OVERTIME/less money more u do?

[majeed]

Hey Bel - check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6m0rzefZ3o

I did. Just hope there's Not "a rat in my kitchen"

[majeed]

sorry majeed but the managers are in a tight spot because they are the ones that cut jobs

I understood that there was a retention rate of 40% in postie staffing numbers, i.e. only 40% of posties stay on after first starting - or so I was led to believe - it certainly seems that it may well be that way from what I have experienced. My LM has interviews every couple of months. If the figure is anyway correct, surely it's down to the recruits themselves for not staying on: it's not the managers that are the problem.

[majeed]

Hey Adam lets get more PT staff and con them into doing 50hrs ,we'll save shedloads. Think of your bonus

Actually - that what happens: when a full-timer leaves, he's replaced by a part-timer who does the same duty - but FOR LESS HOURS!!!! - so I've been told!

Yep thats the point, solidarity and a
fair wage brother,fight the good fight

When you look at the legacy of the company, and how it used to be a government department, with everyone on a jolly old ride, milking it, left right and centre for all the cash they could get out of it - or so it seems to me, from the stories that people tell me about the 'good old days' [good for whom?] - and now it has become a business, there is no way any business can compete with the way a government department - with seemingly endless coffers of cash - in the way that it operates. That is the reality. And that should be the basis for the mind-set of the workforce now, as far as I can see: there will be casualties as the organisation goes through a transitional period: I suppose everyone has to be sure of why they are doing their job: either to "be supported" (which is how it was in the 'good, old' days of government) to "supporting" (which is how it seems to be, now): as we're all like family and the organisation is the 'house', I suppose it's only fair that as it's looked after us all these years, what with it getting-on a bit, now, it's time for us to look after it.

Ultimately, with the skills we all have, and what with other mail companies being allowed to capacity-build, we may be able to transfer over to the new companies in the not-too-distant future: when that happens, I am sure Royal Mail will be more in a position to reconsider the remuneration it gives to it's employees - in the same way you used to be able to walk out of one job into another, if you didn't like your employer. I have said my prayers for this to happen, so it should now take effect. Watch this space.

And yes: you're my brother whatever happens.

[axeman]

Spoken like someone who's been in royal fail for quite a period ?

[BELIAL]

You've changed your tune, gone from all ethnic innocence new starter mode straight into acronyms and thinly and poorly veiled threats,how odd. Maybe the mods can make it a sticky,"how the tapeworm turns" or "never trust the grinning dog" masha RM

[majeed]

Yes - the Jurassic period.

[majeed]

I suppose I will end with the catch-all of the Prophets of old, "If you feel no shame, then do as you wish"