i need a job

[trikerpete]

the manager wants a good kick up the arse if he has allowed post to backup awaiting delivery

its a good job you didnt die as it would be from floor to ceiling

[Hillbilly Deluxe]

thats the post office for you blind as to what's realy going on.always will be.

[tazet]

the manager wants a good kick up the arse if he has allowed post to backup awaiting delivery

Thats what I said. It should not have been alowed to get that bad. They won't let anyone help him either and He still has to so and do the other sorting before going tohis station to do just his bit. He asked if he could leave the main sorting to go and sort out some of his backlog that they had left him and they said no. He is also not aloud to do overtime to catch up with it all. Next Saturday if my boss is away I will go in and help him as we can deliver more together and help him catch up. I can't go to the office but I can meet hin on the round. Poor Manky is so shattered when he gets home.

[Plainy Janie]

Manky, I can't believe your desk!  That is just outrageous!  Are you in the Union?  Honestly you need to speak to someone about that.

Well I'm happy to be in a job, even if I am stuck at the sink all day washing up.  There are about 15 of us all working for the same agency, except I don't seem to fit in with their conversations at lunchtime.  Their only claim to fames are knowing the biggest criminal wot done the wors fing in de neighbourhood right.  One guy
asked me how old I was, I in turn asked him how old did he think I was, er bet yer not much older than me, he said.  This guy is 17, and he couldn't work out how many years there were between him and I (me being 38),  its so sad.  He quit school 3 years ago with only a music qualification.  Tinging the triangle I suspect.

I look forward to getting home each day. 

[BikerGran]

All part of life's rich pattern Janie!

Manky, if you put up with that sort of treatment you're a fool.  There's nothing to stop you getting a different job except it's easier to moan about the one you've got.  DO something!

Granny knows best.   

[Manky Monkey]

Sheesh! I'm getting nagged on my own forum! Not just me. There's 300 other Posties there, all getting treated the same. I wasn't in the Union but rejoined during the strike to cover my own back. Haven't see the Union rep for weeks though & we've not been officially told anything about the strike outcome & negotiations by either Union or Management.
My managers, (all 6 of them), seem to have given up now. Today they told me "Just do whatever you think will clear the backlog quickest". So I just sorted my own mail, concentrated on just doing the letters, not parcels or "flats", (A4 sized stuff -magazines, brochures etc). I've delivered them all & nipped home for 5 minutes while waiting for my van driver to pick me up again. It'll still take days to clear the backlog.
The managers get paid 100 quid a week more than I do.
God knows why.

[BikerGran]

Sorry, didn't mean to nag.  But it does seem a bit pointless carrying on with a job like that.

[Plainy Janie]

There's 300 other Poties there, all getting treated the same.

Poties? Have you all gone mad?

Todays lunchtime conversation consisted of whose mobile phone holds the bestest music?  When I said I couldn't do anything with mine and showed them, one girl said, "man, wot ya doin wiv that, thats useless man, get yersef a real phone man". 

So it seems I've also changed sex overnight too! 

[Firery Fred]

Ah kids, couldn't you just strangle em all,oops I slipped into my best Victor Meldrew

[BikerGran]

I remember many years ago I went to work in the local pie factory, no mobiles in those days but all the girls could talk about was what kind of mascara was best and Coronation St.  Spent the first morning taking pork pies out of tins and the afternoon putting meat in the pies (well pulling a lever on a machine).  There was a girl started the same day who had worked there before she moved away, now she was back in the area she was THRILLED to be working there again!

 

[Manky Monkey]

And those people are allowed to vote & drive cars & all sorts of things. Scary ain't it.
I'm old school Bobbie. I still think I'm providing a public service & genuinely do my best to do a good job for my customers, but it's getting ridiculous now. Ever since they started telling us we're a business & not a service, the management seem to be going out of their way to bugger up the job wherever possible. I'm convinced they're trying to run the business down enough to justify selling it off.

[BikerGran]

I'm sure you're right. thought so for years.  They kept bleating about losing money but didn't put the cost of sending letters up for years.  Most people would have been happy to pay a few pence more for the service we used to get, when the post arrived first thing and there was a second post before the time we get the first one nowadays!

[Plainy Janie]

Any news on jobs yet davesatan?

[VALLEYSBOY]

nice avator Janie