Working Time Regulations 2

Why would the same UPS driver as yesterday, be taking his break around the same time as yesterday? That is..........illegally.

His answer, because he is entitled to a break.
Why does he take it late?
He never knows whether he is going to have time to take one.


This is, of course, one of the drivers who was on the list I produced for Steve O'Donnell three years ago. Why no change? Productivity would be adversely affected

The DIAD

UPS tweeted about the DIAD this afternoon.
What's that, I hear you say?

UPS will tell you that it is;

Delivery
Information
Aquisition
Device

Guess what !!

I'll tell you something different.

Deliberately
Instigates
A
Delusion

The delusion being that you can't cheat with an electronic device.

Think again.

I showed, and discussed, time and time again that you could cheat with a DIAD. It was common knowledge throughout the UK, and used daily. Having explained to one Division Manager how it was done (Ian Wilson) he later rang to ask me to talk him through it again. You can stop the clock, so that in effect you can be in two places at once and therefore not fail a timed delivery. In other words another way to defraud the customer.

UPS: Ah yes Mr. Customer, you say we failed your delivery by 10 minutes.
Customer: Definitely, it was a very important delivery for a presentation that I was giving. I had to wait until it had arrived before I could start. I demand my money back as per your guarantee.
UPS: I'm sorry Mr. Customer but our electronic records show that it was delivered on time. No refund.

I discussed this on a course with two merkin trainers. They of course denied that this was possible. I explained how it could be done, explained how it had been done and asked for a live DIAD to show them how to do it. The merkins said they would get back to me before the end of the course.

Would you be surprised that they didn't.

Why was this allowed to continue? See above

Twitter

I'm being followed by

Remedial Compliance.

Now I wonder what they do?

Maybe I'll ask 

Threats?

Oh no......I told you I was no good at threats.

At 20.05 27th February 2013 I sent this message to;

'ea.dewsmirnpt@westyorkshire.pnn.police.uk'

Could you please tell me if Mr. Graham has made a formal complaint? If he has made a complaint could you supply the crime reference number?

If he has made a complaint I have no problem in coming down to the station and handing myself in. I would be more than happy to discuss the fraud that is endemic throughout UPS. Mr. Graham, as a UPS employee and Unite union official is doubly complicit in defrauding UPS customers out of their money back guarantee by the placing of false scans on packages.

Yours sincerely

Mike Whitehead

Working Time Regulations

A UPS driver today

Why would an 8:00 starter be on his break at 15:30?

Question?

I want to turn myself in.

What is the correct way to address the Police?

Dear Old Bill/Billess?

Dear Plod/Plodess?

Dear Rozz/Rozzess?

I can hear them thinking, it's a threat, he won't do it.

So when is a threat, a promise?

Cindy,
As there has been no contact from the Police to date, I am going to contact the Police myself  regarding Albert Graham's alleged complaint.

There we go that's a threat.

My PC says that it is 20.08, Wednesday 27th February 2013

Jim Barber

UPS has named Jim Barber as president of UPS International, replacing Dan Brutto, who is retiring after 38 years with the package delivery company.

Barber, who started out as a Georgia delivery driver, is currently president of UPS Europe and responsible for 120 countries and territories in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

UPS spokeswoman Peggy Gardner said the company has managed key acquisitions under Brutto and Barber, and she said UPS’ healthcare package delivery solutions for customers outside the U.S. have expanded under Brutto. Gardner said average daily volume for packages handled by UPS also has grown under Brutto’s leadership.

His retirement comes several weeks after UPS’ $6.77 billion effort to acquire European rival TNT Express was blocked by the European Commission.

UPS saw the acquisition as an opportunity to expand business-to-business supply chain operations in Europe more quickly, especially in healthcare and in Eastern Europe, Brutto told analysts in January, according to a Post & Parcel report on his comments.

“For the most part, we can provide the service,” Brutto told analysts, according to the Post & Parcel report. “I think TNT would have helped us get there faster, but there are still all kinds of opportunities for us – right now just in healthcare in Europe, we’re working to help UPS customers get their supply chain moving end-to-end.”

The European Commission blocked the acquisition of TNT Express over concerns that competition would be diminished because the number of small-package delivery providers would be reduced to only two or three in 15 countries, likely causing prices to rise.

In a statement, UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis called 56-year-old Brutto “the epitome of a global leader who understands what it takes to be successful on the world stage.”

Davis also said it is an “exciting time” for UPS globally. “We remain bullish on Europe for the long-term and we are near completion of the three-year expansion of our main European air hub in Cologne [Germany]. In addition, we are well positioned in Asia and other regions of the world.”

Davis also said UPS has a strong growth strategy and “we will continue to look for growth opportunities either organic or through acquisition.”

Barber, who joined UPS in 1985, has been president of UPS Europe since 2011. The 52-year-old executive is a former chief operating officer of UPS Europe and former president of UPS’ United Kingdom and Ireland district.

Jim Barber eh?

I know him.

Nothing will change

Alison Gilbertson - CIPD

Banking culture: it's down to you

It's nearly five years since banks on both sides of the Atlantic imploded in a blizzard of greed and hubris. And yet barely a week passes without a fresh banking scandal. If banking culture is going to change, HR has to stand up and be counted. PM asks what role HR can play in building better financial services

Deterioration in employee voice and employee engagement at record low

Our latest Employee Outlook survey points to a worrying decline in employees' satisfaction with their ability to feed views upwards, especially in the public sector. This finding is particularly pertinent given the lessons to be learned about the importance of employee voice in the wake of last week's publication of the final enquiry into Mid Staffs NHS Foundation Trust failings.

It is really Alison?

What's the point in standing up and being counted?

Shouldn't the CIPD follow up revelations about it's members or should the CIPD just sweep the issues under the carpet.

Too embarrassed by your membership?

HR won't sort anything out because they don't have your backing.

Why bother feeding views upwards? You'll just get stabbed in the back.

Why bother churning all this garbage out if the CIPD are not prepared to take action against its members.

Courtesy of Facebook

CIPD

They do & I have

CIPD Update

No surprise that there isn't one.

Must be a hell of a meeting.

I wonder if they are on twitterage? I could harass them as well :-)

Bring it on Albert

Excellent comment by Anonymous.

I'm fairly sure that Albert is in fact a UPS employee. Therefore he cannot deny that he is in the pay of UPS. Whilst that wasn't my opinion (which I believe I'm entitled to), nor the perception that is given, being paid by UPS would seem to have an influence on Albert's decision, which would amount to the same thing.

I had a quick look through my Unite label and whilst I did try and keep it to an opinion, I think that there is one occasion that I said that Albert was taking backhanders, or words to that effect. So I must plead guilty as accused by Albert, of intimidation and harassment. (Having worked for UPS for over 20 years I should be good at this shouldn't I).

However as a UPS employee AND a Unite official that makes Albert doubly complicit in the fraud that continues to occur in UPS. Forget the bullying, the intimidation, the working time infringements, the tachograph infringements and all the other things that I've previously mentioned, let's just focus on the fraud.

For new readers to the blog (and I believe that it is a blog, Albert, what do you call it?) and welcome to Vietnam, country number 71. I will give you a quick summary, just to save you having to work back through all my posts.

UPS have a money back guarantee for virtually all their products that fail to meet their delivery commitments. That is a late Express Plus delivery, a late Express/Express Saver delivery and anything that fails an end of business day commitment.

If you claim that a delivery is closed without actually attempting the delivery, then that is fraud. You are deceiving the customer. Packages are fraudulently scanned in the warehouse, packages are fraudulently scanned out on road. You cannot accidentally walk around with a scanner and accidentally scan packages. The scanner shouldn't even be in the warehouse. You cannot accidentally ignore the information given to you by a Supervisor. Bear in mind that EVERY manager mentioned in my grievance, DENIED that I'd ever reported integrity issues. Also bear in mind that this went from my Managers, to Division Managers, to Country Managers, to District Mangers and to the kingfinger himself D. Scott Davis.  None of them had the balls to intervene.

Now then Albert, what do you think I will say to the Police?

I doubt you will answer, as you've failed to answer for months.

Thanks again to Anonymous. I get the feeling I know you.

UPS will not answer the question I asked as they block my e-mails.
I will be tweeting a link to this post to @UPS, not that they don't monitor the blog. 
  

UPS & the momentum theory

There is a momentum theory. Described on the radio today.

I forget whether it was to do with M.P.'s or the Pope, it could have been anything.

It started off with one lie, and then you have to tell another, then another……

Several years later....it still continues.

Strange UPS aren't reporting me for harassment.

Quote

Not done a quote for a while, he's one that's posted in the Unite thread.

A quote from George Orwell for you to ponder.

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act"

This gets more and more apt

Oh dear, I've upset the Union

Sunday 17th February 2013

Mike

I read your blog if that's what you call it with interest. I note that you make several accusations that unite and myself are in the pay of UPS. I also note that you mention me personally more than once, I therefore have sort legal advice and on that advice a formal complaint to the police has been made, harassment is illegal either verbally or electronically, they have taken note and no doubt will be in touch with you.

 

Rdgs

Albert Graham

Maybe I should turn myself in

Delingpole on Unite

Unite - Anybody know what he's right about? 

Delingpole on Charles

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

From: HRH Prince of Wales

To: David Cameron

Dear Prime Minister,

As you will surely be aware having no doubt followed with close interest my trip round Britain on my bio-fuel-powered royal train, my landmark speech to the European Parliamenton the theme "Why we must end this capitalism thingy now and retire to our agreeable Scottish estates and go fishing with our ghillies" and my speech in Rio warning that we have just 100 months left to save the world, the planet is in grave danger. As your future monarch, here is what I command you must do:

Build more wind farms. Lots of them. Especially offshore ones. That's because the sea belongs to Mummy and money accruing to the Crown Estate is good money because one day it will fund my tireless crusading on behalf of Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund and Friends of the Earth and also pay for the upkeep of my Aston Martin which, don't you know, is powered entirely by biofuels.

Stop everyone indulging in the frightful practice of breeding. You are doing an excellent job with the employed classes, having created an economy where it is all but impossible for anyone to earn enough to pay for their own upkeep let alone afford more children. But with the underclass there is much work to be done. Is there not some way you might persuade MI5 to slip bromide – or better still, some form of sterilising agent – into the batter on the chicken at… (Note to Perkins: please look up the name of the frightful place where the underclass consume their hideous prole food and insert). (Note to HRH from Perkins: Nando's, sire.)

Encourage everyone to wear tweed. Tweed is splendid. Besides being robust, thorn-proof, and ideal for stalking in, it also keeps one warm in the chilliest of climes and therefore saves enormously on the cost of heating one's various homes.

Rid me of the turbulent Delingpole. He delighteth me not.

Yours, etc,

Charles

I have no idea whether these are the exact words of the secret correspondence which the Attorney General has decided we're not allowed to see. But I expect it's pretty close. What are the Prince of Wales's main political obsessions? Greenery is one. Easing Britain's progression into the Caliphate is the other. It's quite likely, I imagine, that both subjects would feature in his private letters to ministers. Which would surely explain why Dominic Grieve is so keen to keep them secret. After all, Charles's future role as a constitutional monarch will expressly forbid him from meddling in the nation's political affairs. It would hardly encourage much public confidence in our future king if he were revealed as a barking meddler who wants to drive up our fuel bills, ruin our countryside and undermine the established church, would it?

But perhaps the Prince of Wales's suggestions were entirely sweet, sensible and unobjectionable. If that's the case, surely it will do no harm releasing his correspondence.

And if they weren't, well, all the more reason that we should know. After all, if Prince Charles is using his position to lobby (H/T Ian Whittaker) for policies which will affect us all then it ceases to be a private matter and becomes very much a public one.


He does make me smile.
Whilst it's not politically correct to admit that, I'm pretty sure I'm not in a minority.
As per his previous, it's plain old common sense.

Delingpole on Abu Hamza

Like many razor-sharp 86-year-olds, the Queen must spend an awful lot of time wondering what the hell became of the Britain she knew in her youth, and of all those common sense values and that basic decency which saw us through trials like the Second World War.

Unlike the rest of her generation, she is constitutionally prevented from saying this aloud. But just occasionally her private views slip out. And when they do, my how you wish she was actually running the country herself rather than leaving it to idiots like her useless fifth cousin Dave.

Take her views on the evil, hook-handed terrorist Abu Hamza. According to the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner (himself a victim of the kind of Islamist violence Hamza so heartily advocates) the Queen thinks that he's a bad thing. So much so that she once lobbied the then Home Secretary to have him put away.

Gardner told the Today programme:

“She spoke to the Home Secretary at the time and said, ‘surely this man must have broken some laws, my goodness, why is he still at large?’

“Because he was conducting these radical activities, he called Britain a toilet, he was incredibly anti-British, and yet he was sucking up money from this country for a long time. He was a huge embarrassment to Muslims, who condemned him.”

The Queen was right, of course.

Abu Hamza is the terrorist who our legal authorities refused to extradite to Yemen for his involvement in a bomb plot (for which his sons were convicted), continued to preach hate against the adoptive country which was paying him £500 a month in incapacity benefits (for his hook hand) and ended up radicalising the 7/7 bombers thus indirectly causing the deaths of 52 innocent people.

According to the Taxpayer's Alliance this charming father-of-eight has so far cost us all £2.75 million in welfare payments, council housing, NHS and prison bills, trials and legal appeals.

Yet for years he has been playing the system, abusing the generosity of the British taxpayer, exploiting EU-driven Human Rights law and almost literally getting away with murder.

But the question we should surely be asking ourselves is: if it's so obvious to the Queen – and all the rest of us – why it so un-obvious to our elected representatives. Why do they fail our interests again and again? Isn't that the point of representative democracy: that the politicians are the servants of the people, there to embody the popular will?

At the moment they're not doing their job. Not in the slightest. In the 1640s I would have sided with parliament against the monarchy. Right now (at least till Charles takes over), I'd happily take up arms against Westminster on behalf of our glorious monarch.

Mikey on posts

350 people have viewed my D. Scott Davis post.

I wonder how many of them were UPS employees?

The result.........Nothing

350 blind eyes, I suppose that's 700 blind eyes, but some could only have one eye.

Now why would I be trawling through my old posts?

It's an on-line information store, sorted by labels.

;-)

Delingpole on benefit cheats

A couple of days ago I posted on the heartwarming story of Firuta Vasile, 27 – the Roma woman with four children who came to Britain five years ago, claims not to have been able to find work except as a Big Issue seller, and currently snaffles in excess of £25,000 in benefits, courtesy of the British taxpayer. And who has just snaffled another £2,500 in housing benefit having argued – through an interpreter, also funded by you, the British taxpayer, and with the support of a Welfare Benefits Adviser called Andy King – that this is no more than her fair entitlement.

Nice.

What shocked me almost more than the story itself was the reaction from some of our menagerie of trolls.

Here's one of our friends from across the water:

Vasile says that she looked for work, and the only work she could find was selling The Big Issue. Obviously it is not a proper job if it pays only £100 per week, and obviously she cannot pay all her family's expenses on that … hence the housing benefit. Would it be better if she were doing nothing and receiving more in benefits?

To describe Vasile as a 'greedy shyster' really shows what a vindictive worm you are. How much do you earn?

And of course, having lifted yet another rock, you will watch as the lowlife crawls out from under it to advocate Final Solutions of one form or another.

Here's another:

I am delighted that Firuta Vasile has won this victory for two reasons.

1. She and her family need the money.

2. It makes Delingpole even more angry.

and here's one from a caring young lady called @mariannepowell on Twitter (apparently she campaigns for Roma rights in Budapest: well done, Marianne, love! Bet that makes you feel all warm and gooey inside, yes?) who Tweets:

Something vile from James Delingpole. Apparently we are living under 'cultural Marxism'. Can't say I'd noticed.

There are plenty more in this vein but you get the idea. Out there, in the world right now, not in lunatic asylums but on the streets with actual voting rights, are angry, quasi-articulate people who sincerely believe that:

1. Mentioning Roma in any vaguely critical context puts you one step away from endorsing Hitler's death camps

2. Criticising welfare tourism means you're heartless and probably a Nazi

3. The British exchequer is a source of limitless bounty. If there are any poor people out there in the world, it is entirely right and proper that they should partake of its largesse. To argue otherwise is morally indefensible.

I wonder how these people will respond to today's Telegraph scoop that there are 370,000 economic migrants currently claiming the dole in Britain. Actually I don't wonder at all. I'm quite sure they'll think it's great, in the same way some people think the foxhunting ban is great because of "what Thatcher did to the Miners" or that HS2 is great because it will teach poncy Southerners a lesson by destroying their countryside, or, most appositely, that unchecked immigration is great because it will smash the Tory fascist vote base for ever and dilute our filthy, reprehensible, hideously white Anglo-Saxon stock with people of all colours and creeds holding hands underneath a rainbow.

I wish that last bit was an exaggeration. But it's not. As former New Labour speechwriter Andrew Neather has revealed, between 2000 and 2009 Tony Blair and his bien-pensant ministers (among them Jack Straw) cynically and very deliberately used immigration policy as part of their Kulturkampf against the right:

"I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended – even if this wasn't its main purpose – to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date."

The "deliberate policy", from late 2000 until "at least February last year", when the new points based system was introduced, was to open up the UK to mass migration, he said.

Some 2.3 million migrants have been added to the population since then, according to Whitehall estimates quietly slipped out last month.

On Question Time on Thursday, Mr Straw was repeatedly quizzed about whether Labour's immigration policies had left the door open for the BNP.

In his column, Mr Neather said that as well as bringing in hundreds of thousands more migrants to plug labour market gaps, there was also a "driving political purpose" behind immigration policy.

He defended the policy, saying mass immigration has "enriched" Britain, and made London a more attractive and cosmopolitan place.

We need, I think, to be far more courageous and outspoken in resisting this insidious cultural Marxist assault on our values. Since Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech, the liberal-left has successfully created a climate in which any criticism of immigration is considered tantamount to racism. This is a grotesque mispresentation of reality. We are – even now, amazingly – for the most part a hugely tolerant nation. But we also have a very refined sense of "fair play."

It is clearly not fair play when, at a time of severe economic crisis when many of us are feeling the pinch, that we should have our taxes raised and be forced to borrow more money on the international markets in order to fund immigrants who are here merely to leech off our generosity.

Like many of a libertarian persuasion, I have few problems with immigrants who have come here to work. I have major problems with immigrants who are here to sponge. As, I hope, does anyone out there with even half a brain or a scrap of moral integrity. (Guess that doesn't mean you, trolls).

James Delingpole

I was listening to James Delingpole on Everyday Ethics last week. Fantastic.

This is an article about his piece written this week. I know how he feels.

Delingpole on Friday: How right I am to feel the way I do

As regular readers will know I’m in such a continual state of foaming fury about the idiocies of the world that I sometimes go over the top. “Truly, there aren’t enough bullets”, I’m wont to cry in exasperation. Once this was just a phrase. Increasingly though – after a very successful ongoing campaign by the left to brand metaphor a crime – it’s seen as evidence of a moral failing almost as great as if not worse than the physical reality it describes.

So that’s me, completely buggered then. Maybe, since words are my stock in trade I should end it all now.

Problem is, every time I look at the internet or read the newspapers or watch something on TV I’m yet again reminded by just how right I am to feel the way I do. Truly, there really aren’t enough bullets.

By way of further proof, I give you two speeches made by politicians this week: Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey’s speech to the Royal Society; President Obama’s State of the Union Address.

Both were on the subject I try to mention as little as possible on Bogpaper because I don’t want to sound like a one-trick pony. Suffice to say that in both cases, both men were talking unutterable bollocks on a subject on which I know quite a bit: certainly a hell of lot more than they do.

And it wasn’t just disputable bollocks. It was unquestionably, demonstrably wrong bollocks. Almost every statement each of these politicians made was a flat-out untruth. They made scientific claims which were not remotely backed up by hard evidence.

Now whether they were themselves deliberately lying or whether they were merely badly misinformed we shall never be able to prove. But it really doesn’t matter, the more important point is this: this week two politicians in positions of enormous power made keynote speeches which will have a major impact on people’s lives. What they said was wrong in almost every way: yet serious public policy is going to be based on it.

Obviously, a State of the Union address by the President of the USA is going to have influence than one by a Lib Dem MP before a bunch of pinko, faux-science activists at a discredited science institution, but even so, both men were expressing a view very much current in the political establishment in the US, the UK and across the Western World: that Climate Change remains the great issue of our time and that extreme, coercive action needs to be taken by the state in order to deal with it, regardless of the social or economic repercussions.

But again, I say, this claim is just not true. And when you know it’s not true – and you can show it’s not true – what do you do? Do you get fired up with disgust and rage and dedicate huge chunks of your life to exposing the falsehood which, you know, is damaging the economy, restricting freedoms, ruining the landscape and inflicting unnecessary hardship on billions?

Or do you just opt out recognising, philosophically, that this is merely the latest fashionable thing – the “clamour of the times” as Dr Johnson called it – and that, though much more damage will undoubtedly be inflicted before it’s over there’s really very little a chap can do to stop it. So one may as well just accept it as the way things are. Or maybe – why not? – make the most of it while one can by getting a cushy job in the renewables industry or something to do with sustainability. Screw truth; fuck morality; make hay while the sun shines.

Well I’ll tell you what, there really are times when I find myself wishing I were made of different stuff. One of my Oxford contemporaries has just made a stonking great fortune from some renewables investment company which has struck a cosy deal with the government to help it buy a bunch of wind turbines. To me, capitalism – not that this is capitalism, it’s corporatism – doesn’t get any more unacceptable than this. It’s a stitch up, pure and simple: Big Government and rent-seeking corporatist vampires joining forces to squeeze the blood out of the taxpayer. I’m sure my Oxford contemporary knows this. I don’t think you can be involved in that sector and not know the truth, by this stage. But I’ll bet you he has a way, way nicer house than I do, and more holidays, and better wine, and newer, faster cars, and that he never worries as I do all the time about the cost of educating kids and the needs of old age. And I’ll bet too that he finds that being relieved of those quotidian financial cares is more than the enough compensation for having to live with the knowledge that the disgusting, cynical way he earns his living makes him a total, utter cunt.

And I’m not boasting about my moral superiority, here. Stating it, yes, because it’s a fact. But definitely not boasting – for I’m not sure there’s anything boast about.

I’m beginning to think that our society has grown so irredeemably corrupt, our economic system so skewed and tainted, that it is foolish and vainhearted to kid yourself any individual, however committed, articulate and informed, can do a single thing about it. Kicking against the traces only makes you angry; it gets you into trouble; it puts you perpetually on the outside of things.

If you take your fill at the pigsty with all the other troughers, on the other hand, well at least you’re in a better position to give your kids a better start, and your loved ones more creature comforts and security, and your friends a nicer pad to come and stay in. And isn’t that what life’s really all about, given that we’re not here for long: forgetting about our souls and all that changing-the-world nonsense – and concentrating on the only things that really matter – friends and family?

A Response to the Union

Dear Paul

Thank you for your e-mail, reply & concern.

It was good to actually finally receive a reply from someone at Unite. I was beginning to think that you were a figment of my imagination.

1. As far as I know there is no medical treatment for being stabbed in the back by Unite.

I’m sure that you will want me to clarify this statement for you, though I’m fairly sure that you will have already seen the details on my blog.

• I was poached away from a Solicitor

·         I was virtually begged to let Unite fight my case

·         Albert Graham agreed with my statements on bullying

·         My paperwork was “lost” yet

·         I have a membership card

·         I am on the members mailing list

·         I had confirmation from Richard Bedford that Unite would handle my case

·         I was told that although my membership had been “found” (in the West Midlands) that Unite had failed to process any payments. Somehow my fault.

·         Despite chasing this up, I have still not been given any method of paying.

·         But I’m still a member.

·         Why wouldn’t my perception be that Unite is in league with the Devil (that’s a palindrome of UPS)

2. You suggest medical treatment

• I have been on anti-depressants for a number of years
• I Have been on an anxiety management course
• I quoted the case of Ignaz Semmelweis in my grievance (I’m sure that you will have seen my comments on UPS’s grievance procedures[lack of]). What was the UPS response? To continue the lies and deceit, now exacerbated by Unite. How can a 23 page grievance contain nothing but lies?
• So whilst there may have been leaps & bounds in the treating of mental problems, they cannot overcome the lies and deceit perpetuated by the UPS management.

3. If you say that you hate to see people suffer then you may want to take some action against UPS who are abusing your members. By ignoring what is going on, Unite are condoning the actions of UPS. I say this as there has been no change in the attitude of the UPS management. Only this week an employee has left the Dewsbury Centre because he is being bullied into taking out excess freight. I doubt that Unite will take any action as you have failed to contradict my statement on Unite being paid off by UPS. You may want to listen to the Beyond Belief podcast on Suicide for some background information. (10^th January 2011)
4. Being somewhat paranoid in my current mental state, I detect a hint of sarcasm in your brief comment.

• Is this due to the number of posts about UPS?
• Or Unite?
• Or VOSA?
• Or HSE?
• Or CIPD?
• Etc., etc.
• My obsession with UPS’s crooks & thieves?

Can you explain Unite’s incompetence in dealing with

• My case
• The bullying harassment and intimidation within UPS

What do you plan to do to stop the bullying, harassment and intimidation that continues to happen in UPS?

What do you plan to do to reduce the high numbers of Working Time and Tachograph infringements within UPS?

Regds

Mike Whitehead

A reply from the Union

From: Davies, Paul [mailto:Paul.Davies@unitetheunion.org]
Sent: 15 February 2013 07:44
To: Mike Whitehead
Cc: Albert Graham (albert11marisa@aol.com)
Subject: RE: More Unite hypocrisy

Have you considered seeking medical treatment? There have been leaps and bounds in treating mental problems and I hate to see people suffer.

Regards

Paul Davies

Unite the Union

077 9911 4241

Accidents don't fare much better

Such are the importance of accidents and accident follow ups, that it takes a year to even chase up the paperwork

How to avoid Tacho Infringements

Easy. Don't look for them.

This is the form that we used to use in a morning to follow up any issues from the previous day.
Is there anything to do with Working Time or Tachograph infringements? Nope

You will see that I was planned out to do a full training ride. Why? The driver didn't deliver enough packages to neighbours when there was nobody in. Why would UPS concentrate on something like that? It isn't a failure. The delivery was attempted. It is to reduce the amount of packages on road the following day. Sod the infringements.

If the scan has come out a bit blurred this is what we had to follow-up

Express Plus/Express failures
Paid send agains
Missed delivery packages
Checkin audits
Drivers most over allowed
Drivers despatched under 8 hours
Missed Pickups
Missing PODS/SEAS
PM holds
RS Tags missed
Invoice audit
subcontractor
agency

You would have thought this should have raised some eyebrows

Yep, that's 3150 and that's just on recorded tacho infringements.
Working time infringements were not recorded.

More from Danny

Ed Lines by Danny Lockwood



Simon Reevell is a nice enough chap; if ever you’re woken early in the morning by the Jimmy Savile cop squad, he might just be the bloke you want to use your one phone call on. Not because he would raise an objection in Parliament about this police  fascination for solving ancient crimes, real or imagined, by a dead bloke who unfortunately cannot be punished – heaven forbid!
No, because despite trousering a full-time Parliamentary salary, Simon Reevell, (pictured right) spends more time in court than Rumpole of the Bailey.
If the MP had explained to the voters of Dewsbury and Mirfield that he would be a part-timer before voting day in 2010, I would like to think he’d have been rejected.
What, I would have wanted Shahid Malik to win? I should cocoa – but on sheer principle, Simon Reevell did not, and does not, deserve to be an MP.
What’s more, he is increasing his external earnings; up from £65,000 to more than £87,000 in his latest declaration. It is a scandal.
I wonder, during the selection process did he confide in the constituency Conservative group that he saw Westminster as a kind of executive version of a few shifts behind the bar at the Dog and Duck?
My own suspicions when it first emerged that Reevell was continuing full-on as a barrister and legal consultant, was that he would be a one-term MP.
You must remember that he got the nomination just before the backside was ripped out of the Parliamentary expenses con, due in no small part to the excesses of people like his predecessor, Shahid Malik.
For someone clearly very money-oriented, that must have been a crushing disappointment.
If the local Tories had anything about them, they would deselect Simon Reevell for 2015, nice guy or not – that or at least make clear that it’s Parliament or the law; not both.
Word circulating locally is that he could switch to a safe Tory seat nearer home, but I’m not quite sure I buy that, either. Wishful thinking, more like.
Either way I expect his time is running out in this Parliamentary seat, which will endure for at least one more parliament because of the Lib Dems scuppering the Boundary Commission
recommendations.
If he is insistent on trying to have his cake and eat it,  it will have to be somewhere else,  because I’d bet the mortgage that Dewsbury and Mirfield will return a Labour Muslim again next time.
Our old nemesis Malik? Well, I hear he’s sniffing round Jack Straw’s Blackburn seat now, with – unfortunately for us – Kirklees leader Mehboob Khan fancying a tilt at Savile Town, with Batley West councillor Shabir Pandor repeatedly keen also.
No, I don’t know what we’ve done to deserve it either.

ON the plus side for the part-time MP, at least it’s likely that he’s not one of the major culprits in the latest Westminster scandal (but only because he’s not there enough).
If you ever wondered what they actually DO in the House of Commons, consider this little nugget – in the space of seven months the adult website Out Of Town Affairs was visited 52,000 times by MPs, members of the House of Lords, and their staff.
Westminster officials have declared that there is no need to launch an investigation – they’ve blocked the site now – or even raise an eyebrow at the number using gambling, gaming and assorted other recreational sites.
A music downloading site had over 70,000 visits.
And Facebook? You might want to sit down, or hold onto something – 28 MILLION hits in a year.
A handy website if you want to check up on MPs’ activity in the House is called www.theyworkfor you.com.

I DON’T want you to think I’m crying the poor tale, here. I consider myself an incredibly lucky bloke, my own boss, two beautiful kids, a beautiful and talented wife (okay, she’s a pain in the neck half the time, but they are, aren’t they? Don’t worry, she never reads this. It upsets her).
But we’ve had one week’s family holiday the last two years, and though I squeezed in two brief golf breaks of a couple of days each, it hasn’t felt like I’ve had a proper rest for yonks.
Among my new year resolutions was trying to create some more R&R in 2013 – so at the end of January I took over running Yorkshire Golfer as well as The Press and my rugby paper, League Weekly – like you do. Don’t ask – suffice to say we can all sleep when we’re dead.
I’m writing this from a hotel lobby in Tunisia. You’ll be chuffed to hear it’s raining cats and dogs but, more importantly, Mrs L will be glad to hear I’ve nailed down some very worthwhile business – no longer can the occasional golf sortie be scorned as a boys’ jolliday!
(Do you think my business decision to take the mag on might have been somewhat swayed by that...?)
You may recall that the leader of the Tunisian opposition was shot dead last week, sparking protests and riots. I was in two minds whether to pack a three-wood or an AK47.
In a country of 10 million and where the Arab Spring started two years ago, 1.25m people came to the funeral, according to one of our hosts, Moncef. You’d like Moncef, he’s a hoot.
“Tunisia is not violent!” he explained. Unless Islamist mutters fill you full of bullets, I suggested.
“Ah, but not towards tourists! We like foreign people in Tunisia, we are very friendly. Most friendly Muslim country there is.”
And I have to say, he isn’t wrong. I golfed today with Faïçal, who doesn’t drink – but doesn’t go to the mosque much either. He thinks the Muslim face veil is stupid, but then I haven’t seen a single one. In his town of 70,000 he says there are only two mosques. I told him about Savile Town – it almost put him off his golf swing.
“I believe that if I am a good man, and do good things for people, Allah will understand that,” was his logic. “And maybe when I am dying I might start going to mosque again, just in case.”
Amen to that, I said.
However an hour later I thought I was on my way to meet my maker. Our driver Mohammed was tearing down the road in the rain, when he suddenly put his radio on full blast and started singing at the top of his voice.
He was chanting away look a good ‘un, then picked up a scarf which he started waving in the air – and then took both hands off the wheel to wave his arms about.
“Bloody hell, I sneak off with my golf clubs and the jihadis find me anyway!” I thought.
And it wasn’t just the once – he was at it all the way home. He drove straight through a police road block and they all peed themselves laughing. I nearly filled me kecks!
For what I thought might be my last act I videod the performance and we’ll see if we can get it up on our website or something.
Mohammed thought it was hilarious, clearly the Tunisian version of YMCA by some bloke who smokes 60 a day and is tone deaf. Me, I’m off for a beer.
The weather forecast is better tomorrow...
They might want to think of a new name for that site.

3 wise men, magi, Kings....etc

The three wise-men

Ernie Rea chairs Radio 4's theological discussion programme in which guests from different faith and non-faith perspectives debate the challenges of today's world.

Each week a panel is assembled to represent a diversity of views and opinions, which often reveal hidden, complex and sometimes contradictory understandings of the world around us.

In this programme, Ernie Rea and guests discuss the story of the visit of the Magi, or Wise-men to the infant Jesus told in St Matthew's account of the Nativity.

Who could the Magi have been? From where did they travel, having seen a star in the east and why would they have recognised it as a significant sign? Is there more to this story than a colourful image on a Christmas card and the inspiration for a well known carol?

Excellent episode from 27th December 2010 that I was listening to today.

At 21:42 contains;

The things that are worth having you have to work for, and they can take time, and there are dark times in the journey as well, but you keep going.

Indeed you do.

And I am

At last......some sense from CIPD

Today's post from the CIPD could have been written by me. In fact, I think most of it has been. There won't be many UPS Managers that answers NO to any of the twelve questions. Here's the link if you want to check my source.

How to spot the psychopaths, Machiavels and narcissists at work…

…And why your boss may be one of them

TV has got a lot to answer for. Larger than life characters like mafia boss Tony Soprano (The Sopranos) and Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko convince us that it’s easy to spot the cold, unempathetic psychopaths, machiavals (compulsive game players) and the me, me, me narcissists among us.

But in the modern workplace, says Oliver James, author of Office Politics, people who display this triad of characteristics (if they have one they are likely to possess the others) are often adept at concealing the darker side of their nature. And when they do they are prone to doing well in the business world.

“1 per cent of the population are psychopathic, 4 per cent of American senior managers are. Likewise a study of English senior managers showed they are more much likely to be narcissists than the occupants of Broadmoor hospital,” says James.

So how do you spot them? In his book James suggest you score people on the following characteristics using a rating scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). The higher the score, the more likely they are to possess the “dark triad” of personality traits.

1. They tend to exploit and trick others for self-advancement.

2. They have used lies and deception to get their way.

3. They have used ingratiation to get their way.

4. They tend to manipulate others for selfish reasons.

5. They tend not to feel regretful and apologetic after having done wrong.

6. They tend not to worry about whether their behaviour is ethical.

7. They tend to be lacking in empathy and crassly unaware of the distress they can cause others.

8. They tend to take a pretty dim view of humanity, attributing nasty motives and selfishness.

9. They tend to be hungry for admiration.

10. They tend to want to be the centre of attention.

11. They tend to aim for higher status and signs of their importance.

12. They tend to take it for granted that other people will make extra efforts to help them.

Let us know how many of them you spot in your workplace.

Look out for our article on how to survive – and even thrive – when office politics are rife in March’s edition of People Management.

"Let us know how many of them you spot"...........OK, then, just to name a few.

Geoff Platt

Mo Akhtar

Carl McGuinness

Richard Watts

Howard Stone

Duncan Coates

Nigel Marsh

Scott Fowler

Steve O'Donnell

Rob Burrows

Craig McIntosh

Roger Mays

Lisa Bradshaw

Emma O'Toole

Tony Collaizo

Cindy Miller

D. Scott Davis

To name just a few, like what I said