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Old 23-10-2009, 12:49   #393
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Re: [Update] The Royal Mail strike thread

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
Welcome to the private sector and the real world.
Took the words right out of my mouth ...

ZRB, if your management make a man redundant, add his workload to yours and it extends your day by a mere 30 minutes, exactly how much of a job do you suppose that man was doing?

Case in point: I worked in the head office of a large business in the service sector at the time of 9/11. Our business was frankly slaughtered in the immediate aftermath. There were 30-40 redundancies at head office alone, not because people were idle but simply because it was necessary to cut the business' operating costs. The mail room employed 4 people to sort mail, distribute it round the building and give general support to the facilities department. They had to make one man redundant and the other three had to pick up his share of the load.

In the real world, commercial pressures sometimes require these sorts of things to happen. It's about time that RM workers realised they live in the real world and not in some unionised, utopian vacuum.
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