Best Deal for those wanting Out .

[Jefferson Starfish]

If you still have a good few years of working life before pension age, I would think long and hard about leaving without first scoping out the job market. There aren’t that many jobs out there.

Give me a break, stacking shelf's at Aldi pays better than this job now.

Just had a quick look at the Aldi jobs site and the going rate for a store assistant is £12.40-£13.35 per hour

Picking £13 as a median figure you could be looking at a basic wage for 38 hours a week of £494 basic then after tax and other deductions you could looking at a take home of £355, not much really still better than nothing.

£424 after tax and ni, minus other deductions like pension, etc.

It was a ballpark figure not intended to 100% accurate I knocked off income tax, NI, pensions and other sundry deductions.

And forgot the threshold for paying income tax and NI.

[Barnacle]

If you still have a good few years of working life before pension age, I would think long and hard about leaving without first scoping out the job market. There aren’t that many jobs out there.

Give me a break, stacking shelf's at Aldi pays better than this job now.

Just had a quick look at the Aldi jobs site and the going rate for a store assistant is £12.40-£13.35 per hour

Picking £13 as a median figure you could be looking at a basic wage for 38 hours a week of £494 basic then after tax and other deductions you could looking at a take home of £355, not much really still better than nothing.

£424 after tax and ni, minus other deductions like pension, etc.

It was a ballpark figure not intended to 100% accurate I knocked off income tax, NI, pensions and other sundry deductions.

My comment was really about the probable difficulty in getting that Aldi shelf stacking job. There are 100s going for each job because there are so few available.

Simply getting to the stage after the online application form is an achievement.

[Mcclinton]

Can’t imagine why anybody thinks a Supermarket job is the Holy Grail.I worked at Sainsbury’s before Royal Mail, the pay is no better, the hours can be rubbish, and you have to constantly deal with customers.

[clashcityrocker]

... and you have to constantly deal with customers.

who are nicking stuff left right and centre.

[ted_e_bear]

... and you have to constantly deal with customers.

who are nicking stuff left right and centre.

And moaning like f**k about anything and everything.

[Acca Dacca]

Martin Walsh has said they have agreed with RM that VRs will be 1 years pay instead of 9 months

[ArthurPewty]

Has there been a timescale mooted for these VR's? I was thinking of going October/November next year so this could pan out nicely with a bit of luck if I'm flexible on dates

[Acca Dacca]

Has there been a timescale mooted for these VR's? I was thinking of going October/November next year so this could pan out nicely with a bit of luck if I'm flexible on dates

OFCOM expected to decide on the USO next summer so i'd imagine your timeline is around right for deployment

[Perseus]

No 3 or 4 day USO, so a 5 day USO, although they seem to have not been specific on what day gets dropped. Say it is Saturday as before, they need 40-50% of staff in to do parcels only. How is this decided, on seniority?

Before they even think about introducing this 'method change' they are talking about for 2nd class (every second day), they need to equalise the routes people deliver on as well as fix the ones that currently have 2000 points on a shared van etc. Do what it takes, bring in an outside company if need be to analyse the mail volumes, parcel volumes, topography etc for current routes. The current ones who create routes have shown they are unable to do it.

[Barnacle]

No 3 or 4 day USO, so a 5 day USO, although they seem to have not been specific on what day gets dropped. Say it is Saturday as before, they need 40-50% of staff in to do parcels only. How is this decided, on seniority?

Before they even think about introducing this 'method change' they are talking about for 2nd class (every second day), they need to equalise the routes people deliver on as well as fix the ones that currently have 2000 points on a shared van etc. Do what it takes, bring in an outside company if need be to analyse the mail volumes, parcel volumes, topography etc for current routes. The current ones who create routes have shown they are unable to do it.

The alternate days delivery method is going to be properly trialled in a variety of different office types to see what the impact is on among other things, fatigue. If your new method quickly leads to knackered staff, you aren’t going to be able to shed as many staff as you imagined.