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Managers under pressure ?

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BoxCleva
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Managers under pressure ?

Post by BoxCleva »

As mentioned in a previous thread, my manager is like a cat on hot bricks at the moment. He is genuinely frightened of everything, IB, covering rounds, budgets you name it. I get the distinct impression that if I crept up behind him and said 'BOO' he'd keel over :confused

So why the stress at the moment? It's only in the last two weeks that the veins in the side of his head have started bulging, so I'm guessing it's budget reduction time, right ?

Now by the sound of it our manager has all the attributes required by RM, uneducated, weak, vengeful, childish, vindictive etc etc . I'm guessing that the pressure from above to achieve the required cuts is the reason for the panic, as well as the fact he can't use a calculator :chuckle He's even asked us to try and work out how the cuts can be achieved :crazy:

Anyone else's managers head about to explode at the moment ?
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Lost two DOMs since early December to stress, poor little puppies :left:
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BoxCleva
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No idea what a DIMM or a linos is , but I am guessing they are two of the many management tiers. We have PHG's who do all the management work and a DOM who hides in his office with just his paranoia as company :crazy:
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BoxCleva wrote:No idea what a DIMM or a linos is , but I am guessing they are two of the many management tiers. We have PHG's who do all the management work and a DOM who hides in his office with just his paranoia as company :crazy:
DIMM = DOM = Delivery Office Manager

Lino = Line Manager
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BoxCleva wrote:No idea what a DIMM or a linos is , but I am guessing they are two of the many management tiers. We have PHG's who do all the management work and a DOM who hides in his office with just his paranoia as company :crazy:
DIM = DOM and a Lino is the line manager in larger DOs.
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Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

DGP1 wrote:
BoxCleva wrote:No idea what a DIMM or a linos is , but I am guessing they are two of the many management tiers. We have PHG's who do all the management work and a DOM who hides in his office with just his paranoia as company :crazy:
DIM = DOM and a Lino is the line manager in larger DOs.
similar to the PHGs of old
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Post by Puppetmaster »

Over recent years seen so many Linos and Dim ,have problems by stress,many linos go back to being Posties as after all many are only Acting and can be so for years.

Dims tend to leave,many have health and drink issues.

Many are under so much Preassure to tick all RM boxes wich I guess must be nearly impossible,they falsify figures,then get booted out and demoted etc.

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It really is working with the DEVIL!

We had a reasonable DOM some years ago stood up in front of every one after that years cuts and said their could be no more cuts in our office that was it.
2 weeks later he left the Company!
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They get no sympathy from me, if they all grew a backbone we would'nt be in this s**t.
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WHITEANT
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Re: Managers under pressure ?

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Or from me , :cfo
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sod 'em
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Post by fishtank »

They are only under pressure through their inability to stand up to those above them.
What did they think would happen when they run out of hours to cut.
No sympathy,grow a pair or feck off. :no no
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get rid of at least half of them on trumped up charges :left:
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Post by krussel »

In fairness i am sure they are under buget related stress. However this does not stop them going home 2 hrs early each week day and at 10am on sat. I never see any when i get back from my full delivery and stress inducing extra absorbtion :d'oh!
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Post by bandit650 »

Problem is the lies and the over inflated egos have got in the way of running this company,managers in all their ugly way's i don't care what grade they have been or were they have lied about figures and what staff did as a duty,take for instance when we had 2 delivery's what they did in the office i'm based at is tell them that all the staff were back by 09.30,lier's they were not they had made the delivery bigger so you could not get back at that time unless you cut corner's.They used hours that should have been used for sorting for anything that was not sorting,like taking 2nd delivery's out.
They say there is less mail about and that at least 85%of mail is put through a machine,lie no2, it's not try 65-67% and then they go and revise an office work plan to fit that lie then wonder why delivery's are failing,lie no3 is that they alter tray fill levels and then come out with the mail is falling back,no doubt that there is a little less about but not enough to warrent what they have come out with,try asking the postal staff that walk the streets and they will give you honest answers,they are not the one's that have anything to hide.
The biggest laugh is that the business is turning it's back on what is going up,that is the packet traffic it is going up as more of us turn to internet shopping why because alot of us are working longer hour's and don't have the hour's to spend in the high street,most of us hate it in the town shopping any way.
To say they are feeling the pressure well thats what they get paid for they try to pressure us to achieve the unachievable to do these delivery's in 3.5hours when in the real world they are 4-5hrs,to walk at an un-realistic pace,so do you or i feel for them,i have to say NO,while they sit there getting bigger in size we loose weight no problem,we have joint injury due to over working our joint's and carrying weight,do they get sun burnt in the summer because they are in the mid day sun,not through working! only drinking in the pub and spending time slapping each other on the back for a job well cooked,so as one other said.They Rep what they have sown!