An 'unofficial' forum for those who either work for Royal Mail or are looking to work for Royal Mail through the Angard Staffing Agency.This is an open forum.
According to the i paper Tuesday 25 june 2013, the RESOLUTION FOUNDATION think tank found that many on zero hour "contracts" have to live with permanent uncertainty. It concludes that " zero hours contracts have a negative effect on staff morale, teamwork and productivity leading to a poor quality of service..."
Angard Staffing Solutions LTD and the Royal Mail should be clear about these findings and accept that all this outsourcing and abuse of the goodwill of Angardees must stop!
Respect, fairness and parity towards angardees must be shown. Bullying and prejudice from RM contracted staff and particularly managers MUST STOP FORTHWITH. Angardees typically give added value and excellent work performance at mail centres.
10 of us were kept on after the Xmas rush 2012, told we were nightshift, 6 days per week until further notice, after 1 wk @ RDC we were put on days, cut to. 5 shifts ans still on 6 19 hourly. We made a mockerry of the Full time staff who do F**K all and get away with it? Of course we got away with nothing. Floor managers constantly looked down their noses @ us, after all we were just scum. A certain amount of us were eventually offered Contracts on a Thursday, then we get told on the Saturday they were withdrawn? THIS is how CASUALS are treated by Royal Mail!! Utter Bastards the lot of them. Those NOT offered contracts were EXPECTED to work on? Aye right!!! The only good thing bout my experience was I met a great Lassie! Angard of course xxxxxxxxx also wages never correct EVER? WTF ROYAL MAIL REGULARS? Lazy Sods! Managers? Scum! All need lessons in people skills as they have their heads up their own Arses
Norrie you must have worked at the worst mail centre in the world :p
My centre is pretty good, 90% of the RM staff are decent enough people (although do as little as possible) managers treat you well so long as you aren't a lazy c***...even then certain ones are still treated fairly
the only thing I don't like is that certain casuals who have relatives on full time contracts get to do whatever they want....like turning up at 10:40 instead of half past have a 45 minute lunch instead of the half hour we are supposed to get, 30 minute second break instead of 15 minutes multiple fag breaks then leaves half hour early without batting an eyelid...
Justanotherstar wrote:Norrie you must have worked at the worst mail centre in the world :p
My centre is pretty good, 90% of the RM staff are decent enough people (although do as little as possible) managers treat you well so long as you aren't a lazy c***...even then certain ones are still treated fairly
the only thing I don't like is that certain casuals who have relatives on full time contracts get to do whatever they want....like turning up at 10:40 instead of half past have a 45 minute lunch instead of the half hour we are supposed to get, 30 minute second break instead of 15 minutes multiple fag breaks then leaves half hour early without batting an eyelid...
Disgraceful, appalling behaviour and attitude. This is discriminatory and nepotistic practice towards hardworking casuals. I would detail the above comments and place them in the suggestion box of that particular mail centre. I would also email Moya Greene, CEO and inform her and the directors of such disgraceful, discriminatory and unfair management/worker practices.TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.
Top performing, hardworking, reliable and punctual ANGARDEES should not be bullied and intimidated by this sort of dreadful employee(s)
Such nepotistic under-performers irrespective of their shared DNA with permanent staff must be brought to account immediately.
