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Originally Posted by Chris
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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If you read my post again Chris you will see I said I had already taken on 30mins of daily extra duties before the doubled workload not directly because of it.
I think the ultimate misunderstanding comes from too many people assuming that RM is struggling. It has been especially since they opened up our infrastructure to private companies RM as a company though has actually taken an increase in profits since the recession hit (Though the strikes have damaged that now). RM management like to twist things to their end and even after those figures where published they still used recession as the driving reason behind redundancies etc.
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Originally Posted by webcrawler2050
Indeed - if they truley cared about their job and was proactive, they would step up to the plate and deal with working 30 minutes to spread the load. I think, RM should look at Jenson Button as an example - took a £3million pound pay cut, paid for all his own travel for the sake of his team - look where that got him.
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Are you really comparing JB to a postal worker?
How much do you earn?