Expectations

[fhorrocks]

Hello all!!

I wonder if you can help me....I am doing a drama project on your expectations when you became post man/women?? Could you give me a few lines of all you expected your job to be and whether it differs from how you feel now???

Thanks in advance...

Faye

[gideon 60]

i expected to get cold and wet and i did

[baldrick]

I expected to get the pension Royal Mail promised me - and I won't.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I expected it to be a job that was physically demanding yet rewarding, and it was till 2007.

I expected camaraderie and respect, both of which I got from co-workers but sadly lacking from management.

I expected a bit of give and take where work is concerned, like working over on days to make up for finishing early on others. Now Royal Mail want us to work to our time, fair enough but why knowingly give us so much work we go over our time and then put barriers in place when we want to finish smack on time.

I expected a lazy, militant and strike prone workforce where management was trying its best to get the job done. When I started I found the complete opposite to be true. Staff that are hard working, willing to modernise, adapt and change, yet nervous and scared when it came to standing up for fairness. Management are autocratic, inflexible, unapproachable, demeaning and care nothing for the service side of the business, they are completely profit/bonus orientated, and this is at all levels of management but more especially at board level. Worst of all no one in RM management appears to recognise that "Leadership" is an important part of their skill base. Anyone with good leadership skills, in theory and practice, would not have a workforce so vociferous or so many that are willing to support their Union.

[sanyo]

AS ABOVE