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2 questions I need help with - uniform + pay

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2 questions I need help with - uniform + pay

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1. So, I'm wondering. I have to order the uniform but only after a certain amount of weeks. I just ring up + just wait? :)

2. Rate of pay. I'm working part-time, but I'm wondering how to pay is set out for 25 hours a week. This so say this is what it says an example... "Your starting pay will be at the rate of £320 per week (pro rata for part time)". So how do I go about working my actual rate of pay, and what is brought home each week? Its not that helpful. :/

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Get your manager to phone up and you wont have a problem .

Pro rata as far as I can make out for 25 hours is divide the £320 by 40 which is £8 and then multipy by 25 which is £200 . 40 is the full time hours and 25 is part time . Hope thats simple enough . Its how I work it out . Good Luck .
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Have you not had your induction yet or were you not listening? See also current thread at the top of this page - Advice for new posties
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calpsy wrote:Get your manager to phone up and you wont have a problem .

Pro rata as far as I can make out for 25 hours is divide the £320 by 40 which is £8 and then multipy by 25 which is £200 . 40 is the full time hours and 25 is part time . Hope thats simple enough . Its how I work it out . Good Luck .
bang on m8 am part time and thats what i got when i started it will go up a bit
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smelly_cat_lady wrote:Have you not had your induction yet or were you not listening? See also current thread at the top of this page - Advice for new posties

Helpful as usual . Does your time of the month last 30 days ?
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Uniform, I am fairly sure that at the induction I filled in a form for my sizes and when I was given a temporary contract, as opposed to casual, the uniform was ordered by the manager from the form I had previously filled in.
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Thanks for all the help everyone else. :D
Very much appreciated.



Just not this person :) ....
smelly_cat_lady wrote:Have you not had your induction yet or were you not listening? See also current thread at the top of this page - Advice for new posties
1. Surprising... No, I've not. Like I said in the introduce yourself bit, I don't start just yet. So obviuously I've not listened... because I've not had one.
2. I've read it twice, its the first thread I was pointed too :)
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2 questions I need help with - uniform + pay :shock: Steady on now - Put those words together and you'll give them the idea that we should Pay for Uniform. :shock:
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Lounge Lizard wrote:
Put those words together and you'll give them the idea that we should Pay for Uniform.
I think I read somewhere once that DHL drivers have to pay for their uniform. Considering that they make them wear a nauseous combination of bright yellow shirts with bright red trousers, it really is taking the piss.

Sign of things to come for us, perhaps?
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Straight4ward wrote:Lounge Lizard wrote:
Put those words together and you'll give them the idea that we should Pay for Uniform.
I think I read somewhere once that DHL drivers have to pay for their uniform. Considering that they make them wear a nauseous combination of bright yellow shirts with bright red trousers, it really is taking the piss.

Sign of things to come for us, perhaps?
Nearly as bad as those convicts in America who have to wear pink underwear. :crazy:
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It's ok,they're locked in the naughty room at the mo. :nana
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POSTMAN wrote:It's ok,they're locked in the naughty room at the mo. :nana
Who DGP & DVB? I was waiting for them to comment :wink:
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Stormproof wrote:
POSTMAN wrote:It's ok,they're locked in the naughty room at the mo. :nana
Who DGP & DVB? I was waiting for them to comment :wink:
Who else? :d'oh!
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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