Morale

Post by **Navalron** » 09 Aug 2020, 03:13

HA1 wrote:If people want to leave let them. The job is a good job, just lazy people don’t want to work.

Your talking utter pish. Now go take your tablets. DH.

Post by **HTPostman** » 09 Aug 2020, 06:30

I wouldn’t say morale is any different from this time last year. I have a start time, a finish time, 99.99% of the time I’m allowed extra hours to take me up to full time.

If I’m asked to do extra on overtime I ask only to be paid for the work I do, I don’t ghost overtime and in the last 100 payslips I’ve only been paid short once, which was immediately rectified.

Worried about the virus? A bit. Worried about losing my job at RM due to being at the bottom of the seniority ladder? A lot. But overall, I’m here to work and I’m happy.

The only thing I have noticed is there are more and more colleagues getting worked up over silly things eg John is taking parcels as his lapsing, he’s only got 7 parcels I’ve got 8. Complaining to the union because their walk didn’t go on their day off or they’ve been moved for a day. We sometimes forget we are here to work for RM, within reason they can tell us to do whatever they like in our hours.

Ricardo44 · Post by **Ricardo44** » 09 Aug 2020, 06:56

Yes, but the cause of a lot of the bad feeling and resentment is due to the fact that certain people are allowed to get away with doing far less than others and never get moved etc. Different rules applied to different people.

Woody Guthrie · Post by **Woody Guthrie** » 09 Aug 2020, 08:24

Ricardo44 wrote:Yes, but the cause of a lot of the bad feeling and resentment is due to the fact that certain people are allowed to get away with doing far less than others and never get moved etc. Different rules applied to different people.

That's always been the case.
It's more or less the same in any industry.
It's more or less the same with life.
It isn't fair.

I think what's changed is that people have higher expectations of being treated "fairly" now. Whether that's a good thing or just setting people up for disappointment is a whole different and tedious argument but I don't think even though expectations have risen that life and work is any fairer now than 30 years ago, some of the more blatant stuff like racism, sexism and homophobia has probably shifted into the background a bit but basically it's just same old-same old.

Moral is work sucks, favourites get favours and the rest of us get shat on. You can either let it eat you up or you can punch in do the work and punch out. Personally if I let what others get away with bother me I would have clocked someone years ago and lost my job.

Ricardo44 · Post by **Ricardo44** » 09 Aug 2020, 11:24

Yes, i agree. I left school in the early 80's and did other jobs before working for RM. Its the same in any workplace and its true that in some ways it was worse years ago as far as things like racism and homophobia go. Having good managers does make a big difference. As we all know, there are very few good managers in RM and thats the root cause of most of the problems.

bucks123 · Post by **bucks123** » 09 Aug 2020, 12:02

Woody Guthrie wrote: Moral is work sucks, favourites get favours and the rest of us get shat on. You can either let it eat you up or you can punch in do the work and punch out. Personally if I let what others get away with bother me I would have clocked someone years ago and lost my job.

Agree with this completely. The way different people are treated was really winding my up and I had to take a step back and take the same view. Just go in, do your job and go home, don't worry about anyone else.

I worked in office jobs before joining RM 3 years ago and the same things happen there although to a lesser extent and it was not so outwardly obvious. It tended to be the efficient staff were given more work to do while others got 'carried' and then praised to the rafters when they actually decided to put in a full days work

Speedmeister · Post by **Speedmeister** » 09 Aug 2020, 18:40

I work as a reserve on rural duties and it seems the reserves are having to do more work than when the duty holder is on the job - been like this for a couple of years now. For example we were getting sent out to do 9am specials (which can take nearly an hour and a half and then getting back to find the duty hardly prepped whereas the duty holder would do about an hour on sorting. Then other times you'd get stuck sorting parcels for over an hour while the frame is part prepped and then the duty holder would just be prepping their own frame.

Intercityfirm1970 · Post by **Intercityfirm1970** » 09 Aug 2020, 18:53

Animosity is the new office moral.. Dodgy deals.. bosses nark.. Bosses blue eyed boys all looked after

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 09 Aug 2020, 19:01

Speedmeister wrote:I work as a reserve on rural duties and it seems the reserves are having to do more work than when the duty holder is on the job - been like this for a couple of years now. For example we were getting sent out to do 9am specials (which can take nearly an hour and a half and then getting back to find the duty hardly prepped whereas the duty holder would do about an hour on sorting. Then other times you'd get stuck sorting parcels for over an hour while the frame is part prepped and then the duty holder would just be prepping their own frame.

It is not your fellow workers but the corrupt and corpulent management I have seen with my own eyes how they rob peter to pay Paul and that is two hours before most part time staff even set foot in the building it is a staffing issue not a lack of effort this is what happens it is not haste but post when you get it once a week!

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 09 Aug 2020, 19:20

k979aaa wrote:It is not your fellow workers but the corrupt and corpulent management I have seen with my own eyes how they rob peter to pay Paul and that is two hours before most part time staff even set foot in the building it is a staffing issue not a lack of effort this is what happens it is not haste but post when you get it once a week!

There's probably no offices that have got the proper staffing levels. MCs are worse, just look at the numbers of casuals on any given shift on any given day

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 09 Aug 2020, 19:40

Ricardo44 wrote:Yes, i agree. I left school in the early 80's and did other jobs before working for RM. Its the same in any workplace and its true that in some ways it was worse years ago as far as things like racism and homophobia go. Having good managers does make a big difference. As we all know, there are very few good managers in RM and thats the root cause of most of the problems.

Quite right.

rodtheplod · Post by **rodtheplod** » 09 Aug 2020, 21:45

I've been at RM for about 4 years and spent over 25 years in other industries and jobs and I have never been in such a toxic work place. How it hasn't yet kicked off physically is a miracle.

barcajr · Post by **barcajr** » 10 Aug 2020, 18:59

They'll do well to find another job in the present circumstances

Mr Rush · Post by **Mr Rush** » 10 Aug 2020, 22:36

rodtheplod wrote:I've been at RM for about 4 years and spent over 25 years in other industries and jobs and I have never been in such a toxic work place. How it hasn't yet kicked off physically is a miracle.

A former P&L partner told me he was close to his breaking point several years back due to management pressure over lapsing that he had considered that. If this were the US, RM might have a very poor public image over 'going postal'.

Post by **Munchboii** » 10 Aug 2020, 22:43

I find that if you are in a small rural office (5-20 rounds) then the morale is higher than in an office of say 50 rounds.

Why this is im not exactly sure however one theory I have is that the reserves in the smaller offices may only be expected to know a quarter of the rounds say 5 out of 20. Whereas a reserve in a larger office of 50 rounds may on paper only be expected to know 5 but in reality will know around 12 rounds and be thrown onto rounds blind at a frequent rate.

Therefore the reserves in a smaller office can be happier and this factor can greatly increase the teamwork ethic in a DO, thus creating morale.