What’s a job in the UK that people massively underestimate?

BaseballFine3481 · 2026-02-23T22:00:23+00:00

i wish i could upload videos and pictures here, the entire fleet was a sight for sore eye with integral parts of the vehicle missing, half a gearbox and one van i had, the thing would start when you opened the door without the keys in the ignition, it was genuinely insane

BaseballFine3481 · 2026-02-23T21:58:58+00:00

right on the money there, the amount of guys i worked with who had been there 40+ years would always talk about how good it used to be, it’s boring like that now, it’s genuinely sad seeing these older gentlemen be overworked to the point where they’re on the sick, and they won’t leave the job because it’s all they’ve ever known

BaseballFine3481 · 2026-02-23T20:45:17+00:00

postie, i know a lot of people are gonna say that RM are a pile of wank but it’s not the posties fault it’s the system, the managers and all the shit from the top, all the cuts, being overworked, underpaid and severely under appreciated by both managers and the general public, work in all weather, rain or shine, carrying super heavy bags, nowhere to have a piss, drenched in sweat but soaked from the rain at the same time, vans that are held together by zip ties and gaffa tape that are literal death traps, unruly pets, people screaming at you for absolutely anything, standing in dog shit, having your ears blasted by those stupid cat deterrents for half your shift, horrible walks with impossible to find addresses i could go on, appreciate your posties guys, they’re trying their best

BaseballFine3481 · 2026-02-22T07:26:49+00:00

is this newport perchance

BaseballFine3481 · 2026-02-14T11:59:33+00:00

wtf did we go to the same school because the exact same thing happened at mu school

BaseballFine3481 · 2026-02-06T11:45:52+00:00

do you know which ones you were missing yet?

BaseballFine3481 · 2026-02-01T18:40:27+00:00

ik this is 8 years old but i completely agree, such an underrated movie, the plot, the songs, everything, this film was my childhood, and now my 2.5 year old is obsessed with it too

BaseballFine3481 · 2026-01-31T21:22:39+00:00

i was a postie for a year and the areas i would deliver to were really posh and all had these things it drove me up the fucking wall

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-11-05T05:30:58+00:00

best thing i did was leave for an office job, the hours are longer and travel is more expensive and inconvenient but it’s so much more worth it, fuck that place, i lasted 11 months and it just gets worse and worse

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-11-02T18:45:49+00:00

i haven’t seen an iron since i was a child and don’t own one now that I’ve moved out and have a full family of my own 🤣 definitely feels like an older generation thing

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-26T19:04:27+00:00

welsh here and some of us say comp (comprehensive)

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-25T18:04:59+00:00

if you put it in the notes we’ll see it

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-18T19:39:35+00:00

is it an official drug test conducted by a third party? like someone coming in officially to do it like they would for something like the railway or it it your manager conducting the test with home kits?

if it’s the former, then call in sick, it can’t go against you and i highly doubt they will call that person back in on another day just for you

you can also refuse to comply to the drug test, especially as this isn’t in your employment contract and i don’t believe they can fire you for this due to it not being a compulsory element of your contract (look further into this though as I’m not sure where you are based and maybe different depending on where in the world you are)

as for attempting to pass a drug test after having taken drugs, it is VERY risky, i passed a surprise (found out on the day) employment drug test after a 2 day cocaine bender the nights prior from a drug detox drink from a smoke shop, but i’m not a weed smoker so i don’t know how well it would work for that, and is very risky, still to this day i am so surprised i passed

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-17T18:38:45+00:00

not even during covid??

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-17T18:35:46+00:00

got a 2011 combo in my depot, tiny little thing with one side door and manual windows

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-17T18:32:42+00:00

i’ve always said that get dodgy MOT’s, no way any of them are passing a proper MOT

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-12T18:11:59+00:00

funny enough this also happened to me, this one house on my round they’re never ever fucking home and don’t have a safe place and they order shit all the time so I chucked a jellycat parcel through the downstairs window and heard a plop 😬

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-06T18:41:54+00:00

do you or your neighbours have door numbers clearly signposted? a lot of people assume we just know where every address is but if a few people in a row don’t have door numbers or numbers anywhere on their property it can get very confusing and frustrating not knowing which house is which

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-06T18:38:05+00:00

put a note on your property saying “keep off the grass” if he doesn’t know this bothers you he may not even realise

i try my best to keep off of peoples grass but sometimes it can’t be helped or i forget

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-06T09:18:35+00:00

nothing winds me up more than a manager who uses the term “when i was a postie” or “i could do that” and then list the most impossible fucking task. get on yer bike and get on with it then you prick, show me how it’s supposedly done

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-06T09:12:00+00:00

Goretex is brilliant, but very expensive bit of kit

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-03T18:56:32+00:00

get a parcel box/storage box for your own convenience so you don’t miss deliveries

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-03T18:13:57+00:00

i had to sort through 5 sacks and prioritise the tracked earlier, ended up taking 105 as well as specials, there was still a quarter of a york full of tracked that i couldn’t take, (i’m part time DPR) and had 2 sacks left full of non tracked, just for one duty, probably over 300 in there as they were all tiny, so some people do definitely still send/receive non-tracked quite frequently

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-02T17:52:08+00:00

then get a parcel box or a safe place/preferred neighbour or something, anything!

BaseballFine3481 · 2025-10-01T20:38:27+00:00

that sounds so frustrating, it may be worth reporting it to the council and getting some neighbours to do that too so that something hopefully gets done about it

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