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Is this what royal mail wanted?

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ihatedogs
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Is this what royal mail wanted?

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Lounge Lizard
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by Lounge Lizard »

Divide and rule :sad: maybe it IS what they wanted :sad:
Judgee
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by Judgee »

yes.... divide and conquer, a successful tactic used over the centuries.

If we fight eachother we are too busy to fight the real enemy! :roll:

For what it's worth, the backbiting and infighting will die down over time. The problem is we are so used to working on our own that it's a real struggle to then start working in a partnership... particularly when they are designed to fail from the start! :so there
Union what Union? Do we have a union?
bigcol
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by bigcol »

My partner agrees that I'm always right. Works well. :Applause
Postman Plodd
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by Postman Plodd »

I get sh*t off the drivers due to this...

start time -5 minutes, flyers out of the door and into their cars
start time, yours truly bowls up to frame
start time +5 minutes, drivers start hovering to see if my bags are ready
start time +10 minutes, drivers start making sarky comments
start time +15 minutes, drivers start threatening to leave my bags
start time +20 minutes, drivers get 1st couple of bags and f*ck off muttering

repeat daily

*shrugs*

ANASFWGTD
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by BELIAL »

It adds a certain frisson that livens up the day ,embrace and foster it, and grind the blacklegs down
Bye
Postman Plodd
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by Postman Plodd »

No sign of the revision here yet, but i'm sure it'll be fun and games. All we need is a rep that's not firmly wedged in the Dom's anal cleft.
keithposty
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by keithposty »

myself and the ir rep have fallen out with branch over our revision

we have decided we want whats best for our office and if it upsets the area reps, so be it
bag69
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by bag69 »

Had the revision for about 9 months now. Can state that quite a few pairings have got divorced. Would of been better to pick partners first, then walks based on seniority. Whether it was combined seniority or based on the senior of the pair. Even an idiot can understand that to work together effectively, you need to get on.
Stormproof
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by Stormproof »

Lots of fallings out over various pairings at my office, we all knew it was going to happen at some point. No punch ups yet but had quite a few off with stress.
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets


Illegitimi non carborundum
ebbzie
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by ebbzie »

Postman Plodd wrote:No sign of the revision here yet, but i'm sure it'll be fun and games. All we need is a rep that's not firmly wedged in the Dom's anal cleft.
Does such a rep exist????
Lincox
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

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Only in La La Land
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by R@YAL F@IL »

This P&L cannot be working financially, what with the cost of fuel, Tax, maintenance etc, not to mention the extra duties to manage P&L, anyone buying Royal Fail would sell em off asap.
NO bags on shoulders please except for Moya who keeps her big fat wage packet in hers
TrueBlueTerrier
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

ebbzie wrote:
Postman Plodd wrote:No sign of the revision here yet, but i'm sure it'll be fun and games. All we need is a rep that's not firmly wedged in the Dom's anal cleft.
Does such a rep exist????

Yes - No complaints about the Huddersfield team, or its ADR. In fact the ADR and DOM have past history of which I was a witness. It was good to see him in action 1-on-1 as they say.

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eastie
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Re: Is this what royal mail wanted?

Post by eastie »

problem is that some are older or younger,some are lazy some aren't, some take shortcuts and some do it by the book, some have mobiles some dont, some want M/R some dont, some come in early some dont , some cut off some dont .
and they wonder why it doesn't work