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Management Cull

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egor110
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Re: Management Cull

Post by egor110 »

sussexlad wrote:
egor110 wrote:Explain to me why we have 90 staff and 6 managers between 630-930 then 99% staff go out on delivery 930-10 yet we still have the same amount of managers.

Who/what are they managing?
Maybe they are managing the kettle! I'm surprised you have 6 managers for 90 staff that seems like a lot. I can see your point about after 9:30-10:00 but then they are hardly going to employ the managers for the hours between 6:30-9:30 only.
Why not?

It's called a split shift other companies in the private sector would.

They could do 4 hours in the morning and 4 on the afternoon/late shift.
fishtank
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Re: Management Cull

Post by fishtank »

egor110 wrote:
sussexlad wrote:
egor110 wrote:Explain to me why we have 90 staff and 6 managers between 630-930 then 99% staff go out on delivery 930-10 yet we still have the same amount of managers.

Who/what are they managing?
Maybe they are managing the kettle! I'm surprised you have 6 managers for 90 staff that seems like a lot. I can see your point about after 9:30-10:00 but then they are hardly going to employ the managers for the hours between 6:30-9:30 only.
Why not?

It's called a split shift other companies in the private sector would.

They could do 4 hours in the morning and 4 on the afternoon/late shift.
More likely you would call them team leaders and come 9.30 they would be off out on delivery like the rest of us.
That's how RM will solve the "too many managers/not enough work" conundrum.
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hantsman
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Re: Management Cull

Post by hantsman »

Stella102 wrote:Just got wind that when xmas is over there will be a big cull in managers.

Just watch them squirm for their livelihoods.

Heard the dole que is not a pleasant place these days.

And where did you get this wind? :cuppa
wiganpostie
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Re: Management Cull

Post by wiganpostie »

I wonder if anyone has ever bothered to inform Ms Greene of how little work there is for a line manager after 930-ish in the morning. It seems she is as equally deluded about their workload as she is about ours, albeit at completely opposite ends of the spectrum.
silly suffolk
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Re: Management Cull

Post by silly suffolk »

whats the betting there will be a form of chargehand in the brave new world. extra 20 quid a week. allowed to dosh out the conduct code. I can think of many individuals who will be worse than our current batch of managers we have. having a nice scab as your team leader. doesn't bare thinking about.
adamanti
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Re: Management Cull

Post by adamanti »

egor110 wrote:Explain to me why we have 90 staff and 6 managers between 630-930 then 99% staff go out on delivery 930-10 yet we still have the same amount of managers.

Who/what are they managing?
Same at our office.....Add the combined wage bill of lino's together (big money), add the assistant DOM (bigger money), then the DOM (really big money) and the DSM (salary band massive money) (annually). That's a lot of delivering to do, just to pay for these *******!
Pete22
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Re: Management Cull

Post by Pete22 »

silly suffolk wrote:whats the betting there will be a form of chargehand in the brave new world. extra 20 quid a week. allowed to dosh out the conduct code. I can think of many individuals who will be worse than our current batch of managers we have. having a nice scab as your team leader. doesn't bare thinking about.
Forward thinking say's workplace coach, trying to recruit 2 more in our office £30 a week more.
General Mannerheim
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Re: Management Cull

Post by General Mannerheim »

clashcityrocker wrote:We haven't had a "management cull" thread for a while.

I'm guessing we'll soon have a "Big Announcement" thread followed by a "Lizard" one.
I'm all for a lizard thread. :shock:
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k979aaa
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Re: Management Cull

Post by k979aaa »

Pete22 wrote:
silly suffolk wrote:whats the betting there will be a form of chargehand in the brave new world. extra 20 quid a week. allowed to dosh out the conduct code. I can think of many individuals who will be worse than our current batch of managers we have. having a nice scab as your team leader. doesn't bare thinking about.
Forward thinking say's workplace coach, trying to recruit 2 more in our office £30 a week more.
Yep and they get shafted for £30 in to working overtime they do not want to do or they get their couching allowance stopped so being a workplace coach is not as good as it sounds these days!
halfull
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Re: Management Cull

Post by halfull »

well we have a couple in our office and the just do the same as everyone else! nomore! then they go home! work-based coaches that is
tigercat
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Re: Management Cull

Post by tigercat »

It would be the happiest day at RM for me on the day my manager, DIM and all the shiny @rsed, bullying, failed posties who have speedily climbed the greasy pole, whilst dumping on their former work mates to become linos, get made redundant. The only thing they havent done in my DO to save money is to sort out the amount of linos doing not very much all day.
k979aaa
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Re: Management Cull

Post by k979aaa »

tigercat wrote:It would be the happiest day at RM for me on the day my manager, DIM and all the shiny @rsed, bullying, failed posties who have speedily climbed the greasy pole, whilst dumping on their former work mates to become linos, get made redundant. The only thing they havent done in my DO to save money is to sort out the amount of linos doing not very much all day.
Or extract the coffee machine!
5plusbonusball
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Re: Management Cull

Post by 5plusbonusball »

Get the time and motion men in , we'll get paid more and they'll be paid for just the 15 hours work they do each week :Very Happy
Why are lino's paid full-time ??
Dee Plish
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Re: Management Cull

Post by Dee Plish »

I do hope some of the higher-up-the-chain snoopers in RM are reading this thread. Lots of "efficiency savings" to be made in delivery office management, meaning more money for the company, more profit and more dividend for the shareholders at absolutely no loss of quality of service to the customer.

And should the managers strike over job losses, the postmen and women will carry on working as normal. At absolutely no loss of quality of service to the customer.

Simple innit?
motch
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Re: Management Cull

Post by motch »

Yes, really they're only needed for about 3 hours a day. Suppose no one wants to do 3 hour days 5 or 6 days a week though.