Wet PDA's

Post by **eastie** » 16 Oct 2019, 11:36

Doing one of my Post boxes the other day in torrential rain my PDA crashed and details of my boxes to scan had been wiped from my PDA after reboot.
I photographed the barcode with my mobile phone to prove I emptied it with it showing the time etc.
When back at work to tell the DOM the PDA crashed and I was rescanning my PDA in the office and was scanning my barcode picture to put the box details as being done and he said I should drive 5 miles to the box to redo it. I told him no as it is after my finish time and it was a PDA failure.
Anyone had a similar problem like this?

twoloops · Post by **twoloops** » 16 Oct 2019, 12:49

Just scan the barcode inside the box, add your number & the 6 noughts, press submit, sorted

bowie · Post by **bowie** » 16 Oct 2019, 15:33

Oh yes the great pda,s**t in the rain,my manager says there good lol

maisymoo04 · Post by **maisymoo04** » 16 Oct 2019, 18:23

Had loads of trouble with mine hate them please reboot rex x please scan all ppi ?????? haha

scoobydo79 · Post by **scoobydo79** » 16 Oct 2019, 18:33

The trick is to pop the battery out and whipe out any water with tissue.Its a pain doing it but it really works

FAB · Post by **FAB** » 16 Oct 2019, 19:04

Why do the bleeps go quiet when it gets wet? It's always a bad sign

work · Post by **work** » 16 Oct 2019, 22:04

eastie wrote:Doing one of my Post boxes the other day in torrential rain my PDA crashed and details of my boxes to scan had been wiped from my PDA after reboot.
I photographed the barcode with my mobile phone to prove I emptied it with it showing the time etc.
When back at work to tell the DOM* the PDA crashed and I was rescanning my PDA in the office and was scanning my barcode picture to put the box details as being done and he said I should drive 5 miles to the box to redo it. I told him no as it is after my finish time and it was a PDA failure.
Anyone had a similar problem like this?

Q.) wHAT EXACTLY...LIKE THE TURD OF A MANAGER YOU HAD TO DEAL WITH...OR THE NAFF PROCEDURES AND EQUIPMENT...?
A.) ALL OF THE ABOVE...DAILY...HENCE THE 97.1% who also agree that change will NOT happen without us ALL being consulted, ya *feckers (management is a costly and demoralising joke- Hey, FatRico target them feckers and you might just win us over to some POSITIVE changes)...

I told him no as it is after my finish time ...nice one, let's hope he gets used to this phrasing of your undying support for his 'management-style'...considering he got £1000 bonus for being a shite-whore-k, let's hope he has a wonderful christmas with all of our 97.1% backing.

maisymoo04 · Post by **maisymoo04** » 18 Oct 2019, 19:57

Mr Rush · Post by **Mr Rush** » 18 Oct 2019, 23:23

I would advise against photographing collection barcodes. If it becomes known to management and you have an issue while performing a collection, it potentially implies you aren't clearing the box. A colleague got suspended for a collection mixup that he tried to resolve by scanning a photo of the barcode he had on hand.

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 19 Oct 2019, 16:17

Mr Rush wrote:I would advise against photographing collection barcodes. If it becomes known to management and you have an issue while performing a collection, it potentially implies you aren't clearing the box. A colleague got suspended for a collection mixup that he tried to resolve by scanning a photo of the barcode he had on hand.

The issue of scanning photos of barcodes in postboxes was raised by our DOM recently as there were a couple of instances of this happening in our DO. Not quite sure how but it appears RM can detect this has happened as opposed to the physical barcode inside the box being scanned. It used to be possible, I think with the previous PDAs, to type in the barcode letters & numbers from the postbox barcodes but this does not work either. I think there was a genuine reason for it happening in our DO but it's another heads up that the 'police state' system within RM is increasing with a complete lack of trust by RM in the workforce.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 19 Oct 2019, 20:54

Celgar wrote:
Mr Rush wrote:I would advise against photographing collection barcodes. If it becomes known to management and you have an issue while performing a collection, it potentially implies you aren't clearing the box. A colleague got suspended for a collection mixup that he tried to resolve by scanning a photo of the barcode he had on hand.
The issue of scanning photos of barcodes in postboxes was raised by our DOM recently as there were a couple of instances of this happening in our DO. Not quite sure how but it appears RM can detect this has happened as opposed to the physical barcode inside the box being scanned. It used to be possible, I think with the previous PDAs, to type in the barcode letters & numbers from the postbox barcodes but this does not work either. I think there was a genuine reason for it happening in our DO but it's another heads up that the 'police state' system within RM is increasing with a complete lack of trust by RM in the workforce.

They might be using the GPS location if the photo has been scanned away from the box location

Deadly · Post by **Deadly** » 19 Oct 2019, 21:32

I thought the barcode could still be scanned without a collection route, scan it and add it as an adhoc collection.

yellowbelly · Post by **yellowbelly** » 21 Oct 2019, 17:22

Deadly wrote:I thought the barcode could still be scanned without a collection route, scan it and add it as an adhoc collection.

That works for me.

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 22 Oct 2019, 20:24

yellowbelly wrote:
Deadly wrote:I thought the barcode could still be scanned without a collection route, scan it and add it as an adhoc collection.
That works for me.

Yes that can still be done if for example there are problems downloading the collections onto the PDA. Nothing wrong with doing adhoc collections and you cannot get in trouble for doing that.

The issue was raised by our DOM again the other day regarding the OP. Another managerial bod further up the chain let our DOM know that the office acceptance code to say all postboxes had been emptied was done on one PDA just a minute after the last postbox was emptied. Given all but one of our walks are rural this is impossible to achieve. I think there is a reason for it happening in our DO and some confusion over what has happened. Nevertheless it has been pointed out to us it isn't a good idea to take a photo of postbox barcodes on your mobile phone then to scan that photo with the PDA. I don't own a mobile phone so I don't know if this is possible to do but it's a heads up to not do this anyway.

DE72 · Post by **DE72** » 29 Oct 2019, 19:46

I would have stood in front of him and gone down the PDA option menu to Scanning Issue, clicked that and said, "there, done it. See ya!"