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spuddy will back me up. possibly ralphy too, tho i'm not sure if the managers are as cuntish in oxford.

i'm currently being shafted a good'un by the stand-in mail centre manager and my new shift manager, who've both shoved me back onto nightshift next week, on a sunday night start. i had a verbal agreement with the current mail centre manager (who's on holiday til next monday) that i had a minimum 6-month job on late shift. the stand-in guy was there, he knew full-well that was what i was doing, but now he's playing dumb and forcing me onto a shift i dont wanna be on. i'm fucking livid. the union cant do fuck all until we've spoken to the manager on holiday.

i hope all you posties vote yes on the strike ballot, i know i will be. i hope it fucks up the management good and proper, they all fucking deserve it. i'm so fucking angry at the minute.

are you still angry this minute?

its subsided a little. 42minutes have passed so its natural to have calmed down a little. i'd still like to rip off the managers head and shit in the hole tho.

OMG JAMES GOT SENT HOME FROM WORK!!!!!

no, i never went in. they told me not to go in today.

OMG JAMES WAS TOLD NOT TO GO INTO WORK!!!!!

i think he's skiving

I concur.

I, Spartacus

....and so's my wife !

I was going to vote NO to strike action until the re-sign has come in and they expect you to do the work of 4 people, put me down for a YES.

They've cut overtime and got rid of Staff yet take in their nice little profit.

And yes the current Mail Centre manager is a  :wanker:

huzzah. its all fun and games.

Yes they r cunts James...............

Id like a job at the post office but couldnt handle all the strike malarky.Id end up losing my house.

Post office seem to lose my house on a regular basis ... and next door.

But inclined to agree with Spuddy et al, always seems to be the companies that "have to" sack people, force existing staff to work extra hours etc that then report millions in extra profits and nice fat bonuses for management. Strange that. Like Thames Water says I can't water my flowers, but it's OK for them to waste millions of gallons a week cos they can't afford to replace ageing pipes, yet the directors and shareholders are raking it in. Invest in the infrastructure before you shell out yourselves you greedy bastards.

Paul leftie d socks it to the man! 8)

Bollocks! I should have known you'd have said that. C'mon even the Daily Mail were laying into Thames Water's management last week, it's all the rage this summer! Although, in retrospect that might have been just cos they're German.

Erm, Thames Water's management that is, not the Daily Mail. They were only pro-German in the 30s

:D

Hey wasnt there a trust meeting while I was in Germany?

Yes, we held one deliberately while you were away and voted to form a posse to tar and feather you and run you out of town. But on a tractor, so it's not all bad

I demand to read the minutes  NOW!

Actually, the AGM was supposed to be early June but we were hoping to arrange a convenient time for BP to be able to attend. That proved difficult to arrange, the World Cup happened (strangely we didn't fancy going head to head with any of the games) etc etc. Cut a long story short, it's now on  Monday July 24th, 7.30, Holiday Inn at Coate, non-members welcome. Letters gone out/going out to members over the weekend - assuming Royal Mail can be arsed to deliver them, of course. See how I brought that nicely back on topic?

Fair dos

Royal Mail capatilist scummers :D

Bloody German water thieves!

I will abstain from voting  :D

Yes but that doesnt compensate for the fact that they're on about cutting 30,000-40,000 jobs.  :roll:

I've said for a number of years that that all public service companies should be taxed heavily on profits unless they are providing the service expected of them.

If Thames water made say 900 million pounds and the cost of repairing all water pipes was 300 million then they should be taxed (or fined) £300 million to pay for the repairs - if everything works OK then I'm happy for them to make a profit.

As well as this there should be a cap on charges for the services so if they still made 600 million profit then an additional 10% (60 Million) should be put towards reducing bills in the next fiscal year.

I know it will probably never happen but thats my view on it :fu:

I'm voting triseros for PM!

Sorry but verbal agreements aren't worth squat, you should know that! If it ain't in black and white it doesn't count! Unless they've asked you to do summat that's outside the terms and considitons of your contract there's not really much anyone can do about it.

Dorset u r right, but James is also right, the Post Office is run by a bunch of twats.