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Your walk fitting

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dave72
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Your walk fitting

Post by dave72 »

Having a look at my walk fitting this morning and it is a right mess

Triple and double slots, bits of bump off stickers to write numbers on, some addresses missing and even 1 slot for 10 houses :crazy:

The sequence mail doesn't follow to the fitting.

All of this isn't exclusive to my fitting, the other 4 in our office are the same

Sick of telling them to sort it now, poor sods who don't know the walks have a nightmare

What state is yours in?
spen
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by spen »

Spot on
Jpro747
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by Jpro747 »

Loads of paw print stickers showing where dog attacks have been :cry
dave72
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by dave72 »

Jpro747 wrote:Loads of paw print stickers showing where dog attacks have been :cry
They went one better on mine, they printed "dog" under the numbers on some slots, makes the number pin head size, but at least you can see it says "dog" Like you remember what the fitting says when out on the street :crazy:
postslippete
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by postslippete »

All frames are different


I prepped one last week and apparently it only gets one tray of mech on its 1st wave (when everyone else usually gets 2). It also had half as many calls. It amused me how one call on that frame amounted to at least 4 or 5 calls on a standard frame.
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fly-catchers
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by fly-catchers »

I hate the way that loads of the plastic dividers are broken at the base and keep on coming out! Surely they must still be making new dividers (and frames)? But all our frames were obvious old well used from other offices! And the HTCs when we went into "Methods" (I hate that description!) are the first version and again knackered not new! And the PDAs and any bags and I expect the rubber bands which break almost straight away. Is nothing new at RM!! :evil/mad
Anonymouse
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by Anonymouse »

MIne is a shambles too.
Numbers missed out, phantom door numbers and 3 shops all lumped in one slot.

It's no longer laid out the way the walking goes so people are lost when it's my day off. Told them about it for months but no change.
fishtank
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by fishtank »

On a related note, sick of coming in after my day off to a mess of loose dividers, just spend 30 seconds fitting the dividers back in guys, it's not asking too much is it?
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Jpro747
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by Jpro747 »

fishtank wrote:On a related note, sick of coming in after my day off to a mess of loose dividers, just spend 30 seconds fitting the dividers back in guys, it's not asking too much is it?
I worked with a guy (the rush and tear sort) on p&l once who not only loosened the dividers but bundled some of them up with the mail! :crazy:
dave72
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by dave72 »

Jpro747 wrote:
fishtank wrote:On a related note, sick of coming in after my day off to a mess of loose dividers, just spend 30 seconds fitting the dividers back in guys, it's not asking too much is it?
I worked with a guy (the rush and tear sort) on p&l once who not only loosened the dividers but bundled some of them up with the mail! :crazy:
They are a pain to get through letterboxes :whistle
Hitcher
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by Hitcher »

They're spending hundreds of thousands improving offices but there's no money for better frames - we can't even get a few dividers to replace the broken ones!
OnAFlyer
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by OnAFlyer »

Hitcher wrote:They're spending hundreds of thousands improving offices but there's no money for better frames - we can't even get a few dividers to replace the broken ones!
If 'improving' means cramming as many areas as possible into one office, and changing frames from mostly double slots to entirely double slots, then yeah. :crazy:
wotashitjob
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by wotashitjob »

I had a customer give me a divider once said the lad posted it on my day off.how? I do not know
Deadly
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by Deadly »

I've had them handed to be by businesses before, plus info card things.
dave72
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Re: Your walk fitting

Post by dave72 »

OnAFlyer wrote:
Hitcher wrote:They're spending hundreds of thousands improving offices but there's no money for better frames - we can't even get a few dividers to replace the broken ones!
If 'improving' means cramming as many areas as possible into one office, and changing frames from mostly double slots to entirely double slots, then yeah. :crazy:
I am in a sub-office out in the sticks, we have 4 large and 1 small fitting and plenty of room to make all the fittings single slots with wings and extensions, they can't or won't provide these to make the fittings better

We have 2 boxes of dividers in the corner, so they are available but no wings

How are we supposed to do the job correctly without the right equipment :arrrghhh