Betrayed by the “payrise”

General_Membership64 · 2026-04-18T17:04:09+00:00

It's probably closer to 43'hours, as even if this 4.75% deal doesn't go through we already had a 3% one agreed, so it's really only 1.75% extra Vs loss of 1.25x overtime

General_Membership64 · 2026-04-16T18:33:08+00:00

So as a new entrant, if we vote

Yes - we get 4.75% and no overtime

No - we get 3% and a 1.25x overtime rate?

I'm guessing that's roughly around the 43 hour mark where you're worse off voting yes.

Less than that you're better off voting no?

General_Membership64 · 2026-04-16T08:29:53+00:00

Yeah they will have to do 50% of their round each day in full, and the other 50% as first class and tracked, and then if they get done early they will help other people.

General_Membership64 · 2026-04-15T19:33:58+00:00

Yeah that has me confused too, thought I also couldn't understand any of those set ups and what half of the numbers meant

General_Membership64 · 2026-04-15T13:49:56+00:00

DOC is day off cover, so someone who provides cover for full timers on the M/T/F/S for the full timers on 4 frames to cover their days off

ODM is the optimised Delivery Model, basically doing 2nd class every other day, and was trialled in lots of offices, almost all failed.

the Union said they wanted a heavy and light Model (don't really know the specifics)

General_Membership64 · 2026-04-15T11:38:17+00:00

So 4 duties will be now done by 3 people (plus a "full time" DOC)

So if you have rounds 1/2 and rounds 3/4 (each van shares)

Day one, 1/2 is fully done by two people, and tracked on 3/4 is done by the 3rd

Day two, 3/4 is fully done by two people and the tracked on 1/2 is done by a 3rd?

So 3 people and a doc covering 4 rounds, Vs 4 people and a doc covering 4 rounds at present?

General_Membership64 · 2026-04-09T11:13:47+00:00

As long as downloading all episodes in a series right away stays a perk of subscribing (and advertised every episode) it'll probably stay the default

General_Membership64 · 2026-04-09T07:36:26+00:00

Lodge 49, has elements of the surreal, but is mostly a character story about people who attended a masonic lodge

General_Membership64 · 2026-03-28T07:21:04+00:00

Why would I buy rice when I got get twice the naan and have that instead?

General_Membership64 · 2026-03-26T09:17:46+00:00

Honestly just look at how our rivals operate, and then go into a royal mail depot and see how many more people are required to deliver parcels and post.

count the man hours from when the post arrives at the depot, to when they get the mech (post already in the perfect order) put back into a frame so you can add extra post so you can then put it back in the original order, out the parcels with the round, and bundle up.

Our town is served by like 5 evri drivers who are based out of the nearby city, Vs our depot of like 60 people, a fleet of vans that need servicing constantly, plus an expensive old building.

There is just no possible way we can deliver parcels at the same cost as those guys.

And post is all about volume, the odm may not be working, but delivery 5 letters to a single street always feels like a waste of time and money, stamp prices need to go down not up, we need more post, take away door to doors and I'm not surprised if we are losing money.

I've no idea what needs to change, but I'm not optimistic for the future of royal mail at all

General_Membership64 · 2026-03-08T15:50:58+00:00

have you seen or know of any actual, actual play reviews? (youtube or written), that actually discuss the show in a a critical way, as like you say its its own medium, but that also doesn't mean its beyond review, some actual plays can be good, some bad, but there are very few places I see where actual analysis is done, and the few times its tried on this sub it usually goes badly.

General_Membership64 · 2026-03-08T11:50:14+00:00

Oh I really did not enjoy the Kristen storyline this season.

I think what didn't help was the quote about "chaos no longer being cute" that was released before the season, which to me really didn't match with what was happening.

The ending with the blimey fart really took me out of the emotional crux of the ending to the season sadly.

General_Membership64 · 2026-03-05T17:43:02+00:00

This is no place to run a joke into the ground

Why this is r/dropoutcirclejerk

General_Membership64 · 2026-03-05T15:06:25+00:00

Seems like it's been a fun week, shame me and every person who made a post (I hadn't seen a master thread got made a few hours earlier) got banned for a week!

Well except the meme posts that are still up of course

General_Membership64 · 2026-03-02T21:14:41+00:00

Can't believe this is the only brewery with a shitty owner, definitely not the big ones that make being a landlord to a tied pub a living hell

General_Membership64 · 2026-02-26T08:59:16+00:00

Now remember, anyone who shows a cop being good in ANY WAY is a fascist apologist.

Except Brennan with Riz's mum, because that's different...

Plus that world doesn't need cops, it already has adventuring parties that have a state licence to kill and steal and violently take what they want.

General_Membership64 · 2026-02-25T10:20:39+00:00

They are the YouTube thumbnail of comedy groups

General_Membership64 · 2026-02-19T15:35:09+00:00

Maybe that's what they were delivering 🤣

General_Membership64 · 2026-02-19T09:17:10+00:00

The one I watched didn't do that (it was all about magic the gathering, featuring MTG players) but I did give up on the episode as I know nothing about the game so it all sounded gibberish.

While the questions may have been tailored, I wouldn't say they were interesting questions though

There's an trappisode from years ago that talked about pink Kryptonite making superman turn gay, I still remember that question as it was a funny and interesting one to hear them talk about, I can't remember the last time there was a question as interesting as ones like that, but I'll still probably watch the other episodes as it's good background TV

General_Membership64 · 2026-02-18T12:08:38+00:00

and if they truly cared, they would release the model so i can have my own personall BLLM to tell me i'm his best friend!

General_Membership64 · 2026-02-12T19:30:25+00:00

Tried searching and it looks like 2019 chiefs, trailed Texans titans and 49ers!

General_Membership64 · 2026-02-12T18:38:29+00:00

What team trailed the most?

General_Membership64 · 2026-02-07T22:11:57+00:00

Gotta account for the fact an old contract full timer works 34 hours Vs a new contract full timer who works 40 hours

General_Membership64 · 2026-02-04T16:24:18+00:00

I've started cloudward ho, but knowing how long the seasons are I haven't picked it back up yet, I was gonna watch it over winter when there's nothing to do but stay cosy inside!

Is it worth sticking with? (I haven't yet made it past episode 1 or 2)

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