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Easy Walks

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JiminyBillyBob
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Easy Walks

Post by JiminyBillyBob »

As a reserve im finding lately im being put on all the easy walks, I can't work out if this is a good thing or not?
Who decides what walks the reserves do each week anyway?
Darren Bent
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Enjoy it while it last. It probably means harder winter :roll:
arnold cheshire
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JiminyBillyBob wrote:As a reserve im finding lately im being put on all the easy walks, I can't work out if this is a good thing or not?
Who decides what walks the reserves do each week anyway?
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JiminyBillyBob
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bringon4dayweeks wrote:
JiminyBillyBob wrote:As a reserve im finding lately im being put on all the easy walks, I can't work out if this is a good thing or not?
Who decides what walks the reserves do each week anyway?
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No i was just think, don't people who screw up the bigger walks usually start to get easy walks? Just wondering if I've done something wrong?
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JiminyBillyBob wrote:
bringon4dayweeks wrote:
JiminyBillyBob wrote:As a reserve im finding lately im being put on all the easy walks, I can't work out if this is a good thing or not?
Who decides what walks the reserves do each week anyway?
wind up post
No i was just think, don't people who screw up the bigger walks usually start to get easy walks? Just wondering if I've done something wrong?
No - they are usually left on it till either they screw up enough to be sacked, or till they stop screwing up.
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Re: Easy Walks

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JiminyBillyBob wrote:As a reserve im finding lately im being put on all the easy walks, I can't work out if this is a good thing or not?
Who decides what walks the reserves do each week anyway?
At my old office reserves would sign for the following weeks duties in seniority as agreed locally by the rep and management,this may have changed.
Easy walks :shock: duties are now supposed to be all around the same length give or take,this to may have changed.
RedRich
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Re: Easy Walks

Post by RedRich »

No such thing as an easy walk, some are just not as hard as others!
postypie
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Make the most of it mate....I get all the sh1t ones in our office as the other spare posties are in the friends and family club...and b4 you say go and see your cwu rep...one of these spare posties is a rep,but looks after himself first..( as all the other reps I have worked with have over 20+ years in three offices have done) ...many of whom have gone onto to become managers... :Sick :Sick
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RedRich wrote:No such thing as an easy walk, some are just not as hard as others!
You aint been in my office!
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Post by mailmonkey »

RedRich wrote:No such thing as an easy walk, some are just not as hard as others!
All walks are exactly equal now the Pegasus system has been deployed :left: