View from the Other side - Interesting review by RM Manager

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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“Ok, but not much for development and career growth”
Manager (Current Employee)
Bristol, England (UK)

I have been working at Royal Mail full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Relatively good earnings, although the salary gap between postmen/women and front line management is decreasing all the time.

There appears to be some strong direction from the top of the company, with the recent privatisation being a good example of forward thinking.

The continuous improvement programme in place has addressed some of the simple issues that hadn't been addressed before.

Cons – Frontline management is the buffer between an antiquated union and, what feels like, upper management that isn't interested in what the union thinks. This puts frontline managers into difficult situations quite often.

There seems to be an agenda to overlook experienced, managers in favour of graduates when it comes to promotion opportunities. As a result, there is little opportunity for career advancement unless a person has come from the graduate pool.

If you are unfortunate enough to become involved with the continuous improvement programme, look out! There are audits every 4 months and most people presenting at the audits end up taking around 100 hours to put together information that will only be looked at for 40 minutes by the auditors. Considering that workloads are high, this is a major concern.

Delivery managers are pressed to reduce expenditure quite substantially. This results in them working up to 60 hours per week because they frequently need to do the jobs of postmen/women (if they are absent), as well as their own.

Advice to Senior Management – Reduce the workload of Delivery Managers.

Address the decreasing pay gap.

Internal career progression, for non-graduates, is almost non-existent.

Taking an e-learning course is not 'career development.'

There are some very good leaders within the company that are being overlooked by the desire to bring in fresh external candidates.

Stop the audits, they are a waste of time/money after the easy things have been addressed.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

[BoltonPostie]

Advice to Senior Management – Reduce the workload of Delivery Managers.

f**k me they do little enough lazy c.unts.

There are some very good leaders within the company

[taxi4leighton]

he never mentioned Bullying.
thats all you need to do to become a successful manager

[Dumpys Rusty Nuts]

He took his 30 pieces of silver. No sympathy.

[R@YAL F@IL]

Thread name: A view from the other side - I thought we were all in it together It must be the dark side they are in - shoot the lot of em, not one decent manager I have come across in the 29 years working for the lazy so & so's

[Lounge Lizard]

Where's my violin?

[Lounge Lizard]

"with the recent privatisation being a good example of forward thinking"

[Dee Plish]

Advice to Senior Management – Reduce the workload of Delivery Managers

And this from the laziest, least utilised people in the company, who have had to make ZERO efficiency savings, and been given extra people to manage less hours, less staff and less mail!! They'll want a pay increase for staying at home and doing nothing next.

[krussel]

"with the recent privatisation being a good example of forward thinking"

Yeah when it was posties getting the push.

Wonder how he feels about the 1600 job cuts now

[El-Bandito]

I absolutely love this whinge, "Advice to Senior Management – Reduce the workload of Delivery Managers."
Here's my answer! ALL RM Managers should be on zero hour contracts. Sorted.

[antcpfc]

Advice to Senior Management – Reduce the workload of Delivery Managers.

f**k me they do little enough lazy c.unts.

There are some very good leaders within the company

The workload is going to decrease for some very soon.
Having seen them break their backs to do our jobs when we are on strike -good.

[jack]

There are some very good leaders within the company
The workload is going to decrease for some very soon.
Having seen them break their backs to do our jobs when we are on strike -good.

Well I have always wondered who fills the managers role in their own office when they have all gone off delivering mail in offices which are striking

[jack]

maybe this was why moya was so keen to get a no strike clause written into the new deal, she probably knew that when she started offloading managers there would be very few of them left to cover any industrial action in the event of a nationwide dispute

[redandblue]

F..k em.
That is all.