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Re: Companies That Fucked You
My old work place is pretty popular right now. Has been in the news papers lately too.
Fucking their customers over.
Fucking their employees over.
Fucking their contracts over.
This week two more of their long time experienced drivers quit from the depot I used to work at. I pity the clueless desperate temps that will replace them.
During the last week I was working, just before I ended up in hospital, I was tasked with a workload of approximately 80 parcels a day, in a region I had zero experience in, starting at 7am, finishing on average at just past 9pm, and being paid £40 a day. Plus commute.
£2.80 an hour. I tried to negotiate to go onto per parcel rate like the non-temp drivers got, but discovered it would have only been 60pence per successfully delivered parcel anyway. Some places call these kind of hours "overtime". Not the UK delivery industry. They prefer "Keep-working-for-no-pay-whatsoever-or-we'll-add-the-workload-to-your-next-day".
And some icing on the cake... Due to a tiny paperwork cock up on one particular day (my fault, but due to lack of training), I was very nearly faced with footing a £1200 bill for three PS4 consoles that had slipped off the computer system. I had delivered them just fine, but since they weren't on the system correctly...
Luckily all three customers when phoned were able to confirm that they'd received their order. If any one of them had tried to get a free console by saying no, I would have been paying for it.
Another day I once had to take a £20 pay cut because I delivered a pre twelve package five minutes after twelve. Only reason I was late to the stop was because my boss dumped a whole bunch of parcels on me at the last moment before leaving in the morning, forcing me to take a 20 mile detour. The customary reward for shouldering such extra burdens as a fixed rate temp, is a thumbs up, maybe. Unless you cock up. Then you can get fined.
Best... industry... ever.
In other news the UK Government has gone ahead and privatised Royal Mail. Selling off a centuries old service to corporate asshats. Gee, what could possibly go wrong.
My old work place is pretty popular right now. Has been in the news papers lately too.
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Fucking their customers over.
Fucking their employees over.
Fucking their contracts over.
This week two more of their long time experienced drivers quit from the depot I used to work at. I pity the clueless desperate temps that will replace them.
During the last week I was working, just before I ended up in hospital, I was tasked with a workload of approximately 80 parcels a day, in a region I had zero experience in, starting at 7am, finishing on average at just past 9pm, and being paid £40 a day. Plus commute.
£2.80 an hour. I tried to negotiate to go onto per parcel rate like the non-temp drivers got, but discovered it would have only been 60pence per successfully delivered parcel anyway. Some places call these kind of hours "overtime". Not the UK delivery industry. They prefer "Keep-working-for-no-pay-whatsoever-or-we'll-add-the-workload-to-your-next-day".
And some icing on the cake... Due to a tiny paperwork cock up on one particular day (my fault, but due to lack of training), I was very nearly faced with footing a £1200 bill for three PS4 consoles that had slipped off the computer system. I had delivered them just fine, but since they weren't on the system correctly...
Luckily all three customers when phoned were able to confirm that they'd received their order. If any one of them had tried to get a free console by saying no, I would have been paying for it.
Another day I once had to take a £20 pay cut because I delivered a pre twelve package five minutes after twelve. Only reason I was late to the stop was because my boss dumped a whole bunch of parcels on me at the last moment before leaving in the morning, forcing me to take a 20 mile detour. The customary reward for shouldering such extra burdens as a fixed rate temp, is a thumbs up, maybe. Unless you cock up. Then you can get fined.
Best... industry... ever.
In other news the UK Government has gone ahead and privatised Royal Mail. Selling off a centuries old service to corporate asshats. Gee, what could possibly go wrong.
