Yeah, it came in yesterday in our office, despite our local rep doing everything he could, with reasonable grounds, to get issues ironed out before implementation it came in anyway, apparently with the blessing of area and div reps. The way those two have behaved over all this has been unbeleivable, just one more tier of RM bullying management for us to contend with now, they seem happy for RM to steamroller whatever they want through.
We were also told that they'd be with us every step of the way when the revisions came in, to make sure it was al fair and achievable. No sign of them, no contact.
Anyway, I don't THINK any of the P&L duties completed, the duties themselves are bizarre, the computer programme has made achievable duties unachievable. The one I was on we managed about 60% of the delivery, others seemed to be about the same. There's one pair I think may have completed, but it would have been well over time.
All colleagues returning from the P&L routes complained of illogical routes, repeated dead walks, down time waiting for colleagues to return to van, unrealistic times for loading/unloading trolleys etc.
It's a failure, the workers have always known it, the management now acccept it, the CWU seem to be the only ones telling us its fine. But its coming anyway.
. RM senior management still insist the two duties should only take 4 hrs but they don't seem to be to keen on coming down and showing us where we are going wrong . If everything is cushdie and overtime is being paid and posties are allowed to cut off hassle free then great but what I'm witnessing is the opposite . The office is failing again , mail is building up and things are starting to get really ugly . If the office managers could use whips I think 2 out of the 4 would . In the last week we've had one postie and a nearly another walk out with stress , tempers are being lost . I don't know what information goes up and comes down the management ladder but I get the impression our lot are like little frightened rabbits trembleing and scared to say " Boss until you invest more hours in the office the jobs f*cked " .
