ANGARD MOUTH TURDS.

[Stumpy69]

Had a phone call of angard Friday morning, answered phone said hello, they hung up. Phoned them straight away and according to them no one had phoned me from the number. And they sending messages out for casual postmen/women, but only going out to certain individuals. Early shifts weekend shift driving shifts every shift going no phone call or text. Feeling a little bit singled out. I now there's other people out being treated like s**t but I don't wish to speak up for them. Don't wish to cause anyone problems. Angard very sneaky bastArds. Lying is part of there contract description but they don't state the truth. And the main biggest problem is there's absolutely no one to protect the honest hard working long suffering being shite on from a great height workers. No union no help no chance. And royal mail a global company allow there external staff to be f****d over my a shitty agency.

[AC2490]

Happens a lot to me also


Phoning up for shifts to be told "we phoned you earlier" or "we phoned you last week for a shift"

No missed calls/txts at all that day yet they are still 100% sure they rang.

Eventually getting a shift then having to wait at entrance to the sorting office for 45 minutes because my name isn't on the list.

Getting calls for shifts 30 minutes before they start. (4 hour shifts at that )

Speaking to others who are getting as many shifts as possible (or so it seems)

That DAMN engaged tone when trying to get through, Had to phone 50+ times to get a 5 hour shift at one point

The constant arrival of new starts asking how this job works (as they are given little to no training)



I ring on a Monday , state i am available all week for any shift and im still having to ring up every few days and the general reply is " i will mark you down as available to work"


After all this ringing and confusion you are very lucky to have 10+ hours worked.... the job its self is great but this whole angard shambles is a complete nightmare




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[baldrick]

And royal mail a global company allow there external staff to be f****d over my a shitty agency.

I'm sorry to hear how you and others are being treated by Angard, but Angard is owned and part of Royal Mail, not an external agency.

[seesred]

Angard is owned by Royal Mail but the administration is handled by Reed in Northampton. We know Angard was only set up so that RM could avoid giving contracts to its long term casual staff, so the whole thing was designed to be unfair and exploitative from the very beginning. We don't know who at RM is responsible for their policy towards Angard and recruitment. We know nothing at all about Angard management. We have no access to managers at Reed to question on what basis shifts are given out, or why they are still recruiting when there are insufficient hours for the staff they already have. At what point does exploitation become abuse? In my opinion that line has already been crossed. Add to that, vetting and processing of casuals is done by someone who is himself a casual, and no one questions that either. There ought to be public scrutiny of, and full accountability for, all of this debacle, but no-one has shown the slightest interest in addressing the issues.