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claystones
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Post by claystones »

Do we still have to lapse during the busy Christmas period
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Post by Postman Plodd »

If you can't complete within your alloted span and you dont wish to do overtime you can either cut off or refuse to lapse. Seeing as its Christmas and inkeeping with the spirit of the season you could give them the choice.
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lapsed walks being covered by floaters in my office as most people have chosen to work their day off over pressure period
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Haven't said this for a while but you lapse/absorb because you can.
But if you can't and they still force it on you just do the job properly and what will be will be.
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POSTMAN wrote:Haven't said this for a while but you lapse/absorb because you can.
But if you can't and they still force it on you just do the job properly and what will be will be.

exactly
my standard conversation

"i wont have time to lapse & complete my duty"
"yes you will"
"okay"

ive told them and they say i do
i send whatevers left back
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claystones wrote:Do we still have to lapse during the busy Christmas period
Yes if you are instructed to do so AND

You have the capacity within your working hours.

If you don't and they still want you to lapse then "with witnesses" ask them what they want you to do as you will not be able to complete.
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We have an agreement in our office with DOM, lapse all week as normal, but if staff go to DOM and say they don't have time then there is no questioning, they don't take it out. This only falls apart when we have a cover manager and they don't know the score.
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Post by peterloo »

At a meeting with a high up planner you know 60 grand per year type. He advised us if you can lapse then you must have savings oppurtunities.
firstly i thought phase 3 lapsing was savings
secoundly we must not have ups and downs in mail volumes then
thirdly i will never agree to any kind of lapsing again
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All lapsing to cease 06th December until early January think it may be the 10th this is whats happening in my D/O
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cackhill wrote:At a meeting with a high up planner you know 60 grand per year type. He advised us if you can lapse then you must have savings oppurtunities.
Power Point and Pie Chart mumbo jumbo - In other words you have met someone who automatically believes his team,which incidentally he probably put in place, and who say what they think he wants to hear. Of course these "Blue Sky" plans always fail when they encounter reality.
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TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
cackhill wrote:At a meeting with a high up planner you know 60 grand per year type. He advised us if you can lapse then you must have savings oppurtunities.
Power Point and Pie Chart mumbo jumbo - In other words you have met someone who automatically believes his team,which incidentally he probably put in place, and who say what they think he wants to hear. Of course these "Blue Sky" plans always fail when they encounter reality.
Totally agree all RM really need to save themselves a fortune on these creative expensive time share sellers is a well policed return to office policy and
an agreed testing officer simples. Then again if they dealt with reality they would find it difficult to justify there fantasy savings targets.
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Exrep wrote:All lapsing to cease 06th December until early January think it may be the 10th this is whats happening in my D/O
Where has that agreement come from? Will be having a chat with manager in SI meeting tomorrow lol
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femrep wrote:
Exrep wrote:All lapsing to cease 06th December until early January think it may be the 10th this is whats happening in my D/O
Where has that agreement come from? Will be having a chat with manager in SI meeting tomorrow lol
Probably local,might just be his place,it's not in stone everywhere else.
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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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Re: lapsing

Post by coxie »

I have managed to absorb 1 day in the past 2 weeks, I am loving seeing managers having to do it. All it takes is a nice meal releif and I don't have the time.
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Post by cyrus »

....or you lapse, take meal relief, then cut off on you own duty-it's all the same.