Partner taking the P**S

[motherhubbard]

might be on rmc for those 10 mins

More likely checking the info from his pedometer ........

[Ossie From Preston]

So Ossie I take it you are full time then? so you get paid 9hrs a week more than your part time walker and he is expected to prep his entire walk and and do all his households,have a 30 min break,travel to and from the delivery all in 6 hrs a day,what is it you do that warrants an extra 9 hrs pay a week?

Ever heard of indoor work before my partner gets in?

[postslippete]

Maybe your partner needs a rocket up his a*se, and it looks like he's got one........YOU!


How long have you been working with your partner? Its a cheap management trick to pair up someone who's quick with someone who is slow. On paper it prevents the quicker postie from finishing too early and speeds up the slower postie who may otherwise go well over his time.

But its a cheap trick because you are clearly unhappy working with him and it could seriously affect your ability to do the job properly, especially if you are doing his work for him as well. I've only ever worked with one postie that I personally didn't want to work with and thats because he enjoyed working well past his time everyday! I would go up to the line manager and try and get some of the work taken off us so that we would finish on time; but it never made any difference because that just made him even slower. On easy days when he knew we had ample time to finish he would often mix the letters up in the bundles, not mark the packets or even put packets in the wrong bags! I complained about him because he quite literally drove me insane but it made no difference.

So in the end, after I delivered a few packets or specials I just parked the van up somewhere else and made HIM wait for ME every time on every loop. We must have been late by over 2 hours everyday! But it also drove him nuts because sometimes he was stood outside (sometimes in the rain) wondering where I had got to. And in the space of less than a week thats when he went on sick......and I never worked with him again

[korky]

i'm pretty sure i once posted this before, but the p&l system needs to be programmed like a dating agency, yeah you can get on each others tits at times, but 99.99% of the time i get on with mine, can be a sh1t day, both knuckle down and get on with it,
i have worked with some right w@nkers though who do look at cutting off before a letter been thrown in!

[meercat]

i'm pretty sure i once posted this before, but the p&l system needs to be programmed like a dating agency, yeah you can get on each others tits at times, but 99.99% of the time i get on with mine, can be a sh1t day, both knuckle down and get on with it,
i have worked with some right w@nkers though who do look at cutting off before a letter been thrown in!

You know I like my P+L partner he's a good worker, funny and doesn't complain too much. But I wouldn't want to spend a weekend on Fernando's with him. I really don't want to see him in a bathing costume either.

[korky]

i'm pretty sure i once posted this before, but the p&l system needs to be programmed like a dating agency, yeah you can get on each others tits at times, but 99.99% of the time i get on with mine, can be a sh1t day, both knuckle down and get on with it,
i have worked with some right w@nkers though who do look at cutting off before a letter been thrown in!

You know I like my P+L partner he's a good worker, funny and doesn't complain too much. But I wouldn't want to spend a weekend on Fernando's with him. I really don't want to see him in a bathing costume either.

so a 14th feb card is off then?
seriously though, you could have the hardest walk look easy or the easiest walk look hard with or without teamwork

[DB1100]

So Ossie I take it you are full time then? so you get paid 9hrs a week more than your part time walker and he is expected to prep his entire walk and and do all his households,have a 30 min break,travel to and from the delivery all in 6 hrs a day,what is it you do that warrants an extra 9 hrs pay a week?

Ever heard of indoor work before my partner gets in?

So who part preps the walkers frame? and you have to do 1hr and 48 mins of I.P sorting everyday?

[Supermac0151]

Our office hasn't had revision yet....question about this partner thing though. Do we get a set partner as it where? We have that partner all the time besides holidays etc?

[ThatsNotPlumb]

I'd work with your partner over you any say of the week. Stop moaning and get on with it. You said yourself "the more i do for my partner the more i have the day after, I seem to be doing a walk and a loop now, tomorrow could be a walk and two loops, the more I do the more i get the next day" What do you want a medal? If it's that much of a hardship slow down.

Your partner has the right idea and why shouldn't he get water or pace himself just because you want to kiss your managers backside. Get a life and grow up. If this all all you have to worry about then you are a very lucky man and should be pleased!

Seems you were made in the same factory as my partner. Lazy.com - I kiss no managers ass by the way.

Nope not lazy just not a selfish moron like you! I bet you are really popular at work, I mean god forbid your partner actually stops to talk to his work mates, goes to the toilet or gets a drink how dare he.

Get a life idiot and like I said if it's too much of a hardship to help your workmate out perhaps you should go to the toilet a bit more sounds like you're all bunged up!

It's runners like you that have put us in this mess we're in now so well done have a peanut!

As long as the OP is working at a completely reasonable working pace, why should he slow his working speed down to match someone I suspect is one of the many pisstakers?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

But what if the "piss taker" is working at a reasonable pace.

The one thing that amazes me is that so many OPGs that appear not to like RM Managers, yet have no trouble taking on tasks that are more proper to the said managers.

For instance, assessing work rate, walk testing and employee competence. If you don't like your partner then do what married couples do, go to counselling (teh DOM), work it out between you, or get a divorce. Simples.

[bandit1157]

But what if the "piss taker" is working at a reasonable pace.

The one thing that amazes me is that so many OPGs that appear not to like RM Managers, yet have no trouble taking on tasks that are more proper to the said managers.

For instance, assessing work rate, walk testing and employee competence. If you don't like your partner then do what married couples do, go to counselling (teh DOM), work it out between you, or get a divorce. Simples.

Divorce would never work. I'm having the van, the bags with the good straps and you can have the D/D's and access to the PDA every other weekend.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

[Postie45]

No offense Ossie, but your approach seems to be all wrong. Sure come in on time and do your job properly as you seem to,but you seem to be rushing .. anyone who comes off their break early and moans about someone "p**sing about filling water bottles going to toilet " which he is 100% entitled to do would be classified as a "runner" automatically. As others have mentioned, if your partner really is taking the p!ss then thats up to the managers to sort out. If its really bothering you then maybe ask to come off the duty and see if you can do something else.

[meercat]

Our office hasn't had revision yet....question about this partner thing though. Do we get a set partner as it where? We have that partner all the time besides holidays etc?

Yeah ofcourse. Whoever signs into the round does it everyday. It's not as bad as you would imagine, you don't actually see a lot of your partner on delivery- 5 min drive out and a min or two in the van between each loop then 5min back. And you can easily ignore them while prepping your frame too! btw I don't do this!

[bogstandard]

ossie, from your original post you are doing a lot of work for your partner before you even leave the office, clearly you partner does not have sufficient time to perfom the tasks allocated perhaps when questioned you could mention this to you manager. Perhaps, if you have the time to do it, this work could be allocated to you permenantly. Not what you want to see but you are clearly displaying the capacity to accept this extra workload. Your times should align at some point, and i would think that point is when you leave the office. If you do your thing and let them do their thing the point you leave the office will not marry up and you manager will have to deal with it, as this is why you will not complete.

Just to confirm, you do know job and knock no longer exists. I'm not taking the pee, it's just that some still think it does.