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[mr Mag00]

And be prepared to be amazed at the incompetence of the whole job.

oh i would believe it i have seen it in many temp jobs i have held 'its just the way we do it' comes the reply

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Excellent post, the job I had before my current one was a HGV driver working for an agency. The amount of full time drivers that moaned and bitched was staggering where I worked.

That's quite common. I was on the agency in ParcelNet at Peterborough a few years ago, when their full time staff were going through pay negotiations at the start of the Working Time Directive. I regularly took trailers out with "Say NO!! too £35 000" written in the muck on the back doors. My mate was full time there and he was genuinely concerned that all the moaners were going to screw everything up - he was delighted that someone was prepared to pay £35 000 for five nine hour nightshifts a week.

 

[wafflycat]

I must object to this sweeping description of postal staff.
The ones who deliver mail to me are all polite friendly and efficient, and show intelligence and a willingness to ensure I get my mail asap when the item is too big for the letter box and I am not at home.

+1

Have had mail problems in the past, but a word at the local PO and the matter was sorted. It seems we had helped eliminate a bad apple they were aware of. Current postie is most excellent. I have a lot of sympathy with the posties going out on strike. The truly profitable bits have already been opened up to competitors, leaving the less than profitable to the Mail to run and now they are applying rules which posties physically cannot meet in terms of time allowed to deliver letters, and then taking disciplinary action against staff for failing to meet unattainable targets. The management at the Mail is not as gleaming an example of good and reasonable management as it tries to make out.

 

[snapper_37]

My postie is great too - always got a treat in the pocket for the dog, signs for shoot he shouldn't, puts 'packets' in a safe place.

He even does a turn round the local pub where he plays guitar and we always try and get there.

 

[summerdays]

My postman is great (as was the last one that I had had for about 4 years before this one started in the summer). They have discovered a good place to leave parcels - even ones that need to be signed for sometimes...

Spoke very briefly to a postman parent at school today -and he is not a happy bunny.

I think that the postmen probably do have a grievence but I can see them loosing the support of the general public gradually if this continues. Certainly here they seem to have been striking on and off, almost all year - I think many of those local disagreements.