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Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Postal workers discussion forum. Discuss the day to day life in a Blue Shirt.
baleout
Posts: 122
Joined: 01 Oct 2010, 16:15
Gender: Male

Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by baleout »

Who thinks their Rest Day Cover does a good job ?
Guevarista
Posts: 79
Joined: 04 Mar 2010, 17:38
Gender: Male

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by Guevarista »

Mine does a great job.... Cheers Alex :wave

See post... http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communit ... 91#p315191" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
pinstripe
Posts: 2474
Joined: 25 May 2007, 16:42
Gender: Male
Location: 2 left turns from reality

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by pinstripe »

No, mine is great. He only leaves 'vague' addressed mail (usually for a top floor flat :hmmmm ) but apart from that, he does his kill offs, d2d's where he's going, takes all his packets, the majority of bulk postings (when we have more than 1 day to do them) and does the delivery accurately. Pretty much like myself, except for the vague addresses bit. We play fair with each other and he even gets 1/6th of the Xmas tips and all the bottles of wine.
baleout
Posts: 122
Joined: 01 Oct 2010, 16:15
Gender: Male

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by baleout »

God, I'm feeling guilty now because mines is a complete Tossser.

He leaves as much as he can and Door Steps everywhere.

I tell him he's a lazy bastard and he just grins. Management do the same. No wonder RM going down the pan.
mclovin
Posts: 1106
Joined: 11 Feb 2009, 18:39
Gender: Male

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by mclovin »

Mine is THE greatest, most caring and good looking postman in the UK.

Thats cos I cover my own as we aint got a float.
noggin1969
Posts: 1321
Joined: 13 Oct 2009, 17:28
Gender: Male

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by noggin1969 »

Depends who is on mine ,
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slave
Posts: 433
Joined: 20 Sep 2007, 21:39
Location: North West

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by slave »

Not got proper one.. the ones I've had to put up with have been mixed, some good, some bad, at its worst when covered by OT..
fishtank
Posts: 19732
Joined: 28 Sep 2007, 17:22
Gender: Male

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by fishtank »

Yes i hate my rest day cover...his girlfriend is 20 and stunning and he's got a bigger house than me and a better car,he tells me stories about his weekend on mondays....i'm basically living my life through him...i hate the b*stard..... :evil/mad.
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
krussel
Posts: 5300
Joined: 26 Jan 2009, 18:03
Gender: Male
Location: Out on the streets.

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by krussel »

fishtank wrote:Yes i hate my rest day cover...his girlfriend is 20 and stunning and he's got a bigger house than me and a better car,he tells me stories about his weekend on mondays....i'm basically living my life through him...i hate the b*stard..... :evil/mad.
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My rest day cover is a great guy and does a hard job i would not like to do :Very Happy I split any xmas tips he gets on the round. :Very Happy
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........
taurus88
Posts: 1259
Joined: 14 Aug 2010, 17:53
Gender: Male

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by taurus88 »

I've been warned about my cover person. S/he (ambiguity applied to protect the person's anonymity to the extreme) knows every trick in the book to deliver as little mail as possible - allegedly - and has even - again, allegedly - smuggled bundles back into the DO and stuck them on the mech to save him/herself a few minutes.
haveagojoe
Posts: 159
Joined: 01 Aug 2007, 18:14
Gender: Male
Location: You Guess

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by haveagojoe »

Mines a lazy sod if I throw sky in the frame he takes it out never does the d2d always brings the mail back for the flats on my walk never does the deads and redirections he leaves in the yellow wallets, I don't know how he is still got a job but the manager never says a word to him.
DGP1
Posts: 15551
Joined: 07 Jun 2007, 20:39
Gender: Male
Location: Terminus

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by DGP1 »

fishtank wrote:Yes i hate my rest day cover...his girlfriend is 20 and stunning and he's got a bigger house than me and a better car,he tells me stories about his weekend on mondays....i'm basically living my life through him...i hate the b*stard..... :evil/mad.
The guy who's duty I cover keep complaining about my girlfriend, my big house, my big car and he always looks sad when I tell him my stories on a Monday :wink:
I'm preparing myself for the zombie invasion, rule number 1 - Cardio
post_bitch
Posts: 913
Joined: 25 Jun 2010, 14:52
Gender: Female

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by post_bitch »

is it this guy?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -mail.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
clean and original ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkC9cK8Hz0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
RedBagMan
Posts: 1010
Joined: 01 Aug 2010, 17:53
Gender: Male
Location: Behind the lens

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by RedBagMan »

Sure it's been said before ... but 14 months for £85,000 - that's over £6k per month ... :shock:
"We're under model" - oh no we're not - stick your lapse elsewhere ...
coxie
EX ROYAL MAIL
Posts: 1336
Joined: 09 Oct 2009, 14:57
Gender: Male

Re: Do you hate your Rest Day Cover ?

Post by coxie »

I am a floater and have my own floating duty, i try to do a good job but if I can't complete I don't feel guilty about who has to do it the next day, they are welcome to cut off like I do and stand up to the managers. I am not stitching anyone up I just aint working for free and it's not the regular blokes problem it's the royal mails. I went in the other day and had 2 bags under my desk of a cut off from the day before, the bloke said sorry I told him not to worry I don't expect him to work for free to complete it. That's what Royal Mail want you to do, feel guilty and complete.

I will do the best job I can in 8 hours, after 8 hours I am not interested.