Some of the comments he's made are disgusting. I quit RM after 5 years. Our manager has been telling us for years to prioritise parcels and I hear from colleagues now people are getting brought in fot stopping for minutes at a time on a disciplinary basis.
@@JohnDoe-ne2qsI worked for 10 years. A new staff member was just told he’s doing fine at the Job but can’t be kept on unless he starts doing overtime 😅😅
@@Jimmy-lb1yc because they are human and not machines. dignity is a right in work. dignity includes interacting with your fellow humans from time to time etc for a rest, a pi*s, a vape... help a old lady.. who cares. Humans have rights
Saw two posties today. One delivering in my street, who was clearly in a hurry. The other was a woman pushing a Royal Mail Trolley Bag. It was as if she was speed walking. Posties are clearly working to time constraints, despite what that weasel Thompson says.
I'm a postie and have just watched this in utter disbelief. These 3 clowns all took an oath at the begining of the meeting and have lied throughout. They bring shame on all the hard working posties who try to do the best for the customer every day, whilst working in a culture of bullying and of constant increasing pressure with unreasonable demands from management. As another poster has said they make us look like "the worst postal service I have ever come across". Thats such a shame for all of us who where once proud to work for Royal Mail.
I work for the Royal Mail in an admin role and I was rejoicing yesterday at the way Thompson, Macauley and Williams were squirming. It makes my blood boil that the Royal Mail is led by these incompetent bullies. Half the systems we use, along with the IT provision is not fit for purpose. Asset stripping and cost cutting, so they can line their own nests, is the only thing they're interested in. On a side note, I think Macauley is worse than Thompson. The man looks like he wants to physically hurt people.
@@seamus7054 McAuley is a bad bastard, he’s absolutely raging that he’s been torn a new arse, he hates postal workers with a vengeance, something must’ve happened to him when he was a cadet in Glasgow.
As a parcelforce worker, these 3 muppets are destroying a once great company. We are all under so much pressure. As soon as the day starts, the managers are on our case, so as soon as we walk in, the depot moral is already down. I have been working 25 years and never had so much stress at work. And alot of days i am depressed at home thinking about the next working day. I keep thinking of leaving but i love doing my job. But not in this situation i just hope things change for the better. Just wanna say a big think you to my partner and son for putting up with my bad moods due to bad days at work. They support me fully and thats the only reason i still wake up and go to work.
Darren Jones, is amazing! All of the committee members really held that terrible Simon Thompson to account, he should be sacked and removed from the Royal Mail.
McCauley doesn’t like the boot being on the other foot when he is intimidated as hes so used to doing the intimidating. Just like we are intimidated every single day by “rogue managers” who couldn’t run a bath never mind a unit with 100+ staff. This company has fast become an absolutely awful company to work for with an out of control management who treat their workforce with utter contempt.
I had been a postman for 25 years straight out of school and straight into this job, I can’t believe this company ROYAL MAIL a British institute is being destroyed just so a handful of people can make big bucks and then disappear and leave, I love all the costumers I see every day and have enjoyed the job for the entire time, but it’s sad to see this public service disappearing for ever after 500 years, ITS BEEN A PLEASURE 😢
My postman friend has had to have a hip replacement due to his walk, his walk is 12 miles. He has returned to work to find out they are making his walk longer. He is 53. These evil money chasers have absolutely no care about the quality of life or health that they are destroying for another few million. Absolutely shameful.
Too true, got an old girl at work. Totally committed to her job and customer's. Limps into work, hobbles out! What a retirement she has too look forward too! Her partner had to be medically retirement due too hip!!! No volunteering redundancy for her, too old apparently. Too much money to pay her for 30 odd years of service. Bloody joke
Bastards 😜 Keith Williams was twitching and shifting like someone had lined his suit with itching powder. What a weasel of a man. Loved it when Darren Jones asked him if he is on the board of Halfords, and then asked him if Halfords had now been given a contract to service Royal Mail vans.
Well sorted and great observing the three of them squirming. Great work Darren need more MPs like you. Clearly postmen and woman all can't be wrong. Sack them.
Darren Jones, you sir are a legend. Kier Starmer, this man is a huge asset, use him more!!! Finally a politician I can stand behind who has the working peoples back!
Is the world becoming a hopeless grey planet where a human is no more than a timed robot to get scrapped when the bones get tired. What a soulless society we've become.
Theyre trying. Every propagandist nation has come up against each other and intertwined. The eugenicists of the last 100years are making a final stance. They have no future, its not feasible.
It used to be understood, in many industries, not just RM, that when people got older, they would be given an easier duty. No longer. We are all expected to be able to work at peak performance at all times. Thus is not possible.
£450,000 + a year for this?? Really? Massive respect to the chair of the meeting. Someone with the fortitude to ask direct questions and not accept deflective answers. Bravo!
so sad isnt it. same everywhere . corruption and greed are going to end our civilisation as the many that came before us all ended... if we dont stand up and fight!
This is the disgraceful situation many hard workers face, the money is there just far too much of it going to the wrong people. No one grudges those three lying monkeys obtaining a decent pay however have to earn it. Far to many get a salary humongous salary and do not earn it. Posties deserve earn a decent wage do not get it same for millions of workers. Way out of control this greed has to stop.
In 1976 when you first started there was no such thing as a micro chip. If you give human beings the ability to use clandestine means of spying on their workers in the search of profit, they will use it.
We were actually told once to keep the PDA on us at all times because they were tracking our steps. The problem is I’ll regularly get an alert that I’m speeding, whilst walking, in a 30mph zone, it’s that inaccurate and it is in real time, because I once stopped to take a phone call from my bank after me card was cloned and a manager called me an asked why I’d not moved for ten minutes
Live is a false term in this scenario. The data is collected. When you retrieve it is open. 1 second later you could say its not live. Its the collection of the data that is the issue, not how frequently they check it. (If its logged it can be checked immediately, it is all logged)
As an agency worker over Christmas, I appreciate how frustrated the posties are with the job. Unaware how we are tracked by yellow dots (but clearly are) and the frustration of walks 4-6 hrs without toilet facilities. I was still delivering Christmas cards at the end of January. We received notification this week that our hourly rate is to be CUT from £13.30 to £11.50 £402 per week and meal breaks are now UNPAID. SO IN REAL TERMS OVER A £66.00 PER WEEK PAY CUT.MR Thompson is on £10, 000 per week - bonus Do you wonder why the CWU are fighting for workers rights?
Thanks for sharing. I was the same. Pushing a "pram "for 5hrs All residential No Shops or Toilets. I had to go behind a whellie bin. This is what the public need to be aware of how wee are treated. Theis was a big yellow dot🤣
In my office been going on since I started there. 6 years! Wouldn't of happened in my old office had enough staff and overtime to pay. All out window now.
Plain to see why the business is failing daily, with this CEO and his severely lacking colleagues, thankfully they're not in charge of a hospital, couldn't run a bath springs to mind, in my humble opinion.
They got led in by the tories in some bizarre eugenicist attempt to sell us off to the usa. Putin failed, dems got power, deal was off, boris was stuck, these three are just a stain we need to scrub. The usa still has issues with trumps pick for postal master, he also tried to ruin the postal service. Money to be made through private investment and putin knows a country with no mail system is favourable to him.
Lying I was questioned last Thursday by my line manager for my van being stationary for 37 minutes he wanted to know if I had a problem and reason for being stationary. So they have stopped using the PDA data and are now using van tracking to intimidate their staff. As it happens the van tracking data is accumulative stopped time.
Love how he says " next day delivery" when someone orders at midnight. That makes it same day delivery. Destroying posties work life balance because he perceives people expect parcels delivered same day. I often hear " I wasn't expecting this yet, I only ordered it yesterday. These people don't give a toss about the front line staff. While they are eating out in the finest restaurants you'll still be on delivery. No wonder they don't think they'll need so many redundancies, posties are leaving in their droves and the USO is failing completely with these people thinking casual workers can pick up the slack. Most of whom flee when they realise the work involved. Every senior manager with postal experience has been dumped, to be replaced by graduate yes men to scared or ignorant to disagree with them. Simply no idea. Unfit to work for this company, let alone run it.
Forgot a tracke today, lady said u normally come that way. I said forgot your parcel found it in back of van when I finnished. She said oh that could've waited untill 2moz. Told her I can't has to be delivered she was flabbergasted 😂
I want to see these three. Deliver for a whole month make a great tv show. With the real postie screaming at them the full route. To go faster. Before sacking them.
What dreadful senior Managers they are lying on oath rather than admitting their crass performances. Lower level workers would be sacked and so should they be
They lied under oath. Why are these people not in prison? What is actually the point in these inquiries? The only power they have is to make recommendations
I think Darren Jones has done a superb job here. What actual power do these committees have though, apart from giving those attending a sense of achievement? By that I mean a few lines on their CV?
Yes, and of course, the managers, and board members , took all the so called risks, too, by handling, each test kit,, they certainly learnt their money .
My son worked through it all worried because he lives at home with me his Mother who at the time i was 72 in the Pandemic...yes .£200 and taxed..these are just greedy money grabbers. If it wasnt for workers they would get nought!!!... Royal Mail is a Heritage we have to keep.....
Letter delivery versus parcel delivery: It's not a space constraint issue, it's an overtime issue. Many of the walks are too long for duty span. Royal Mail management does not value letters highly enough to pay overtime to ensure that they (as well as Tracked parcels) are delivered same day.
Simon Thompson lies again. Royal Mail 100% prioritises their own 'tracked' parcels/letters. Posties are told to not bring back tracked items and therefore to prioritise them. If you do bring back tracked parcels, managers won't be happy and they will panic and try to find someone to go back out and clear them on overtime, whereas the letters the postie brought back are unlikely to be sent back out that day, they will be delivered the following day. Their excuse about not wanting to have backlogs of bulky parcels is valid to an extent, but not all tracked parcels are large, many are small, some may even be letter sized - but they will always be prioritised.
I must add Thompson's comments 'the posters asking to prioritise parcels is from days of industrial action', this is total and utter bull****. It has been a policy to prioritise tracked parcels for years and still is til this day.
our heads are pecked EVERY day by management.....EVERYTHING is monitored, analysed to the Nth degree....it wears you down; our stress levels are through the roof. At my depot since Xmas we've lost 2 (of the 3) DCM's , and a whole bunch of long-serving drivers. 3 more leaving in the next 2 weeks. There's a 'leaving do' on the notice board which gets longer by the day.
hJones should have said, yes or no any other answer i will treat as a contempt of this committee and thus parliament , he has the power to use that threat
Delivery windows can vary on a daily basis, depending on 9am's 1am's, mail shots, traffic, road closures and last but by no means least, weather. All these things cannot be taken into consideration by the PDA software. It is not possible to state any particular day you would get somewhere within a 1 hour window.
My god are these The Three Stooges I've been a postman for 25 years, the other day I was called in the office and asked why I was back 15 minutes early, we are being tracked with the pda. We have to take more work out on top are 5 hour walking duty. The SAS don't walk as much as us.
@@truthhurts8924 I live on my delivery so I piss when I want . Also before I did I would go at either the local shop library community centre or old people’s home.. never been a problem
As a former postman i am shocked to hear how the Royal Mail has been downgraded asset stripped out since privatisation into a semi parcel delivery company . LIstening to three people with no empathy/ lying towards postal workers is very dispiriting .
They have been insisting we take one within an hour of being in the office for about 7 years rather than take it out on delivery when we actually may need one
You should always have your break, why would you give them your time for free? Also ruins it for the floater if you get round without a break, he'll be questioned if he can't after having his.
Message to members of the UK public who are whinging about RM staff taking strike action and love nothing better than to call postal workers and Royal Mail every name and insult under the sun, watch the two parliamentary committee sessions Simon Thompson was cross questioned in ( This one and the original one ) and if you still can’t understand why postal workers are in dispute with these corrupt crooks then I’m afraid to say nothing will convince you. Bear this in mind if Thompson and co win other managements in other industries will have the green light to do the same to you! Heed this warning!!
Odd really, this PDA is clearly a tracking tool for the deliverers. If they are concerned about the workload being fair then just ask the staff if they're having difficulty when they can't complete their workload....why do you need to track anyone by an electronic device ?
I'm a postie. The manager often pulls up the information on someone's walk to ask why we aren't moving. What's forgotten is that we may be the only person some customers see that day (particularly OAP's), and they want to chat, posties used to be encouraged to talk to people, now we can't
What about using it in a positive way. Postie says he can’t complete his delivery as he has to many items, Postie has his full allotted breaks before they go out on delivery. They then come back bang on their finish time. The data is looked at and they have parked their van up off of their delivery route for an hour. Can the data be used to ask a question why they are off route.
The vast majority of posties come in to do at least an honest day's work, many will help out by going over their time to complete, a large amount never take their breaks and instead work through their breaks for free....... yet Royal Mail want more, more, more. You get managers telling you that 'you can do more' when they know nothing about your round, your delivery for the day, and who have never been a postie in their life.
this equal workload is rubbish we have rounds that are impossible and some which are quite easy. despite discussions with management nothing has been done reason is they revised the rounds on a computer and would not listen to experienced posties.
OMG these slippery individuals seriously need to be fired and have the whole force of the law down on them! They all took an oath and within 30 seconds the first lie came out then subsequent lies followed.........absolute clowns and useless one at that🤡
Prioritisation of parcels, tracked, special deliveries and now d2d’s over letters has been in place for months not solely on strike days. Absolute lies under oath , some would say its criminal.
D2d's are first class remember, when they stopped paying us individually for each item said this was bread and butter of company, "we are loosing so much money this is keeping us afloat!" BOLLOCKS
Looks like the Chair of the BEIS is considering taking action on Royal Mail bosses following this hearing. Doesn't look good for them, but hopefully there will be a positive outcome for the workforce. Link to Darren Jones MP FaceBook page, he left this comment following the hearing ..... fb.watch/iUClGf1ly8/
He'll be thrown under the bus very soon, don't worry. Unfortunately, he'll live with a big payout and sh*t loads of shares, which will rise significantly once news hits the markets that he has gone and the Royal Mail/CWU dispute is over.
many years ago postmans routes varied in distance and difficulty and the longer serving postmen would have the least difficult but all routes were expected to be completed by a certain time.
Perhaps management, from first line to the top, can be monitored to ensure they are coping with their workloads. Such things as number of telephone calls made/received, with the phone numbers recorded, and length of each call. Length of time using a computer - tracking the usage and again length of time on each site, or on a video meeting, etc. Type and length of meetings physically attended.
The real reason he needs to do parcels is f all to do with customers and jobs for his team. It's for his and his board buddies bonuses which was stated his bonuses was based on that in the last meeting. Corrupt to the core
I'm 58 in a couple of weeks, nearly 20yrs a postie, they still expect/compare me to have the same performance/energy levels as a mid 20 year old !!.....fact.
Not really the case, it’s the 20 year olds who are ruining it for everyone by running around the deliveries getting them done too quickly instead of using the proper delivery methods.. fact
It's also the 20 year olds squeeling for all walks to be equal. Thompson quotes them in this committee. We accepted seniority would keep our walks aligned with our ability to do them as we aged, but the whining of "it's not fair brigade" I hear now is very short sighted. They will age to. Hope they enjoy the future they asked for.
im 60 just ad to retire on i,ll health , they never even tried to find me suitable work for my condition , thats what thanks you get for working yours socks off for 26 years .
I'm also 58 in a few weeks, have one of the worst delivery's in our office , same here expected to run around like a 20 year old , I've been doing it 33 years, I keep myself fit, but I'm not ruining my health when touch wood I'm going next year, can't wait to get out.
This is why companies can’t get people to work for them.I got a letter delivered with a 11th august 2023 date on it which reached me on the 27th of august which had travelled about 80 mile across the uk,that’s the state of Royal Mail after privatisation.
Royal mail doesn't listen to grievances!! They don't follow their own guidelines! I have not been heard on my last two grievances and they've automatically been shut down without the assigned manager contacting me to find the full details of my grievance. At no point was I allowed to give full details of my grievances. When I was bullied and harassed HR pointed me down the grievance route rather than making a bullying and harassment case, which was badly handled and ultimately not upheld, and I appealed which did give at least some accountability but ultimately I still went back to work under his management. The ordeal caused me stress to the point of triggering an autoimmune disorder that I now have to live with the rest of my life.
@@Steaks652 sorry to hear that. I think there are cases of this up and down the country and a law firm would do well to make a precedent of a case against Royal Mail in which people can then step forward regarding bullying and harassment swept up the RM rug by HR. I have been wondering whether to take legal action against RM or particular managers. I think I have a strong case. I'm waiting for a delivery of documents from HR as I requested a Subject Access Request for records at RM.
@@SuperSebbio yeah mate, the corruption was beyond belief, they gang up together to white wash your case, and when you appeal they keep that in house so you have no chance, and only option was to get out of it.
I'm 60 and my walk is same length as someone who is 20 so obviously I'm slower by the fact I'm 40 years older no leeway for older staff one size fits all
These senior Royal Mail individuals are tying themselves in knots because on ground level, the ordinary post office employees are saying one thing which is the reality of the failing service, but these three executives are using a multitude of excuses to put forward about why the letter service is failing badly. They are blaming everyone else about the chronic failures in Royal Mail.
What’s the point in swearing under oath, then telling so many lies? This is truly remarkable. I wonder if there will be repercussions or telling lies under oath is the new normal?
Our standard of service is appalling prioritising is still being used , I can only assume that our managers get bonuses for tracked items being met however there is no tracker on letters hence it’s an easy way to hide failures.
Tracking is being sought for letters, especially, hospital letters, doctors, dentist, pharmacy, , many institutions want tracking on letters, like banks, water companies, energy providers, and especially local government councils etc, and also imagine, the next step, tracking on door to door, items, imagine the difficulty when prepping x double slots, more time, marking, where item to go to, , Sunday working to compete will be compulsory, no x provision for religious beliefs, that's discriminatory not allowing choice, its a slippery slope, the board are on.. Very slippery , next on cv it will ask the question, what religion are you , and penalise people on religious grounds too, like it's already , ageist, in that regard, start young, break you, get rid of you, not help or assist you properly, drum you out, quicker , surplus, useless, forgetting you gave your life, you are a human being, sound familiar.
He needs to stop saying " team". Our postal worker team earned Royal Mail £800 million profit in a year. His team shared it among themselves and now plead poverty.
Take Royal Mail back into public ownership and get rid of these bullying bosses, McCauley looks like it wouldn't take much for him to lose his temper. Thompson only lies when he speaks, he couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it! I'm glad I don't work for this horrendous organisation, it must be terrible going into work every day!
Mate been here 18 years worst ever! Adding more work cutting workforce and taking our door to door bonus off us, which was double before we went private. Taking money off us for doing g the work. In all areas finnish early do more! Cant finnish early do more anyway.
Just today in my delivery office. We was told to prioritise our special deliveries. tracked parcels. Post box collections/customer collections and lapsing. Then just do what we can with the mail.
So many lies told here. In my DO we've been prioritising tracked and SD items for over 2 years. We leave frames full of mail every day. I've only been with RM for 8 years and it's getting less enjoyable every year.
the country hate royal mail because of this action by upper management i and every normal working man and woman do not trust this orginisation anymore and i would rather use alternatives which unfortunataly impacts royal mail "**** ***" royal mail you should be ashamed.you are a real visual,and obvious look at letting this country and it's people down.
I work for the post office and Royal Mail are a total utter joke. Their workers are definately not happy. Give it a few years, post office and Royal Mail will be finished. They will be history if they carry on the way they do.
anyone who is higer up than a postie but still below this man/men that has evidence that these 2 have given instruction to prioritze parcels over letters contrary to their policy, please come forward and give evidence.
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Send Simon thompson and CO to prison for clearly and blatantly lying under oath
Some of the comments he's made are disgusting.
I quit RM after 5 years. Our manager has been telling us for years to prioritise parcels and I hear from colleagues now people are getting brought in fot stopping for minutes at a time on a disciplinary basis.
@@JohnDoe-ne2qsI worked for 10 years. A new staff member was just told he’s doing fine at the Job but can’t be kept on unless he starts doing overtime 😅😅
@@Jimmy-lb1yc because they are human and not machines. dignity is a right in work. dignity includes interacting with your fellow humans from time to time etc
for a rest, a pi*s, a vape... help a old lady..
who cares. Humans have rights
Before prison send him out on a duty for a week first.
Saw two posties today. One delivering in my street, who was clearly in a hurry. The other was a woman pushing a Royal Mail Trolley Bag. It was as if she was speed walking. Posties are clearly working to time constraints, despite what that weasel Thompson says.
Thompson has declared war on his own workforce with brutal attacks on terms and conditions, disgusting human being
I'm a postie and have just watched this in utter disbelief. These 3 clowns all took an oath at the begining of the meeting and have lied throughout. They bring shame on all the hard working posties who try to do the best for the customer every day, whilst working in a culture of bullying and of constant increasing pressure with unreasonable demands from management. As another poster has said they make us look like "the worst postal service I have ever come across". Thats such a shame for all of us who where once proud to work for Royal Mail.
I'm totally with you....I'm a postman too ...I'd call out his their lies here but there's over an hour of non stop bullshit
We literally left about 15 frames full of mail today that had no cover
@@dwaynedibley997 they are lapsing 3 walks per section at our office....and pulling people who say that they can't complete
I work for the Royal Mail in an admin role and I was rejoicing yesterday at the way Thompson, Macauley and Williams were squirming. It makes my blood boil that the Royal Mail is led by these incompetent bullies. Half the systems we use, along with the IT provision is not fit for purpose. Asset stripping and cost cutting, so they can line their own nests, is the only thing they're interested in. On a side note, I think Macauley is worse than Thompson. The man looks like he wants to physically hurt people.
@@seamus7054 McAuley is a bad bastard, he’s absolutely raging that he’s been torn a new arse, he hates postal workers with a vengeance, something must’ve happened to him when he was a cadet in Glasgow.
As a parcelforce worker, these 3 muppets are destroying a once great company. We are all under so much pressure. As soon as the day starts, the managers are on our case, so as soon as we walk in, the depot moral is already down. I have been working 25 years and never had so much stress at work. And alot of days i am depressed at home thinking about the next working day. I keep thinking of leaving but i love doing my job. But not in this situation i just hope things change for the better. Just wanna say a big think you to my partner and son for putting up with my bad moods due to bad days at work. They support me fully and thats the only reason i still wake up and go to work.
Darren Jones, is amazing! All of the committee members really held that terrible Simon Thompson to account, he should be sacked and removed from the Royal Mail.
McCauley doesn’t like the boot being on the other foot when he is intimidated as hes so used to doing the intimidating. Just like we are intimidated every single day by “rogue managers” who couldn’t run a bath never mind a unit with 100+ staff. This company has fast become an absolutely awful company to work for with an out of control management who treat their workforce with utter contempt.
I had been a postman for 25 years straight out of school and straight into this job, I can’t believe this company ROYAL MAIL a British institute is being destroyed just so a handful of people can make big bucks and then disappear and leave, I love all the costumers I see every day and have enjoyed the job for the entire time, but it’s sad to see this public service disappearing for ever after 500 years, ITS BEEN A PLEASURE 😢
You'd better believe it cos it is the same in every national function which has been privatised.
Paycut not payrise!
Walks are completely unachievable with brutal workloads 😢
My postman friend has had to have a hip replacement due to his walk, his walk is 12 miles. He has returned to work to find out they are making his walk longer. He is 53. These evil money chasers have absolutely no care about the quality of life or health that they are destroying for another few million. Absolutely shameful.
Royal mail are a disgusting company to work for
They're destroying folks lives
Too true, got an old girl at work. Totally committed to her job and customer's. Limps into work, hobbles out! What a retirement she has too look forward too! Her partner had to be medically retirement due too hip!!! No volunteering redundancy for her, too old apparently. Too much money to pay her for 30 odd years of service. Bloody joke
I’m loving this! Twitchy little bastard! 😂😂😏
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Bastards 😜 Keith Williams was twitching and shifting like someone had lined his suit with itching powder. What a weasel of a man. Loved it when Darren Jones asked him if he is on the board of Halfords, and then asked him if Halfords had now been given a contract to service Royal Mail vans.
Well sorted and great observing the three of them squirming. Great work Darren need more MPs like you. Clearly postmen and woman all can't be wrong. Sack them.
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39:56 😂 auditioning for the McDonalds eyebrows advert 😅
PDA actuals are never used to see if anyone needs work taken off them, absolutely no chance that would ever happen!
Work taken off 😂😂😂😂
PDA never havs and never will be implemented to decrease or lesson work load blatent lies.
You could have mail piled ceiling high and they still wouldn't take work off you.
Darren Jones, you sir are a legend. Kier Starmer, this man is a huge asset, use him more!!! Finally a politician I can stand behind who has the working peoples back!
Is the world becoming a hopeless grey planet where a human is no more than a timed robot to get scrapped when the bones get tired. What a soulless society we've become.
Theyre trying. Every propagandist nation has come up against each other and intertwined. The eugenicists of the last 100years are making a final stance. They have no future, its not feasible.
It used to be understood, in many industries, not just RM, that when people got older, they would be given an easier duty. No longer. We are all expected to be able to work at peak performance at all times. Thus is not possible.
@@various7777 , yes, as stated, a Souless Society, take a bow M. Wheeler.
£450,000 + a year for this?? Really?
Massive respect to the chair of the meeting. Someone with the fortitude to ask direct questions and not accept deflective answers. Bravo!
Salute @Darren Jones chair of the house of commons…Mr Simon Thompson you’re under oath🙌🙌🙌
A lying CEO is exactly what the tories want. It fits in with their ethos. This CEO would go to jail if I was in power.
Im a postman. This man gets 3 years of my wages every month.
for lying and bullying and harassment and losing the company a million pounds a day.
so sad isnt it. same everywhere .
corruption and greed are going to end our civilisation as the many that came before us all ended...
if we dont stand up and fight!
Chairman holding hi paid incompetent mangers to account put them in prison
An absolute disgrace and in 2023 something that everyone should be made aware of and then,if we allow it to continue,feel ashamed of.
This is the disgraceful situation many hard workers face, the money is there just far too much of it going to the wrong people. No one grudges those three lying monkeys obtaining a decent pay however have to earn it. Far to many get a salary humongous salary and do not earn it. Posties deserve earn a decent wage do not get it same for millions of workers. Way out of control this greed has to stop.
Worked there 1976 to 2009 loved most of it. It breaks my heart what they have done to a British icon.
1978 to 2016, same here.
Royal Mail is a terrible company to work for now 😢
In 1976 when you first started there was no such thing as a micro chip. If you give human beings the ability to use clandestine means of spying on their workers in the search of profit, they will use it.
Humans have "always" looked for ways to take advantage of each other..... didn't need a friggin microchip
It’s called privatisation,profits first,service second,staff third.
We were actually told once to keep the PDA on us at all times because they were tracking our steps. The problem is I’ll regularly get an alert that I’m speeding, whilst walking, in a 30mph zone, it’s that inaccurate and it is in real time, because I once stopped to take a phone call from my bank after me card was cloned and a manager called me an asked why I’d not moved for ten minutes
Live is a false term in this scenario. The data is collected. When you retrieve it is open. 1 second later you could say its not live. Its the collection of the data that is the issue, not how frequently they check it. (If its logged it can be checked immediately, it is all logged)
As an agency worker over Christmas, I appreciate how frustrated the posties are with the job. Unaware how we are tracked by yellow dots (but clearly are) and the frustration of walks 4-6 hrs without toilet facilities. I was still delivering Christmas cards at the end of January.
We received notification this week that our hourly rate is to be CUT from £13.30 to £11.50 £402 per week and meal breaks are now UNPAID. SO IN REAL TERMS OVER A £66.00 PER WEEK PAY CUT.MR Thompson is on £10, 000 per week - bonus Do you wonder why the CWU are fighting for workers rights?
Yep, I was told I am NOT allowed to return to the office for a loo break in a 5 hour duty!! I have to Pee behind peoples houses...shameful.
Thanks for sharing. I was the same. Pushing a "pram "for 5hrs All residential No Shops or Toilets. I had to go behind a whellie bin. This is what the public need to be aware of how wee are treated. Theis was a big yellow dot🤣
Bloody hell, I've been postie for 18 years and yo get more pay than me!!!
The new revisions in Royal Mail have made the walks completely unachievable workloads
Simon Thompson as been found to be a liar
They're lying regarding the USO, EVERY DAY we're told to prioritise parcels over letters
In my office been going on since I started there. 6 years! Wouldn't of happened in my old office had enough staff and overtime to pay. All out window now.
Plain to see why the business is failing daily, with this CEO and his severely lacking colleagues, thankfully they're not in charge of a hospital, couldn't run a bath springs to mind, in my humble opinion.
They got led in by the tories in some bizarre eugenicist attempt to sell us off to the usa. Putin failed, dems got power, deal was off, boris was stuck, these three are just a stain we need to scrub. The usa still has issues with trumps pick for postal master, he also tried to ruin the postal service. Money to be made through private investment and putin knows a country with no mail system is favourable to him.
Lying I was questioned last Thursday by my line manager for my van being stationary for 37 minutes he wanted to know if I had a problem and reason for being stationary. So they have stopped using the PDA data and are now using van tracking to intimidate their staff. As it happens the van tracking data is accumulative stopped time.
Yes they are ,questioned why your van is idling ,er traffic lights sir ,pathetic
I bet they say van's only AVE tracking in case it gets stolen
Love how he says " next day delivery" when someone orders at midnight. That makes it same day delivery. Destroying posties work life balance because he perceives people expect parcels delivered same day.
I often hear " I wasn't expecting this yet, I only ordered it yesterday.
These people don't give a toss about the front line staff. While they are eating out in the finest restaurants you'll still be on delivery. No wonder they don't think they'll need so many redundancies, posties are leaving in their droves and the USO is failing completely with these people thinking casual workers can pick up the slack. Most of whom flee when they realise the work involved.
Every senior manager with postal experience has been dumped, to be replaced by graduate yes men to scared or ignorant to disagree with them.
Simply no idea. Unfit to work for this company, let alone run it.
Forgot a tracke today, lady said u normally come that way.
I said forgot your parcel found it in back of van when I finnished.
She said oh that could've waited untill 2moz. Told her I can't has to be delivered she was flabbergasted 😂
I want to see these three. Deliver for a whole month make a great tv show. With the real postie screaming at them the full route. To go faster. Before sacking them.
Such a good idea!!! Let's see them go home and pass out as they are overworked!!!
What dreadful senior Managers they are lying on oath rather than admitting their crass performances. Lower level workers would be sacked and so should they be
Simon Thompson, the only human who can come through a door without opening it, slither slither
Why this man still in the business? He doesn’t listen
They lied under oath. Why are these people not in prison? What is actually the point in these inquiries? The only power they have is to make recommendations
I think Darren Jones has done a superb job here. What actual power do these committees have though, apart from giving those attending a sense of achievement? By that I mean a few lines on their CV?
Reward for working in covid was £200 for 2 years, Managers got 4K
Agency workers just got a thank you letter
Yes, and of course, the managers, and board members , took all the so called risks, too, by handling, each test kit,, they certainly learnt their money .
My son worked through it all worried because he lives at home with me his Mother who at the time i was 72 in the Pandemic...yes .£200 and taxed..these are just greedy money grabbers.
If it wasnt for workers they would get nought!!!...
Royal Mail is a Heritage we have to keep.....
Letter delivery versus parcel delivery: It's not a space constraint issue, it's an overtime issue. Many of the walks are too long for duty span. Royal Mail management does not value letters highly enough to pay overtime to ensure that they (as well as Tracked parcels) are delivered same day.
Yeah not enough staff!!!!
Ex. Postie loved my job hounded out after 25 yes remember McCauley starting was a cant then and looks like it's never changed from 25 yrs ago
He looked very uncomfortable!!!! Glad the cunts get their time in spotlight show us who they are. Bunch of liars
Good god he has to go
so what next ? proven liar does he just crawl away ?
the chair speaker said afterwards they will be deciding next action
They are not finished with them yet there is more to come.
Simon Thompson lies again. Royal Mail 100% prioritises their own 'tracked' parcels/letters. Posties are told to not bring back tracked items and therefore to prioritise them. If you do bring back tracked parcels, managers won't be happy and they will panic and try to find someone to go back out and clear them on overtime, whereas the letters the postie brought back are unlikely to be sent back out that day, they will be delivered the following day. Their excuse about not wanting to have backlogs of bulky parcels is valid to an extent, but not all tracked parcels are large, many are small, some may even be letter sized - but they will always be prioritised.
I must add Thompson's comments 'the posters asking to prioritise parcels is from days of industrial action', this is total and utter bull****. It has been a policy to prioritise tracked parcels for years and still is til this day.
Everything will be tracked soon, its coming. Every parcel every letter, enjoy.
our heads are pecked EVERY day by management.....EVERYTHING is monitored, analysed to the Nth degree....it wears you down; our stress levels are through the roof. At my depot since Xmas we've lost 2 (of the 3) DCM's , and a whole bunch of long-serving drivers. 3 more leaving in the next 2 weeks. There's a 'leaving do' on the notice board which gets longer by the day.
Mr Thompson how can anyone trust you, when you can not even answer a yes or no question!
hJones should have said, yes or no any other answer i will treat as a contempt of this committee and thus parliament , he has the power to use that threat
Delivery windows can vary on a daily basis, depending on 9am's 1am's, mail shots, traffic, road closures and last but by no means least, weather. All these things cannot be taken into consideration by the PDA software. It is not possible to state any particular day you would get somewhere within a 1 hour window.
Simon " Ricky go and blame the CWU again"... Ricky " it's CWU fault"
Ricky: "CWU agreement this, CWU agreement that"
[We gave notice on all the CWU agreements months ago 😉]
Remember when he started a bell-end then so nothing changed in 20 odd years
@@jimanderson8149 I heard he used to be on the tools. Absolute jobby
@@billkosses3808 totally wank
@Dazzy B Travel and Music unfortunately yes but a absolute Currant bun
Letters and parcels same priority really, this man couldn't lie straight in bed.........
My god are these The Three Stooges I've been a postman for 25 years, the other day I was called in the office and asked why I was back 15 minutes early, we are being tracked with the pda. We have to take more work out on top are 5 hour walking duty. The SAS don't walk as much as us.
Why were you back 15 mins early tho?
I had to walk back with a HTC got back quicker than I thought cuz I normally use a van,, I didn't complete cuz they took the van from me.
@@dwaynedibley997 You are not even allowed to return for a loo break! 5hrs of walking without a loo break in 2023. Does Thompson go without the loo?
@@dwaynedibley997 Piss of Thompson.
@@truthhurts8924 I live on my delivery so I piss when I want . Also before I did I would go at either the local shop library community centre or old people’s home.. never been a problem
Both these bosses need, at the very least, sacking. And possibly prosecution.
What a horrible regime. I would get out of RM as soon as possible.
As a former postman i am shocked to hear how the Royal Mail has been downgraded asset stripped out since privatisation into a semi parcel delivery company . LIstening to three people with no empathy/ lying towards postal workers is very dispiriting .
Simon trying to throw Ricky under the bus so many times. The fact he keeps asking someone else to jump in just tells you he is running!
Thanks for visiting Kilmarnock, it’s much appreciated….. patronising bassa
Be always happy where you work in work place, home with family without stress and with good health.❤🎉.
no manager has ever insisted in 7 years that I take a break and I never have. usually too busy.
They have been insisting we take one within an hour of being in the office for about 7 years rather than take it out on delivery when we actually may need one
You should always have your break, why would you give them your time for free? Also ruins it for the floater if you get round without a break, he'll be questioned if he can't after having his.
Message to members of the UK public who are whinging about RM staff taking strike action and love nothing better than to call postal workers and Royal Mail every name and insult under the sun, watch the two parliamentary committee sessions Simon Thompson was cross questioned in ( This one and the original one ) and if you still can’t understand why postal workers are in dispute with these corrupt crooks then I’m afraid to say nothing will convince you. Bear this in mind if Thompson and co win other managements in other industries will have the green light to do the same to you! Heed this warning!!
Distinctly Supercilious & Creepy Triumvirate. Meanwhile, Jones impresses.
Odd really, this PDA is clearly a tracking tool for the deliverers. If they are concerned about the workload being fair then just ask the staff if they're having difficulty when they can't complete their workload....why do you need to track anyone by an electronic device ?
and why take performance data if youre not using it for performance managment...
I'm a postie. The manager often pulls up the information on someone's walk to ask why we aren't moving. What's forgotten is that we may be the only person some customers see that day (particularly OAP's), and they want to chat, posties used to be encouraged to talk to people, now we can't
The only time PDA actuals aren't of interest to line managers is when they support the postie. Suddenly they're not that keen.
What about using it in a positive way. Postie says he can’t complete his delivery as he has to many items, Postie has his full allotted breaks before they go out on delivery. They then come back bang on their finish time. The data is looked at and they have parked their van up off of their delivery route for an hour. Can the data be used to ask a question why they are off route.
Did it CHANGE anything? NO,NO,NO. These committees have NO power.
How can you time people when rounds are so varied and geography must come into it too
The vast majority of posties come in to do at least an honest day's work, many will help out by going over their time to complete, a large amount never take their breaks and instead work through their breaks for free....... yet Royal Mail want more, more, more. You get managers telling you that 'you can do more' when they know nothing about your round, your delivery for the day, and who have never been a postie in their life.
this equal workload is rubbish we have rounds that are impossible and some which are quite easy. despite discussions with management nothing has been done reason is they revised the rounds on a computer and would not listen to experienced posties.
See evil. Hear evil. Speak evil.
OMG these slippery individuals seriously need to be fired and have the whole force of the law down on them! They all took an oath and within 30 seconds the first lie came out then subsequent lies followed.........absolute clowns and useless one at that🤡
Thompson thinks he is above the law and the universal service obligation doesn't apply to him, shameful behaviour by the board
At 43 minute's is it a system failure yes or no.......god he's getting frustrated think about the 115000 postie's this is becoming an absolute joke.
Who is the bloke asking the questions,he knows his stuff.
Darren Jones MP, Labour, Bristol NW. He chairs the BEIS Select Committee
@Jimmy no, you.
@jimmy is S Thompson your Dad ???
@@Jimmy-lb1yc Is Jimmy your middle name Ricky.
Jimmy is obviously one of life’s pricks. Unfortunately there are many people like him in this world ☹️
Do these blokes get paid well for this incompetence … dear Lord
Simon Thompson CEO of Royal mail left with a 700,000 pounds pay off, unbelievable 😢
Prioritisation of parcels, tracked, special deliveries and now d2d’s over letters has been in place for months not solely on strike days. Absolute lies under oath , some would say its criminal.
D2d's are first class remember, when they stopped paying us individually for each item said this was bread and butter of company, "we are loosing so much money this is keeping us afloat!" BOLLOCKS
I feel sorry for all the posties with this liar at the helm
Looks like the Chair of the BEIS is considering taking action on Royal Mail bosses following this hearing. Doesn't look good for them, but hopefully there will be a positive outcome for the workforce. Link to Darren Jones MP FaceBook page, he left this comment following the hearing ..... fb.watch/iUClGf1ly8/
Lock him up for lying under oath or at least sack him and ask him to pay back the money he has taken from the company so far
He'll be thrown under the bus very soon, don't worry. Unfortunately, he'll live with a big payout and sh*t loads of shares, which will rise significantly once news hits the markets that he has gone and the Royal Mail/CWU dispute is over.
many years ago postmans routes varied in distance and difficulty and the longer serving postmen would have the least difficult but all routes were expected to be completed by a certain time.
How that thief can sit there and promise to tell the whole truth, when he is a total LIAR.
Perhaps management, from first line to the top, can be monitored to ensure they are coping with their workloads. Such things as number of telephone calls made/received, with the phone numbers recorded, and length of each call. Length of time using a computer - tracking the usage and again length of time on each site, or on a video meeting, etc. Type and length of meetings physically attended.
If I gave answers like this in parliament id be walked out in cuffs.
The real reason he needs to do parcels is f all to do with customers and jobs for his team. It's for his and his board buddies bonuses which was stated his bonuses was based on that in the last meeting. Corrupt to the core
I'm 58 in a couple of weeks, nearly 20yrs a postie, they still expect/compare me to have the same performance/energy levels as a mid 20 year old !!.....fact.
Not really the case, it’s the 20 year olds who are ruining it for everyone by running around the deliveries getting them done too quickly instead of using the proper delivery methods.. fact
It's also the 20 year olds squeeling for all walks to be equal. Thompson quotes them in this committee.
We accepted seniority would keep our walks aligned with our ability to do them as we aged, but the whining of "it's not fair brigade" I hear now is very short sighted. They will age to. Hope they enjoy the future they asked for.
im 60 just ad to retire on i,ll health , they never even tried to find me suitable work for my condition , thats what thanks you get for working yours socks off for 26 years .
I'm also 58 in a few weeks, have one of the worst delivery's in our office , same here expected to run around like a 20 year old , I've been doing it 33 years, I keep myself fit, but I'm not ruining my health when touch wood I'm going next year, can't wait to get out.
The agreements that McCauly is talking about have been ripped up by this board
This is why companies can’t get people to work for them.I got a letter delivered with a 11th august 2023 date on it which reached me on the 27th of august which had travelled about 80 mile across the uk,that’s the state of Royal Mail after privatisation.
Keeps referring to 2018 agreements ….you know the one that theyve walked away from on working conditions ?? Pick and choose what suits them…..
Royal mail doesn't listen to grievances!! They don't follow their own guidelines! I have not been heard on my last two grievances and they've automatically been shut down without the assigned manager contacting me to find the full details of my grievance. At no point was I allowed to give full details of my grievances. When I was bullied and harassed HR pointed me down the grievance route rather than making a bullying and harassment case, which was badly handled and ultimately not upheld, and I appealed which did give at least some accountability but ultimately I still went back to work under his management. The ordeal caused me stress to the point of triggering an autoimmune disorder that I now have to live with the rest of my life.
Sebastian, that is very simular to my case, which resulted in me leaving the business after 37 years.
@@Steaks652 sorry to hear that. I think there are cases of this up and down the country and a law firm would do well to make a precedent of a case against Royal Mail in which people can then step forward regarding bullying and harassment swept up the RM rug by HR. I have been wondering whether to take legal action against RM or particular managers. I think I have a strong case. I'm waiting for a delivery of documents from HR as I requested a Subject Access Request for records at RM.
@@SuperSebbio yeah mate, the corruption was beyond belief, they gang up together to white wash your case, and when you appeal they keep that in house so you have no chance, and only option was to get out of it.
Postman in the North, why is curly, Larry and mo, running us!
The Royal Mail reps blaming everyone else for their own failings is a lesson well learned from politicians, who do it on at least a daily basis
Absolutely
It's the knees after 23 years, they go and pains every single day I feel 95yrs old now.
And the new revisions have made the walks even longer 😢
I'm 60 and my walk is same length as someone who is 20 so obviously I'm slower by the fact I'm 40 years older no leeway for older staff one size fits all
These senior Royal Mail individuals are tying themselves in knots because on ground level, the ordinary post office employees are saying one thing which is the reality of the failing service, but these three executives are using a multitude of excuses to put forward about why the letter service is failing badly. They are blaming everyone else about the chronic failures in Royal Mail.
What’s the point in swearing under oath, then telling so many lies? This is truly remarkable. I wonder if there will be repercussions or telling lies under oath is the new normal?
Link to Darren Jones MP FaceBook page, he left this comment following the hearing ..... fb.watch/iUClGf1ly8/
Our standard of service is appalling prioritising is still being used , I can only assume that our managers get bonuses for tracked items being met however there is no tracker on letters hence it’s an easy way to hide failures.
Tracking is being sought for letters, especially, hospital letters, doctors, dentist, pharmacy, , many institutions want tracking on letters, like banks, water companies, energy providers, and especially local government councils etc, and also imagine, the next step, tracking on door to door, items, imagine the difficulty when prepping x double slots, more time, marking, where item to go to, , Sunday working to compete will be compulsory, no x provision for religious beliefs, that's discriminatory not allowing choice, its a slippery slope, the board are on.. Very slippery , next on cv it will ask the question, what religion are you , and penalise people on religious grounds too, like it's already , ageist, in that regard, start young, break you, get rid of you, not help or assist you properly, drum you out, quicker , surplus, useless, forgetting you gave your life, you are a human being, sound familiar.
Didnt understand what PVA was... he knew darn well that they meant PDA.. what a nob.
He needs to stop saying " team". Our postal worker team earned Royal Mail £800 million profit in a year. His team shared it among themselves and now plead poverty.
Wow lying under oath! There has to be consequences!!
Take Royal Mail back into public ownership and get rid of these bullying bosses, McCauley looks like it wouldn't take much for him to lose his temper. Thompson only lies when he speaks, he couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it! I'm glad I don't work for this horrendous organisation, it must be terrible going into work every day!
Mate been here 18 years worst ever! Adding more work cutting workforce and taking our door to door bonus off us, which was double before we went private. Taking money off us for doing g the work. In all areas finnish early do more! Cant finnish early do more anyway.
Just today in my delivery office. We was told to prioritise our special deliveries. tracked parcels. Post box collections/customer collections and lapsing.
Then just do what we can with the mail.
They do like breaching their own policy.
So many lies told here. In my DO we've been prioritising tracked and SD items for over 2 years. We leave frames full of mail every day. I've only been with RM for 8 years and it's getting less enjoyable every year.
Been 5 years in mine no staff!! Just cut 152 hours out of the week so we are picking up slack. Wonders why 8% are off sick?
Lying we were told to leave letters and put parcels first
Cut costs get rid of 50% of top level management
the country hate royal mail because of this action by upper management i and every normal working man and woman do not trust this orginisation anymore and i would rather use alternatives which unfortunataly impacts royal mail "**** ***" royal mail you should be ashamed.you are a real visual,and obvious look at letting this country and it's people down.
I work for the post office and Royal Mail are a total utter joke. Their workers are definately not happy. Give it a few years, post office and Royal Mail will be finished. They will be history if they carry on the way they do.
Prison is too good for them.
Thompson destroyed Royal Mail and lied on oath to parliament 😢
Darren Jones’s asked all the right questions,but they can’t give a answer that’s satisfactory
Royal Mail in tatters, workers going on strike - boss changes the rules so he can give himself a bonus.
anyone who is higer up than a postie but still below this man/men that has evidence that these 2 have given instruction to prioritze parcels over letters contrary to their policy, please come forward and give evidence.
" I have no knowledge or recollection of anything but take the pay check"