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Any Body Managed to get Saturdays off yet

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chas51
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Any Body Managed to get Saturdays off yet

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All the things Royal Mail wanted D2D etc,but what about Saturdays off. Any body managed to get any, Not mentioned any more by managers any more they must be hoping they will go away.
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chas51 wrote:All the things Royal Mail wanted D2D etc,but what about Saturdays off. Any body managed to get any, Not mentioned any more by managers any more they must be hoping they will go away.
i hate working saturday had bloody 15 years of it,so much for 1 in 3 off etc,i am working to time on saturday now,any mail left and nobody to deliver,no prob me doing it monday ?
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Apparently 1 in 3 saturday's off is linked to walk sequencing revision, if you've had that then you should be pushing for it
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i've had about 5 saturdays off in the past year, it does my tits in.......
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internetguy wrote:i've had about 5 saturdays off in the past year, it does my tits in.......
Did you have the op on the NHS :whistle

We had the revision last year and have 1 in 3 but only because part timers work every Thu,Fri,Sat....... it suits some but not others.
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Post by tommythreesheds »

No chance. Been told that because i am only 35 hours a week i don't deserve it. :Sick
I have mon off every week, which is quiet, the other p/t gets tues off, but the full timers get wed-sat off every 4 weeks. Busy days.
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Post by Sippin40oz »

Iam PT and work wed-sat so no saturdays off for me! Sucks a** i hate working saturdays!
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I HATE working Saturdays no such thing as 1 in 3 sats off at our office its our SA day (in other words COMPULSORY overtime) which i really cant see how thats allowed as o.t is optional!! Theres always fighting/begging/swapping/bribing involved in getting saturdays off it really does my head in :arrrghhh Will they ever scrap saturdays or make them optional i'd like to hope so but i really can't see it ever happening :mad
Just say NO ....to the new agreement.
mglong
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im one of the lucky ones i work 34 hours a week mon-fri :dance
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da'bunny wrote:I HATE working Saturdays no such thing as 1 in 3 sats off at our office its our SA day (in other words COMPULSORY overtime) which i really cant see how thats allowed as o.t is optional!! Theres always fighting/begging/swapping/bribing involved in getting saturdays off it really does my head in :arrrghhh Will they ever scrap saturdays or make them optional i'd like to hope so but i really can't see it ever happening :mad
That would of had to of been voted in,there's a lot of Kent offices like that,pre 2010 anyway.
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wtf is walk sequence?

why wasnt there a -set date- for 1 in 3 off

why is everything tied in with another thing that royal mail might or might not get round to doing

honestly your union is a fking joke bcos royal mail walk all over it

i just laugh bcos ill be working every sat + drop in hours bcos im pt

thanks union
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chas51 wrote:All the things Royal Mail wanted D2D etc,but what about Saturdays off. Any body managed to get any, Not mentioned any more by managers any more they must be hoping they will go away.
Have you had a revision,are you going to have one,that's when things kick in.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
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.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Have you had a revision,are you going to have one,that's when things kick in.[/quote]



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BT2010 wrote:Have you had a revision,are you going to have one,that's when things kick in.


:nervous[/quote]
Yep,fair call. :crazy: :d'oh!
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
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.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.