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Family Friendly

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
clashcityrocker
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Family Friendly

Post by clashcityrocker »

In 10 years I have only had one DOM who had children.
Every postie they have taken off the floor to train as a manager has been a Jaffa (seedless).
How do they think they can run a family friendly organisation (as they claim) when none of the managers understands the pressures attached to having a young family?
Is the rest of the country the same or have I been unlucky?
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tailfly12
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Re: Family Friendly

Post by tailfly12 »

With you there.
bandit1157
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Re: Family Friendly

Post by bandit1157 »

In 10 years I have only had one DOM who had children.
Every postie they have taken off the floor to train as a manager has been a Jaffa (seedless).
How do they think they can run a family friendly organisation (as they claim) when none of the managers understands the pressures attached to having a young family?
Is the rest of the country the same or have I been unlucky?

mines the same. they want dims who will follow the party blindly.hence they only pick people with no balls
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not me
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Re: Family Friendly

Post by not me »

funny you say that,i have never thought of it yet all our present managers(got plenty!) are without the blessing of kids :wink:
the last one that did went off with stress for months :roll:
Exrep
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Re: Family Friendly

Post by Exrep »

Family friendly my arse its the same rite across the country my friend they dont give a toss were all just a number and R/M DIMS care about one thing clearing the office on a daily basis.
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joinustowin
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Re: Family Friendly

Post by joinustowin »

"Family Friendly" theres nothing about the RM thats Family Friendly, saying that the lads who are on it never leave on time, get pressurised to finish there duty and are basically working overtime for nowt, Ive got to admit though they do piss about and use every excuse under the sun to get bits of there rounds taken off them each and every day, but each to there own
jockstrapp
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Re: Family Friendly

Post by jockstrapp »

MoNkEyBoY wrote:Family friendly my arse its the same rite across the country my friend they dont give a toss were all just a number and R/M DIMS care about one thing clearing the office on a daily basis.
Can't say my dom cares about clearing the office. OUR OFFICE HAS NEVER BEEN CLEARED SINCE WE CHANGED TO 4.5HR DUTIES :left: :left: :left:
RoyalQuest
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Joined: 31 Aug 2009, 23:28
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Re: Family Friendly

Post by RoyalQuest »

I had a problem with my lino about family friendly/compassionate working, my grandfather had a heart attack at the age of 79, went into work the next day and explained to my lino that i may need to leave urgently his answer was, "we will see what we can do" which i replied if i need to go i'm going, he said I could go but would have to come back to finish my delivery round after :shock: :shock: , i felt like smashing him, total lack of respect and compassion, I lived with my grandfather for the first 17 years of my life so he's like a second father to me, I was left with the propect of having a phone call off my mother telling me to get to the hospital straight away as it was touch and go and thinking then about going back to my DO to finish my round, luckily enough he pulled through but what could have been. I often wonder what he would have done if it was his family.

Same lino different occasion, left a packet on top my fitting by accident and my battery had gone on my mobile, so he went in my records to get my emergency numbers, phoned my wife on her mobile in work, (you can imagine my wife she panicked when she hers my lino saying is this the wife of me, i'm his manager from royal mail, she thought i had been in an accident or worse. So i get home and she says your manager has phoned he needs to speak to you urgently, so i phone him and he tells me the MAJOR problem! PRi*k. He says not to worry as he got the mop up to do it, but as i say total lack of respect, but the cheek of it, should have took out a grievance against him on both occasions but didn't :arrrghhh :arrrghhh
peppapig
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Re: Family Friendly

Post by peppapig »

family friendly in our office a farce, family friendly folk start at 5am, but numpties who are 6am start still come in at 5am for free :no no just to try and get 'organised', but still dont get finished early and dont get paid for it, weirdos
peppapig
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Re: Family Friendly

Post by peppapig »

Jimmy Carr`s laugh wrote:
peppapig wrote:family friendly in our office a farce, family friendly folk start at 5am, but numpties who are 6am start still come in at 5am for free :no no just to try and get 'organised', but still dont get finished early and dont get paid for it, weirdos

Id have a word with your daddy. Just dont let him put any pictures up :dance
haha :funneh