My first and only week as a Postie

[Shakeahand1109]

I thought it might be useful if I let you know what happened in my first week as a new starter. I expected to be tired, to having every muscle in my legs aching as they have never ached before, but I did not expect to feel so isolated. Maybe I was just unlucky with my sorting office, but on Day One I was not introduced to anyone, other than my WPC, who, though a nice bloke, was more concerned about finishing on time than showing me the ropes. I got the rudiments of the PDC, what to do with a Special, etc. but other than pushing a few letters through a few letterboxes to speed them along, it was very rudimentary.
I never even found out the who my manager was, I was not shown around, I was not given an ID, they didn't have a hi-viz to give me, I wasn't given any numbers to call if I needed to contact the office, I had to write my hours on a scrap of paper, and I was told that I was a floater (I don't know who the guy was, proably a manager, but I'd never seen him before) and although they like to keep a newbie on the same round for six weeks or so, they didn't have such a round, so I'd probably be on a different round every day, days off, hoidays etc. Mentally, it was not what I wanted to hear.
I buckled on Monday, and emailed my recruiter (it was the only contact I had) to resign. No-one has even acknowledged my email.

[Jefferson Starfish]

Sounds about right.

[Whippy]

As a fairly new starter 6months this sounds about right, just make sure you get paid for the time that you’ve worked.

[TopperGas]

"but other than pushing a few letters through a few letterboxes to speed them along, it was very rudimentary."

Given you applied for a posties job then what did you expect to be doing apart from pushing a few letters though a few letterboxes?

[mjd24]

"but other than pushing a few letters through a few letterboxes to speed them along, it was very rudimentary."

Given you applied for a posties job then what did you expect to be doing apart from pushing a few letters though a few letterboxes?

Thats all we do is it?

[TopperGas]

"but other than pushing a few letters through a few letterboxes to speed them along, it was very rudimentary."

Given you applied for a posties job then what did you expect to be doing apart from pushing a few letters though a few letterboxes?

Thats all we do is it?

No but we've been doing the job for years not days.

[Mr Rush]

In my office at least, you actually do stand a chance of being on the same duty for six weeks. In fact, you can walk in the door and have the duty you land on because a quarter of duties are vacant. Well overdue a re-sign.

Time was you'd be put on the training walk to get into the swing of things, but guess which walk was the very first duty to be lapsed when they introduced that!

[TrueBlueTerrier]

"but other than pushing a few letters through a few letterboxes to speed them along, it was very rudimentary."

Given you applied for a posties job then what did you expect to be doing apart from pushing a few letters though a few letterboxes?

Its self evident in your quote he wanted proper traning, and at least an overview of the job. Having said that I am not sure you wanted your post to come across as confrontational which it appears it did.