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Booking days aff, nightmare

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shimmyrule
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Booking days aff, nightmare

Post by shimmyrule »

For years now, weve had trrouble gettin days aff, its an absolute disgrace at our d.o.

You can put inn for a day off months in advance, aand they get back to you with only a few days to spare,usually denied.
People goin on holiday who need a sat aff, denied.
People with little kids, who need a day aff, to look after then- denied
People whove BOUGHT extra annual leave- bloody denied!!!!!
Concert goers, very late night- denied!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

funerals, any chance you can get a swap! ----denied

just want 2 days away wi my good lady- denied.
Pisses me right aff it does.
We were talkin the other day, most peoples partners can pick up a phone and say, boss, need a day off tomorrow? aye, nae problems, thank you boss.

This effin place, no effin chance, just another little thing the cwu should sort out and get an agreement on, instead of putting in a poxy stage 1, 2 or 3 disagreement, its boring. :mad
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If your holiday blocks are fully booked then they have the right to say no,but a bit of compassion wouldn't hurt would it?
It's when the blocks that are not full that is wrong,at my place if the quota hasn't been taken then we can have to odd day if we want it.

Also shimmy,apart from that how's the revision going? How was Tolly? :left:
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Sippin40oz
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Re: Booking days aff, nightmare

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Same problems here! Also have had lots of instances where you book a week off and the sheet comes back with 1 day in the middle of your holiday that they cant accomadate which is pretty useless. Had this issue last year and they only told me 2 days before my holiday and sent the sheet back with a question mark on it. Accepted it anyway and monday comes and the covering lino rings me up demanding to know where i am! :d'oh!
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Sippin40oz wrote:Same problems here! Also have had lots of instances where you book a week off and the sheet comes back with 1 day in the middle of your holiday that they cant accomadate which is pretty useless. Had this issue last year and they only told me 2 days before my holiday and sent the sheet back with a question mark on it. Accepted it anyway and monday comes and the covering lino rings me up demanding to know where i am! :d'oh!
Was at a Mail Centre doing some Chrimbo OT a few years back and got speaking to a bloke from another local office who had exactly the same problem with getting odd days off. It had been pretty much resolved when people stopped asking for the time off and just phoned in sick. It made the DOM's life a misery as he was running round like an arse trying to get things covered, that or HE did the walk!. It was then 'explained' to him that if he was more flexible then he'd get notice and people would work together in trying to get things covered. It was agreed that there were going to be times when it just wouldn't be possible but that was fair enough.

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POSTMAN wrote:If your holiday blocks are fully booked then they have the right to say no,but a bit of compassion wouldn't hurt would it?
It's when the blocks that are not full that is wrong,at my place if the quota hasn't been taken then we can have to odd day if we want it.

Also shimmy,apart from that how's the revision going? How was Tolly? :left:
we`re still utilising the bathgate and dundee manpower squads, the 2 guys from edinburgh- the south african lad and the other boss, have restored some order, but, every single day, most posties need assistance, each having at least one row plus taken from them and delivered by agency guys.
The agency guys are also prepping all the door to doors and we have 6 new planners in, think the want to base the deliveries on 3 hours 45, with 45 mins doing large packets- tracked etc.

They want a return to baby bags , 5kg , and using the pouch boxes too! binning the trolleys, as they reckon they are crap, but we reckon the trolley is a back saver,i dont wanna be bent double in 20 years time!!!

Xmas nightshift is still going strong, the lads on it have been on it since mid Nov, and its not showing any sighs of stopping.

Most staff on Soorting for about 15-25 mins in mornning, token effort, but the rounds will change again, tinkering they call it, we call it a massive input of new vacancies, what they took out will need to be put back in hahaa.
As stated before, overtime costs since implementation were over 500000 uid, bus hire was over 45 000 quid.
They wanted to save 10 grand a month, but it dont take einstein to work out, theryll be no savings here for at least 4 and a half years, until that 545000 uid is accounted for.
update complete for now.
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Cheers Shimms,also,you keep them them trolleys mate. :chuckle
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shimmyrule wrote: Xmas nightshift is still going strong, the lads on it have been on it since mid Nov, and its not showing any sighs of stopping.
:chuckle :chuckle Nice one shimmy, that's a pearler ! :chuckle :chuckle
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shimmyrule
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the funny thing is, when they feck aboot wi the new duties after pegasus chucks out more un manageable deliveries, , the first call from the dims wil be "wha wants nightshift" just until the 110 o us get a hang o the new sorting!!!!

Then.................itl be near xmas again :nana