Originally Posted by RizzyKing (Post 34887236)

I used to support many workers that striked but not anymore why simple because i would love a job any job and right now i cannot get one nor at the rate i am going downhill will be in a position to be attractive to any employer. So there are thousands of you with jobs and your not happy and your going to strike right at the time of year you know damn well it will hinder and hurt people most and you want my support dream on. I have already had one specialist appointment cancelled because RM lost my letter and have now binned postal appointments so i never have to miss one again.

Times move on technology is now playing a bigger part in many many jobs and people have lost jobs because of that but you can't stem the tide by spitting out your dummy and striking. As for service my postman on average puts 10-12 letters through my door that are wrong how is that RM's fault it is the individual postman at fault because he doesn't bother to read what he is putting through my door.

We have had parcels stolen and damaged because posite leaves them in plain sight outside no matter what the weather. So please don't tell me it is all nasty RM managements fault because it isn't certain postal workers thought they had a job for life always protected by their powerful union and wollah like many have had to face reality and are being asked to accept things ain't staying the same.

But simple logic (i like simple) says to me company is in trouble needs more money so it's workers go off on strike annoy a vast amount of people who then seek alternatives company loses contracts\trade and therefore has to make more cuts thus kicking off another merry go round of strikes.

I know RM workers don't like hearing it but you are lucky right now to have a job i know many damn good people who are struggling on benefit trying everything they can to get a job so if your really that unhappy and don't like it do yourself a favour do us the public a favour and leave the job. Let someone else take it (they will not have trouble replacing people) who won't moan year in year out about this and that and woe is me.

Because many like me don't support you anymore in fact we're getting sick and tired of hearing about workers striking as well as gaining the uncanny knack of predicting when you will strike because you've done it so many times before..

Originally Posted by ZrByte (Post 34887053)

However, if you and other unhappy customers complain to the people in control i.e. RM and not your postman on the street or venting on an internet forum RM may actually start to care.

Originally Posted by Russ B (Post 34887347)

I still haven't heard a mass vote of public support yet.



Yes it IS - and that's the very reason the RM choose to disrupt the public, as it causes maximum inconvenience. They hope we'll get annoyed to the point that we'll scream at RM to give the workers what they what. Only thing is it's backfiring.

Originally Posted by Russ B (Post 34887383)

I can't see how it makes any difference how this affects me. I use the RM a lot and if they won't do the job then I don't mind paying for someone else to do it.

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 34887176)

Indeed

I can remember as a young lad my father coming home to a freezing cold house during a strike and saying i will never use coal again. He had a gas fire and gas central heating installed within a week and he never did use coal again.

Would not surprise me if the same happens with Royal mail and parcel farce

---------- Post added at 17:37 ---------- Previous post was at 17:31 ----------

10 of us sat around a table at work today during dinner. Only one supported the strike the rest said it was bad for the customer and they had no time for the strikers.

Originally Posted by Rob M (Post 34887231)

Well, unfortunately we now live in a society where if you don't look out for yourself nobody else is going to. If you stop watching your own back before you know it there will be some person, or some group of people, shafting you because the only thing they're thinking about is themselves.


So what were the other 'resorts' that they resorted to?

Originally Posted by Russ B (Post 34887422)

Nobody is saying the workers don't have a legitimate reason to be unhappy. What we object to is having our lives and services disrupted when the argument isn't even ours. I can't stand it when some union decides the only way to get what they want is to take it out on silly old Joe Public. I also hate it when the wheel out the "this is a last resort" and "we never wanted to strike" lines. Well boo-hoo boys, no-one's buying it.

Originally Posted by danielf (Post 34887441)

So what are they supposed to do? Bend over and take it up the bum?

Originally Posted by danielf (Post 34887441)

So what are they supposed to do? Bend over and take it up the bum?

Originally Posted by Russ B (Post 34887455)

What am I supposed to do? Say "ok they're potentially losing me money as well as reputation on ebay (which could lead to further loss of income) and from other ways I try to make a living but hey, I support them anyway"?

Originally Posted by danielf (Post 34887461)

You could take a chill pill? Presumably most fellow ebayers in your league are in the same situation, so I doubt your reputation will be very much at risk.