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Management quotes 2009

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POSTMAN
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Management quotes 2009

Post by POSTMAN »

Thought of this after a blinder of a nugget today.
Most of the office were prepping their cut offs in an already bulging frame and complaining about it all,when the lino came out with.....

"You shouldn't have a problem with your walks today as It doesn't matter whether you are delivering 1 letter to a drop of 10 letters it takes the same amount of time as you have to go there anyway." :crazy:
Oh,and he gave a demonstration as well :left:
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The LM will be able to show you how to do it properly soon when his job has gone and he's back as a blue shirt :left:
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets


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Post by surreymonkey »

Perhaps he will remember this when Royal Mail tell us that we can absorb extra work because mail volumes have decreased.
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Post by richbriggs69 »

And if the letter box is small, do all 10 items go thro in one go or do you have to put them in a few at a time? :hmmmm
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Post by knackeredneedadayoff »

every guy has to go to our lm and tell him how much we will go over and its usually how mucchhhh,even for half an hour they moan,if you cut they make you have your meal relief and count your mail.
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Post by OnAFlyer »

linkinpark wrote:So your lino thinks you dont need to check each item before slotting them as is RMs SOP then?
..Or that 1 letter for each house = 1-2 bags of mail, 10 letters for each house = 10+ bags and a lot of walking back to pouch boxes and filling bags.

That manager is obviously suffering from all 3 major forms of retardation.
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Post by teesdale »

My favourite junior management quotes are "are you refusing to do the work", "if it doesn't concern you then why are you bothered", "you've 30 seconds left yet" and "£400 flexibility". Looking forward to the management review assessments. :dance
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DOM's Jolly - I'm the boss and I'll run this office anyway I see fit, and I do not have to answer to any of you :no no :no no
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Post by Captain Scarlet »

Our Dim...I don't think it will be busy this Xmas......WTF :d'oh! Where do these guys go when the going gets tough...Hide in the orifise I mean office :d'oh!
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Our Dom says "I don't get it, All the area DOMs say this is undoable ;senior management say tough s**t" License failure is a given :Very Happy It ain't my job ,but it won't be theirs either ,lies lies lies :chuckle
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Spare artic anyone :shhhhh
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Post by max power »

At a recent meeting with the union reps and doms ,one of the managers manager announced that they had "f****d up and got it wrong "

our dom and union rep said they just stood there open mouthed could not belive it

shame he did not say it in public
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Post by mydaily »

"If you put a grievance in, you better make it stick otherwise I'll conduct code you for it"

WTF they were thinking saying this to me who knows - red rag and all that!

Followed the next day by "sorry, should not have spoke to you like I did yesterday"

prob the first and last time a manager will apologise to me so will savor the moment forever, just a shame no witnesses.
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Post by topcat13 »

i questioned my dim about the fact that i was losing my rest day on boxing day, he replyed "your not losing a day every one else is gaining a day" made me feel a lot better :Applause :Applause :Applause
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every guy has to go to our lm and tell him how much we will go over and its usually how mucchhhh,even for half an hour they moan,if you cut they make you have your meal relief and count your mail.

This gets me so mad . Our old dom even made us queue outside his door for a while. Its like they are doing us a favour by LETTING us book it. No you are doing THEM a favour by going over your contracted hours and you need to remind them of this prompto.
The counting of letters in your frame has been done here, usually on your meal relief. Its just designed to put you off bullying. If the mail is not that heavy you just need to remind them its due to the extra 30-40mins ips etc they had you doing. Or whatever reason is, dont be bullied into working for nothing.

As for making you take a break, well i think thats the reason why we,re just about to lose a paid break, cos none of you buggers take it, not even 20 mins. Theres not that many in our office who take the whole of it and ive found myself justifying why i need it. (walks neen increased to 800 drops, loads of steps etc) when other sections are queueing up at the door and actually RUN to their cars.