RMCtv : Absorbtion lapsing farce? : Why Royal Mail and North service delivery director Jane Simpson hasn't got a clue about it

[POSTMAN]

2 questions and 2 farcical answers, long but worth a watch for comedic value.

Ps: Can't believe I spelled Absorption wrong.

[chickenwittle]

They can plan and resource as much as they like , the bottom line is your start time and finish time over ride all of it .There are only so many hours in the working day .

[eastie]

we ( a pairing) have to lapse half a round 1st so it only gives us 2 hours 15 of time left till finish time and that includes meal relief , driving time back to the office and pouch off and resorting mail back to the frame so we only do one of our frames till finish time .
The other frame gets left to the following day but this is getting progressively worse and its come to a point where some walks are not going out for 3 or 4 days. But the lapsed walk gets delivered daily. Where's the logic in that.
Management dont have a clue

[Jpro747]

“We want to be efficient as possible” by sending you out to do a section of a round which is miles away from the start of your round so you can fail the end of your own round

[Blaine]

Are managers essentially committing fraud by telling us to do the lapsed walk first so they can get their bonus and then not reporting the loops we bring back off our own walk as failures? It's the only explanation I can see for telling us to fail our own walks rather than the lapsing, unless someone has a different idea?

[fb1969]

I don't think she knew what half the words meant.

[rubberbond]

Are managers essentially committing fraud by telling us to do the lapsed walk first so they can get their bonus and then not reporting the loops we bring back off our own walk as failures? It's the only explanation I can see for telling us to fail our own walks rather than the lapsing, unless someone has a different idea?

What’s the difference if you bring back the lapsing , or you bring back your own walk , it’s hardly fraudulent unless it’s not reported correctly, but that’s for the manager to live with.

[Blaine]

Are managers essentially committing fraud by telling us to do the lapsed walk first so they can get their bonus and then not reporting the loops we bring back off our own walk as failures? It's the only explanation I can see for telling us to fail our own walks rather than the lapsing, unless someone has a different idea?

What’s the difference if you bring back the lapsing , or you bring back your own walk , it’s hardly fraudulent unless it’s not reported correctly, but that’s for the manager to live with.

Because they love to get on the phone and say how they've managed to lapse 30+ jobs, but not that we bought our own walks back. Our manager doesn't even check for loops bought back, they just get prepped in the next day first thing. Basically, the normal for our division of 40 walks is 4-5 jobs lapsed, when we have absences or people ring in sick the number of jobs lapsed goes up to 7 or 8 and everyone is told to lapse 2 or 3 loops, and specifically that lapsing MUST be done first and to bring back our own walks and ignore long driveways, we can't leave it in the fitting because they can't say the office is clear.

[DICKIEG]

If they want you to do the lapsing first, fine go do it, then come back and tie your own job up, but only tie enough up to take you to your finish time. Four things to remember 1. We are all as directed, 2. You cannot refuse a reasonable request off the DOM, 3. You have a start time and 4. You have a finish time.

[Numberone63]

Lapse warps. Hahahahahaha
She has no clue!!!!!!

[HTPostman]

Politician style answers to those 2 questions.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

She is out of touch, absorption and flexing are not what they say they are when you take the same bit out whether it's a quiet Tuesday or a banged Wednesday.

[worktotime]

, well thats cheered me watching that load of tosh , absolutely clueless .

[Speedmeister]

I see she's still spouting the lie about absorption is to ensure you work your paid hours when in fact it's to try to cover up the lack of staff.

[twoloops]

It goes against any morals I possess to watch RMTV, but I’ve watched that video am I right in saying it was aimed @ management & not for posties to watch?