FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIFTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Well I work for Royal Mail!
FIRST FOUR YORKSHIREMEN:
You poor sod!
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Five Yorkshiremen
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How about the postman who woke up to find his house had been burgled? Nothing was taken, but the burglar left a tewnty pound note on the kitchen table with a note saying "Sorry mate! Just saw your uniform coat hanging in the hall. You need this more than me."
The Industrial Workers of the World. The union whose members never scab!
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common."
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common."
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Managers can't use colours they only see things in black and whitedvbuk55 wrote:Are you sure he wasn't a Manager?jafferpants wrote:POSTIE IN OUR OFFICE HAD HIS HOUSE BURGLED AND THEY STOLE HIS COMPLETE COLLECTION OF BOOKS PITY OF IT WAS HE HADN'T FINISHED COLOURING THEM IN!!.
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You joke, but in all of my time working for Royal Mail, I've only ever met one manager who was able to discuss books and another who told me he was a reader, but who spent four months reading a twelve page pamphlet on the Spanish Civil War and returned it to me without having managed to get to the end. One of the pleasures of standing on the picket line is being able to converse about a range of subjects including politics, literature, religion, films, sport, history and music of all types with people who make an effort to educate themselves. If the CMA went on strike and mounted a picket line, they would all die of boredom within half an hour.
The Industrial Workers of the World. The union whose members never scab!
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common."
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common."
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then why do we give them crayons to keep them occupied?disgruntledpostie1 wrote:Managers can't use colours they only see things in black and whitedvbuk55 wrote:Are you sure he wasn't a Manager?jafferpants wrote:POSTIE IN OUR OFFICE HAD HIS HOUSE BURGLED AND THEY STOLE HIS COMPLETE COLLECTION OF BOOKS PITY OF IT WAS HE HADN'T FINISHED COLOURING THEM IN!!.
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dvbuk55
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No! It is because they cannot jab themselves with sharp points - although should we bother?rhino49 wrote:then why do we give them crayons to keep them occupied?disgruntledpostie1 wrote:Managers can't use colours they only see things in black and whitedvbuk55 wrote:Are you sure he wasn't a Manager?jafferpants wrote:POSTIE IN OUR OFFICE HAD HIS HOUSE BURGLED AND THEY STOLE HIS COMPLETE COLLECTION OF BOOKS PITY OF IT WAS HE HADN'T FINISHED COLOURING THEM IN!!.
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POSTMAN
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Ohhh yes Katy 
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.
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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Shapes and Numbers
Doing my round this morning, which was thrown out by a DOM then they should try an exam in putting rectangle shaped envolopes into the correct number on the frame !!!
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Re: Shapes and Numbers
JAMESMARSH1980 wrote:Doing my round this morning, which was thrown out by a DOM then they should try an exam in putting rectangle shaped envolopes into the correct number on the frame !!!
I've had the same problem
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