themoog wrote:Sandyman wrote:
I wouldn't doubt for a minute your sincerity and desire to do a proper job as a manager and improve your earnings. If I thought for a minute that I could improve things in my D.O. I'd give it a go. The problem is, that even the best managers have to toe the suicidal party line from the Old St Kremlin. We've had a couple of good liners in my D.O. who have done a good job, until reviews found they weren't toeing the party line. They were forced to obey and the service screwed up again. Obedience to orders from above is the R M mantra - no matter how crazy - orders must be obeyed. Loyalty to good service and building staff morale have no place in todays Royal Mail. Loyalty to :lfo & :cfo is all. No questions asked, no deviation. It serves no benefit to the business, it only serves to benefit a few self-interested individuals and their lackies. Sorry themoog, it's a very dark side you are going to in today's environment.
Your point about the "suicidal party line" raises an interesting debate. Surely it's not the actual Managers themselves that are the problem per se...it's the system they have to work to that's flawed. Obviously I know that there are good, bad and downright useless Managers and they cannot be absolved of all blame...but the system and ways in which they have to work obviously needs major adjustment. I mean, when you break the job down, it's not really difficult. Make sure the post gets from A to B.
It's interesting to read that you had some good Managers who did a good job despite not adhering to the Royal Mail way. That to me says that the Royal Mail way is blatantly not capable of delivering results...especially when the Managers you allude to were forced to do things by the book and the whole thing fell apart again.
It all boils down to RM's Senior managers and board "managing" solely by dicktat and the area middle managers that are on fixed term contracts subject to Big Al's appraisals that do their bidding , too remote , too top down , a very unhealthy negative culture - you name it - it's one disaster after another -to be fair the previous RM system wasn't that good either when Civil Servant types were in charge , it was likened to something out of 60's Nationalized Industries or even post World War 2 demob days so it's the worst of the two .
Same problems as most industries only taken to literal extremes ? - However most Industries wouldn't have empire builders of the worst kind and parasitical subordinates to feed a management structure that exists solely for the benefit of the managers in it - there's a lot of rats jumping off a sinking ship and the Emperor with no clothes is going with another to follow when his contract doesn't get renewed .
The apologists for Senior Managers on other sites would just say they are under pressure from Postcon to make RM super corporate hence the Ariel Sharron school of IR and there's not the time to fart about - which makes everything allright of course
There's other issues in the big picture - Gordon's " Public Sector " Reforms " ' - they seem to have failure built into them and don't serve the people they are supposed to serve , the orginal EEC directive from the Dutch Freemarketeer without ringfencing the USO and the unmitigated disaster of the railroaded through Postal Services Act 2000
MURDERERS. Need to dispose of a body? Simply parcel it up and post it to yourself via DHL. You will never see it again.
