Take your break

takeyourbreak · Post by **takeyourbreak** » 10 Oct 2007, 18:02

Max Jaffa wrote:The problem is with a bairn to pick up it`s a lot less stressfull to take your break at the end & it just gives you more time to manoevere.I do take the point of the canteen jobs mind,although I am not able to afford to eat there.

as about family friendly hours in your ofice. The manager must come to some aggrement for you to have plenty time to pick up the kid...i know of folk in my office on family freindly

Beforenineoclockgoodone · Post by **Beforenineoclockgoodone** » 10 Oct 2007, 18:07

Take you're breaks don't kill yourselves rushing to get Bills to peoples houses.

Max Jaffa · Post by **Max Jaffa** » 10 Oct 2007, 18:21

Family friendly policy is for children 6 & under.My little girl is7.However the point is ,with the 6 O`clock starts why finish at 2 when I can finish at 1:20 & give myself that little bit more time.

pilsbury · Post by **pilsbury** » 10 Oct 2007, 18:56

In any other job you would take a lunch break,and as job and knock is a thing of the past you should take your break before you go out.Soon you will have to sign back in after your delivery which will mean more work if your early.Believe me take your braek it wont kill you.

underpaid · Post by **underpaid** » 10 Oct 2007, 19:07

venger wrote:I don't take my break. I eat my breakfast on my frame and have a cup of coffee.
I know I really shouldn't be doing it, but after doing it this way for so long it's habbit now.
I just want to go in (I'm never in early) sort the IPS, sort my frame, bag up and get out so I can get home as soon as possible.

you anti social w****r take your break you would soon moan if they where taking 40 mins out your wages everyday get in the canteen and support quadrant

pilsbury · Post by **pilsbury** » 10 Oct 2007, 19:23

A bit harsh "underpaid" but i see where your coming from.

takeyourbreak · Post by **takeyourbreak** » 10 Oct 2007, 19:32

you anti social w****r take your break you would soon moan if they where taking 40 mins out your wages everyday get in the canteen and support quadrant[/quote]

come on now. no fighting among posties this is what royal mail are looking for....we are all in this together...

pop it in pete · Post by **pop it in pete** » 10 Oct 2007, 19:59

We should all be taking breaks before we leave the office. We are all entittled to take a break away from your work station and away from any work related matters. Managers are breaking the law if they fail to ensure staff take their breaks. So a swift call to your local enviromental health officer, normaly found via your local council will ensure a visit or letter fom them and a swift kick up the ares for the DOM whos own arse is on the line if he is found to be in breech of the health and safety laws governing this. This regulations are laws are there to protect us so use them. Get your H&S rep to shout about it.

Beforenineoclockgoodone · Post by **Beforenineoclockgoodone** » 10 Oct 2007, 20:08

How does someone like me who does a firms delivery, drops bags, does parcels & Posties over sized packets & speciels go on about breaks when half a dozen Posties rely on me dropping their bags off? I tell you what its my first day back tomorrow & I will be taking my break before I go out?

Max Jaffa · Post by **Max Jaffa** » 10 Oct 2007, 20:53

Hey underpaid.I finish at 13:20.If I want to work over I claim from 13:20.If I wasn`t allowed to do this I would take my break before I went out but I still woudn`t pay quadrant prices.By the way,I have never called you.Don`t call me.After 22 years I make my own decisions.

not me · Post by **not me** » 10 Oct 2007, 22:34

Max Jaffa wrote:Family friendly policy is for children 6 & under.My little girl is7.However the point is ,with the 6 O`clock starts why finish at 2 when I can finish at 1:20 & give myself that little bit more time.

whats this family friendly all about? got a little un due january

venger · Post by **venger** » 10 Oct 2007, 22:47

underpaid wrote:
venger wrote:I don't take my break. I eat my breakfast on my frame and have a cup of coffee.
I know I really shouldn't be doing it, but after doing it this way for so long it's habbit now.
I just want to go in (I'm never in early) sort the IPS, sort my frame, bag up and get out so I can get home as soon as possible.
you anti social w****r take your break you would soon moan if they where taking 40 mins out your wages everyday get in the canteen and support quadrant

Anti-social? Next to nobody takes their break. I know of only 1 person that takes a break, so I'm hardly being "Anti-social"
Support Quadrant? Oh you mean the overpriced hot beverages that taste like s**t? That is if we are lucky enough to have anything in the f***ing machine to begin with.
I'd rather take my break on the road.

At the moment I don't need the damn hassle of f***ing around in the office while I wait for my driver to come back and drop a s**t load of bags off to me. I've had a gutsfull of the bullshit in my office as it is.
Your office might stick together and look out for one another. My office is nothing like that. It's full of no good, back stabbing, self centered pr**s who I wouldn't spit on if they were on fire. The office is full of little cliques.
I can count on 1 hand the people I'd actualy trust or help out if I could.
As the old saying goes "Walk a mile in my shoes"

rebel · Post by **rebel** » 11 Oct 2007, 02:23

Venger - I really understand where you are coming from. My office is much the same. I was even guilty of this before but the groundrules are different now - and probably forever.

My office is also a rush-in/rush out. There's about 60% team that are willing to "play by the rules" but its such a f**cker when you see guys going out when you're nowhere near ready. And they use their cars. And they're all senior to you - and me!!

We've all had the literature from CWU but there are so many RM employees who put their heads in the sand and hope that everything will go away so they still come in an hour before their duty and drive their car -"this will never happen to me". Unfortunately in my office it's mostly the senior (20 plus) years guys that break all the rules when we are in dispute. That's because they are so used to fininishing very early that they CANNOT envisage a time when they ever have to work anywhere near to their time. No matter how this dispute ends we've all gotta get wise to the fact that it's so f**ing stupid now to come in early and use their cars - however my colleagues cannot see this and they are senior to me so my input is irrelevant as far as they are concerned.

Up Hill Down Hill · Post by **Up Hill Down Hill** » 11 Oct 2007, 11:46

I don't have my break

Just do my round, Walk 40mins home then have a big dinner

Would be good to have something on my round but I don't really have the room in my bag to do so, Once I've sat down as well I'll not have the motivation to get up haha

Might start taking a breakfast bar round with me or something

venger · Post by **venger** » 11 Oct 2007, 14:57

martin1tcf wrote:Venger - I really understand where you are coming from. My office is much the same. I was even guilty of this before but the groundrules are different now - and probably forever.

My office is also a rush-in/rush out. There's about 60% team that are willing to "play by the rules" but its such a f**cker when you see guys going out when you're nowhere near ready. And they use their cars. And they're all senior to you - and me!!

We've all had the literature from CWU but there are so many RM employees who put their heads in the sand and hope that everything will go away so they still come in an hour before their duty and drive their car -"this will never happen to me". Unfortunately in my office it's mostly the senior (20 plus) years guys that break all the rules when we are in dispute. That's because they are so used to fininishing very early that they CANNOT envisage a time when they ever have to work anywhere near to their time. No matter how this dispute ends we've all gotta get wise to the fact that it's so f**ing stupid now to come in early and use their cars - however my colleagues cannot see this and they are senior to me so my input is irrelevant as far as they are concerned.

You're exactly right. As I *think* I said in a previous post, out of the 30 staff members in my office only 1 person works to rule. I've tried to get others to do the same, but they don't want to listen to that. They just want to get in and out as fast as possible. I've spoken to them as I know the other fella has too, they say "Oh yeah we agree we should work to rule" then you see them doing the same as they always do. In early, not taking breaks etc.

On the subject of breaks, get this. Today we were waiting around for about 40 odd minutes for the next van to come in with mail. Got told that as we were sitting around doing 'nothing' then we should count this as our break.
What a friggin joke. It's not our fault they can't get the damn mail up earlier.