Transfer to another office

[madelin4]

You will not get a transfer over 35 hours and the way I can see it more like 30 hours.

Hi, yea 30 hours wud prob do me good, i wudnt have much travel expenses.. Cheers ..

Hi madelin4, a friend of mine transfered back to my office last year where he worked for several years before he moved, he returned for personal reasons EHS involved etc. the lads on here are right, he is still on a 30hr contract to this day but you do say that you will be happy with this. The rep has been fighting for him to go full time, the DUM recently asked my friend 'do you still want to go full-time as I was told you don't want to'. Unusual that a DUM lying!!

You can always tell when a screw, dum or Laurel and Hardy are lying-the lips always move. .

Thanks Waffler... i hope ur pal gets full time ok ..

[POSTMAN]

Madelin4 the way things are going at the moment you will be very lucky to get a transfer.Are you full time?Any job that becomes vacant from what i can see and have heard are made part time.Whats your sick record like?Managers very fussy with sick records.Will your DOM let you go?Unless you have a very good reason he may not let you go as he will then have to cover your job,are you a driver or ex p.h.g. they dont like to loose these sort of people.
You could always resort to making yourself such a pain in the arse that he will want to get rid of you,cue suggestions

Hi Johnnypick.. yea i am full-time but i wud prob be ok to drop part-time say 25 or 30 hours do overtime if need be or work few nights somewhere, my sick record is fine, on a stage 1 at mo for 5 months so far, im not phg or anything, i have my own town walk which i love and i know 1 rural which i hate being moved to , but apart from that , care about my work, i always ensure i do my walk well and never any complaints..

If you have an office in mind, get in touch with the DOM there. You may be able to sort a transfer out without going down the official way, if your DOM agrees to let you go and the new office has vacancies. You wont get full time but maybe 30hrs.

R u a true Dom DOM? Mayb my manager might not like me doing that? My record is very good, im good at my job, i no the job is getting harder but least if i was closer to home when i move and closer to my family i know i will be much happier.... i cud cope ok with 30 hours, i cud do overtime if i needed to..is there any reason why i wudnt be accepted for a transfer?

I think if you answer yes to "Are you on the attendance procedure?" on the transfer request form then thats the end of of the application but if you go down the route that I suggested then a good word from your current DOM could get round this. I would value his/her opinion in thinking about accepting a transferee.

I think you MIGHT be mistaken about the attendance procedure thing,can anyone clarify this?

[DOM]

Madelin4 the way things are going at the moment you will be very lucky to get a transfer.Are you full time?Any job that becomes vacant from what i can see and have heard are made part time.Whats your sick record like?Managers very fussy with sick records.Will your DOM let you go?Unless you have a very good reason he may not let you go as he will then have to cover your job,are you a driver or ex p.h.g. they dont like to loose these sort of people.
You could always resort to making yourself such a pain in the arse that he will want to get rid of you,cue suggestions

Hi Johnnypick.. yea i am full-time but i wud prob be ok to drop part-time say 25 or 30 hours do overtime if need be or work few nights somewhere, my sick record is fine, on a stage 1 at mo for 5 months so far, im not phg or anything, i have my own town walk which i love and i know 1 rural which i hate being moved to , but apart from that , care about my work, i always ensure i do my walk well and never any complaints..

If you have an office in mind, get in touch with the DOM there. You may be able to sort a transfer out without going down the official way, if your DOM agrees to let you go and the new office has vacancies. You wont get full time but maybe 30hrs.

R u a true Dom DOM? Mayb my manager might not like me doing that? My record is very good, im good at my job, i no the job is getting harder but least if i was closer to home when i move and closer to my family i know i will be much happier.... i cud cope ok with 30 hours, i cud do overtime if i needed to..is there any reason why i wudnt be accepted for a transfer?

I think if you answer yes to "Are you on the attendance procedure?" on the transfer request form then thats the end of of the application but if you go down the route that I suggested then a good word from your current DOM could get round this. I would value his/her opinion in thinking about accepting a transferee.

I think you MIGHT be mistaken about the attendance procedure thing,can anyone clarify this?

I've not seen a form for a while ...may be wrong......sometimes am (not often ).

[waffler]

Thanks to you madelin4, hope yours comes through, you'll be immune from rural van deliveries at least!!

[bristolchris]

If you have an office in mind, get in touch with the DOM there. You may be able to sort a transfer out without going down the official way, if your DOM agrees to let you go and the new office has vacancies. You wont get full time but maybe 30hrs.

Just curious why not full time,are you saying that all new entrants/transfers ect will not be full time.
Surely if a full timer leaves and a full timer wants it then that's it.
Or is this RMs policy now?

Also one of my guys have been waiting for months and went down this route after i got some numbers off someone on here with no luck.

I would say thats it`s very rare these days that when someone leaves the `Office` and if it`s a FULL TIME job, that the `vacancy` is not reduced to 30Hrs or less.

[bigsharkboy]

also another avenue ive tried for a member was to ask my branch sec to speak to the branch sec where you wanna go and the branch sec will (if hes any good) put some feelers out

ive been contacted quite often by my branch sec over the years as i live near to a nice seaside resort which posties seem to want to move too asking bout vacancies in my office

might be worth a punt

[madelin4]

I just feel that my Ass DOM picks on me, he moves me to the driving duty and i was only meant to be moved as last option as agreed with area manager, he wont help me with odd days, when i was off sick last time as it got to me the way he was treating me always moving me when other drivers knew it but just didnt move them he said to me he didnt believe that was the reason i was off sick, he had to apologise to me and i had it witnessed..he has got at me for not wearing royal mail trousers, got at me for not doing endorsements that wernt even mine as i had just returned from leave.. wud this be good enough reason to get moved? its bothering me. as in moved to another office?

[tasam]

I just feel that my Ass DOM picks on me, he moves me to the driving duty and i was only meant to be moved as last option as agreed with area manager, he wont help me with odd days, when i was off sick last time as it got to me the way he was treating me always moving me when other drivers knew it but just didnt move them he said to me he didnt believe that was the reason i was off sick, he had to apologise to me and i had it witnessed..he has got at me for not wearing royal mail trousers, got at me for not doing endorsements that wernt even mine as i had just returned from leave.. wud this be good enough reason to get moved? its bothering me. as in moved to another office?

I was getting a lot of grief from a manager just before we moved house.

I asked the union rep if she knew of any chance of a transfer. A few weeks later one of the managers came up to me and said that there was a transfer available. It meant a reduction from 28 hours to 27.5.

I accepted the transfer and have never looked back.

There are still some crap managers but I don't feel the same level of bullying and I feel much better about going to work each day.

Ask your union rep (or the area rep), you'll have nothing to lose (and maybe everything to gain)

[madelin4]

I just feel that my Ass DOM picks on me, he moves me to the driving duty and i was only meant to be moved as last option as agreed with area manager, he wont help me with odd days, when i was off sick last time as it got to me the way he was treating me always moving me when other drivers knew it but just didnt move them he said to me he didnt believe that was the reason i was off sick, he had to apologise to me and i had it witnessed..he has got at me for not wearing royal mail trousers, got at me for not doing endorsements that wernt even mine as i had just returned from leave.. wud this be good enough reason to get moved? its bothering me. as in moved to another office?

I was getting a lot of grief from a manager just before we moved house.

I asked the union rep if she knew of any chance of a transfer. A few weeks later one of the managers came up to me and said that there was a transfer available. It meant a reduction from 28 hours to 27.5.

I accepted the transfer and have never looked back.

There are still some crap managers but I don't feel the same level of bullying and I feel much better about going to work each day.

Ask your union rep (or the area rep), you'll have nothing to lose (and maybe everything to gain)

Thanks a million for that tasam, i feel better knowing that.. do u think with what i have said about my ass dom is good enough?and 2 people in the office dont speak to me, there is 2 females im one of them and me and the other one dont speak and i feel alone in that dept to. i know the other office has a number of females which be good and im from that area so i shud fit in ok.i will wait to the 12th is over and ring my area rep he is nice.. thanks..

[Ex postman (sorry)]

Royal Mail don't really have a transfer system, it's a lie. A mate of mine spent 2 years trying to get one and eventually had to resign. Then the recruitment system went stupid and now it's all done online (great advert for a postal company!)
As much as he wanted to stay with RM he can't now. He applies to every job available, pointing out his experiance but to no avail.

[andrew164]

I recently rang the HR dept in Chesterfield and was told that I would need to request a form from my line manager to complete.

I'm currently working in the North East, on a 20 odd hour PT contract with my own duty, but want to relocate to the South West. If I was to transfer I could really do with a few more hours as other wise I would be on the bones of my bum. Have worked for RM for just over 3 years with a clean record.

Just after a bit of info/feedback before I take the plunge in speaking to my manager, who I do get on with quite well.

Cheers