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Extended delivery round up or down ?

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eastie
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Extended delivery round up or down ?

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When you do extended delivery on your round , say 1 hour and 10 minutes do you :-
1/ round it up to 1 hour 30 minutes
2/ book 1 hour and carry 10 mins over to the next day and add it to that.
3/ put the exact time down

Only reason I ask is that people in my delivery office all say one of these
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eastie wrote:Whem you do extended delivery say 1 hour and 10 minutes do you
1/ round it up to 1 hour 30 minutes
2/ book 1 hour and carry 10 mins over to the next day and add it to that.
3/ put the exact time down

Only reason I ask is that people in my delivery office all say one of these
Whatever I agree with the manager before I leave the office, or the exact time if its caused by an unavoidable and unseen circumstance before departure.
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Re: Extended delivery round up or down ?

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eastie wrote:When you do extended delivery on your round , say 1 hour and 10 minutes do you :-
1/ round it up to 1 hour 30 minutes
2/ book 1 hour and carry 10 mins over to the next day and add it to that.
3/ put the exact time down

Only reason I ask is that people in my delivery office all say one of these
1h 10m is just that isnt it? how can/should you round it up to 1h 30m? :d'oh!
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eastie wrote:When you do extended delivery on your round , say 1 hour and 10 minutes do you :-
1/ round it up to 1 hour 30 minutes
2/ book 1 hour and carry 10 mins over to the next day and add it to that.
3/ put the exact time down

Only reason I ask is that people in my delivery office all say one of these
Whatever the managers is going to pay me, by my reckoning, if i cut off 1hrs work it will cost him 2-3 hrs to get someone to do it, so I usually get 1.5 - 2hrs for it
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Re: Extended delivery round up or down ?

Post by eastie »

Our DOM doesn't sort it out beforehand and we wouldnt know anyway until we finished how long it would take anyway .
In our office we write it down when we leave the office after our round after we have brought all our stuff back to the cage .
The DOM is always gone home anyway.
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eastie wrote:When you do extended delivery on your round , say 1 hour and 10 minutes do you :-
1/ round it up to 1 hour 30 minutes
2/ book 1 hour and carry 10 mins over to the next day and add it to that.
3/ put the exact time down

Only reason I ask is that people in my delivery office all say one of these
We generally round our's up to the next 1/4hr, so we would book 1 hour 15 min in your case.
We NEVER round down :so there
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Re: Extended delivery round up or down ?

Post by fishtank »

Without pre-authorisation all you should book is the time it takes...to the minute.
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Post by Stella102 »

umm book to the minute otherwise its fraud. You also get paid to the minute on your wage slip so... makes sense
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Amazing, here we have a company that has managers that in one hand refuse/fail to pay overtime and in the other there are managers paying 2-3 hours overtime for less time worked.
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Post by DGP1 »

In my office you have to estimate what OT you are going to need and then when you're finished, you book whatever it takes you, keep it really simple and you'll not get into trouble if some manager decides you're trying to defraud RM.
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Lincox wrote:Amazing, here we have a company that has managers that in one hand refuse/fail to pay overtime and in the other there are managers paying 2-3 hours overtime for less time worked.
The best I have come accross at my place is 7 hours pay for 2hrs work. :nana
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Post by hampshireman »

fng wrote:
Lincox wrote:Amazing, here we have a company that has managers that in one hand refuse/fail to pay overtime and in the other there are managers paying 2-3 hours overtime for less time worked.
The best I have come accross at my place is 7 hours pay for 2hrs work. :nana
8 hrs for a quarter of a walk is the best i've negotiated
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Re: Extended delivery round up or down ?

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fishtank wrote:Without pre-authorisation all you should book is the time it takes...to the minute.
Oh, it's with the lino's blessing ! He wants all extended overtime rounded to the next 1/4 hr, so when he totals it for the daily office amount,
it's easier to add up :roll:
..... and no, he's not an ex-postman, he's a college graduate :left:
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Re: Extended delivery round up or down ?

Post by freelunch »

My lino works in a parallel universe where time stands still.
I always do the rounding up for him and have to check and re-check my hours are correct.
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