Pet Hates Of Being A Part Timer....

[halfull]

Royal Mail management reading this must love the 'us and them' attitude being displayed. As long as we're at each other's throats they don't need to worry too much about the workforce uniting against them. Personally, I was part-time for over 3 years before I got a full-time contract but now I'm able to come in, spend 2-3 hours sorting the I.P.S and prepping a part-timer's duty. Then I get to wave good bye to the part-timer as he leaves the office while I'm still throwing off my letters. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I'm on my flats.

so he should be waving you goodbye! hes partime! you are paid to work longer so why would that concern you??

[bunkerland]

i think we can all agree that part-timers are all desperately hard done to,salt of the earth types,who are worked like slaves and rewarded with a pittance! I hope we can also agree that all full-timers are the most selfish lazy scum of the earth work shirkers that ever wasted the planets supply of oxegen,especially the >20 year boys who should be stripped,shackled,and lashed with a whip in front of the whole office!

There,i think that about summarizes this thread!

90% of fulltimers dont give a s**t about nobody except themselves.

90% seems quite high! Might i ask how you arrived at such a figure? Is there some sort of mathematical formula for working it out,or is it the result of some sort of painstaking research you've conducted? I'm guessing your figure for part-timers is somewhat lower,pro rata perhaps? Does that mean if a part-timer goes full time they"ve got a 90% chance of turning into a s**t then,or do you have another formula for that?

believe it or not i came to that figure by working with fulltimers! crazy isnt it .

Crazy indeed,in fact,dare i say it,almost..............unbelievable!

well heres another one,id bet 90% of partimers would agree with me! go figure!

I'm not for one moment disputing your point that many part-timers have the tougher side of things and feel hard done to,especially the one's looking for full-time. It's pretty clear the easier part of the job is standing in a warm office doing ips or prepping,which is what in the main they don't do,if i were part-time now,doubtless i would feel the same. But unfortunately in recent years the indoor element of the job has been decimated and the part-time job is what it is!
Why that should make 90% of part-time staff see full-timers as tossers,is a mystery to me!

Don't hate the players,hate the game!

[fishtank]

There is a danger that some come on here and try to apply what they perceive in their corner of Royal Mail to the whole business.
In my office part-timers and full-timers work together in pairs.
The full-timer isn't going anywhere without the part-timer and vice versa.
The only difference in the job is the indoor element.
If doing indoor work makes you a tosser halfull then that means everybody in mailcentres,rdc's,customer services,cleaners,MDEC and various other places are also tossers.

[clashcityrocker]

If doing indoor work makes you a tosser halfull then that means everybody in mailcentres,rdc's,customer services,cleaners,MDEC and various other places are also tossers.

[fishtank]

Don't wind them up.
The PT/FT thing is bad enough.

[ElvisGaddafi]

Royal Mail management reading this must love the 'us and them' attitude being displayed. As long as we're at each other's throats they don't need to worry too much about the workforce uniting against them. Personally, I was part-time for over 3 years before I got a full-time contract but now I'm able to come in, spend 2-3 hours sorting the I.P.S and prepping a part-timer's duty. Then I get to wave good bye to the part-timer as he leaves the office while I'm still throwing off my letters. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I'm on my flats.

so he should be waving you goodbye! hes partime! you are paid to work longer so why would that concern you??

Because we've got the same finishing time.

[halfull]

Royal Mail management reading this must love the 'us and them' attitude being displayed. As long as we're at each other's throats they don't need to worry too much about the workforce uniting against them. Personally, I was part-time for over 3 years before I got a full-time contract but now I'm able to come in, spend 2-3 hours sorting the I.P.S and prepping a part-timer's duty. Then I get to wave good bye to the part-timer as he leaves the office while I'm still throwing off my letters. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I'm on my flats.

so he should be waving you goodbye! hes partime! you are paid to work longer so why would that concern you??

Because we've got the same finishing time halfwit.

well prep faster then!

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Leadership Skills Check List DO.

Use of Divide and Conquer.
Incorrect Extrapolation of experience.
Building Barriers
Lack of empathy
Application of Bullying tactics
Use of imaginary statistical data
Using incorrect language
Poor grammar

This thread has it all and yet it started so well

[halfull]

Royal Mail management reading this must love the 'us and them' attitude being displayed. As long as we're at each other's throats they don't need to worry too much about the workforce uniting against them. Personally, I was part-time for over 3 years before I got a full-time contract but now I'm able to come in, spend 2-3 hours sorting the I.P.S and prepping a part-timer's duty. Then I get to wave good bye to the part-timer as he leaves the office while I'm still throwing off my letters. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I'm on my flats.

so he should be waving you goodbye! hes partime! you are paid to work longer so why would that concern you??

Because we've got the same finishing time halfwit.

if you dont like the way you have got it to the partimer's who get out earlier than you why dont you swap contracts with them & then you will be happy eh?? until then enjoy your fulltime wage & stop moaning

[RedBagMan]

In which world are the part-timers getting out "earlier" ?? Not in my world ...

[TrueBlueTerrier]

As this thread has descended into name calling as do all of these divide and conquer ones I am locking it.

Yes you are entitled to Free Speech, but the right of free speech does not allow you to use abusive terms that could in other circumstances be called defamation of character or slander, and if they were used in the street with Police around could get you a Breach of the Peace.

Debate is welcome, name calling is not.