Pods - the new management buzzword

[Hyrrokkin]

"Look, you fools, you're in danger! Can't you see?! They're after you! They're after all of us! Our wives, our children, everyone! THEY'RE HERE, ALREADY! YOU'RE NEXT!"

[whisperlite6]

So long and thanks for all the fish.

[teesdale]

At Bristol Mail Centre selfishness is all I see now. Wasn't always that way until the union rep arrived from parcel force. He's f****d us over for 20 years and we didn't even know it. Add on 10 team leader/coaches, looking at their mobile phones all day, and I feel like nothing.

[richietns]

At Bristol Mail Centre selfishness is all I see now. Wasn't always that way until the union rep arrived from parcel force. He's f****d us over for 20 years and we didn't even know it. Add on 10 team leader/coaches, looking at their mobile phones all day, and I feel like nothing.

And its about to get worse I think with help when your finished rurals etc lol.

[postslippete]

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.

RM has always involved teamwork to some extent but the concern is more about your duty no longer really belonging to you.

When the success or failure of your day depends on who you are working with, how fast they work, whether they're off sick or whether they pull their weight, well that's a very different type of team working. I've been paired up with all sorts of people over the last year and one of the first thing they say is "Who's driving? Not me!".

Because parcels have exploded and it's what the job is, many people naturally view the driver as carrying most of the responsibility because they are the ones loading, navigating and often dealing with the larger items. That's always been one of the weaknesses of van sharing because effort isn't distributed equally. Add another couple of hundred parcels to the mix and what do you think most van shares will end up doing? Driving around delivering parcels.

The biggest reason I can see the new delivery method falling flat on its ar$e is because the whole model has everyone on paper contributing equally. That's rarely how workplaces operate when there are experienced and new starts, fast and slow staff and people who graft and people who are counting the minutes because it's not their round, not their responsibility......

[tramssirhc]

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.

RM has always involved teamwork to some extent but the concern is more about your duty no longer really belonging to you.

When the success or failure of your day depends on who you are working with, how fast they work, whether they're off sick or whether they pull their weight, well that's a very different type of team working. I've been paired up with all sorts of people over the last year and one of the first thing they say is "Who's driving? Not me!".

Because parcels have exploded and it's what the job is, many people naturally view the driver as carrying most of the responsibility because they are the ones loading, navigating and often dealing with the larger items. That's always been one of the weaknesses of van sharing because effort isn't distributed equally. Add another couple of hundred parcels to the mix and what do you think most van shares will end up doing? Driving around delivering parcels.

The biggest reason I can see the new delivery method falling flat on its ar$e is because the whole model has everyone on paper contributing equally. That's rarely how workplaces operate when there are experienced and new starts, fast and slow staff and people who graft and people who are counting the minutes because it's not their round, not their responsibility......

The organisational method of team working has never existed in many functions. The primary managerial tool is individual performance and always has been. Every measure of efficiency is based on individual measures - prep test for example. We've countered that over the centuries by either acting collectively - go after one of us and you go after all of us, or paternalism - workers looking after each other and helping.

DM26 will only work if the very basics are correct. Correcting the historic errors is not part of the agreement. If it fails that will be the reason why, not any individuals capabilities. However the CWU has already created the individual blame narrative by saying it's up to us to make it work. And let's be honest as long as the work gets done the gaffers wont ask how it gets done.