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Delivering extra work

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geordieboy123
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Delivering extra work

Post by geordieboy123 »

I came in following a day off and two thirds of the work was still in the frame from the day before, should I get overtime for delivering that work as well as the normal lot?
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Re: Delivering extra work

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geordieboy123 wrote:I came in following a day off and two thirds of the work was still in the frame from the day before, should I get overtime for delivering that work as well as the normal lot?

If it takes you over - yes. If it doesn't no.
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Re: Delivering extra work

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They would normally pay overtime to clear it on the day but due to staff shortage they couldn't so surely the overtime they would normally have paid should come to me
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Re: Delivering extra work

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Morally I agree with you.

However with the various agreements banning ghosting and "working all paid hours" the official answer is as I posted. You could raise a greviance that others have been paid overtime in similar circumstances but the chances of winning if you didn't go over are slim.

It ain't fair, and I don't agree with it, but I think its better to give you a straight answer.
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Re: Delivering extra work

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Not officially no. You could tell them, I'm going to go over today so I'll do all of it for say 2 hours extra...don't ask you don't get
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Re: Delivering extra work

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TrueBlueTerrier wrote:Morally I agree with you.

However with the various agreements banning ghosting and "working all paid hours" the official answer is as I posted. You could raise a greviance that others have been paid overtime in similar circumstances but the chances of winning if you didn't go over are slim.

It ain't fair, and I don't agree with it, but I think its better to give you a straight answer.
What's ghosting?
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Re: Delivering extra work

Post by IloveMYredTROLLEY! »

Normal over-running procedures applies, if you think you will go over, inform your lino at the earliest chance you feel this is the case, telling them if you want to finish bang on your contract finish time; you are prepared to do "x" amount of overtime but will still need some delivery taken off you; you are prepared to complete the whole delivery for overtime.

Given you are likely to have a lot more letters per address, you will be standing stationary for longer between addresses, filtering mail out of the bundle for the next address before heading towards the next address.
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Re: Delivering extra work

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geordieboy123 wrote:
What's ghosting?
Getting paid OT for work performed within normal duty hours.