2007-10-15 06:42:00 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
sound like a few posties are upset on here.
You moan about the cold rainy early starts you have to endure. Just what did you think the job entailed you halfwits.
2007-10-15 09:02:31 · update #1
Our post man is so lazy he can't even manage to ride his bike down the road...he leaves it at the top of the road laden with letters for other roads and just walks along with the letters for our road only. Anyone can nick what he's left on is bike, I've reported him twice but they don't give a **** and he still does it.
2007-10-15 06:53:43 · answer #1 · answered by JP32 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
My husband is a Postal Worker, he did not strike, he worked his ar*se off covering for the strikers, he does not come home early each day, and nor do any of his colleagues. Hubby works 40 hour weeks for about 320 pounds... take home.He's been there 23 years this week.
Besides the strike wasn't about pay as a deal was nearly reached at ACAS and then suddenly Royal Mail decided to add in a change in the pension scheme.
They wanted to increase the final age to 65, make the staff pay in for an extra 5 years for an overall decrease in pension.
Why did this cheese off the union and result in a strke?
simple because for 12 years the PO/Goverment took all the company profits and did not contribute to the scheme and suddenly the fund runs out of money..........
Can I also ask what you think they should do to get their point across if they don't strike........something they haven't done in many years?
2007-10-15 09:39:56 · answer #2 · answered by Dee L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 4 years ago I once challenged a postman who bent my partners birthday cards in half to stuff them through the letter-box because he was too impatient to ring the bell. It was very obvious they were birthday cards. Mean spirited little jobsworth he was. When I asked him why he did this, he said that I was abusing him and that they had an anti-abuse policy. I explained that making a calm and legitimate complaint is not abuse. He started yelling, and was looking at his watch all the time.
I later found out that seconds are precious to these people because the sooner they finish, the sooner they can go home - and they get paid.
This would be OK if they worked more to achieve this, but all they do is move their muscles more by rushing - any brain power gets sidelined and the quality goes down.
The mail is always late, both arriving and leaving our town. They took away the policy where you can tell what time the next collection is (markers on the post boxes), because doing so was, and I quote - "too hard". When a signed-for notice is left, this is always problematic. More and more quality problems.
Enough is enough. I am considering shifting all my business's shipping away from royal mail next year.
2007-10-15 07:10:12 · answer #3 · answered by M E 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If they are, then you have to ask whose fault it is.
There was a discussion on the TV this afternoon about the c difficile outbreak and the 90 deaths that resulted. One panellist suggested that it was the fault of the nurses. Really?
Truth is - as someone admirably points out above - the Royal Mail worked before privatisation. The same is true of hospitals and the trains - compare the number of deaths from hospital infections before nationalisation and now and likewise, the number of deaths from railway 'accidents'. The Tories fooled everyone with their mantra of, "savings, savings, savings", but big institutions require big money spent in order to survive; Labour has been in power ten years and still the NHS is not up to speed - that is the level of money that needs spending.
So, no I don't think postmen are lazy (and I should know, my dad was one for 42 years) but I do think the managers are out to make as much profit for as little spend as possible.
2007-10-15 07:16:51 · answer #4 · answered by politicsguy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A once proud institution now in tatters.
I think you are looking at the inevitable product of an underfunded industry which is struggling to adjust. These men and women are fighting to protect pay and conditions in an industry under increasing pressure to modernise. If the quality of some of the staff is lower than you would expect then you need to look at the pay and conditions on offfer. Pay peanuts get monkeys. It is sad to watch and most of us can still remember when the local postman was a part of the comunity.
2007-10-15 06:55:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They are no better or worse than any other group of people including professional men. The problem is that managers will not start talking seriously until there is a strike because it is not until then that they accept that their is a real problem. If the work force has high morale no strikes if low morale strikes skives and disruption.
2007-10-15 09:46:33 · answer #6 · answered by Scouse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they are, more sick leave entitlement, more paid holidays, better pension scheme than most other workers, shorter working week. Roll on the day when all mail deliveries are done by private companies instead of these lazy, ungrateful creatures !
2007-10-15 09:04:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it's actually a pretty tough job. I worked for the post office a few times during the Christmas season. And you are on your feet pretty much all day long. They keep you very busy. :-)
2007-10-15 08:33:37 · answer #8 · answered by Butterscotch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a friend who works in a sorting office in North East England and app the women are lazy cows .. but on general they are treated like slaves...alll for profit!!
My mate werks his balls off every night without fail and he was a strike breaker He needs the money for his family!
2007-10-15 06:47:28 · answer #9 · answered by jockman432004 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Everybody moans about their job at times.
2007-10-15 11:36:50 · answer #10 · answered by Sally Anne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋