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Numberone63
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Post by Numberone63 »

At our office mangers are coming in early and whizzing around the office putting in mech on some of the rounds. Even the rounds that people have been scheduled in to double prep. Then part timers are coming in late to complete the mess they’ve been left with. Then getting out late so they are having to book over. It’s just chaos management all the time.
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Post by Postie45 »

Did you know managers aren't allowed to do posties work? (Outside of exceptional circumstances ie not every day) get onto your rep or area rep about this, theyll have a field day.
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Post by Numberone63 »

I keep pointing it out to our unit rep. He just kinda shrugs shoulders and says he knows. I think I might email area rep. It’s not on. Thanks.
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Post by Celgar »

Fairly common practice for DOMs to prep walks that are being lapsed. There usually isn't duty time left to deliver absorption so if they left the prep to us as well they would never get delivered.
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Post by Jpro747 »

Just one of many agreements broken by rm.
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Post by POSTMAN »

Contact justsayit and your branch.
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It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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Post by clashcityrocker »

Jpro747 wrote:Just one of many agreements broken by rm.
And the rep has an industrial relations agreement to progress disagreements through.
Yet .....
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Post by deristrong »

Our DOM is the best paid tray clearer in the business.
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Post by CPTNemoUK »

deristrong wrote:Our DOM is the best paid tray clearer in the business.
I think mine would give him a run for his money. You put a empty try down and it will he gone within a minute :left:
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Post by Marshamp11 »

CPTNemoUK wrote:
deristrong wrote:Our DOM is the best paid tray clearer in the business.
I think mine would give him a run for his money. You put a empty try down and it will he gone within a minute :left:
I have trained our DOM to take yorkies outside. I noticed that whenever I put one to the side in preperation of taking it out, he would come along and take it out after a couple of minutes so now I deliberately delay taking them out. Must remember to teach him to roll over next.
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Post by postslippete »

Don't see our managers prepping anymore,they do seem to have resigned themselves to take out bits of deliveries from time to time though.
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Post by Biker Mouse »

I hate this! A massive bugbear of mine! I walk up to them and just stare at them with my hands in my pocket and await the question “what’s up?”. Then I tell them :Very Happy
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Post by robbertwhitton »

Marshamp11 wrote:
CPTNemoUK wrote:
deristrong wrote:Our DOM is the best paid tray clearer in the business.
I think mine would give him a run for his money. You put a empty try down and it will he gone within a minute :left:
I have trained our DOM to take yorkies outside. I noticed that whenever I put one to the side in preperation of taking it out, he would come along and take it out after a couple of minutes so now I deliberately delay taking them out. Must remember to teach him to roll over next.
Great to see them putting all their man management skills to maximum benefit to continue to boost moral in a no doubt broken and beaten office,much like ours,at ours he’s busy scanning tracked with the dos,and getting him to get d2d thrown in to get us out on time,a sad state of affairs I have to say,he must hate us sitting in the rest room until bang on our start time!
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Post by Navalron »

They have been doing this and more for years. The union really need a boot up the arse. It seems as everything is going to hell. When I posted what was going to be happening with parcel force a few months ago and other things that are coming down the line I got a few, non believers as if I made it up. Like I've said one of my family is a senior manager and they are getting out also. Rico was brought in to break up RM and the union. Get your act together. They are walking all over you'd and so are the union hierarchy.