Also, if anyone would like to/ could tell me anything about the role i.e. what to expect.....etc, that would also be much appreciated. Ta!
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'2 strikes and you're out' rule?
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Introverted moron
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'2 strikes and you're out' rule?
I attended an 'interview' yesterday for a temporary data entry keyer role at a Royal Mail MDEC.......well, it wasn't really an interview as we simply had to do a data entry test and fill in loads of forms so I'm not sure why they called it that.
Anyway, I passed and seem to have got the role. However, I'm basically taking a gap year and will be applying for uni, for which I may have to attend interviews so my concern is that they might terminate my contract if I can't re-arrange the interviews. The 2 strikes and you're out rule seems a bit harsh......you can't even take any days off when you're ill but then the whole presentation they gave when we arrived gave me the impression that they don't seem to care a great deal about their temporary workers, or at least, that we don't seem to have many rights. It is pretty much an unskilled job so I guess you can't expect much more than the NMW but is it true that they can fire you if you don't make the improvements to your performance expected within their time frame? I seem to recall from that you had to achieve an TPH of 450 with over 80% accuracy to pass on the assessment day but then that you would have to achieve a higher TPH on the training day and an even higher one 1 or 2 weeks into the job......does anyone know what exactly these targets are?
Also, if anyone would like to/ could tell me anything about the role i.e. what to expect.....etc, that would also be much appreciated. Ta!
Also, if anyone would like to/ could tell me anything about the role i.e. what to expect.....etc, that would also be much appreciated. Ta!
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daveyeff
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Re: '2 strikes and you're out' rule?
try for a d.o. job. over 9 quid an hour. still pittance though, but youre out in the fresh air 
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Re: '2 strikes and you're out' rule?
Over 9 quid an hour seems like luxury compared the peanuts pay for this job and being out in the fresh air is definitely better than sitting at a computer for hours on end.......I'll have square eyes soon enough.daveyeff wrote:try for a d.o. job. over 9 quid an hour. still pittance though, but youre out in the fresh air
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DGP1
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Re: '2 strikes and you're out' rule?
Of course.............I spend most of my free time in front of my computerIntroverted moron wrote:Over 9 quid an hour seems like luxury compared the peanuts pay for this job and being out in the fresh air is definitely better than sitting at a computer for hours on end.......I'll have square eyes soon enough.daveyeff wrote:try for a d.o. job. over 9 quid an hour. still pittance though, but youre out in the fresh air
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Vim_Fuego
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Re: '2 strikes and you're out' rule?
Unfortunately, getting the cruddy end of the stick is the lot of temporary and agency workers everywhere. Zero hour contracts, no rights and no job security whatsoever - so, as far as RM is concerned, the ideal employee! So much more controllable than those bolshy permanent workers with their inconvenient rights.
But don't worry. If George "Ooh, what a big office I've got" Osborne gets his way in establishing a hire/fire at will workplace culture, we'll all be working under those conditions soon enough...
But don't worry. If George "Ooh, what a big office I've got" Osborne gets his way in establishing a hire/fire at will workplace culture, we'll all be working under those conditions soon enough...
You can't beat the system, but you can give it a bloody good kicking.
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TrueBlueTerrier
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Re: '2 strikes and you're out' rule?
Especially is he can sell his "share" scam to the public. Get so many shares and give up your rights to unfair dismissal and some maternity rights. Thing is some sheeple will thing its a good thing right up till the moment they get their P45 just before they can cash in their shares. He will tie it up nicely that you atually have to be working for the firm to get a payout/shares.Vim_Fuego wrote:But don't worry. If George "Ooh, what a big office I've got" Osborne gets his way in establishing a hire/fire at will workplace culture, we'll all be working under those conditions soon enough...
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ChainsawKiller
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Re: '2 strikes and you're out' rule?
Generally, depending on when you have the time off, they wont get rid of you for going past 2 strikes cause of attendance if you are a christmas temp. So many people leave and the numbers needed are so incompetently worked out that they cant let people go anyway. In fact at Stoke Mdec this as meant some right bad people have had to complete there Christmas contracts, despite being very naughty indeed, cause they needed them in there seats.