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iceman1277
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do i have to sign for the cage duty

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Tomorrow it is my turn to sign for a the new duty i am the last full timer on the list number 51 after me its all park time staff. The only full time duty left is the indoor cage duty scanning in all the special and doing all computer work. do i have to sign for this i did not join royal mail to sit indoors behind a computer. Do i have to sign for this ? any help please

thx all might be time to find a diffrent job cant work indoor all day.
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

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iceman1277 wrote:Tomorrow it is my turn to sign for a the new duty i am the last full timer on the list number 51 after me its all park time staff. The only full time duty left is the indoor cage duty scanning in all the special and doing all computer work. do i have to sign for this i did not join royal mail to sit indoors behind a computer. Do i have to sign for this ? any help please

thx all might be time to find a diffrent job cant work indoor all day.
locker duty should have been put up for signing seperately, its a specialised duty and should be resourced in a different way, there is a skills test and after that the most senior person who passed gets the job, worth thinking about though, if you dont take that are you going to be landed as a leave reserve with irregular days off?
iceman1277
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

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zx135 wrote:
iceman1277 wrote:Tomorrow it is my turn to sign for a the new duty i am the last full timer on the list number 51 after me its all park time staff. The only full time duty left is the indoor cage duty scanning in all the special and doing all computer work. do i have to sign for this i did not join royal mail to sit indoors behind a computer. Do i have to sign for this ? any help please

thx all might be time to find a diffrent job cant work indoor all day.
locker duty should have been put up for signing seperately, its a specialised duty and should be resourced in a different way, there is a skills test and after that the most senior person who passed gets the job, worth thinking about though, if you dont take that are you going to be landed as a leave reserve with irregular days off?
there are no leave reserve duty left this is the last full time duty
scirocco'r'
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

Post by scirocco'r' »

Yes you do.
The alternative is to move into a full time vacancy in another office.
As has already been posted this duty is normally ring fenced and kept out of any repick.
Who did it before and why have they given up ?
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

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zx135 wrote:
iceman1277 wrote:Tomorrow it is my turn to sign for a the new duty i am the last full timer on the list number 51 after me its all park time staff. The only full time duty left is the indoor cage duty scanning in all the special and doing all computer work. do i have to sign for this i did not join royal mail to sit indoors behind a computer. Do i have to sign for this ? any help please

thx all might be time to find a diffrent job cant work indoor all day.
locker duty should have been put up for signing seperately, its a specialised duty and should be resourced in a different way, there is a skills test and after that the most senior person who passed gets the job, worth thinking about though, if you dont take that are you going to be landed as a leave reserve with irregular days off?
they say locker is a specialised duty but with a bit of training im sure you will be ok :thumbup it can get very busy in there though
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

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bringon4dayweeks wrote:
zx135 wrote:
iceman1277 wrote:Tomorrow it is my turn to sign for a the new duty i am the last full timer on the list number 51 after me its all park time staff. The only full time duty left is the indoor cage duty scanning in all the special and doing all computer work. do i have to sign for this i did not join royal mail to sit indoors behind a computer. Do i have to sign for this ? any help please

thx all might be time to find a diffrent job cant work indoor all day.
locker duty should have been put up for signing seperately, its a specialised duty and should be resourced in a different way, there is a skills test and after that the most senior person who passed gets the job, worth thinking about though, if you dont take that are you going to be landed as a leave reserve with irregular days off?
they say locker is a specialised duty but with a bit of training im sure you will be ok :thumbup it can get very busy in there though
I didnt take the job as a postman then to be told i have to work inside behind a computer.
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

Post by dvbuk55 »

The locker duty in itself isn't a specialised duty but the callers and book room are.
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

Post by k979aaa »

iceman1277 wrote:
bringon4dayweeks wrote:
zx135 wrote:
iceman1277 wrote:Tomorrow it is my turn to sign for a the new duty i am the last full timer on the list number 51 after me its all park time staff. The only full time duty left is the indoor cage duty scanning in all the special and doing all computer work. do i have to sign for this i did not join royal mail to sit indoors behind a computer. Do i have to sign for this ? any help please

thx all might be time to find a diffrent job cant work indoor all day.
locker duty should have been put up for signing seperately, its a specialised duty and should be resourced in a different way, there is a skills test and after that the most senior person who passed gets the job, worth thinking about though, if you dont take that are you going to be landed as a leave reserve with irregular days off?
they say locker is a specialised duty but with a bit of training im sure you will be ok :thumbup it can get very busy in there though
I didnt take the job as a postman then to be told i have to work inside behind a computer.
can we job swap?
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

Post by feduppostie »

iceman1277 wrote:
bringon4dayweeks wrote:
zx135 wrote:
iceman1277 wrote:Tomorrow it is my turn to sign for a the new duty i am the last full timer on the list number 51 after me its all park time staff. The only full time duty left is the indoor cage duty scanning in all the special and doing all computer work. do i have to sign for this i did not join royal mail to sit indoors behind a computer. Do i have to sign for this ? any help please

thx all might be time to find a diffrent job cant work indoor all day.
locker duty should have been put up for signing seperately, its a specialised duty and should be resourced in a different way, there is a skills test and after that the most senior person who passed gets the job, worth thinking about though, if you dont take that are you going to be landed as a leave reserve with irregular days off?
they say locker is a specialised duty but with a bit of training im sure you will be ok :thumbup it can get very busy in there though
I didnt take the job as a postman then to be told i have to work inside behind a computer.
would you rather drop hours? if you want to walk that much drop your hours and pick a PT walk - otherwise suck it up and do the locker duty until you get a chance to pick off it
iceman1277
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

Post by iceman1277 »

so tomorrow its my turn to sign and the only duty that is full time is the cage. i don't mind the duty but its all the other work like doing all the payroll and over time and all the other crap the manager pass over to you. please help don't wont to work indoor. its a bit unfair park timers have been made up and got there own rounds .shouldn't park timers been made up if there where any spare full time rounds left.
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

Post by feduppostie »

If a part timer is more senior to you then yes it is a fair repick
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

Post by chrisj »

This is a strange scenario: an office with no full time reserve duty... Its curious!

Locker rooms are usually highly desired... Some of the locker room folks do get to go out on delivery sometimes - cut offs and serious understaffing etc

Well.

Have you had the Revision and now in shared vans and do you have a part time/full time combinations for the shared duties?
iceman1277
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Re: do i have to sign for the cage duty

Post by iceman1277 »

chrisj wrote:This is a strange scenario: an office with no full time reserve duty... Its curious!

Locker rooms are usually highly desired... Some of the locker room folks do get to go out on delivery sometimes - cut offs and serious understaffing etc

Well.

Have you had the Revision and now in shared vans and do you have a part time/full time combinations for the shared duties?
Its not so much the cage duty its all the computer work which the dom now pass over to the cage i dont really do much with computer and didnt become a post man to sit in office behind a desk.

we are having the revision now and we have rest day cover reserve which all all gone but cant see any duty to cover full timers when on annual leave. they think part timers will do the full time rounds when people are on hoilday.