge of a bonus / reward scheme you must be joking . Do the work you are paid to do efficiently and properly using the tools provided by your employer (not your own transport / time to score bonus points / finish early ) get your pay on a friday Bonus / Reward not required.....

[Dorset Plodder]

Don't disagree with you Cheetah. My thoughts were on different Pay Scales more than bonuses, rather like the Military Operate. The idea being to "Penalise" those that were shirking and taking the piss...rather than those that were doing the job properly. However I understand what you're saying and agree that one of the biggest problems that faces us today in the Delivery office is the Noxious Smell of FAVOURITISM/TOADISM !

As you say the fact that management is unwilling to "Manage" and actually discipline those that are Malingering, and Abusing the sick leave system. And those that should be conduct coded, but aren't because they're "A Mate", is not helping the situation at all. I appreciate that it's much a case of "Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titantic" but I live in hope, whilst not really having much confidence in the crumbling system! I think we should all be planning our own Exit Strategies! Imagine your Office being left with just the lazy...workshy...skiving...idle....DIMs Toadies to run the place? You think we've got chaos now!

[Cheetah]

Yes a sad state of afairs all round..... All we ever seem to do is moan, but in my eye that actually shows we care.

These people (Government included ) in their quest to modernise and open up the market to make it more competitive have succeeded in ruining what was an excellent service to Buisness and the general public alike and completely destroyed the moral and commitment of what was on the whole a damn good workforce, to provide a much worse service at a much inflated price to line the pockets of the select few share holders of our so called competition ....

Shame on R Mail management, Sucsesive Government and the union for allowing the destruction of this once wonderfull service

Here endeth the rant for today