working your own duty on your day off....

[POSTMAN]

It's not flexibility,it's not operational needs,it's nothing but a wankey scumbag bumping a colleague off their duty to earn a few quid.

[singingpostman]

It's not flexibility,it's not operational needs,it's nothing but a wankey scumbag bumping a colleague off their duty to earn a few quid.

And I shall be doing it again next week !

[Pat Ostman]

It's not flexibility,it's not operational needs,it's nothing but a wankey scumbag bumping a colleague off their duty to earn a few quid.

And I shall be doing it again next week !

Well done, have a cigar.

[coxie]

I am a floater because that's what I prefer. I am happy to let the bloke work his day off 9 times out of 10 provided I am asked nicely by the manager, usually he asks me and trys to find me the best duty possible and everyone is happy.

At my office we have a strong enough union that they won't kick you off your duty that you signed for as a floater just because the regular wants to work his day off. It's your duty on that day and as postman said, it's not operational needs if it happens to you and you are pee'd off about it stick in a grievence and don't listen to their bull because they are not supposed to boot you off your duty without your agreement, if they do then when it comes to your day off ask if you can work and kick the regular guy off his duty, if they won't do it then you have every right to feel harrassed.

[POSTMAN]

It's not flexibility,it's not operational needs,it's nothing but a wankey scumbag bumping a colleague off their duty to earn a few quid.

And I shall be doing it again next week !

I've only got 4 years to do

Do you know *Margie?

* To our older viewers,I kinda miss him.

[DGP1]

It's not flexibility,it's not operational needs,it's nothing but a wankey scumbag bumping a colleague off their duty to earn a few quid.

And I shall be doing it again next week !

I've only got 4 years to do

Do you know *Margie?

* To our older viewers,I kinda miss him.

Sort of miss him too (certainly didn't at the time ).

[suz67]

my cover man as no problems,wouldn't work my day off if they offered me treble time and a day off in lieu!!! if more of these selfish docket grabbers did the same we might get a full time workforce and less of these lowlifes shitting on there workmates!!

[Lateagainpostie]

Selfish docket grabbers, thats a bit strong.

We've got two off on long term sick in our office, plus holidays to cover, so if we don't want to lapse people have to work a day off, we all have a go at it, everyone is asked if they want to do it, most say yes, some refuse, and we always work our own duties.

Floaters float, end of really.

Does it really matter, after all it's just putting letters through letterboxes.

[Stormproof]

Very few in my office do afternoon overtime since P/L came in. They are all too knackered. Luckily for them they have the option of coming in for an hours O/T before their duty to do IPS etc. Some work their rest week but they won't get put on their own duty unless the week off cover is off.

[Patrick Clifton]

my cover man as no problems,wouldn't work my day off if they offered me treble time and a day off in lieu!!! if more of these selfish docket grabbers did the same we might get a full time workforce and less of these lowlifes shitting on there workmates!!

If by way of earning a few extra quid in working my day off makes me a 'Selfish Docket Grabber' then so be it. RM has not asked me to work my day off without due cause, they canot afford to!

[fishtank]

Apart from the obvious problems outlined in this thread it does lead to under staffing in delivery offices and does add to the the businesses ability to have a greater reliance on part-time and fixed term contracts.

As a resourcing solution it's a bit of a disaster and given that the overtime rate is lousy and people constantly moan about how difficult the job has become and the effect it has on them physically i'm surprised that anyone other than those who are really struggling financially actually do it.

I would imagine if you really need the money that badly you wouldn't give a f**k what duty you were put on.
The point would be to make money not time.

[stupidboy]

The low life scumbag is keeping your office clear from work so when you get back early you don't have to take more out or he himself coming back after his day of to two days mail so like it or not duty holder should and has got full priority to his own delivery on his day off tough

you're missing the point. it is not your own delivery on your day off

[DGP1]

The low life scumbag is keeping your office clear from work so when you get back early you don't have to take more out or he himself coming back after his day of to two days mail so like it or not duty holder should and has got full priority to his own delivery on his day off tough

you're missing the point. it is not your own delivery on your day off

I think the point is that none of the duties belong to anybody, manager can put you anywhere he needs covered.

[ElvisGaddafi]

I think the point is that if we got a decent wage nobody would need to work their day off to make ends meet.

[clashcityrocker]

I thought the point was if they really needed the money they wouldn't mind what duty they did or even what office they were in.
I thought the point was - people should be aware of the consequences of their actions.