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scoobydo79
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Been told we can expect a Questions & Answers session this month with a top Royal Mail Manager.Whats all this about? Any office had one yet? :cuppa
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he or she must have nothing to do,treat it as you would a have your say form DONT BOTHER :nana
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scoobydo79 wrote:Been told we can expect a Questions & Answers session this month with a top Royal Mail Manager.Whats all this about? Any office had one yet? :cuppa
when this top royal mail person turns up, tell them that park and loop does not work and why are they doing thier hardest to destroy royal mail, and the people that work for them??????????? thanking you kindly..
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scoobydo79 wrote:Been told we can expect a Questions & Bullshit reply session this month with a top Royal Mail Manager.Whats all this about? Any office had one yet? :cuppa
There, fixed it for you :chuckle
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scoobydo79 wrote:Been told we can expect a Questions & Answers session this month with a top Royal Mail Manager.Whats all this about? Any office had one yet? :cuppa

Moya Greene has done a few - heard of one in Scotland and there was a bit in the c(rap)ourier about one in London. I believe this is one thing she pushed when she worked at Canada Post - if you follow what's happening in Canada you'll know how successful it was for Posties - IIRC she also gets her fellow directors and managers to do the same.
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They visited Northern Ireland. (Can't remember the thread)
One office weren't allowed to ask any questions.
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Prepare amongst yourselves.
Write a list of questions YOU as members want answered.
They definitely won't listen if you come across as a rabble.
Pick 3 or 4 who are confident to ask the most important questions.
Ignore what management want,drive the debate...do not be a passenger.
Above all be honest.
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clashcityrocker wrote:They visited Northern Ireland. (Can't remember the thread)
One office weren't allowed to ask any questions.
They didn't come anywhere near my office................I think it was Portadown/Lurgan/Craigavon that got it.
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Tell them to f**k off to whence you came and never darken this office again.
Maybe then they might get the hint that something is wrong instead of having a few sycophant people asking them about how they can bring in even more D2D's for us all to do for less money. :cuppa
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We, (Craigavon which comprises Portadown and Lurgan) had two managers down two weeks ago.

One was from London, the woman Barbara? from NI. They talked for 15 minutes about "where the business is", then we could raise any issues. It certainly didn`t paint the office manager or his underlings in a good light and as soon as the meeting was getting interesting the office manager called a halt, saying we had to get out on delivery.
Barbara told us there will be pain for everyone, she said she had 6 people working for her, now she does it all on her own. Begs the question what were those 6 people actually doing!

I found it to be a complete waste of time, these "managers" didn`t seem to be taking any of our points on board, trotting out the party line to everything.
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Had one in ours a few months back no invite for the rep or anyone from the union, those that went were surprise surprise were hand picked by the dom, So much for that word what is it ? oh i know its Trust i'm sure i read that in the agreement ?, Well at the end of thier little meeting a action plan was made when the rep got hold of it it was torn up due to no involvement of the union so the twelve little pets did not get what they wanted and not one of them a union member, one nil to the union :nana :nana :nana

p.s before any of you attend any of these so-called listening sessions ask yourself this can you really Trust them ?
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... hello vip. please shadow me and my parknloopy partner on our walk this morning. If youre good we'll let you do the lapsing to show us how you'd like us to do better. If youre very good we'll let you use a pda on a special and if it f***s up on you - you get one step closer to being fired. You can drive. Now hows you're tying up?

I agree with fishtank - try and get a few good questions and give them to the ones who are good at getting things across.
scoobydo79
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Hmmm Some valid points raised here thank you guys.Just wonder why our office is selected.Will keep you informed of progress (or lack of progress) .I aint raising my hopes because weve all been there before havent we?
superports
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I agree with fishtank, prepare a list of questions/points you would like raised.

One guy at our meeting asked how, despite all the money spent, effiency drives etc, we used to deliver more mail in less time.
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ask them if they have their trolley with them as you could do with a hand :nana