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Summer savings?

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mailmonkey
Posts: 431
Joined: 11 Feb 2009, 22:12
Gender: Male

Summer savings?

Post by mailmonkey »

Yours still going on?

Autumn lapsing is the new summer savings!

w*****s
pinstripe
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Joined: 25 May 2007, 16:42
Gender: Male
Location: 2 left turns from reality

Re: Summer savings?

Post by pinstripe »

Yep, ours is still going strong.
Massive failure today, 2nd time this week and we've still got 2 days to go.
Still, all this money they're saving will help with the o/t bill.
bunkerland
Posts: 546
Joined: 11 Oct 2009, 21:40
Gender: Male

Re: Summer savings?

Post by bunkerland »

pinstripe wrote:Yep, ours is still going strong.
Massive failure today, 2nd time this week and we've still got 2 days to go.
Still, all this money they're saving will help with the o/t bill.

Ours is going strong too,mostly at the start of the week. Manager had to do his share last week,and ours,after his begging and bribery fell on deaf ears. :so there I was in my garden when he delivered my post,i did shout "late today postie" :wave to him in a jovial manner,but he mustn't have heard me because he didn't reply! :left:
mailmonkey
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Gender: Male

Re: Summer savings?

Post by mailmonkey »

Ours is daily, every day.

People working over even if they don't want to :nono: :Sick
TeeferTiger
EX ROYAL MAIL
Posts: 2783
Joined: 22 Dec 2008, 13:56
Gender: Female
Location: Welsh Wales

Re: Summer savings?

Post by TeeferTiger »

mailmonkey wrote:Yours still going on?

Autumn lapsing is the new summer savings!

w*****s
When did it stop?!
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SexyLegs
EX ROYAL MAIL
Posts: 393
Joined: 13 Apr 2010, 16:00
Gender: Male

Re: Summer savings?

Post by SexyLegs »

Ours stopped Tuesday, unpredictability of the traffic volumes means we lapse one day and can't the next so continuity is affected......so no more lapsing.....so we win :nana :nana :nana :nana
nowt on the wireless
Posts: 56
Joined: 27 Mar 2010, 19:10
Gender: Male
Location: Somewhere

Re: Summer savings?

Post by nowt on the wireless »

We got told it's not called "summer lapsing" anymore, its "lapsing" :d'oh!
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Fishyfingers
Posts: 162
Joined: 05 Jan 2007, 22:04
Location: Highland

Re: Summer savings?

Post by Fishyfingers »

nowt on the wireless wrote:We got told it's not called "summer lapsing" anymore, its "lapsing" :d'oh!

Yip same here,three days a week Mon,Tues AND Wed.
Big Daz
Posts: 5668
Joined: 17 Apr 2007, 20:27
Gender: Male

Re: Summer savings?

Post by Big Daz »

Phase 3 is ALL YEAR ROUND is for absence or reduced workload and to be done where time permits.

Phase 2 is summer lapsing and there should be extra A/L slots for those weeks

Also the 2007 agreement says Utilise ALL paid work hours.
RandyBeanz
Posts: 44
Joined: 24 Jun 2010, 22:30
Gender: Male

Re: Summer savings?

Post by RandyBeanz »

I started in june with a 6 hour a week contract. ive worked every for the last 8 weeks
lewesspudgun
Posts: 76
Joined: 24 May 2010, 21:10
Gender: Male

Re: Summer savings?

Post by lewesspudgun »

Our DOM has decided to laps Mondays and Tuesdays only on the proviso that we complete our duties the rest of the week. Don't do me any favours, i will only work my hours,which suits me just fine. Monday and Tuesday failed anyway
teddyedward
Posts: 8
Joined: 29 Nov 2009, 19:09
Gender: Male

Re: Summer savings?

Post by teddyedward »

Been about two years now at our place,can't see an end to it as half of office come in early, worst case is couple of lads who are in over an hour early every day, throw their walks in then go on ips for free 30 mins before time then guess what, bitch like feck about having to lapse !!
:arrrghhh :arrrghhh
Judgee
EX ROYAL MAIL
Posts: 2262
Joined: 23 Oct 2007, 15:18

Re: Summer savings?

Post by Judgee »

We do lapsing every day. Even the stand in DIM last week said he would like to cancel lapsing due to the massive volume of mail coming in but he couldn't because there were no staff spare to cover it? :d'oh!
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kitkatchunky
Posts: 217
Joined: 04 Jun 2010, 16:00
Gender: Male

Re: Summer savings?

Post by kitkatchunky »

our office been doing it well over 1 yr now every day apart from saturdays
johnnyrocker
Posts: 42
Joined: 17 Feb 2010, 19:01
Gender: Male

Re: Summer savings?

Post by johnnyrocker »

Stopped Absorb this week due to the heavy traffic previous two weeks and cuts offs. Next week traffic will de down :crazy: ... When i told them that nexts weeks D2D figure had risen by 30000 more items over the last two weeks figures so how can u tell me traffic is down. Couldnt answer that one.