Pods - the new management buzzword

[FirstPost]

Pods are now expected to work in harmony, everybody getting on, everybody working at the same pace and all giving maximum effort to help clear the workload

[tramssirhc]

The CWU and it's members agreed to team working.

[derekm]

The CWU and it's members agreed to team working.

Nobody is disputing that. Think it’s more to do with the pod word being used frequently by management to describe this new way of working.

[tramssirhc]

The CWU and it's members agreed to team working.

Nobody is disputing that. Think it’s more to do with the pod word being used frequently by management to describe this new way of working.

The post is a critique of what pod working means. Members opposed team working and yet the CWU has agreed it.

[derekm]

The CWU and it's members agreed to team working.

Nobody is disputing that. Think it’s more to do with the pod word being used frequently by management to describe this new way of working.

The post is a critique of what pod working means. Members opposed team working and yet the CWU has agreed it.

You ought to change the record mate. This anti cwu is boring now every post is the same

[FirstPost]

My office is every man for himself due to Royal Mail culture and I expect it to be the same across the board, theres noway in hell this works

[Perseus]

My office is every man for himself due to Royal Mail culture and I expect it to be the same across the board, theres noway in hell this works

There is the rub. DM26 doesn’t allow for any type of rigid everyone for themselves type of working. We have all sorts of bizarre arrangements where people effectively work on their own, have to do certain loops each day, finish an hour early, get a van each when there is no reason to etc etc.
Some of our shared vans don’t even speak to each other, others go their separate ways as soon as they leave the office.

[ted_e_bear]

My office is every man for himself due to Royal Mail culture and I expect it to be the same across the board, theres noway in hell this works

Yes it's the royal mail way, most selfish place I've ever worked, when I first applied most of the interview questions related to being a team player and I remember having to give examples, at the do f**k me I soon discovered it's all for one and every man for himself

[A2B]

Sadly we have witnessed many pods get stranded and left helpless to die a slow death

[Cedar_Room]

My office is every man for himself due to Royal Mail culture and I expect it to be the same across the board, theres noway in hell this works

Yes it's the royal mail way, most selfish place I've ever worked, when I first applied most of the interview questions related to being a team player and I remember having to give examples, at the do f**k me I soon discovered it's all for one and every man for himself

Yeah,quite a few man-babies in my DO that sour the atmosphere for everyone else. On the rare occasion they don’t get their own way we all know about it,then the manager inevitably buckles & calm is restored. Hilarious really…

[tramssirhc]

The CWU and it's members agreed to team working.

Nobody is disputing that. Think it’s more to do with the pod word being used frequently by management to describe this new way of working.

The post is a critique of what pod working means. Members opposed team working and yet the CWU has agreed it.

You ought to change the record mate. This anti cwu is boring now every post is the same

You chose to get involved. Block me if you can't handle the truth.

[Rm121]

Wait till you start failing mail or someone going off sick, you'll get why you're in a pod now.

[Mr Rush]

Pods are now expected to work in harmony, everybody getting on, everybody working at the same pace and all giving maximum effort to help clear the workload

Once they start piping whale song through the tannoys it'll all be fine.

Swim free, Heavy and Lights!

[norris9]

Pretty sure we have always worked in a team....

We have people sorting everyone's parcels, people sorting everyone's IPS frames, we work in van-shares.

Since when have we not been working as a team and why is this deemed new?

[Mr Rush]

We have people sorting everyone's parcels, people sorting everyone's IPS frames, we work in van-shares.

Yes, every missort is a blessing from my teammates.

As for van shares, I can tell you started after the abomination that is P&L. And I say that as someone who has an extremely good working relationship with my duty partner, so my opposition is not founded in personal grievance unlike the above.