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Christmas - what are you expecting?

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Straight4ward
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Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by Straight4ward »

No presents from Royal Mail, that's for sure.
A Christmas Carol.jpg
Given the overriding objective to slash budgets throughout December,
I can see this being one of the most unpleasant in recent memory.
Last edited by Straight4ward on 25 Nov 2010, 19:20, edited 1 time in total.
"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."
mclovin
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by mclovin »

Our arrangements are pretty much the same as last year which went fairly well barring a day or 2.

Thats foot soldiers that is.

How the packets went I neither know nor care.
spoodoo
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by spoodoo »

will be working to my time every day now during xmas . they cannot touch you ,,right? the favourites in our office actually run the place now!
johnnyp
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by johnnyp »

Will go in do my duty,if i finish it then lovely,if i dont then cut off and let the managers deal with it.
I will not be taking any pressure hours as 14.00 is late enough for me.
seeker019
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by seeker019 »

The missing word is 'SCROOGE' , you missed the 'C'.

Anyway who give a crap how christmas goes, do your job, work your hours & let it pile up.

Order early for xmas post early for xmas, common sense.
Trust Royal Mail? God help us all.....
Straight4ward
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by Straight4ward »

Laugh! Whoops, thanks Seeker. Amended.

In our office it seems like a game of poker as to who will fold first. We've been told that if we cut off, the mail will remain in the frame until the next day and then we will need to start our delivery from the point where we finished the day before and so on and so on.

Quality of service is being completely ignored in preference to hitting budgets. I can see tempers getting frayed and a lot of extra stress being created. The public won't understand (and why should they?) but they will want to know why they haven't received any mail the previous day. Things could get ugly.
"Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."
guvenor
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by guvenor »

already ugly at ours and were not in pressure yet all the moneygrabbers stabbing each other in the back for couple hours ot
snapping at each other through excessive hrs worked
me i ask what ot rate is time was you could actually work for a fair ot rate but not anymore
rem time and half , double time , double time and half plus day in lew, fcuk their ot for single rate its not worth it
Tank
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by Tank »

guvenor wrote:already ugly at ours and were not in pressure yet all the moneygrabbers stabbing each other in the back for couple hours ot
snapping at each other through excessive hrs worked
me i ask what ot rate is time was you could actually work for a fair ot rate but not anymore
rem time and half , double time , double time and half plus day in lew, fcuk their ot for single rate its not worth it
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not me
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by not me »

a 40 hour week :nana
coxie
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by coxie »

I am expecting lots of cut offs, I wont be taken any SA hours this year either, they can poke it where the sun dont shine the tight bastards.
lazyjack
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by lazyjack »

Christmas with d2d is going to be a nightmare :mad
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RedBagMan
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by RedBagMan »

Sky Mags arrived today as well :crazy:
"We're under model" - oh no we're not - stick your lapse elsewhere ...
BELIAL
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by BELIAL »

Now let me think :hmmmm
Am I going to work umpteen hours for f**k all to let every little Pip get his present and all the fatcat c***s get their tax free bonuses this year ? Touch and go really ,but since I"m such a "workshy inefficient dinosaur" I guess I'll leave it up to the new modern worker breed to sort out the mess for free, on balance :Very Happy
Bye
TeeferTiger
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by TeeferTiger »

I'm expecting a new towelling robe and Civilisation V on PC... :Very Happy
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krussel
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Re: Christmas - what are you expecting?

Post by krussel »

Christmas - what are you expecting?


PAIN in my legs and back mostly :Boo hoo! ..
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Oh and a Kindle :nervous
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..........