Fast/slow workers!.

[woofwoof]

This thread has yet again degenerated into the usual 'slow posties are just doing the job properly' load of rubbish.

The guy next to me starts at the same time as me, his walk is the same as mine (give or take 5 minutes) and he's the same age as me. We both collapse Mon and Tues (sometimes Wed as well) yet he finishes 2-3 hours later than me nearly every day, and I don't run.

He's not 'doing the job properly', he's just totally f*cking useless and must eat slug pellets for breakfast.

There's a big difference between 'doing the job properly' and being a useless turd.

your been very harsh how do you know if he is dda this could be a reason for all you know

[Rommagic]

This thread has yet again degenerated into the usual 'slow posties are just doing the job properly' load of rubbish.

The guy next to me starts at the same time as me, his walk is the same as mine (give or take 5 minutes) and he's the same age as me. We both collapse Mon and Tues (sometimes Wed as well) yet he finishes 2-3 hours later than me nearly every day, and I don't run.

He's not 'doing the job properly', he's just totally f*cking useless and must eat slug pellets for breakfast.

There's a big difference between 'doing the job properly' and being a useless turd.

Thats what i think good post .

[Rommagic]

Is it fair a worker who is up too speed gets given more work while a slow worker gets left alone and finishes after there time everyday.There should be a independent person going out on walks and training a slow worker too get them up too speed.

Just a few questions for you :-

1. Do you "flick/flip check" your mail while you are walking ?
2. Do you ever "doorstep" items ?
3. Do you talk shortcuts over peoples gardens ?
4. Do you ever run ?
5. Do you leave packets with neighbours ?
6. Do you start before official start time ?
7. Do you use your car ?

Just interested !

1.Yes
2.No
3.No
4.No
5.sometimes
6.No
7.No

[IWW Fellow Worker]

Fast workers die young! I'm hoping to achieve immortality. You won't catch me rushing about like a lunatic. As for these crawlers who go whinging to the so-called managers about 'slow' people, are you on some kind of productivity bonus the rest of us don't know about? Nuggets!

[fishtank]

This thread has yet again degenerated into the usual 'slow posties are just doing the job properly' load of rubbish.

The guy next to me starts at the same time as me, his walk is the same as mine (give or take 5 minutes) and he's the same age as me. We both collapse Mon and Tues (sometimes Wed as well) yet he finishes 2-3 hours later than me nearly every day, and I don't run.

He's not 'doing the job properly', he's just totally f*cking useless and must eat slug pellets for breakfast.

There's a big difference between 'doing the job properly' and being a useless turd.

One question Onaflyer.Why does it bother you so much?
It's not as if his finishing time has anything to do with you and yet you feel you have the right to call him "f*cking useless" and a "useless turd".
Are you telling us that you take 3.5hrs and he takes 5.5-6.5hrs.
Surely if all this was true even a stupid manager would notice a 2-3hr discrepancy.
Are you jealous?Is it because he earns more money than you for doing the same amount of work.
That just means he is more intelligent than you.You should never envy intelligence.
Maybe if you ask this "useless turd "nicely he could pass on a few tips.

[IWW Fellow Worker]

One question Onaflyer.Why does it bother you so much?
It's not as if his finishing time has anything to do with you and yet you feel you have the right to call him "f*cking useless" and a "useless turd".
Are you telling us that you take 3.5hrs and he takes 5.5-6.5hrs.
Surely if all this was true even a stupid manager would notice a 2-3hr discrepancy.
Are you jealous?Is it because he earns more money than you for doing the same amount of work.
That just means he is more intelligent than you.You should never envy intelligence.
Maybe if you ask this "useless turd "nicely he could pass on a few tips.

Nicely put!

[mailman71]

i've been a posty for 30years,in my mid 50's and there is no way i can go as fast as a 20 year old runner,i can never understand why people want to run round every day,
over the years i've seen plenty speedy road runner types but you know what they dont last,they either slow down like everybody else or they go of sick with stress worrying about finishing early every day.
if god wanted posty's to fly round our walks he would have given us wings.

[IWW Fellow Worker]

i've been a posty for 30years,in my mid 50's and there is no way i can go as fast as a 20 year old runner,i can never understand why people want to run round every day,
over the years i've seen plenty speedy road runner types but you know what they dont last,they either slow down like everybody else or they go of sick with stress worrying about finishing early every day.
if god wanted posty's to fly round our walks he would have given us wings.

I remember a bloke in my office suffering a heart attack in 1980. They made a walk for him which was planned so as he never had to walk up a hill and which didn't put him under any pressure. Imagine that these days? Our DIM "can't understand" why a 29 year old can get around faster than a 55 year old. He also "can't understand" who it takes longer to get around in icy conditions. Typical of the idiots we've got 'managing' Royal Mail these days.

[Tman]

This thread has yet again degenerated into the usual 'slow posties are just doing the job properly' load of rubbish.
He's not 'doing the job properly', he's just totally f*cking useless and must eat slug pellets for breakfast.
There's a big difference between 'doing the job properly' and being a useless turd.

What strange inverse (not to say perverse) logic to equate "slow useless turds" = "doing the job properly"

I wonder if those same apologists for the terminally useless RM employees would feel quite so charitable towards, say, a surgeon performing an operation on them?
No-one could be that stupid, could they? Then again...........

[fishtank]

This thread has yet again degenerated into the usual 'slow posties are just doing the job properly' load of rubbish.
He's not 'doing the job properly', he's just totally f*cking useless and must eat slug pellets for breakfast.
There's a big difference between 'doing the job properly' and being a useless turd.

What strange inverse (not to say perverse) logic to equate "slow useless turds" = "doing the job properly"

I wonder if those same apologists for the terminally useless RM employees would feel quite so charitable towards, say, a surgeon performing an operation on them?
No-one could be that stupid, could they? Then again...........

Tman you only have Onaflyers opinion on whether this postman is a slow useless turd.
Onaflyers opinion is that the best way to complete a task is quickly.
Not always a prefered trait for a say,a surgeon performing an operation.

[mancpat]

I've been in the job for just over 10 years, i've done most walks in my office and can get them done well within the time.

I don't run, i don't come in early, i don't use my car, i don't take short cuts and i do take my break.

The problem is there are too many bone idle people in royal mail who want to drag their feet so someone else will do their walk for them when they start saying they wont get it done in time.

[floydy]

The problem is there are too many bone idle people in royal mail who want to drag their feet so someone else will do their walk for them when they start saying they wont get it done in time.


Yep see the same here Sorry but it's true same people leaving stuff every day no matter how light it is

[madmax99]

Is it fair a worker who is up too speed gets given more work while a slow worker gets left alone and finishes after there time everyday.There should be a independent person going out on walks and training a slow worker too get them up too speed.

Just a few questions for you :-

1. Do you "flick/flip check" your mail while you are walking ?
2. Do you ever "doorstep" items ?
3. Do you talk shortcuts over peoples gardens ?
4. Do you ever run ?
5. Do you leave packets with neighbours ?
6. Do you start before official start time ?
7. Do you use your car ?

Just interested !

1.Yes
2.No
3.No
4.No
5.sometimes
6.No
7.No

Answer 1 means you will be "absorbed". Major Health and Safety issue !

[The hollow man]

The problem is there are too many bone idle people in royal mail who want to drag their feet so someone else will do their walk for them when they start saying they wont get it done in time.


Yep see the same here Sorry but it's true same people leaving stuff every day no matter how light it is

Well too many bone idle people in our office have conned the gaffers into believing they have 3.5 hr walks - when in all truth there 3 hr walks. Ok, i do think age, fitness, etc does play a part into when the duty can be finished, some people just take the piss though,it's plain to see- people deliberatley tying up slow, taking several fag breaks etc. Gaffers seem to turn a blind eye to all this though, it seems the norm in our office

[guvenor]

well i cut off today
why? manager quizzed me why i put in1hr30min docket for extd delv.
it then took me 3hrs later for the tube to produce docket for me to sign off
i must have asked for it umpteen times
i wasn,t going slow ,conveying in office is shambles didnt start del until 10,45
and the response i got was "it still seems an awful lot of time"
work it out 3.5 del span and it is
40 min meal rel and due to finish at 2pm
bear in mind pt road i box as well as my own im ft was more or less done to completion
the guy comes in every day 1hr early for zero mgmt wet dream every day
and today to top it all i ask him what you doing
"im boxing in this road to get my missorts saves me waiting"
so i box his road for him to leave early and f"** me im left in the s**t
sorry enough is enough i thinks
this is what full time staff face daily what chance have we got
and wonder why i take anti ds