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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
If I recall correctly the issue of certain post deliverymen/women (you'll notice that this is peculiar to some "units in London") finishing their runs early was flagged up / part of the deliberations in the 2007 dispute.
They are delivery postmen, not "sorters" or some other element of the RM, they do the job they were contracted to do. The fact that Royal Mail management, in defiance of the wishes of the majority of their workforce and indeed almost all of their UK customer base, decided that there should only be one mail delivery (carried out by delivery postmen) per day as opposed to the previous twice daily deliveries (carried out by delivery postmen) is an issue for Royal Mail management.
Delivery postmen deliver post (the clue is in the job title). If their employer prevents them from doing so then that is their employers fault, not theirs.
There you go on the anti union rant again. I don't know what you work at Chris but there are demarcation lines in every walk of business. For example does your company boss clean the toilets, or do the photocopying, or deal with the post?
Consider this. What if you elected to ignore the demarcation lines in your work which effectively protect your job, what if a colleague began doing your work along with their own and your boss picked up on this and thought, "Hey, I've just noticed that such and such seems to be quite capable of multitasking and doing his job and Chris's job, why are we employing Chris?
Given the current economic climate demarcation lines in the form of job descriptions are the very thin line between many people still being in a job and not having enough time to spend on the internet union bashing.
As such I wouldn't be so quick to knock them.
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As it happens, I am currently a statistic, but that's par for the course when you specialise in short-term contract work. But I have worked in plenty of offices and for more than one FTSE-100 outfit - one, in particular, where both the CEO and COO had a real bugbear about voicemail and phones ringing out, and used to lead by example by answering random desk phones if he happened to be passing while they were ringing and being ignored. I got a callback message on a post-it from one of them once.
I have been called upon and have been happy to take on all sorts of tasks that were not part of my core job description over the years, becauseI have always seen myself as an employee of company X rather than simply a person who does job Y.
I appreciate the general point you're making about demarcation lines, but I think - I hope - you and I both know that there's a difference between taking reasonable steps to safeguard your job, and taking extreme measures to avoid having to lift a finger and do something productive.