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Ghost culture

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Lazycarton
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Joined: 15 Mar 2012, 18:52
Gender: Male

Ghost culture

Post by Lazycarton »

Seems to me in the short time that I have been embraced and loved by the wonderful RM :wink: that we are in fact invisible :shock:

Management look straight through you as if you are not there, unless they want something "can you work your day off" when suddenly it appears that you do in fact exist.

People who have been there eons dissapear without any acknowledgment of their existence. Weird.

In another thread I was enightened to the "nobody" culture i.e we are in fact nobodys. Heart warming.
BingBong
EX ROYAL MAIL
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Gender: Female
Location: the north

Re: Ghost culture

Post by BingBong »

Lazycarton wrote:Seems to me in the short time that I have been embraced and loved by the wonderful RM :wink: that we are in fact invisible :shock:

Management look straight through you as if you are not there, unless they want something "can you work your day off" when suddenly it appears that you do in fact exist.

People who have been there eons dissapear without any acknowledgment of their existence. Weird.

In another thread I was enightened to the "nobody" culture i.e we are in fact nobodys. Heart warming.
Even better we get paid for not existing... :nana
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tigercat
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Joined: 23 Sep 2010, 15:01
Gender: Male

Re: Ghost culture

Post by tigercat »

The signing in sheets in our office used to have your name against the duty. Not anymore, just a "0" where your name was. It tells you everything about RM. The worse firm Ive ever worked for in terms of care of its workforce.
Lazycarton
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Joined: 15 Mar 2012, 18:52
Gender: Male

Re: Ghost culture

Post by Lazycarton »

tigercat wrote:The signing in sheets in our office used to have your name against the duty. Not anymore, just a "0" where your name was. It tells you everything about RM. The worse firm Ive ever worked for in terms of care of its workforce.
Yup, same at ours :sad:
NWpostie
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Location: Sector 001 Borg Collective, 6 o f 9

Re: Ghost culture

Post by NWpostie »

Welcome to the Twilight Zone, where the real is no longer real, strange things do happen and people disappear without a trace :nervous


Cue Twilight Zone signature tune .......
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fng
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Joined: 20 Jun 2011, 16:54
Gender: Male

Re: Ghost culture

Post by fng »

I love being invisible, means i can just crack on :whistle , last thing i want is managers hanging around. :nervous
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da'bunny
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Joined: 08 May 2007, 20:47

Re: Ghost culture

Post by da'bunny »

I bet if you took a sneaky day off without ringing in first, you wouldn't be invisible lol
Maybe "the invisible" ones should try it :wink:
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