Random Irritations

The Etsy (YouTube only?) ad that proudly proclaims it’s the place for getting Father’s Day gifts for under £100…whit? 😳. Sorry…load of tosh - card’ or two will do me fine. Two means my lad has remembered and could be bothered 🙄 as he knows I’m not that fussed myself.
 
Imurg said:
So....Evri have, seemingly, lost yet another parcel on its way to me...
This irritation isn't specifically about them, but all couriers..
3 parcels have gone missing this year..either from me or to me...
Where do they go?
If these companies have hundreds of employees and some of them are ripping off parcels, why haven't they retired on their ill gotten gains..
Approximately 8 million parcels get lost or stolen each year.....yep...8 million...that's quite a few isn't it.....
Where the hell are they?
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Either nicked or in a skip at the depots. Don't underestimate the amount of stuff that gets put in a corner of a warehouse, is walked past for a couple of weeks and is then chucked in a skip. People could deal with it, they don't want to as it becomes their problem then. Blinkers on, 'can't see it, can't see it' and eventually it will go away.

People are dealing with so many parcels, on low wages, they've stopped caring. They are the equivalent of white noise (not all drivers or depot workers I should add but you only need a few and with the volume going through........it soon adds up)
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Either nicked or in a skip at the depots. Don't underestimate the amount of stuff that gets put in a corner of a warehouse, is walked past for a couple of weeks and is then chucked in a skip. People could deal with it, they don't want to as it becomes their problem then. Blinkers on, 'can't see it, can't see it' and eventually it will go away.

People are dealing with so many parcels, on low wages, they've stopped caring. They are the equivalent of white noise (not all drivers or depot workers I should add but you only need a few and with the volume going through........it soon adds up)
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Could this be because so many warehouse workers are on-the-clock with regard to number of tasks completed.
Processors, packers and deliverers.
They have a target-per-hour, or per shift, and if they don't meet it they get it n the neck.
They are improving productivity - not quality of work or conscientiousness.
One parcel being not properly dealt with occasionally - sign of the times.

Do MPs ever get scrutinised regarding their productivity?
Why is doing more work for relatively less pay (I'm sure this is what "improving productivity" must entail) seen as a goal or requirement for some, but not others?
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Either nicked or in a skip at the depots. Don't underestimate the amount of stuff that gets put in a corner of a warehouse, is walked past for a couple of weeks and is then chucked in a skip. People could deal with it, they don't want to as it becomes their problem then. Blinkers on, 'can't see it, can't see it' and eventually it will go away.

People are dealing with so many parcels, on low wages, they've stopped caring. They are the equivalent of white noise (not all drivers or depot workers I should add but you only need a few and with the volume going through........it soon adds up)
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Minimum wage minimum effort attitude?
Tbh I expect them all to be on wages above the minimum wage, (which at £12.21 isn’t terrible)
I think it’s just laziness, I’ve had two deliveries over the last few days from the absolute worst courier, Yodel. Both deliveries were plants labelled as Fragile. Both times the boxes were damaged and the driver had left them just on our driveway! Too lazy to walk the extra few yards to leave them in our porch and ring the bell. Only realised they had been delivered later when I checked my emails!
Lucky they wasn’t stolen. I’ve emailed a complaint but just get a standard “thank you for your feedback, we will try to do better in future” replies.
 
Fade and Die said:
Minimum wage minimum effort attitude?
Tbh I expect them all to be on wages above the minimum wage, (which at £12.21 isn’t terrible)
I think it’s just laziness, I’ve had two deliveries over the last few days from the absolute worst courier, Yodel. Both deliveries were plants labelled as Fragile. Both times the boxes were damaged and the driver had left them just on our driveway! Too lazy to walk the extra few yards to leave them in our porch and ring the bell. Only realised they had been delivered later when I checked my emails!
Lucky they wasn’t stolen. I’ve emailed a complaint but just get a standard “thank you for your feedback, we will try to do better in future” replies.
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Its the attitude of some. DPD imo are the best but the driver in our area is a tom cruise shall we say. Constantly leaving parcels on door step marking them "left in agreed safe place" it's not. Doesn't even make the effort to tuck behind a car as minimum effort. Let along walk down the shared drive that's so wide he could drive down

I've seen him on ring

Presses doorbell and leaves it. Doesn't even wait for us to answer. Least Amazon leave then come back if someone doesn't come

Evri the lovely local lady just lowers it over the fence
 
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Fade and Die said:
Minimum wage minimum effort attitude?
Tbh I expect them all to be on wages above the minimum wage, (which at £12.21 isn’t terrible)
I think it’s just laziness, I’ve had two deliveries over the last few days from the absolute worst courier, Yodel. Both deliveries were plants labelled as Fragile. Both times the boxes were damaged and the driver had left them just on our driveway! Too lazy to walk the extra few yards to leave them in our porch and ring the bell. Only realised they had been delivered later when I checked my emails!
Lucky they wasn’t stolen. I’ve emailed a complaint but just get a standard “thank you for your feedback, we will try to do better in future” replies.
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I'm not defending what happens, been on the end of it too many times 😡. It's just the reality. The number of boxes they are delivering or handling, it's a numbers game.

We deal with all companies at work and the low cost carriers have mad targets for everyone. If they have to make an extra effort for each delivery, they wouldn't fit everything in. Take someone like DHL, a fraction of the number of deliveries, the drivers will go that extra mile.
 
Fade and Die said:
Minimum wage minimum effort attitude?
Tbh I expect them all to be on wages above the minimum wage, (which at £12.21 isn’t terrible)
I think it’s just laziness, I’ve had two deliveries over the last few days from the absolute worst courier, Yodel. Both deliveries were plants labelled as Fragile. Both times the boxes were damaged and the driver had left them just on our driveway! Too lazy to walk the extra few yards to leave them in our porch and ring the bell. Only realised they had been delivered later when I checked my emails!
Lucky they wasn’t stolen. I’ve emailed a complaint but just get a standard “thank you for your feedback, we will try to do better in future” replies.
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That is not necessarily laziness.
The mindset is to take as little TIME as possible and get on to the next task.
That way he is employee with best productivity rate.

Either that or he is a lazy git who doesn't give a monkey's about the parcels or his crap job.

So a good worker or a bad one - the outcome to the customer is the same.
 
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PJ87 said:
Its the attitude of some. DPD imo are the best but Abdul in our area is a tom cruise shall we say. Constantly leaving parcels on door step marking them "left in agreed safe place" it's not. Doesn't even make the effort to tuck behind a car as minimum effort. Let along walk down the shared drive that's so wide he could drive down

I've seen him on ring

Presses doorbell and leaves it. Doesn't even wait for us to answer. Least Amazon leave then come back if someone doesn't come

Evri the lovely local lady just lowers it over the fence
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That’s the thing, every other courier can make it to our door and leave it in our porch. (They don’t have to ring as the dog lets us know the door has been opened) Our local Amazon guy Babatunde is a real character, always a smile and a wave. The Yodal guy just dumped it in view of everyone. That’s unacceptable.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I'm not defending what happens, been on the end of it too many times 😡. It's just the reality. The number of boxes they are delivering or handling, it's a numbers game.

We deal with all companies at work and the low cost carriers have mad targets for everyone. If they have to make an extra effort for each delivery, they wouldn't fit everything in. Take someone like DHL, a fraction of the number of deliveries, the drivers will go that extra mile.
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My brothers daughter did Evri deliveries for a little while (as a self employed contractor). She was paid 50p a completed delivery and was using her own transport.
 
Bunkermagnet said:
My brothers daughter did Evri deliveries for a little while (as a self employed contractor). She was paid 50p a completed delivery and was using her own transport.
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How many deliveries a day was she doing?

Sometimes I will check on the tracking of something and it can say “your delivery is 8 stops away” and I can see on the map he is at the other end of the street!
 
Fade and Die said:
How many deliveries a day was she doing?

Sometimes I will check on the tracking of something and it can say “your delivery is 8 stops away” and I can see on the map he is at the other end of the street!
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Way too many.
She is very conscientious and would try and deliver everything she had, including stuff not her round, but most others weren't.
She only did it for a while, just as a way to earn some money between finsihing her degree and going into nursing.
 
Bunkermagnet said:
My brothers daughter did Evri deliveries for a little while (as a self employed contractor). She was paid 50p a completed delivery and was using her own transport.
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That's a tough gig. You really want to be city based, or a big town. By the time you take expenses off, you are doing a lot of work for not too much. You can flog yourself for a bit but long term...........
 
Lord Tyrion said:
That's a tough gig. You really want to be city based, or a big town. By the time you take expenses off, you are doing a lot of work for not too much. You can flog yourself for a bit but long term...........
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We are town based, but just running a car, having business insurance cover and paying for your fuel eats into all of it in reality.
But as long as people get their £2.50 plastic gadget they are too lazy to go to a shop for that's all that matters :)
 
I guess it's more cost effective to pay claims....I suspect most people don't pay full insurance which can be costly.....than hire someone in each depot to sweep up all the "debris"..
 
Someone has been chucking stones at the bathroom windows at work. It's an industrial unit, they are high, long and thin. Thick glass with the wire through them. We replaced them both on Thursday, come into work today and there is a crack and a hole in one already 🤬. Absolutely pointless, morons. If we have to board them up, we will but that will just be grim, no natural light in there. I'm thinking of maybe a perspex sheet over the glass?
 
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