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Managers doing postal grade work!

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kimski1976
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Managers doing postal grade work!

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Can we report this to anyone? this is wrong. because of managers doing postal grade work at our office they are hiding the hours they are saving because if they didnt do this they would have to get more people in etc. between them they are probably doing around 20 - 40 hrs of a posties work a week at our office.
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Rep should be on their case to not do it,also needs to be flagged to ADR.
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you moan if they sit in there office doing nowt and moan if they get stuck in
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pyphon wrote:you moan if they sit in there office doing nowt and moan if they get stuck in
The first is a complaint that they don't have enough to do between them, viz, management is overstaffed, ergo, if money needs to be saved, save it from management hours

The second is a complaint that OPGs have too much to do between them, viz, the workers are understaffed, ergo, the workplace is inefficient & hours need to be put in.

Seems simple enough to understand, innit?
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sick of it too, flagged to rep, nowt done.
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seanocelt wrote:sick of it too, flagged to rep, nowt done.
We have the same problem in our MC,we were told to show any writen agreements that says that managers can't do OPGs work.We can't find any.
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If it's common round the country then they may as well axe most managers and make them "Team Leaders", perhaps normal postmans pay and allowances but with say a £60 "Leadership Allowance". It would save RM some money, just one manager per shift doing all the paperwork with the rest as "Team Leaders"
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kimski1976 wrote:Can we report this to anyone? this is wrong. because of managers doing postal grade work at our office they are hiding the hours they are saving because if they didnt do this they would have to get more people in etc. between them they are probably doing around 20 - 40 hrs of a posties work a week at our office.
don,t worry bout it mate at least they are trying to help its all bolloks
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jarjar wrote: don,t worry bout it mate at least they are trying to help its all bolloks
They're not helping us though.
If managers neeed to do OPG work then there are not enough indoor hours to cover the workload.
If managers have surplus hours then they don't have enough work to do.
This scenario is perfectly possible:
2x managers cut and tip/prep for 2 hours each.
They save 4 indoor hours.
Now the posties can lapse a walk.

Gee thanks managers.Thanks for "helping".
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kimski1976 wrote:Can we report this to anyone? this is wrong. because of managers doing postal grade work at our office they are hiding the hours they are saving because if they didnt do this they would have to get more people in etc. between them they are probably doing around 20 - 40 hrs of a posties work a week at our office.
Does that not tell you something that the dom has nothing better to do than to do postmans work! If there is no work available for the dom inside his/her office then i think the dom needs to go...now that would save money. Personally i don't think we need half the doms in this country, imagine the savings RM would make :Very Happy
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Post by roger »

cow post wrote:
kimski1976 wrote:Can we report this to anyone? this is wrong. because of managers doing postal grade work at our office they are hiding the hours they are saving because if they didnt do this they would have to get more people in etc. between them they are probably doing around 20 - 40 hrs of a posties work a week at our office.
Does that not tell you something that the dom has nothing better to do than to do postmans work! If there is no work available for the dom inside his/her office then i think the dom needs to go...now that would save money. Personally i don't think we need half the doms in this country, imagine the savings RM would make :Very Happy
Don't worry,I don't think it will be long before there will be a cull of OPS managers.
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don,t worry bout it mate at least they are trying to help its all bolloks[/quote]

How naive! The only people they are trying to help is themselves, the more OPG work they do, the less gets spent on the office budget = the bigger THEIR bonus is!
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cow post wrote:
kimski1976 wrote:Can we report this to anyone? this is wrong. because of managers doing postal grade work at our office they are hiding the hours they are saving because if they didnt do this they would have to get more people in etc. between them they are probably doing around 20 - 40 hrs of a posties work a week at our office.
Does that not tell you something that the dom has nothing better to do than to do postmans work! If there is no work available for the dom inside his/her office then i think the dom needs to go...now that would save money. Personally i don't think we need half the doms in this country, imagine the savings RM would make :Very Happy

easy now,its managers spending too long doing postie work and not managers work that won me my stage 3 appeal :left:
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Post by dados »

tried it on at ours,rep caught them on,went through them for a short cut,no more of that carry on now.
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Post by spilie »

clashcityrocker wrote:
jarjar wrote: don,t worry bout it mate at least they are trying to help its all bolloks
They're not helping us though.
If managers neeed to do OPG work then there are not enough indoor hours to cover the workload.
If managers have surplus hours then they don't have enough work to do.
This scenario is perfectly possible:
2x managers cut and tip/prep for 2 hours each.
They save 4 indoor hours.
Now the posties can lapse a walk.

Gee thanks managers.Thanks for "helping".
spot on clash there is also the fact that staff dont complain because then they would have to do it, so once again the selfish me,me,me brigade kill the job by looking at the smaller picture :crazy: