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YOUR OFFICE XMAS PLANS!!!!!!

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slipperycoconut1987
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YOUR OFFICE XMAS PLANS!!!!!!

Post by slipperycoconut1987 »

Hi!! Is anybody else's office suffering this year with cut backs, I'm dreading Xmas this year, normally our holiday cover posties have a hire van and take a chunk of each person in their sections round, to lighten the load but we have been told today instead of having our usual 6 hire vans at Xmas we are only allowed 2!!!!! We are staff down due to sick and transfers and now our manger wants us to start 2 hours earlier!!!!!!! Even tho the lorry with our last mech will be arriving at the same time as now, 7.30 ish , can he change our start times like this and just expect us to come in early and not finish till normal time, that will be like a 11 hour shift for me!!
Post1977
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Post by Post1977 »

The s**t will hit the fan this Xmas
k979aaa
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Post by k979aaa »

We have a dedicated team of elves 50 reindeer 10 farther Christmas's and no end of bullshit as long as it comes with less budget than last year with packets up 6% royal mails figurer's!
k979aaa
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Post by k979aaa »

slipperycoconut1987 wrote:Hi!! Is anybody else's office suffering this year with cut backs, I'm dreading Xmas this year, normally our holiday cover posties have a hire van and take a chunk of each person in their sections round, to lighten the load but we have been told today instead of having our usual 6 hire vans at Xmas we are only allowed 2!!!!! We are staff down due to sick and transfers and now our manger wants us to start 2 hours earlier!!!!!!! Even tho the lorry with our last mech will be arriving at the same time as now, 7.30 ish , can he change our start times like this and just expect us to come in early and not finish till normal time, that will be like a 11 hour shift for me!!
Tell him to f**k it work your normal hour's.
steven100
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Joined: 09 Aug 2009, 12:35
Gender: Male

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Post by steven100 »

k979aaa wrote:
slipperycoconut1987 wrote:Hi!! Is anybody else's office suffering this year with cut backs, I'm dreading Xmas this year, normally our holiday cover posties have a hire van and take a chunk of each person in their sections round, to lighten the load but we have been told today instead of having our usual 6 hire vans at Xmas we are only allowed 2!!!!! We are staff down due to sick and transfers and now our manger wants us to start 2 hours earlier!!!!!!! Even tho the lorry with our last mech will be arriving at the same time as now, 7.30 ish , can he change our start times like this and just expect us to come in early and not finish till normal time, that will be like a 11 hour shift for me!!
Tell him to f**k it work your normal hour's.

Yeah just work your normal hours, it's probably them that have created the problem. Actually our office management have been asking if we will work 6 days. I'm pretty sure most declined and will only be working 5 days.
Pinky 1
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Gender: Male
Location: Wales

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Post by Pinky 1 »

Your office has plans for xmas ? :hmmmm
We just wing it :whistle
"Cara yn bod 'n briod , dydy 'n fawr at ca a hun 'n anad berson a 'ch angen at blina achos 'r bwyso chan 'ch buchedd "
" I like being married,, it's great to find that one special person you want to bother for the rest of your life "
sussexlad
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Joined: 28 Oct 2013, 21:52
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Post by sussexlad »

k979aaa wrote:
slipperycoconut1987 wrote:Hi!! Is anybody else's office suffering this year with cut backs, I'm dreading Xmas this year, normally our holiday cover posties have a hire van and take a chunk of each person in their sections round, to lighten the load but we have been told today instead of having our usual 6 hire vans at Xmas we are only allowed 2!!!!! We are staff down due to sick and transfers and now our manger wants us to start 2 hours earlier!!!!!!! Even tho the lorry with our last mech will be arriving at the same time as now, 7.30 ish , can he change our start times like this and just expect us to come in early and not finish till normal time, that will be like a 11 hour shift for me!!
Tell him to f**k it work your normal hour's.
Unless you fancy the 10-12 hours SA money per week! Because if he wants you for 2 hours longer each day then that's what it's going to cost him!!
k979aaa
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Post by k979aaa »

sussexlad wrote:
k979aaa wrote:
slipperycoconut1987 wrote:Hi!! Is anybody else's office suffering this year with cut backs, I'm dreading Xmas this year, normally our holiday cover posties have a hire van and take a chunk of each person in their sections round, to lighten the load but we have been told today instead of having our usual 6 hire vans at Xmas we are only allowed 2!!!!! We are staff down due to sick and transfers and now our manger wants us to start 2 hours earlier!!!!!!! Even tho the lorry with our last mech will be arriving at the same time as now, 7.30 ish , can he change our start times like this and just expect us to come in early and not finish till normal time, that will be like a 11 hour shift for me!!
Tell him to f**k it work your normal hour's.
Unless you fancy the 10-12 hours SA money per week! Because if he wants you for 2 hours longer each day then that's what it's going to cost him!!
stopped S/A years ago up here at Christmas!
sussexlad
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Post by sussexlad »

k979aaa wrote:
sussexlad wrote:
k979aaa wrote:
slipperycoconut1987 wrote:Hi!! Is anybody else's office suffering this year with cut backs, I'm dreading Xmas this year, normally our holiday cover posties have a hire van and take a chunk of each person in their sections round, to lighten the load but we have been told today instead of having our usual 6 hire vans at Xmas we are only allowed 2!!!!! We are staff down due to sick and transfers and now our manger wants us to start 2 hours earlier!!!!!!! Even tho the lorry with our last mech will be arriving at the same time as now, 7.30 ish , can he change our start times like this and just expect us to come in early and not finish till normal time, that will be like a 11 hour shift for me!!
Tell him to f**k it work your normal hour's.
Unless you fancy the 10-12 hours SA money per week! Because if he wants you for 2 hours longer each day then that's what it's going to cost him!!
stopped S/A years ago up here at Christmas!
Really? All our overtime at Christmas in our office is paid at SA rate, even if it is just excess :dance
darraghjames21
MAIL CENTRES/PROCESSING
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Joined: 26 Oct 2013, 10:02
Gender: Male

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Post by darraghjames21 »

Will there be a Xmas schedule this year heard it will just be normal of rates no sign of the forms yet.
redandblue
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Joined: 24 Jul 2013, 21:42
Gender: Male

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Post by redandblue »

Ours will resort to the usual Ostrich style of management :left:
mandelsons_toenail
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Post by mandelsons_toenail »

Cut off
clashcityrocker
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Post by clashcityrocker »

Get drunk.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
5plusbonusball
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Post by 5plusbonusball »

just leave the parcels in the office, after all they won't fit in our vans and watch the riots outside the callers office when you go home on time on christmas eve. :Very Happy
xmas plans - be merry - very merry.
Why are lino's paid full-time ??
celerycelery
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Joined: 20 Sep 2007, 16:44

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Post by celerycelery »

mandelsons_toenail wrote:Cut off
:thumbup