4 day week

[scotchick]

In our office we've been working a 4day week since nov, longer deliveries, trolleys and shared van for the walks, i must say the 2days off are great but the 10hr shifts are far too long, our deliveries are supposed to be 4.30 but most are 5.30, by the time i get home from work now all i do is shower and fall asleep, i think it has been a huge mistake.

[krussel]

In our office we've been working a 4day week since nov, longer deliveries, trolleys and shared van for the walks, i must say the 2days off are great but the 10hr shifts are far too long, our deliveries are supposed to be 4.30 but most are 5.30, by the time i get home from work now all i do is shower and fall asleep, i think it has been a huge mistake.

I know that 10 hours would be too much for me. Surely five and a half hour duties are madness. With lapsing i did about 4.15 mins of walking delivery today and i am wacked now let alone another hour and fifteen on top. I think i would sleep for the 2 days

[scotchick]

10 hrs is too much for all of us, it takes us our 2days off just to get back to normal, office moral has totally gone and it's getting worse, were summer lapsing as well adding another 30 mins onto our deliveries, so some days we can be out for 6hrs, this is what they call progress.

[POSTMAN]

WTF!! Why the hell did you agree to 4-30hrs deliverys!!
I'm on a 4 day week,our walks are around 4hrs on a bad day,it's hard but worth it for the days off.

And how the hell do you prep all that in time,at times we struggle if it's lumpy,so how do you do it.

[da'bunny]

Are the 4 days a week rolling? ie one week its mon- thurs the next its tues - fri? If so i like the sound of that ..more chance of long w/e off

[jcjd]

10 hrs is too much for all of us, it takes us our 2days off just to get back to normal, office moral has totally gone and it's getting worse, were summer lapsing as well adding another 30 mins onto our deliveries, so some days we can be out for 6hrs, this is what they call progress.

The 4 day weeks are the best thing to come into rm IF the planning is done right. Why do you think rm are so adament on taking them out now, and as for being out for 6hrs who on earth agreed to that! Do the job properly and 10 hour day or not most days you can fill it and thier would only be enough time to do a normal delivery 3.5hrs

[POSTMAN]

Are the 4 days a week rolling? ie one week its mon- thurs the next its tues - fri? If so i like the sound of that ..more chance of long w/e off

It's the dogs dangly bits.

W1:Mon-Tue
W2:Wed-Thur
W3:Fri-Sat
(Sun)
W1:Mon-Tue
W2:Wed-Thur

ect,ect

[ashtoninho]

Are the 4 days a week rolling? ie one week its mon- thurs the next its tues - fri? If so i like the sound of that ..more chance of long w/e off

It's the dogs dangly bits.

W1:Mon-Tue
W2:Wed-Thur
W3:Fri-Sat
(Sun)
W1:Mon-Tue
W2:Wed-Thur

ect,ect

not as good as one week off in every 6
monday-saturday for 5weeks then a full week off with pay
add in annaul leave its knocking on for 14week a year off work
plus sick but keep that to yourself

[NWpostie]

Are the 4 days a week rolling? ie one week its mon- thurs the next its tues - fri? If so i like the sound of that ..more chance of long w/e off

It's the dogs dangly bits.

W1:Mon-Tue
W2:Wed-Thur
W3:Fri-Sat
(Sun)
W1:Mon-Tue
W2:Wed-Thur

ect,ect

not as good as one week off in every 6
monday-saturday for 5weeks then a full week off with pay
add in annaul leave its knocking on for 14week a year off work
plus sick but keep that to yourself

I have been trying to get that started in my Office, there is zero interest at the moment, Runcorn managed it, so whats stopping us.

[POSTMAN]

Are the 4 days a week rolling? ie one week its mon- thurs the next its tues - fri? If so i like the sound of that ..more chance of long w/e off

It's the dogs dangly bits.

W1:Mon-Tue
W2:Wed-Thur
W3:Fri-Sat
(Sun)
W1:Mon-Tue
W2:Wed-Thur

ect,ect

not as good as one week off in every 6
monday-saturday for 5weeks then a full week off with pay
add in annaul leave its knocking on for 14week a year off work
plus sick but keep that to yourself

Our 1 week off thing we looked at was a 5 day week as normal(You get a rotating rest day),but for 4 days we do a 1/4 of another walk (Sat was normal 8hrs)to bank the 8 hrs,then the week off in 6.

Ermm i think i've actually confused me self
We didn't like the look of that,as the grabbing a 1/4 of a walk the prepping and watnot wasn't worth the hassle.

[Pinky 1]

not as good as one week off in every 6
monday-saturday for 5weeks then a full week off with pay
add in annaul leave its knocking on for 14week a year off work
plus sick but keep that to yourself

Is this what is known as the "Hereford System" ?
We tried to get this started in our office a few years ago, but the Dim would only accept it if it was 100% across the office.
Unfortunatly, we couldn't even get 25% .....

[kwikpost]

In our office we've been working a 4day week since nov, longer deliveries, trolleys and shared van for the walks, i must say the 2days off are great but the 10hr shifts are far too long, our deliveries are supposed to be 4.30 but most are 5.30, by the time i get home from work now all i do is shower and fall asleep, i think it has been a huge mistake.

not sure if we weren't all better off when we were a 7.hr, 6 days, 2 deliveries a day, per week. going onto this SDD is propably the worst thing we have ever done. i'm struggling with 3.5hr delivery. i know i couldn't do 4hrs or more.

[jcjd]

Are the 4 days a week rolling? ie one week its mon- thurs the next its tues - fri? If so i like the sound of that ..more chance of long w/e off

It's the dogs dangly bits.

W1:Mon-Tue
W2:Wed-Thur
W3:Fri-Sat
(Sun)
W1:Mon-Tue
W2:Wed-Thur

ect,ect

not as good as one week off in every 6
monday-saturday for 5weeks then a full week off with pay
add in annaul leave its knocking on for 14week a year off work
plus sick but keep that to yourself

I have been trying to get that started in my Office, there is zero interest at the moment, Runcorn managed it, so whats stopping us.

Nobody should be talking to rm about any deals at the moment, because if we let rm win this dipute in a short period of time they'll have us all working 6 days a week let alone 4

[mclovin]

Thought Health and Safety Laws said we could not be on delivery more than 3 hours 30 minutes.

Whether or not they agreed 4 hour 30 minute delivery, its unlawful, yes?

[POSTMAN]

Thought Health and Safety Laws said we could not be on delivery more than 3 hours 30 minutes.

Whether or not they agreed 4 hour 30 minute delivery, its unlawful, yes?

There is no law as such,it's the National Agreement.