OnAFlyer wrote:pickaname wrote:Surely 'hanging' it out' so you dont have to work for a living is just as bad as coming in early, ghosting or using private cars.
if i have time i do extra, if not i dont. I dont try and con anyone and instantly refuse just so i dont have to lapse.
Trying to con the business by dragging it out ala above post is pretty bad practice imho. Theres doing the job properly and theres being a sloath to get out of doing extra.
Working for a living is coming to an office near you soon. Beware all those who "do the job properly".
Wow, someone else that realises theres a big difference between 'doing the job properly' and taking the piss. Too many people don't see those differences though and think working to time regardless of workload is 'doing it properly'.
caught up on my deads (using ~20 minutes).
Dead mail should be killed off everyday, not left until you need to kill some time.
Lets get a few things straight here, I've written about my round many times on here, but here it is again for your benefit(s)...
I'm on a 22.5 hour written contract, which is all I get paid for during holiday time.
My walk, which covers the high street (~125 businesses) and 400 residential, which means on an AVERAGE DAY I get 5+ specials and 10+ recorded
(I get the maximum 8 specails at least 3 times a week, upto ~15 recorded on a bad day). ON AVERAGE, this takes 4.5 hours per day just to deliver the mail, including my meal relief.
My hours have been verbally extended to 28.5 hours per week, with the extra time being for preping the round, starting at 0800 with exception of Tuesdays (0930) and Saturdays (0630).
Right of way has recently been called regularly around 0930 or even earlier, but there is no chance of this round being ready to take out by then, proportionally I get the most late missorts which arrive around 0915.
I do not have time to take a meal relief break befoe going out, there is simply too much to do and still get out by 1000, although on a Tuesday i do well to out by 1045.
Monday is my lightest day by a mile, probably much like your Saturdays. By taking out ~40% of D2D on a Monday, I am saving the managers more overtime on Thursdays and Fridays, not to mention equalising the weight and amount of mail I have to deliver (this round often takes nearly 5 hours to deliver and have mmeal relief towards the end of the business week).
On a normal 5-day week, I am completing my round everyday with a working week of around 33 hours.
This particular round has an awful history of being a headache for the area manager, as it should not be a part-timers round, or a full-timers round without being reduced in size. At least the last five posties on this round have either cut-off Weds-Fri inc. or taken longer than me to complete the whole round.
I cannot support my family on 22.5 hours a week, so I complete for almost a full-timers wage and the area manager appreciates not having the historical headache. Yes, I would love the better written contract, but is simply ain't going to happen anytime soon, so I take what I can and often do overtime on other rounds after completing my pig.
And the deads, well to put it bluntly, dealing with the deads would require another ~10 minutes overtime each day to always leave a spotless frame. I would love to leave it spotless, but my line manager prefers me to deal with them in batches as and when I can during the week, often resulting in batches on Mon/Tues/Sat when the shift is not an evil pig, just a an average one!
Everything I do has to be done by me or someone else in realtion to my frame. There is no "con" here at all. If there is, you better have a chat with my lino, as they approve of the weekly routine I have, as they know full well I am saving them ~90 minutes overtime a week by using my free-time earlier in the week actually doing work related tasks (shock horror)!
Now I don't have any idea of what you do personally, but I see some dreamland working principles at my depot most days...
Why am I seeing full-timers on their way back to the depot at
1230 when I've only just started the second half of my walk?
Why are they then being allowed to go and enjoy their afternoon ~15 minutes later and then be paid for doing so for the next 90 minutes? Instead of doing what happens in almost every other business in the country... Doing something constructive work-wize until their finish time! The days of "job and finish" are dead, but that does not mean that its right for full-timers to extract the urine daily by then dragging their own rounds and responsibilities out, when part-timers are arriving to half-prepped frames at 0930, because the "double-prepper" wants to be ready for "right of way" and then be paid for enjoying "work time" at home and being paid for it? Now that D2D is not directly supplemented, these early finishers should be taking ~20 minutes per frame to prep a part-timers next day D2D, at the very least. So they have time to prep at least three (yes, 3) frames each! But you've more chance of winning the lottery than seeing these early finishers putting a single D2D in someone elses frame...
In summary, you are aiming "con" at the wrong crowd, my friend, in most cases...
