job and finish,stiched up by managers/

wookie · Post by **wookie** » 27 Dec 2017, 21:38

banner wrote:We must be in the minority then. We were promised an early finish and we got it. Finished midday on saturday.

I wish I finished midday Saturday......

number one · Post by **number one** » 28 Dec 2017, 13:34

I always finish between 11 and 12 on a Saturday anyway.

wheresourmoney · Post by **wheresourmoney** » 29 Dec 2017, 18:10

WOBBLY wrote:
cobblers wrote:
wheresourmoney wrote:Was anyone else promised job and finish on sat as a gesture of good will, we were, and got screwed big time. People came in early, worked through there meal breaks, and ran round only to be told when they got back that our mail centre had failed on 160,000 items and while we were out on del the lorries had turned up at all offices in our area codes, apparently the doughnuts who work on forcasting for royal mail predicted that this week would be very light, so the managers at the mail centre sent home all the casual staff a week early.,we spent the next 2 hours plus sorting until our finish time, so it looks like next week will be all about catch up, when will we ever learn not to believe.
Which Mail Centre?
gatwick

Chester mail centre did similar, gave all offices served by it a right headache last week! I'm sure they weren't the only mail centre that c*cked up I'm sure!!!!!!!

wheresourmoney · Post by **wheresourmoney** » 29 Dec 2017, 18:13

WOBBLY wrote:
cobblers wrote:
wheresourmoney wrote:Was anyone else promised job and finish on sat as a gesture of good will, we were, and got screwed big time. People came in early, worked through there meal breaks, and ran round only to be told when they got back that our mail centre had failed on 160,000 items and while we were out on del the lorries had turned up at all offices in our area codes, apparently the doughnuts who work on forcasting for royal mail predicted that this week would be very light, so the managers at the mail centre sent home all the casual staff a week early.,we spent the next 2 hours plus sorting until our finish time, so it looks like next week will be all about catch up, when will we ever learn not to believe.
Which Mail Centre?
Chester mail centre did similar, gave all offices served by it a right headache last week! I'm sure they weren't the only mail centre that c*cked up I'm sure!!!!!!!

Gatwick

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 29 Dec 2017, 18:17

RM gave priority to parcels & packets over Christmas this year so there is a massive backlog of unsorted Christmas cards. Any cards that couldn't be read by the sorting machines were set aside and are yet to be sorted.