The "How was your day" thread.

mrlovepantsuk · Post by **mrlovepantsuk** » 24 Nov 2008, 11:33

my day was bad enough as it was, up all night with my daughter on the last day of my holiday. Was just nodding off at 8 when my mobile rang, i cancelled the call, then the home phone rang. Both witheld numbers, the calling card of the managers at work.Also woke my daughter up so not at all happy.

galaxie500 · Post by **galaxie500** » 25 Nov 2008, 14:27

i love saturdays as most my firms are shut start at 5 finished at 8.20 thats quite late as i had a few packets have been done by 8 in the past
an get 6 hours sa rate as saturdays are ot at our office
wish every day was a saturday lol

Yahoorsur · Post by **Yahoorsur** » 25 Nov 2008, 15:14

Today was one of the easiest delivery days that I can remember,got started at 0930 had my 40 minutes meal relief and got finished at 1400,filled the van with diesel and put air in the tyres,back at the office at 1420,certainly dont want everyday to be like that,but as a wee break it was damm fine

johnnyp · Post by **johnnyp** » 25 Nov 2008, 15:43

galaxie500 wrote:i love saturdays as most my firms are shut start at 5 finished at 8.20 thats quite late as i had a few packets have been done by 8 in the past
an get 6 hours sa rate as saturdays are ot at our office
wish every day was a saturday lol

Youve got a right touch there mate

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 25 Nov 2008, 18:29

galaxie500 wrote:i love saturdays as most my firms are shut start at 5 finished at 8.20 thats quite late as i had a few packets have been done by 8 in the past
an get 6 hours sa rate as saturdays are ot at our office
wish every day was a saturday lol

I thought the every office had moved to a rotating 5 day week

you must be getting much lower pay than the rest of us after all, we were only given the payrise at SDD for moving to it and that's not mentioning to Pay and Modernisation agreement

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heapsy · Post by **heapsy** » 25 Nov 2008, 20:05

Busy day Monday, loads of packets, had about 6 I couldn't get rid of. Got my first lot of A4 sized posting for the congestion charge vote, today. Hope it doesn't get passed.

BELIAL · Post by **BELIAL** » 25 Nov 2008, 20:16

Thought mail was down,but counted 24 trucks including 3x double D's on the M4 in 3hrs? Never been anywhere near that in 26 years

smokerjim · Post by **smokerjim** » 25 Nov 2008, 20:37

As a part timer on 35 hrs, I start an hour after the FT......but I still turned up before the mech did

galaxie500 · Post by **galaxie500** » 26 Nov 2008, 16:15

disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
galaxie500 wrote:i love saturdays as most my firms are shut start at 5 finished at 8.20 thats quite late as i had a few packets have been done by 8 in the past
an get 6 hours sa rate as saturdays are ot at our office
wish every day was a saturday lol
I thought the every office had moved to a rotating 5 day week you must be getting much lower pay than the rest of us after all, we were only given the payrise at SDD for moving to it and that's not mentioning to Pay and Modernisation agreement .

a couple of sections at our office managed to keep saturday as sa but any new starters or pt staff have to rotating day off
think we just got lucky but we still got pay rise so on the same as everyone else

Stormproof · Post by **Stormproof** » 26 Nov 2008, 16:30

Packets are horrendous this week, yesterday I booked 2 hours to complete them. Today there were 2 yorks just for my van, when I told the manager he virtually accused me of booking and not clearing them yesterday

I don't think managers ever look at the packets they just hover around the IPS all morning, they must live in cloud cuckoo land. MC had nearly 500 yorks in overnight no wonder today was cr@p.

ad0128 · Post by **ad0128** » 26 Nov 2008, 18:18

seemed like a ususually quiet Wednesday. Most of the walkers were back on time............managers were long gone!!!1 and my parcels were not to bad

heapsy · Post by **heapsy** » 26 Nov 2008, 20:19

Totally bombed out with packets and the congestion charge voting papers. Plenty of light bulbs for a change too.

rebel · Post by **rebel** » 27 Nov 2008, 05:35

Yesterday (Tuesday - the "easy day"). Started work 6am. IPS goes on forever because too many people p*ss about or have easy walks and don't give a F**k. Finished IPS about 10 am. Ready to leave office at mid-day (haven't taken break yet -except acoupla fag breaks in MY time -not IPS time). 2 bags of packets. Driver says he can't fit the bags in the few boxes I have. Tell Lino I cannot complete (finish time 2.30 but with meal relief at end can return to office 2pm). Told I have to take everything out anyway rather than leave work in the office. Why take out stuff that I'm gonna bring back? Instructed that is what I have to do.

Start my walk, eventually. Complaints (becoming normal) from customers about why the mail so late. Do about half my walk, take the mail from the boxes and retrrn to the office with a trolley even heavier than the one I took out (due to the volume of mail left in the boxes). And even that was 3pm!! Came back to closed office. Lino's ain't gonna work past their time.Shitloads of mail in my trolley, I'm tired and p-d off and just wanna go home (via the nearest pub - I bloody need it!). What am I supposed to do??? So I strore the trolley in the darkest place I can find. Luckily, this morning still there - all contents included. But this is not the way the job should be!!!

Cuts!! Cuts!! Cuts!! Don't try to tell me the volume has decreased. I'm p-d off looking at the smiling faces of happy posties in Courier syaing that "we all work together and our office is great". If the cameramen came to our office they would probably get chinned. More cuts planned next year. Are they having a laugh??

ad0128 · Post by **ad0128** » 27 Nov 2008, 18:58

battered by amazon today and the walkers got the sky mags.......met most of the fulltime leaving before two and most of the partime guys at 1545. Shambles imo

12.15 first letter for a duty less than half mile from office

heapsy · Post by **heapsy** » 27 Nov 2008, 20:09

Easier today because I cleared most of the congestion charge ballot papers yesterday, but still heavy. Plenty of packets coming through now, and one or two xmas cards arriving early from overseas. Think some of the lads had it really bad today because of the congestion charge papers and the fact that there were loads throwing walks off. And we've got 9 out of about 90 gone sick.