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it just gets worse!!!!

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iamnotadoormat
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it just gets worse!!!!

Post by iamnotadoormat »

due to approx 5 or 6 staff racing around their duties and getting finished early we where told this morning, that from tomorrow we have to take the parcels, special del, tracked items for our lapsing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how can the ones who do the job properly cope with this!!!!!! i for one struggle as it is and was told to "just deal with it" looks like i will be pulling a sickie soon, i can cope with all the crap they give us and dont listen!!!!!!!!!! :arrrghhh :Boo hoo! :arrrghhh
Theghost
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Work your hours and take no s**t.
Im on 6 hours per day on a heavy walk,I sort mail for the Local Council,St Lukes Hospice and Hospital,Also sort the mail for my round which has roughly 40 businesses on,So can be really heavy on the mail.
3 hours 30 to deliver,30 min meal relief,Leaves just 2 hours to sort,Prep,Travel back and 2 from the job,Today told them where to go and left 45 mins in my frame.
The boss rushed to my frame to count the mail,Told him to sod off,St lukes,The Hospital and the council is taken by the pouch drop guy,Who had already left,So how could he do a true count? Sick of the bullshit these bosses give now,Really sick and tired of it.
Tell them where to go m8.
da'bunny
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Re: it just gets worse!!!!

Post by da'bunny »

We ALWAYS have to take the parcels for our lapsing, unless there driver size ones of course!
Cant see how you can be expected to do the tracked and specials tho as theres no way of guaranteeing you'l get them done on time :roll:
Just say NO ....to the new agreement.
demon
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Re: it just gets worse!!!!

Post by demon »

walking staff in ours dont have to take tracked or any other recorded item on there own walks or the lappsing poor drivers get them all 52 tracked to day like
baleout
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Re: it just gets worse!!!!

Post by baleout »

Don't get stressed, just work to your time. They can't do anything about that !
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POSTMAN
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Re: it just gets worse!!!!

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So are you getting an influx of PDA's then?
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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The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
cantbelieveit's...
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Re: it just gets worse!!!!

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iamnotadoormat wrote:due to approx 5 or 6 staff racing around their duties and getting finished early we where told this morning, that from tomorrow we have to take the parcels, special del, tracked items for our lapsing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how can the ones who do the job properly cope with this!!!!!! i for one struggle as it is and was told to "just deal with it" looks like i will be pulling a sickie soon, i can cope with all the crap they give us and dont listen!!!!!!!!!! :arrrghhh :Boo hoo! :arrrghhh
Tell your DOM that all walks need to be taken on an individual merit. just because one finishes early does not mean all can absorb.
Judgee
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Re: it just gets worse!!!!

Post by Judgee »

We have always had to take parcels on lapsing? The specials/tracked/etc all go out with the drivers.
Union what Union? Do we have a union?
dvbuk55
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POSTMAN wrote:So are you getting an influx of PDA's then?
We are. I think it's 54 new ones, to be followed by the stripped down version for walkers - that's two per CDV, Bulk, Rural Van - some will be doubled up on collections when the old scanners are binned...............any time soon so I'm told.
krussel
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dvbuk55 wrote:
POSTMAN wrote:So are you getting an influx of PDA's then?
We are. I think it's 54 new ones, to be followed by the stripped down version for walkers - that's two per CDV, Bulk, Rural Van - some will be doubled up on collections when the old scanners are binned...............any time soon so I'm told.

I hope the new version is a little bit lighter with a better battery life. :Very Happy

Oh we have always taken packets and recorded's on absorbtion :hmmmm
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..........
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dvbuk55 wrote:
POSTMAN wrote:So are you getting an influx of PDA's then?
We are. I think it's 54 new ones, to be followed by the stripped down version for walkers - that's two per CDV, Bulk, Rural Van - some will be doubled up on collections when the old scanners are binned...............any time soon so I'm told.
:left: :left: :left:

If they give us new PDAs will they have to change the in van chargers (or in our case, actually install chargers that work :roll: ).
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Post by POSTMAN »

Just curious doormat,what is the rep AND drivers saying about this?
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.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
iamnotadoormat
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Re: it just gets worse!!!!

Post by iamnotadoormat »

well our rep got next saturday off..... :hmmmm so that says it all!!!!!!!!
dvbuk55
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Re: it just gets worse!!!!

Post by dvbuk55 »

iamnotadoormat wrote:well our rep got next saturday off..... :hmmmm so that says it all!!!!!!!!
Well he comes pretty cheap :hmmmm