Royal Mail MDEC, lots of people fired!

So they spend all the money training 100 people only to fire 60 of them! May as well just have had a few aptitude tests at the start of training before wasting all that time and money.
 
seems better than how they used to operate. ive told this story too many times before on here but basically i did xmas temp work for them years back and there was a lad in our team who couldnt read. he spent his time there putting letters in random boxes
 
IQUOTE=me227;17828271]So they spend all the money training 100 people only to fire 60 of them! May as well just have had a few aptitude tests at the start of training before wasting all that time and money.[/QUOTE]

Could well of changed since i been there, but training was very basic and would cost nothing except your normal wages. How did so many fail? It's just typing in address. Usually only post codes at that.
 
Dolph said:
So wait, you think it is illegal to fire people who are deemed incapable of the job after training?

What?
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My partner has done the job for the last 3 years at christmas and failed the test last night so a lot of them were not incapable and people who have done the job before.

The job is a piece of ****.
 
JAMAL said:
My partner has done the job for the last 3 years at christmas and failed the test last night so a lot of them were not incapable and people who have done the job before.

The job is a piece of ****.
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Previous (or even existing) tenure is not necessarily an indication of competence, it can also be indicative of poor assessment or management practices, or a shift in approach from bums on seats to staff throughput.

Employers can currently afford to be picky, there is a large pool of talent to chose from, why would they make do?
 
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I work in the Plymouth MDEC. Quite a lot of temps get sacked every year pretty much on the spot. I once knew of two girls who were caught using their mobile phones and were fired and escorted out of the building within 5 minutes.

You are trained for the job, yes. But if you fail to meet gateway targets during the job then you are sacked.

P.S. Plymouth MDEC pwns Stoke MDEC :P
 
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Hunders said:
I work in the Plymouth MDEC. Quite a lot of temps get sacked every year pretty much on the spot. I once knew of two girls who were caught using their mobile phones and were fired and escorted out of the building within 5 minutes.

You are trained for the job, yes. But if you fail to meet gateway targets during the job then you are sacked.

P.S. Plymouth MDEC pwns Stoke MDEC :P
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I honestly do not know how you can work in an MDEC full time, one of the most boring, tedious jobs ever. Props to you.
 
JAMAL said:
And now they only have 40 staff down there, well done.
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40 of the trainees, that doesn't imply the total number of staff nor how many they actually need. If Royal Mail decide to take a punt on 100 staff knowing that 50% on average will fail to make the grade then they're "only" 10 staff down on where they wanted to be, if they expected 65% to fail then they're 5 staff up on where they expected to be.

If your point is that it sounds like a bit of an inefficient practice and not very nice for the sacked trainees then I'd agree but it doesn't automatically mean they're now understaffed.
 
Come on these people read addresses on envelopes and they put them into a computer don't they? i bet 99% of them could have done the job just fine.

I think the issue might be more with the agency dealing with this, from what i have been told they all thought they had jobs.
 
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