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Originally Posted by Chris
OK. What are the duties you're doing, and what opportunities, if any, do you have to get them completed more quickly (in order to finish your working day bang on the 27.5 hours)?
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As a 27.5 hour AG I am meant to come in at 8:30am to a ready prepared frame Then I am expected to sort my packets, redirections, tie up and leave for my round (Should take 30 - 45mins).
At the moment I come in at 8am because the frame is never prepped and spend until about 9:30am doing the work that I am not supposed to be doing in the first place, namely sorting. After that is complete I do what I should have been doing from 8:30am An obvious way to trim down that would be if RM hadn't made the guy who used to do it redundant. That has allready added 1hour 15mins - 1hour 30mins to my day.
I use my own car for convey to my delivery round even though RM withdrew my travel allowance about 2 years ago its still faster than waiting for a van for convey as this can take up to 2 hours for which RM will not pay us as we are not technically working. Though it is down to RM taking away 2 of the driving duties that has caused this.
My delivery should then have really started by 9:30 but its rare I get out before 10:30 which leaves me with about 3 hours to deliver my round and take my 30min break to finish on time. Unfortunately due to increased mail weights delivery lengths and new working practices such as reduced maximum bag weight I'll be lucky to do my round in 4hours with no break so 4hours 30mins delivery time. Which means in that example I have worked 7 hours and I should have worked 5.5hours. That's 7.5 hours unpaid work per week assuming this happens every day (Admittedly some days it doesn't though on others it can take longer).
The only ways to trim that down are mostly beyond my control, namely increased staff numbers or reduced route lengths (Which means more routes and in turn increased staff numbers).
The only thing I have at my disposal is to inform my manager before I leave that I will not be able to complete my round on time and that I will be returning mail. This mail I return will have to be delivered by me the following day aswell as that days mail and if you do this more than 3 days on the run it generally leads to a disciplinary or similar action. So its not really an option for me.
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Originally Posted by webcrawler2050
Either way - it doesnt matter - Yes I would work for £7.50 an hour, if i ment i kept my job in this recession.
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What if you could keep it either way?