Lost pda

jumbles · Post by **jumbles** » 08 Jun 2018, 21:53

As the title suggests, today i lost my pda. Im pretty sure it's fell out of my pouch whilst walking 100 yards from my last scan back to the van. I rewalked the route 3 times before calling the manager. He told me to phone him at 12pm if I still hadn't found it, which I did.
He informed me that he would get someone to ping it and go look for it. At 2.30pm he phones me to śay that he hadnt had time to ping it or look for it, and told me to go look for it. I looked once more along my route to no avail.
I got back to DO and he told me that he would do it tomorrow. Which happens to be my long weekend.
No urgency from his behalf, but I'm worried shitless. Not to mention there is a good chance that the battery will be dead tomorrow.
What kind of punishment am I likely to receive for losing this expensive bag of s**t?

number one · Post by **number one** » 08 Jun 2018, 21:56

jumbles wrote:As the title suggests, today i lost my pda. Im pretty sure it's fell out of my pouch whilst walking 100 yards from my last scan back to the van. I rewalked the route 3 times before calling the manager. He told me to phone him at 12pm if I still hadn't found it, which I did.
He informed me that he would get someone to ping it and go look for it. At 2.30pm he phones me to śay that he hadnt had time to ping it or look for it, and told me to go look for it. I looked once more along my route to no avail.
I got back to DO and he told me that he would do it tomorrow. Which happens to be my long weekend.
No urgency from his behalf, but I'm worried shitless. Not to mention there is a good chance that the battery will be dead tomorrow.
What kind of punishment am I likely to receive for losing this expensive bag of s**t?

Honestly don’t worry about it. Punishment, if I was your rep there wouldn’t be any. You did all you can and your DOM did nothing. More than likely it will turn up eventually, they usually do.

Spedley · Post by **Spedley** » 08 Jun 2018, 22:28

We've been told Conduct for losing PDA. But we were also told that PDA Actual started last October, however when someone asked them to 'ping' a lost PDA the said they couldn't do it until next October.

Seems strange that both your boss and mine had an excuse for not finding a lost PDA. Sounds to me like PDA Actual isn't working yet but they've been told to keep it quiet.

koolishy67 · Post by **koolishy67** » 08 Jun 2018, 22:36

One of my friend lost pda last year and he is still working but he is one of manager favorite.

NewPostieUK · Post by **NewPostieUK** » 08 Jun 2018, 23:05

I lost mine and the manager just said don't worry about it, so I didn't. It turned up in a customers shed a week later.

Manager couldn't have given a toss.

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 08 Jun 2018, 23:26

A PDA was left on a wall by a postie in our office a while back and a member of the public handed it in to the callers office. I think it was one of the old design ones so this was back a bit. So you might be lucky.

LaggyBand · Post by **LaggyBand** » 09 Jun 2018, 07:17

Several lost in our area with no noteworthy consequences.

jumbles · Post by **jumbles** » 09 Jun 2018, 10:21

I text my LM at 8am this morning, reminding him to ping the PDA, he didn't even acknowledge me.

ebbzie · Post by **ebbzie** » 09 Jun 2018, 12:27

Keep all records of calls and texts you have made trying to get DOM /Lino to find it just in case

Xr4 · Post by **Xr4** » 09 Jun 2018, 14:36

In work time learning last week, it was said there's a 24 hour delay on PDA actuals and that it's not a live service. Maybe he has to wait 24hrs before getting the data.

Post by **stodgy88** » 09 Jun 2018, 16:17

Lost mine, pinged it picked it up no problems,hopefully same for you.

mailroyaly · Post by **mailroyaly** » 09 Jun 2018, 16:57

It's easily done, we're human beings, we lose things, force of nature.

Seymour Buts · Post by **Seymour Buts** » 09 Jun 2018, 18:25

A lad claimed to have lost his in our office, it was pinged and we were told it was in or around our office

Had fell down the side of his seat in the van.

mattjo1@talktalk.net · Post by **mattjo1@talktalk.net** » 09 Jun 2018, 20:54

The DOM needs to ring BT who will trace the location of the PDA and forward him the co-ordinates so he can trace it through google maps.

NWpostie · Post by **NWpostie** » 09 Jun 2018, 21:06

Its useless to anyone outside the post service.