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EARLY STARTERS
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ABLOKE
- Posts: 11
- Joined: 18 Oct 2012, 23:24
- Gender: Male
EARLY STARTERS
Can any one tell me if there is anything that can be done to stop people starting before their official start time , in some cases more than 1 hour 30 mins. Perhaps on health and saftey or insurance grounds. I did think may be it could be looked at as a form of harrasment ie people who start on time feeling behind all the time and under pressure because of the early starters. It has reached epidemic proportions in our office.
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DGP1
- Posts: 15551
- Joined: 07 Jun 2007, 20:39
- Gender: Male
- Location: Terminus
Re: EARLY STARTERS
There's nothing you can do and if you 'talk' to those people then you could find yourself up on a B&H charge.
My advice, just do your own job and if the manager brings it up why you're later than everyone else then calmly point out that you're a bit later because you start at your normal time and if they want to compare your times then get the others to come in at the same time, it's their job to manage not yours.
My advice, just do your own job and if the manager brings it up why you're later than everyone else then calmly point out that you're a bit later because you start at your normal time and if they want to compare your times then get the others to come in at the same time, it's their job to manage not yours.
I'm preparing myself for the zombie invasion, rule number 1 - Cardio
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fishtank
- Posts: 19732
- Joined: 28 Sep 2007, 17:22
- Gender: Male
Re: EARLY STARTERS
Of course there is.ABLOKE wrote:Can any one tell me if there is anything that can be done to stop people starting before their official start time.
Next round of savings in your office just point your Dom over to the intellectually challenged table.
Easy pickings there surely.
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
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ABLOKE
- Posts: 11
- Joined: 18 Oct 2012, 23:24
- Gender: Male
Re: EARLY STARTERS
They will make savings , cut duties ,cut hours increase door to door etc. People will moan then still come in early and use their own cars , not claim overtime because they are scared to book it etc etc etc. 
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labbloke
- MAIL CENTRES/PROCESSING
- Posts: 282
- Joined: 03 Sep 2009, 05:11
- Gender: Male
Re: EARLY STARTERS
Unbelievable but true, the new manager at Wolverhampton this week has stopped all 200 plus posties from coming in before their official start time. Sign him up to the union now. 
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POSTMAN
- SITE ADMINISTRATOR
- Posts: 32784
- Joined: 07 Aug 2006, 03:19
- Gender: Male
Re: EARLY STARTERS
labbloke wrote:Unbelievable but true, the new manager at Wolverhampton this week has stopped all 200 plus posties from coming in before their official start time. Sign him up to the union now.
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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mpl1111
- Posts: 62
- Joined: 25 Aug 2012, 18:20
- Gender: Male
Re: EARLY STARTERS
its simple you are not insured to start before your time. but the numptys who do are working for free so managers are laughing all the way, saying thanks for the free labour heres some more lapsing for you.
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spoodoo
- Posts: 829
- Joined: 06 Sep 2009, 18:07
- Gender: Male
Re: EARLY STARTERS
Our dim said hel turn a blind eye to ppl coming in before there time ,,,wtf?
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centenaryman
- Posts: 512
- Joined: 12 Jan 2010, 20:31
- Gender: Male
Re: EARLY STARTERS
thats what i find hard to understand here,,,,,we were stopped about 6 months ago,,,and nobody is allowed to start work before your time,,,if you do your taken in the office "ooo err"
so in a funny kind of way our d.o.m is helping us
so in a funny kind of way our d.o.m is helping us
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clashcityrocker
- Posts: 16685
- Joined: 22 Sep 2009, 13:50
- Gender: Male
- Location: strummerville
Re: EARLY STARTERS
Actually we are all supposed to be working together.centenaryman wrote:
so in a funny kind of way our d.o.m is helping us
For a revision to work, you have to understand what your starting point is.
Unpaid overtime doesn't help anyone.
Ultimately if just f***s everything up.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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postwoman1
- Posts: 18
- Joined: 13 Oct 2012, 17:08
- Gender: Female
Re: EARLY STARTERS
Myself and van share partner would get our rounds ready for banding up, redi's done deads delt with, go for a 20 min break, when we came back from our break other folks who came in early would have left the building ...... but it us that were slow and had to speed up,we had got a problem. We explained about folk coming in early not taking breaks but he just did not get it, just walked off and told us to speed up. On the other hand at the end of the working day these folk claimed 40 min break {they did not take any break before going out} we claimed the other 20 mins ..... he did not say these are only claiming 20 mins why are you claiming 40 and not 20 like these are. can't do right for doing wrongDGP1 wrote:There's nothing you can do and if you 'talk' to those people then you could find yourself up on a B&H charge.
My advice, just do your own job and if the manager brings it up why you're later than everyone else then calmly point out that you're a bit later because you start at your normal time and if they want to compare your times then get the others to come in at the same time, it's their job to manage not yours.
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Stormproof
- Posts: 6116
- Joined: 07 Jul 2007, 21:03
- Gender: Female
Re: EARLY STARTERS
I've given up asking people not to come in early, its like

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
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
Illegitimi non carborundum
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macetheace
- Posts: 58
- Joined: 24 Jun 2010, 21:51
- Gender: Male
Re: EARLY STARTERS
its been going on for yrs, just tell the idiots take alook at the doms bonus, he/she gets for the hrs that the idiots are working for nothing 
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spoodoo
- Posts: 829
- Joined: 06 Sep 2009, 18:07
- Gender: Male
Re: EARLY STARTERS
The come in early saddos have helped destroy what was once a good job
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mandelsons_toenail
- Posts: 1294
- Joined: 08 Aug 2009, 18:16
- Gender: Male
- Location: Outer Hebrides
Re: EARLY STARTERS
Our office is f****d anyways.
