Dorset Plodder wrote:Just received a letter from Roy Waugh, Delivery Director- South Coast, asking if I'd like to progress my career with Royal Mail. I presume everyone in the Region's getting one (if not I feel honoured)!
Is this a campaign to recruit fresh young blood to the ranks of Management, prior to a New Years Cull of the existing bunch of incompetent workshy idiots? I might be tempted if I thought there was any chance of getting some back up from above, or a manager actually getting some authority to run his DO effectively (instead of just on a slash & burn basis).
Could you imagine the pleasure of standing in the door and sending those early runners back out the door with some more mail, when they return earlier than they should do? Or breaking the monopoly of the Office Mafia who always seem to have the easiest/shortest duties! Imagine a DO where everyone actually had an equal, and fair, ammount of work!
So it's not just where I work that has an Office Mafia.
We have:
the DOM;
the colonel (who does what he likes, when he likes, for however long he likes and gets paid a king's ransom in overtime)
the lieutenants (who can do no wrong and get to criticize others despite being guilty of the same crimes, and if you point out their hypocrisy you get an earful from the colonel);
the hitman (who'll do anything for money);
the old soldier (who has the easiest round in the office and so gets back before guys 40 years younger than him);
and, of course, the cannon fodder.
