I've been with Royal Mail two years now, i left school as soon as i could and got a job with a company i thought would be a good source of income that allowed me to finish at a time where i could enjoy the rest of my day even after doing a hard days work. I've met some great people through my job and in my office and it's brilliant working around a bunch of old punks! (PUNKS NOT DEAD! :D)
But for the past year or so my eyes have been truly opened. It should probably be mentioned now that i am the youngest member in my office. I work overtime nearly every day apart from Tuesdays, i constantly get crap from my managers to the point where i can no longer think "Just smile at the sad prick and give him his power trip", my office is full of runners and early starters,the union representation is non-existant (No support, didn't appear at the picket line etc.) and we are forced into Starbursting (I believe you all call it "lapsing"? Taking out a part of another walk to do before you start your own?) every single damned day no matter what the traffic and D2D is like.
I have tried my damndest time and time again to make a stand, i am not one to take shite without a sarcastic grin or comeback but i simply cannot win. I recently brought up with my manager the overtime issue and he simply lectured me on how my current walk was his old one and how he ran round it and finished before his time everyday. This was years ago! The general consensus within my office is also that this manager was a lazy bastard when he was a postie and that his time keeping and attendance was atrocious, yet he is constantly bragging of how good he was to a sea of rolling eyes! But, i cannot get any support, i'm never allowed to cut off despite following procedure because everyone else comes in early and runs round their walks so all the management say is "Swings and roundabouts mate, so-and-so is busier than you but they can cover it all" but so-and-so was in an hour before me even though they should start at the same time as me!
You should probably take this time to make yourself a cup of tea because i'm not done.
I have a life outside this job. A life that has been affected time-and-time again by Royal Mail. I was forced to quit boxing a year ago due to an injury sustained last winter but no sooner was i out the hospital that i was getting pushed to go back out on a walk! I managed to remain at the gym but i am, effectively, unable to box, my progress at the gym was also greatly hindered by this injury and i have only recently gotten better from where i left off.
Recently i suffered another injury to my left Trap. muscle which affected both my neck and the left side of my back, i was referred to a physio through Royal Mail who checked both sides of my back. Funnily enough my right side was, and i quote, "in absolutely superb condition" but my left, the one i hang the bag on, was in the same condition as a pensioners might be!
The physio deduced that it was the bag, he also told me i was in great physical condition and that, despite my injury, had not to neglect my general fitness but simply had to stop lifting weights for a while, which was fair enough. As soon as i returned to work though i was met by a barrage of bullying and harassment, constant snipey comments and insults from management which eventually culminated in, and i'm not making this up, the manager telling me that he had a friend at my gym who was watching my every move and reporting back to him!
I'm sorry if this post was too erratic and long to take in and if you've read this far then i thank you deeply, but i am at the end of my tether, i don't know what to do and these revisions are making me extremely anxious because i am in an office that doesn't cut off at all. I don't want to be delivering until 5 at night!
What can i do? What options do i have? Any and all help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-WCH :)
If they ask me to use that trolley again, I'm asking for it in writing what I'm meant to do with the trolley when I have to leave it.
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Do you have an area rep, could you get his/her phone number and give a call and pretty much explain everything in your first post?
and by reading some recent posts you are no doubt aware everyone is feeling the pressure these days so your not on your own. 