Newbies and Overtime

willnicam9 · Post by **willnicam9** » 14 Jan 2013, 11:14

Looking for advice and guidance please. Due to start a 6 month contract 20 hours a week. I would need to double my hours to survive! Is it feasible to do that many hours overtime and what are the best methods of O.T.? Thanks very much

Post by **BingBong** » 14 Jan 2013, 11:53

willnicam9 wrote:Looking for advice and guidance please. Due to start a 6 month contract 20 hours a week. I would need to double my hours to survive! Is it feasible to do that many hours overtime and what are the best methods of O.T.? Thanks very much

You'd get twenty hours overtime easy in our office. Can't ever get collections covered in the evenings.

SP115 · Post by **SP115** » 14 Jan 2013, 14:01

BrokenFlowers wrote:
willnicam9 wrote:Looking for advice and guidance please. Due to start a 6 month contract 20 hours a week. I would need to double my hours to survive! Is it feasible to do that many hours overtime and what are the best methods of O.T.? Thanks very much
You'd get twenty hours overtime easy in our office. Can't ever get collections covered in the evenings.

Same here, I only started 6-7 weeks ago on a 24 hr contract, I'm always doing a min of 40 and max of 60 each week. Starting to get to me a bit now so Gonna have to start refusing it.

Barbel · Post by **Barbel** » 14 Jan 2013, 15:40

I started last Thursday on a 30hr 6 month contract. I asked today when is my day off this week and nobody knows. I was told when I come in tomorrow I could be told that it's my day off but I could work and book it as overtime if I want' I don't mind as I've got nothing else planned, just wondering if I could work all my days off and book it as overtime or are you meant to take a day off if it says so in your contract?

Post by **thefemalepostie** » 14 Jan 2013, 15:42

Barbel wrote:I started last Thursday on a 30hr 6 month contract. I asked today when is my day off this week and nobody knows. I was told when I come in tomorrow I could be told that it's my day off but I could work and book it as overtime if I want' I don't mind as I've got nothing else planned, just wondering if I could work all my days off and book it as overtime or are you meant to take a day off if it says so in your contract?

No you can work all your days off if you want barbel. The managers won't mind at all if they need you. Just be careful to not burn out and also only do it if you want to. If you do it a lot they will get used to this and may expect you to do it all the time.

Barbel · Post by **Barbel** » 14 Jan 2013, 15:50

thefemalepostie wrote:
Barbel wrote:I started last Thursday on a 30hr 6 month contract. I asked today when is my day off this week and nobody knows. I was told when I come in tomorrow I could be told that it's my day off but I could work and book it as overtime if I want' I don't mind as I've got nothing else planned, just wondering if I could work all my days off and book it as overtime or are you meant to take a day off if it says so in your contract?
No you can work all your days off if you want barbel. The managers won't mind at all if they need you. Just be careful to not burn out and also only do it if you want to. If you do it a lot they will get used to this and may expect you to do it all the time.

Ok thanks femalepostie! How are you getting on now?

Puppetmaster · Post by **Puppetmaster** » 14 Jan 2013, 19:40

Most Officies now,as much o/t as you like.

My office if you wanted to do 60 or even 80 hours overtime + a 39 hour week +S/A Perfectly feasible ,if your body can stand it and you dont mind being shafted,and you soon learn not all o/t is the same and not all people are equal in o/t selection ,being new
you will get offered all the dregs the regulars guys dont want.

the Managers need to get rid of the walks so do the CWU ,lies will be told to you in order to say yes to the O/T .

Before you agree to the O/T speak to someone you feal you can trust about what the walk being offered is like .

If straight forward and a average walk do the O/t. if a monster of a walk in size and or with difficulty finding the roads or the route
Especialy if the Estate was Designed by Stevie Wonder.dont go near it with a barge poll ,you could be out their for hours.

international · Post by **international** » 14 Jan 2013, 19:55

all the part timers joining thinking they can survive on 20 or 30hr pay well they are wrong all they are doing is destroying the job for the full timers all full timers jobs are being replaced by part timers when a full timer leaves or gives up and then the part timers want to live of overtime well that will all change when they do the next revision just wait

Post by **dvbuk55** » 14 Jan 2013, 20:32

Hope the union bods are taking notice of this

hampshireman · Post by **hampshireman** » 15 Jan 2013, 15:21

international wrote:all the part timers joining thinking they can survive on 20 or 30hr pay well they are wrong all they are doing is destroying the job for the full timers all full timers jobs are being replaced by part timers when a full timer leaves or gives up and then the part timers want to live of overtime well that will all change when they do the next revision just wait

What is this rant about? Is this a go at part timers?

If so , it's pathetic. Plus , bordering on unintelligble.

Darren Bent · Post by **Darren Bent** » 15 Jan 2013, 16:15

No good having a go at part timers as they need to earn money. Is it not their fault for not getting full time job.

If you do 5 weeks of 6 days duty and get a week off every six weeks it is better to do overtime on week off as it will be eaiser rather than do half walk after doing full walk

(Tip avoid doing it on Wed-Friday as it is much harder workfor doing half of walk after full walk)

*xen* · Post by ***xen*** » 15 Jan 2013, 17:07

international wrote:all the part timers joining thinking they can survive on 20 or 30hr pay well they are wrong all they are doing is destroying the job for the full timers all full timers jobs are being replaced by part timers when a full timer leaves or gives up and then the part timers want to live of overtime well that will all change when they do the next revision just wait

WTF?

Post by **thefemalepostie** » 15 Jan 2013, 18:44

international wrote:all the part timers joining thinking they can survive on 20 or 30hr pay well they are wrong all they are doing is destroying the job for the full timers all full timers jobs are being replaced by part timers when a full timer leaves or gives up and then the part timers want to live of overtime well that will all change when they do the next revision just wait

I would say the majority of PT want FT but RM does not offer this to newbies very often. If they were offered full time they would jump at it so they don't get shafted at holiday/sickness time.

redneck · Post by **redneck** » 15 Jan 2013, 18:53

I've been there on 20 hrs contract for 3 and a half years and still treated like a newbie. Worked like a t**t over Xmas and now dumped to 9am starts on delivery only for the week. New DOM flexing his muscles. Never known a company like it.

marley37 · Post by **marley37** » 23 Jan 2013, 17:53

Hi Guys,
i have been offered a job as a postman. and just waiting for my crb check to go through. i have no crimanal record but did have a drink drive on my lience a few years ago. i told them at my interview about it. but still worrying they will not give me the job. has anyone had a drink drive and work with the royal mail. just want to be put at rest as its took 2 weeks and no crb check yet. many thanks Marlon

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