Manic Monday...

[baldrick]

I posted all my Christmas cards early.

[DirtyHarry]

I'm off this week.

How?

Rest week.

[Exrep]

And it was a manic Monday packet wise more so than mail.

4 and half packet bags 2 trays of sequenced letters and two full trays from the IPS.

On Mondays in our office we work 06.15 14.09 so your off the road at 13.30.

Left office at 10.30 and left one row, came back the office one row still there I wouldn't mind I had tied it up as-well,most probably still be there on my fitting tomorrow .

The joys I had with DIM on getting my ruling at one point I had to walk away as they were getting more and more bizarre the more I challenged him,then HE came around to my fitting and gave me the ruling I suggested to him Initialy ROLL on tomoz.

[elteleltel]

3 trays sequenced mail and 6 packet bags plus loads of manual cards. Left 1 .5 rows and still took mail back despite going over 1 hr .Lots of stuff left but some will stay out even in the dark to finish

[Godric]

More bad weather (snow/ice) forecast for the end of the week http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/ ... html?day=3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; so the s**t is going to hit the fan big time this year.

i won't be busting my balls, the way i feel right now i couldn't care less if the christmas mail fails

[Godric]

3 trays sequenced mail and 6 packet bags plus loads of manual cards. Left 1 .5 rows and still took mail back despite going over 1 hr .Lots of stuff left but some will stay out even in the dark to finish

those days are long over for me ... the days of finishing at dark o'clock are by ... they can stick their overtime

[hampshireman]

Interesting day. Funnily enough my last week ; finish on Friday (and ; I will actually miss some aspects of the job)

Was supposed to be spare; but of course someone was sick. So , picked up a walk that had half of it with four days mail.

Rammed with packets and mail. Got out at 10:45.

Thought; yes I can clear this and finish by about 3pm.

Lost the will to live at 2pm and brought back three bags and loads of packets.

Actually on reflection. Lost the will to live at 10:45.

[stokes11eg]

Interesting day. Funnily enough my last week ; finish on Friday (and ; I will actually miss some aspects of the job)

Was supposed to be spare; but of course someone was sick. So , picked up a walk that had half of it with four days mail.

Rammed with packets and mail. Got out at 10:45.

Thought; yes I can clear this and finish by about 3pm.

Lost the will to live at 2pm and brought back three bags and loads of packets.

Actually on reflection. Lost the will to live at 10:45.

How often we all lose the will to live on this job! It used to be good! Are you retiring?

[richystran]

Was it only me or was it not as heavy as expected? Saturday in our office was far heavier than today, so much for manic monday etc lol Anyway i will expect tomorrow will be mental for parcels specials etc!

[Sippin40oz]

Was it only me or was it not as heavy as expected? Saturday in our office was far heavier than today, so much for manic monday etc lol Anyway i will expect tomorrow will be mental for parcels specials etc!

Same here it was heavy for a monday but not really too bad at all. Extra packets from the snow are causing me more grief then extra seasonal mail!

[taurus88]

It wasn't that heavy here, but heavy becomes a denomination that is relative to other days. Take Saturday, when I was handling four days' mail on a half of my walk. How was it even possible that today could be worse than that? I had one and a half days' mail today, including 'heavy Monday', but because my fitting was lighter relative to the days that have passed, I didn't notice that today was any better/worse than any other day. Packets wise, I wouldn't have noticed, I haven't touched one in yonks. One of the managers intimated that he was beginning to grow concerned regarding my 'packet situation' - maybe he should start managing it then, instead of expecting me to grow extra arms and legs to handle a backlog of over a week. Alternatively, he could shell out on four/five hours overtime to make it worth my while to shift them.

Just a couple of suggestions.

[steven100]

I'm so glad i only work 2 days. Uni exams finished what will i do for the next 2 weeks

1) Do overtime in RM or
2) Long lie in my bed......hmmmmm


Here's my pick

[tragictramp]

weightwise i found today ok, volume of mail was stupidly high though and pretty much 100% call rate with cards etc, only mail i sent back was 3 sets of time locked flats and still went over for an hour so will be booking tomorrow!

[spoodoo]

today some of us came in to 10 trays coded mail at our frames ,and the rest,,,,,loadsa cut off s ,some leaving 90 percent ! There were no plans in place even though they knew itd be a bad one, no casuals ,no xtra staff nothing,, . is the Ehs worth talking to btw?

[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

Wasn't aware this was "the big day" when I went in this morning at 0800, but was aware I was in for a long day when I left the depot to start deliveries at 1045...
4 trays sequenced
1 tray IPS manual
2.5+ trays flats
3 full to the brim sacks of packets

With two monster sacks of packets at my bag drop (having given a few oversize/overwights to my driver), I was a slave to the docket again, claiming until 1615 (including my extra entitled meal relief).

Speaking of dockets, looks like the staff who enter the docket claims onto the system have made a right mess of last week's claims by me (s/a prep; s/a day off; ext del all written in dockets each day), seriously doubting I will be paid for anything close to 45 hours during the early hours of Friday... Going to be fun working out "belated" hours and ensuring I get the s/a rate for it!