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Good questions to ask my DOM please

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billypants
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Good questions to ask my DOM please

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Apparently in our office we're all gonna get a meeting with the DUM tomorrow morning, so given this golden opportunity what are the best (sensible and not insulting) questions we can put to him ?

Anything that gets him to reveal the truth behind the "spin" on this deal or maybe that shows his own lack of knowledge on it.

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Re: Good questions to ask my DOM please

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Simple,Ask him how many hours will be put back into your office to deal with D2D into workload and the new delivery methods. :left:
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Re: Good questions to ask my DOM please

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billypants wrote:Apparently in our office we're all gonna get a meeting with the DUM tomorrow morning, so given this golden opportunity what are the best (sensible and not insulting) questions we can put to him ?

Anything that gets him to reveal the truth behind the "spin" on this deal or maybe that shows his own lack of knowledge on it.

Cheers
you could also ask about having to meet the standard set by the top10%, hows it achieved and what happens to those who can't make it. i asked our manager and he made a real idiot of himself trying to answer.
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Re: Good questions to ask my DOM please

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[quote]billypants wrote:
Apparently in our office we're all gonna get a meeting with the DUM tomorrow morning, so given this golden opportunity what are the best (sensible and not insulting) questions we can put to him ?

Anything that gets him to reveal the truth behind the "spin" on this deal or maybe that shows his own lack of knowledge on it.

Cheers[quote]

Perhaps you could ask him if he would ever consider voting yes to a pay cut? :cool
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Re: Good questions to ask my DOM please

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billypants wrote:Apparently in our office we're all gonna get a meeting with the DUM tomorrow morning, so given this golden opportunity what are the best (sensible and not insulting) questions we can put to him ?

Anything that gets him to reveal the truth behind the "spin" on this deal or maybe that shows his own lack of knowledge on it.

Cheers
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Re: Good questions to ask my DOM please

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If he is anything like ours, when we had our meeting to explain the new agreement, anything contentious or awkward he threw over to our union rep to answer.
He appeared to be enjoying the position that he found himself in whereby he was able to let the union rep field the crap.

To give him credit though, he did describe the deal as "fantastic" for Royal Mail. So no attempt to hoodwink anyone.
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To give him credit though, he did describe the deal as "fantastic" for Royal Mail. So no attempt to hoodwink anyone.
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1) If and when, we agree new delivery spans under the proposed agreement, say for example 4 hours, will that be the maximum delivery span for the office? Can that be changed (increased) in the future?

There are no longer any maximums were delivery spans are concerned!

The agreement states on page 23.
Delivery Spans
Royal Mail and the CWU agree that the length of the delivery spancan be an enablerin bringing about mutual benefits. From now on, within the process of duty revision negotiations, must be looked at in context of an enabler rather than a fixed amount of time to be aimed at. In essence, the span will no longer be an objective in itself.

I'm sure he'll also tell you about 'the menu' of options, word to the wise this is a guide as to how things can work in theory....but 'The Menu' of options is not part of the agreement!! you may (and i believe everyone will) end up with somthing very diffrent in future.

The menu is mentioned on page 24
Whilst the emphasis will be on local partiesto develop and agree duty structures and attendance patterns that meet the requierments and remain consistant with all aspects of this agreement: a menu of optionshas been provided nationally to enable constructive, structured and progressive talks to take place locally
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You could ask him where your office is likely to be in the queue when sequencing hits.

You could ask them to double check the ICS or PBS bonuses if paid will still be.

You could ask if the 75/25 split will be applied locally.

You could ask are we in in the top 10%


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tiggle wrote:you could also ask about having to meet the standard set by the top10%, hows it achieved and what happens to those who can't make it. i asked our manager and he made a real idiot of himself trying to answer.
Ask were your office curently stands with regard to the top 10%? in it? near it? or miles away?
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Ask him what day it is,he might just be able to answer you,as for the other suggestions on here,forget it :left:
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how far do you get your nose up the soms arse
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Re: Good questions to ask my DOM please

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fishtank wrote:Simple,Ask him how many hours will be put back into your office to deal with D2D into workload and the new delivery methods. :left:
No ft, that would be too easy - even I can answer that and I don't even know where it is. To watch him squirm ask him how many hours will be taken OUT...... and what time does he think he'll be working until on Saturday - 2, 3, or 4.
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Ask him what the new Indoor/Outdoor performance standards will be.

Ask him what powers of enforcement the mighty sun god Roger Poole has been blessed with.

Ask him how much profit RM made on Three D2D's at 1.67p , ask how much they will make on 12 D2D's at a delivery cost of bugger all :chuckle
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