So long, and thanks for all the fish.

[robbogas1]

Probably covered in another topic but here goes.
Handed my notice in last week after 5 & 1/2 years only to find out this week another 4 from my depot have also decided to call it time.
It's a real shame because when I started it was still a pretty good job.
My colleagues have been fab, some of my managers have been cool, I even had a manager who was actually amazing when I had to take 9 months out when I was fighting cancer.
I am lucky I managed to beat the cancer and have been in remission for 3 years and now I have found a great job to go too (friday, saturday and sunday off every week) but I really do feel for some of my friends who are stuck in this XXXX job which is just going to get worse.
I really hope I'm wrong and the union manage to sort all this crap out, but time will tell.
Good luck everyone, over and out.

[norris9]

Royal Mail is going to be the worst place to work in the country soon.

Supermarket workers are now getting a better deal than us.

Aldi has given its store employees the third pay rise in 12 months, joining other companies who have boosted wages.

The supermarket group will lift starting pay to £11.40 an hour nationally and to £12.85 in Greater London.

Depending on length of service, some staff could secure rates of up to £13.15 an hour. Retailers including Tesco have made similar moves recently as firms try to retain staff struggling with high living costs.

Meanwhile office workers now get to work from home at least some of the time and some businesses are going to a 4 day working week.

[koolishy67]

Good luck I am looking to get out as well soon

[DonkeyOT]

This saddens me. I respect the decisions people make in the face of what's going on, but I still think it's worth putting up a fight.

[sixfoottwo]

Good luck, a lot from our office are leaving - seems like it's someone new going daily.

I must admit it's been on my mind for a while too, I'd have took VR but sadly I wasn't in the running after 25yrs - 12 other lucks sods got it!

[49erman]

The trouble is many really good hard working posties have left or are leaving our DO, only to be filled by agency who seem to work when they want! If they get a better offer I.e. labouring for a day for £150 then they don’t come in…….

[bowie]

Start time finish time,do your best and go home

[RHONE]

All the best to you and hope you're health and wellbeing get a deserving future.......

[ted_e_bear]

Out of interest what's your new job ?

[Jb1969]

Enjoy your new life.
Ps, it’s 42!

[walthmstowman]

The trouble is many really good hard working posties have left or are leaving our DO, only to be filled by agency who seem to work when they want! If they get a better offer I.e. labouring for a day for £150 then they don’t come in…….

That’s something I bet Simon Thompson has overlooked. We’ve never been so badly managed.

[Wullie10]

Royal Mail is going to be the worst place to work in the country soon.

Supermarket workers are now getting a better deal than us.

Aldi has given its store employees the third pay rise in 12 months, joining other companies who have boosted wages.

The supermarket group will lift starting pay to £11.40 an hour nationally and to £12.85 in Greater London.

Depending on length of service, some staff could secure rates of up to £13.15 an hour. Retailers including Tesco have made similar moves recently as firms try to retain staff struggling with high living costs.

Meanwhile office workers now get to work from home at least some of the time and some businesses are going to a 4 day working week.

Spot on. A lot of posties were saying its not about pay. But as time goes on it will be. No pay rise in years and double digit inflation. It won't be long and people just won't be able to afford to work for RM especially as you say even supermarkets will overtake us on wages. And all the crap conditions are in anyway so I sence more posties are concerned about the pay now.

[Schiff]

Good luck robbogas1.

I've just been offered another job this afternoon, starting mid April so it will be 3 weeks before I put my notice in.

It is so sad to see the way that RM and the CWU between them are destroying what was a good job. People were proud to say that they worked for Royal Mail but those days are clearly over.

[enskied]

You are fit and healthy now, cancer free. Good luck matey.

This is not a job to carry all the stress on top of any health or personal issues.

Best of luck for the future...it out there.

[Kenfandango]

Royal Mail is going to be the worst place to work in the country soon.

Supermarket workers are now getting a better deal than us.

Aldi has given its store employees the third pay rise in 12 months, joining other companies who have boosted wages.

The supermarket group will lift starting pay to £11.40 an hour nationally and to £12.85 in Greater London.

Depending on length of service, some staff could secure rates of up to £13.15 an hour. Retailers including Tesco have made similar moves recently as firms try to retain staff struggling with high living costs.

Meanwhile office workers now get to work from home at least some of the time and some businesses are going to a 4 day working week.

Spot on. A lot of posties were saying its not about pay. But as time goes on it will be. No pay rise in years and double digit inflation. It won't be long and people just won't be able to afford to work for RM especially as you say even supermarkets will overtake us on wages. And all the crap conditions are in anyway so I sence more posties are concerned about the pay now.

Add to that their habit of only employing people on 30hr or less contracts, so your pay fluctuates at the whims of the same managers who tell you when you start "ignore the 30hours thing you'll always get 37"