becoming a postman

[POSTMAN]

Posties work monday - saturday, with a rotating day off,
so i can't see it working for you matey,

really..?, that must be after about 5 years service right..?

8 so far for me and its still a fixed day off in the middle of the week.

shocking !!!. i just have to check the sheet on a saturday morning to see my day off for the week ahead, i cant plan a single thing ......

Should be sorted a week in advance within reason,see your rep as he 'should' have resources meetings.

[internetguy]

Posties work monday - saturday, with a rotating day off,
so i can't see it working for you matey,

really..?, that must be after about 5 years service right..?

8 so far for me and its still a fixed day off in the middle of the week.

shocking !!!. i just have to check the sheet on a saturday morning to see my day off for the week ahead, i cant plan a single thing ......

Should be sorted a week in advance within reason,see your rep as he 'should' have resources meetings.

if only......our rota sheet quiet often gets updated on a daily basis. i sometimes go in thinging im doing x only to find out im doing y. tbh bud, our rep is f***ing useless. what chance have we got when he's one of the fools who comes in early, never cuts off, blah blah blah.......

[POSTMAN]

This is something i don't get and it's not hard.

You have a set of reserves let's say 10,you've got say 8 bods on holiday the following week,you go down the reserve list in seniority order and they take their pick.
It's fair and it's not hard.

Next lesson next week,how to have reserves on an aggregate system so they get their fair share of weekends off.

Now a word from our sponsors....

[hampshireman]

This is something i don't get and it's not hard.

You have a set of reserves let's say 10,you've got say 8 bods on holiday the following week,you go down the reserve list in seniority order and they take their pick.
It's fair and it's not hard.

Next lesson next week,how to have reserves on an aggregate system so they get their fair share of weekends off.

Now a word from our sponsors....

I've just moved to a new DO. Previously I have always (and insisted upon) had one long weekend in six.

Was told that my day off was a Tuesday!!! The lightest day of the week!!!.

Have expressed my chagrin about this ... and was told that I could have certain Saturdays off if i gave them notice.

Okay ; i will live with that for the moment. .. But how can it be that alomost nobody in the office , apart from floats , gets a Saturday off?

My contract states that that is my entiltlement.

All bollocks ; or is this sort of local agreement?

[POSTMAN]

This is something i don't get and it's not hard.

You have a set of reserves let's say 10,you've got say 8 bods on holiday the following week,you go down the reserve list in seniority order and they take their pick.
It's fair and it's not hard.

Next lesson next week,how to have reserves on an aggregate system so they get their fair share of weekends off.

Now a word from our sponsors....

I've just moved to a new DO. Previously I have always (and insisted upon) had one long weekend in six.

Was told that my day off was a Tuesday!!! The lightest day of the week!!!.

Have expressed my chagrin about this ... and was told that I could have certain Saturdays off if i gave them notice.

Okay ; i will live with that for the moment. .. But how can it be that alomost nobody in the office , apart from floats , gets a Saturday off?

My contract states that that is my entiltlement.

All bollocks ; or is this sort of local agreement?

It's called the 'wank dom and wank union rep' agreement.
If you are a reserve you should have the day off of what duty you cover,you cover mine next week and it's a friday,you get friday,ect ect.

PS:Did you mean everybody in the office 'apart' from floats?

[hampshireman]

This is something i don't get and it's not hard.

You have a set of reserves let's say 10,you've got say 8 bods on holiday the following week,you go down the reserve list in seniority order and they take their pick.
It's fair and it's not hard.

Next lesson next week,how to have reserves on an aggregate system so they get their fair share of weekends off.

Now a word from our sponsors....

I've just moved to a new DO. Previously I have always (and insisted upon) had one long weekend in six.

Was told that my day off was a Tuesday!!! The lightest day of the week!!!.

Have expressed my chagrin about this ... and was told that I could have certain Saturdays off if i gave them notice.

Okay ; i will live with that for the moment. .. But how can it be that alomost nobody in the office , apart from floats , gets a Saturday off?

My contract states that that is my entiltlement.

All bollocks ; or is this sort of local agreement?

It's called the 'wank dom and wank union rep' agreement.
If you are a reserve you should have the day off of what duty you cover,you cover mine next week and it's a friday,you get friday,ect ect.

PS:Did you mean everybody in the office 'apart' from floats?

Everybody in the office apart from the floats is the way I have been told.
The majority get no long weekends. Each duty has a fixed day off. This just cannot be right.

It really is not difficukt to have rotating days off. Or am I completely stupid!!!

[hampshireman]

This is something i don't get and it's not hard.

You have a set of reserves let's say 10,you've got say 8 bods on holiday the following week,you go down the reserve list in seniority order and they take their pick.
It's fair and it's not hard.

Next lesson next week,how to have reserves on an aggregate system so they get their fair share of weekends off.

Now a word from our sponsors....

I've just moved to a new DO. Previously I have always (and insisted upon) had one long weekend in six.

Was told that my day off was a Tuesday!!! The lightest day of the week!!!.

Have expressed my chagrin about this ... and was told that I could have certain Saturdays off if i gave them notice.

Okay ; i will live with that for the moment. .. But how can it be that alomost nobody in the office , apart from floats , gets a Saturday off?

My contract states that that is my entiltlement.

All bollocks ; or is this sort of local agreement?

It's called the 'wank dom and wank union rep' agreement.
If you are a reserve you should have the day off of what duty you cover,you cover mine next week and it's a friday,you get friday,ect ect.

PS:Did you mean everybody in the office 'apart' from floats?

Everybody in the office apart from the floats is the way I have been told.
The majority get no long weekends. Each duty has a fixed day off. This just cannot be right.

It really is not difficukt to have rotating days off. Or am I completely stupid!!!

Should have made it clearer. Tuesday will be the fixed and only day off fo rthe walk.

Absolute bollocksw that you cannot havwe a long weekend

[Caniel]

This is something i don't get and it's not hard.

You have a set of reserves let's say 10,you've got say 8 bods on holiday the following week,you go down the reserve list in seniority order and they take their pick.
It's fair and it's not hard.

Next lesson next week,how to have reserves on an aggregate system so they get their fair share of weekends off.

Now a word from our sponsors....

We don't have any reserves in our office any more, just part timers on temp contracts.

[POSTMAN]

This is something i don't get and it's not hard.

You have a set of reserves let's say 10,you've got say 8 bods on holiday the following week,you go down the reserve list in seniority order and they take their pick.
It's fair and it's not hard.

Next lesson next week,how to have reserves on an aggregate system so they get their fair share of weekends off.

Now a word from our sponsors....

I've just moved to a new DO. Previously I have always (and insisted upon) had one long weekend in six.

Was told that my day off was a Tuesday!!! The lightest day of the week!!!.

Have expressed my chagrin about this ... and was told that I could have certain Saturdays off if i gave them notice.

Okay ; i will live with that for the moment. .. But how can it be that alomost nobody in the office , apart from floats , gets a Saturday off?

My contract states that that is my entiltlement.

All bollocks ; or is this sort of local agreement?

It's called the 'wank dom and wank union rep' agreement.
If you are a reserve you should have the day off of what duty you cover,you cover mine next week and it's a friday,you get friday,ect ect.

PS:Did you mean everybody in the office 'apart' from floats?

Everybody in the office apart from the floats is the way I have been told.
The majority get no long weekends. Each duty has a fixed day off. This just cannot be right.

It really is not difficukt to have rotating days off. Or am I completely stupid!!!

If you have fixed days off (local agreement) then you are screwed,there's nothing you can do about it until you have a revision and things change.